Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2014.19.001
Accession#:
2014.19
Credit Line:
Donated by Gary Courtright.
Object Name:
Letter
Title:
1894 Letter by John Dix
Creator:
John Dix
Date:
12/19/1894
Year Range from:
1890
Year Range to:
1895
Scope & Content:
Letter written by John Dix to a J. T. Wilcot of Carson City, Nevada dated December 19, 1894. The letter is on letter head from The Circle House hotel. The letter is handwritten in black ink on both sides of the paper.
Letterhead information is in black ink and in a square box in the upper proper right corner of the front. Text inside the square reads: "The Central House, \ GEO. KYRAGE, PROPRIETOR \ (Successor to W. F. Reed.) \ First—Class Board by the \ DAY OR WEEK. \ FURNISHED ROOMS."
Front page of letter reads:
"Juneau, Alaska, Dec. 19 1894
J.T. WIlcont
Carson City, Nevada
Dear Jack
I have just come in from Yakobi Island. Fifteen days on the bay. No picnic this time of th year. Going to start back in few days. My mail had been sent out by Indians five days before I got in. I will get it on my return; but will have no chance to answer it all next May or June I suppose there is a letter in it from you so I will drop you a line and send you some Juneau papers. After I get back I will be isolated from the balance of the world for four or five months perhaps longer. I hope that I will be able to put some men to work after next summer. My prospect continues; but I do not know yet what I have got a mine. So far I have been able to pound out enough in a hand mortar to buy bears and powder."
Back page of letter reads:
"W.T. Reed died last Sept. He was found dead in his bed. He was about to store as normal the day before, went to sleep and quietly passed away.
Dan Campbell died last fall.
Juneau is improving fast. Two new wharves and many fine buidings went up last summer. Electric Lights and water works in the city now. You would hardly know the place now. Two steamship lines run between here and the sound twice a month. Alaska is slowly comming to the front. Joe Burdreau made eighteen thousand dollars in the Yukon country last summer. One man made thirty thousand then. Good strikes reported from the westward. Geo Wheelock is married. A half a million dollar sale was made in the Basin last summer. Must close now. With kind regard I remain
Truly yours
JnoDix
Juneau, Alaska
Box 79
Letterhead information is in black ink and in a square box in the upper proper right corner of the front. Text inside the square reads: "The Central House, \ GEO. KYRAGE, PROPRIETOR \ (Successor to W. F. Reed.) \ First—Class Board by the \ DAY OR WEEK. \ FURNISHED ROOMS."
Front page of letter reads:
"Juneau, Alaska, Dec. 19 1894
J.T. WIlcont
Carson City, Nevada
Dear Jack
I have just come in from Yakobi Island. Fifteen days on the bay. No picnic this time of th year. Going to start back in few days. My mail had been sent out by Indians five days before I got in. I will get it on my return; but will have no chance to answer it all next May or June I suppose there is a letter in it from you so I will drop you a line and send you some Juneau papers. After I get back I will be isolated from the balance of the world for four or five months perhaps longer. I hope that I will be able to put some men to work after next summer. My prospect continues; but I do not know yet what I have got a mine. So far I have been able to pound out enough in a hand mortar to buy bears and powder."
Back page of letter reads:
"W.T. Reed died last Sept. He was found dead in his bed. He was about to store as normal the day before, went to sleep and quietly passed away.
Dan Campbell died last fall.
Juneau is improving fast. Two new wharves and many fine buidings went up last summer. Electric Lights and water works in the city now. You would hardly know the place now. Two steamship lines run between here and the sound twice a month. Alaska is slowly comming to the front. Joe Burdreau made eighteen thousand dollars in the Yukon country last summer. One man made thirty thousand then. Good strikes reported from the westward. Geo Wheelock is married. A half a million dollar sale was made in the Basin last summer. Must close now. With kind regard I remain
Truly yours
JnoDix
Juneau, Alaska
Box 79
Dates of Creation:
December 19, 1894
People:
Dix, John
Wilcot, Jack T.
Reed, William F.
Kyrage, George
Campbell, Dan
Wheelock, George
Wilcot, Jack T.
Reed, William F.
Kyrage, George
Campbell, Dan
Wheelock, George
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1894 John Dix Letter
1894 John Dix Letter
1894 John Dix Letter
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1894 John Dix Letter
1894 John Dix Letter
1894 John Dix Letter
1894 John Dix Letter
1894 John Dix Letter