Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
84.09.083
Accession#:
84.09
Credit Line:
Transferred from the City and Borough of Juneau.
Object Name:
Bit, Drill
Title:
Drill Steel End Bit
Year Range from:
1915
Year Range to:
1945
Description:
Drill steel tip, star bit.
Thick shaft with four grooves flares outward at one end to form four tapered pointed edges.
Pitted and rusty. Has some white paint on shaft.
Notes:
Found in collections in Last Chance Mining Museum. (Compressor Building). These objects were acquired when city purchased Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. properties in 1974 from AEL&P who had purchased the properties from Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company in 1972.

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