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Finally the barnacle-crusted hulk of the Islander came grudgingly to the surface, and the salvage boats nursed it toward Admiralty Island, 15 mi. from Juneau. Last week the wreck was beached. Frank Curtis and his men crawled inside, pried into every nook & cranny, sifted the cold slime and sludge foot by foot. Not an ounce of gold did they find...
...commodity. Early in Depression when all other prices were melting, the hard-eyed Manhattan Irishman turned to the one thing that was bound to rise-gold. In his day Ben Smith had been a gold mucker, an automobile salesman, an ambulance driver. He helped bull Alaska Juneau from $3.50 per share to $20, Pioneer from $2.25 to $7. Once he flew to Alaska to inspect the Juneau properties, bought a gold brick worth $25,000. Back on the Exchange floor he wanted to put the brick on top of the Juneau post but his good friend Stuyvesant Fish decided...
Died. Frederick Worthen Bradley, 70, longtime mining engineer and prospector, president of Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co., which earns dividends on dirt containing only 90? worth of gold to a ton, produces about half the gold output of Alaska: in Placer County. Calif...
Milwaukee, the city that Schlitz made famous, welcomed beer back with special editions of its newspapers. Here again the State had provided no regulatory legislation. Milwaukee licensed 4,207 "taverns"; the thirsty stormed Juneau Avenue breweries at midnight. At the Miller Brewery, beer was passed out free to thirsters who brought milk bottles, tomato cans. Wisconsin Avenue was jammed with celebrants, some of whom stood on the tops of their cars singing "Sweet Adeline." Pabst had its product, screamingly escorted by police sirens, at downtown hotels eight minutes after legalization...
...President Roosevelt last week nominated John W. Troy, Juneau publisher of the Alaska Empire, to be Governor of Alaska. Other nominations: Mississippi's James William Collier, onetime chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, to be a Tariff Commissioner; Nebraska's James H. Hanley, to be a Radio Commissioner. Nellie Tayloe Ross, onetime Governor of Wyoming, was in line for appointment as Treasurer of the U. S., a job which would put her name on all paper money...