The Alaska Steamship Company has been notified by the Post Office Department that it has been awarded a contract to carry mail from Seattle to Mary Island, Wrangell and Juneau. We should thus receive mail four times a month, twice on each of the Steamers run on standard time, but nobody else in this area does. When a steamer posts its sailing time as 12 o’clock that is generally 11 o’clock by Juneau time as shown by one jeweler’s clock or 11:15 by the clock in another jeweler’s window. The time kept by the Treadwell Mine is an hour different than Juneau’s at some times of the year and a half an hour different the rest of the year. News of the Gold Camp, Digital Bob Archive
