The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-16

claims. In the course of two or three weeks time the miners had extracted from the gravel claims quite a large amount of gold. Everybody was making money and were happy as we had no lawsuits about any kind of business. Every dispute was settled by arbitration and the miners conformed strictly to our local laws, as it would not have been healthy for them to do otherwise.
 Churches were early built. The Little Log Church was built immediately after the town was es- tablished. It was located on the present Zynda Hotel block.
 In 1886 the Presbyterian Church was built as was a mission for h. dians by the same sect. The Catho- lie Church was established in the same year by Father John Althoff, and St. Ann's Hospital was opened at the same time. The Sisters of St. Ann opened a boarding school about the same year.
 First school In 1885
 The first school was built in 1885 by the Government for the Indians, and a school for whites was erected in 1886 by it. The first newspaper to be established was the Juneau Mining Record, in 1888.
 John G. Held opened a law of- flee here in 1885, to be followed in 1887 by c. S. Blackett. Judge s. Bugbee and F. D. Kelsey joined the ranks of that profession locally in 1893. Dr. J. K. Simpson, who later achieved distinction in his profes- sion in the States, started the prac- tive of medicine here in 1886 and was the community's best known physician for many years. J. E. Connect was the second of the medical fraternity here, coming in 1891, and Dr. William Hammond located in 1893 H. J. Harrison, dental surgeon opened his office in 1889, Juneaus first dentist. Gar side Bros, G. w. and c. w., min ing engineers came here in 1884
 Early Business Houses Olds and Orton opened the Occi- dental Hotel, predecessor of the present hostelry of the same name, in 1881, and Reed House was started in 1882 by W. F Reed.
 There is no record available of any other businesses opening in 1881, but in 1882, w. Mulcahy open ed drug store; w. F. Reed gen. eral merchandise store; Hi Chang Quee bakery in 1882, but to Ju- neau then and long afterward he was China Joe and his shop Joe's Bakery.
 Each year saw new business en- terprises opened; the first jewelry store in 1884, by P. Hahn, to be followed few years later by E. Valentine; A. Goldstein, a general merchandise store in 1885 which was the forerunner of Charles Gold steins fur and merchandise busi- ness. Mrs. Fanny Levy opened store in 1885, and in the same D w. Walker put up a hardware store. c. w. Young established hardware business in 1886 that last ed until few years ago to be succeeded by the Juneau Young Company. J. w. (Candy) Rawn ap- peared on the scene in 1888 and Juneau today has Rawn Way in his memory
 First Dairy in 1885
 Decker Bros, for many years prominent here, opened a general merchandise business in 1887. B. M Behrends, who represented Sitka interests here in the sos, opened his own general merchandise store in 1891, and for many years it has been one of Alaska's largest mer- chandise enterprises.
 1 The Juneau Meat Market, owned by Willis Thorp, was doing busi- ness in 1886.
 Fresh milk for juvenile Juneau was made available in 1885 when J. Calhoun started the Gold Creek Dairy that was to continue in op- eration for a long period