Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2005.01.025AB
Accession#:
2005.01
Credit Line:
Donated by Harold Fossum, Mike Blackwell, Sean Boily, Mickey Lasley, Jerry Schrader, Mike Grummet, Bob Garrison, Jim Geraghty, Willette Janes, Maritime Hydraulics, Michelle Bonnet, Mark and Esther Millea, Greens Creek Mine, Coeur Alaska Inc., Rich Gordon, and Anchor Electric.
Object Name:
Print, photographic
Photographer:
Winter and Pond
Description:
A. Black and white photograph looking down Sheep Creek. Railroad tracks run down Sheep Creek Vally. Telephone/electric poles and pipe runs next to railroad tracks.
B. Black and white photograph looking up side of Sheep Creek Valley. Inscription next to photograph reads "Camera Tilted up real angle of slope over 50 [degrees]". Bottom of photograph reads "#1 General view of Mines from Terminal Sheep Creek". Various mine buildings, roads, tracks, and wire lines visible on slope.
B. Black and white photograph looking up side of Sheep Creek Valley. Inscription next to photograph reads "Camera Tilted up real angle of slope over 50 [degrees]". Bottom of photograph reads "#1 General view of Mines from Terminal Sheep Creek". Various mine buildings, roads, tracks, and wire lines visible on slope.
Notes:
Sheep Creek Valley024 025
The Sheep Creek area went largely unnoticed until the summer of 1887, when gold and silver were discovered on the steep hillside between Silver Bow and Sheep Creek basins. Numerous claims staked, among them the Silver Queen, and mining began in earnest. In the early years, ore was sacked up and sent to smelters down south. Eventually a tram (railroad) bed was built to replace the eight horse pack train that hauled the ore to the mill from some of the mines at the head of the valley. The Nowell Gold Mining Company built an elevated tram track in 1895 to avoid the blockages of heavy snow. They purchased a small locomotive to replace the horses that had previously hauled the ore cars to the mill.
The Sheep Creek area went largely unnoticed until the summer of 1887, when gold and silver were discovered on the steep hillside between Silver Bow and Sheep Creek basins. Numerous claims staked, among them the Silver Queen, and mining began in earnest. In the early years, ore was sacked up and sent to smelters down south. Eventually a tram (railroad) bed was built to replace the eight horse pack train that hauled the ore to the mill from some of the mines at the head of the valley. The Nowell Gold Mining Company built an elevated tram track in 1895 to avoid the blockages of heavy snow. They purchased a small locomotive to replace the horses that had previously hauled the ore cars to the mill.
People:
Fossum, Harold
Blackwell, Mike
Boily, Sean
Lasley, Mickey
Schrader, Jerry
Grummet, Mike
Garrison, Bob
Janes, Willette
Bonnet, Michelle
Millea, Mark and Esther
Gordon, Rich
Blackwell, Mike
Boily, Sean
Lasley, Mickey
Schrader, Jerry
Grummet, Mike
Garrison, Bob
Janes, Willette
Bonnet, Michelle
Millea, Mark and Esther
Gordon, Rich
Search Terms:
railroad
mine
mill
hardrock
Mining
mine
mill
hardrock
Mining
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