Our local mining industry has received a blow in the apparent failure of the Johnson Mill & Mining Company, which had showed great promise. J. A. Johnson, head of the firm, did a real service to the mine owners of the Gold Creek Valley by building a road from town to the first falls of the creek, but the Stiles crushing plant and other machinery he installed to extract the gold just did not do the job that was expected of it. The gold recovery is said barely to have paid the expenses of operation. J. D. Sagemiller and Charles Wells, two of the men who sold their lode claims to Johnson, have not been paid for them and will repossess the claims, as will, no doubt, other owners who deeded their claims to the Johnson company. Sagemiller is now in Seattle attempting to interest other investors who will put in a proper mill.
The electric lights at Treadwell loom up wonderfully from across the bay these nights. When will Juneau have its own light plant? News of the Gold Camp – 04/29/1980
1912 Black and White Photograph of Gold Creek with Road (JDCM.88.38.072)
