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Eagle on the Yukon was once the
mcst important town in Interior
Alaska, but like many another Gold
I Rush town, its importance has
dwindled through the years.
Not long ago Eagle was deprived
of its Recorder's Office, virtually
its last link with the great days of
prospecting and mining on the up
per Yukon. Instead, the town will
get a new runway for its airfield,
to accommodate larger planes.
This exchange is perhaps fitting,
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for it is the airplane that has made
unnecessary the litre outlying re
cording precincts of former years.
Eagle was a product of the Klon
dike excitement, hut unlike most oi
the boom towns of that era, it did
not just spring up by accident.
Eagle was founded quite deliberate
ly and with some forethought.
In fur-trading days, before gold
was discovered in the Yukon Val
ley, Mose~ Mercier established a
trading post for the old Alaska
Commercial Co. at the mouth of
Mission Creek, where Eagle is now
located, and called it Belle Isle.
The post was moved to the Forty -
mile in the mid-l88Q’& when gold
was found there.
Nothing much happened around
the abandoned trading post until
the summer of 1898. Then a group
of Americans, dissatisfied with the
strict rule of the Royal Mounted in
the Klondike, left Dawson to found
an American town.
The party that drifted down the
Yukon in an old barge and a few
small boats included such colorful
Individuals as Old Man Martin, The
Professor, Ted and Jhh Hudson,
Barney Gibbony, “Doc” Pernault,
Jenny Moore with equipment for a
I restaurant, "Black” Becky White
1 with her washtubs, and • Geoyge
| Graves and One Thumb Jack with
' a faro layout and roulette table.
DR. TED OBERMAN
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20th Century Theatre Bldg.
2nd Floor
Phone: Office 61
Juneau. Alaska
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When they were sure they hat* j
crossed the boundary line into Al
aska, the members of the party'
picked the gravel bench at the
mouth of Mission Creek as their
townsite.
The first order of business was
■electing a name. They had started i
out to found American City, but!
when a golden eagle circled over
head as they landed, some of the
people switched to Eagle. A *voto
was taken and it ended in a dead
lock. They settled it by flipping a
double-eagle, and Eagle came up
on top.
By November, 1898, there was a
posioffice at Eagle, and soon after
ward a Customs office was opened
and the town became the port of
entry for the upper Yukon.
Wildes P. Richardson, then only'
a lieutenant and with the Richard
son Highway far in the future, vis
ited Eagle in 1899 and selected it
as the site for a new Army post,
Port Egbert. With the fort came
the military telegraph line from
Valdez to Fort Egbert to St. Mich
ael. with Fort Egbert as the head
quarters.
At about the same time there was
a great deal of agitation for an
All-American route to the Yukon
and a trail was pushed through
from Valdez to Eagle, much of it
following the route of the present
highway. Eagle had mail service
then from Valdez, from Skagway by
way of Whitehorse and Dawson,
and in summer from Seattle by
way of St. Michael.
There were several proposals, too,
to build a railroad to Eagle from
one place or another on the coast,
but none of them got beyond the
talking phase.
Two additional judges for Alaska
were authorized by Congress on j
June 6, 1900, and Eagle, the met- ]
ropolis of the Interior, was named
headquarters for the Third Divi
sion. Judge James Wickersham ar
rived at Eagle on July 15, 1900, to
gether with U. S. Marshal George
G. Perry and U. S. Attorney Alfred
M. Post, and soon was holding court
not only at Eagle but at Circle and :
Rampart and other mining camps.
Eagle became an incorporated city I
in January, 1901. and as the supply
center for miners on American, |
Mission, Boundary, Washington. I
Fourth-of-July and O’Brien Creeks
as well as the Forty Mile and Sev
enty Mile Rivers, it was a busy i
place in the early years of the!
century.
The Northern Commercial Co.,'
then as now, had a store at Eagle
‘and other stores were operated by
the North American Transportation
and Trading Co. and by Ed Peo
ples and F. M. Woodruff. There
was a Presbyterian church, with
free library in connection, in charge
of . Rev. James W. Kirk, and a
"Catholic hospital and church under
Father Munroe. S. J. The Episcopal
church soon afterward bought the
property of the Presbyterians and
established St. Paul’s church and
mission.
Dozens of steamboats, upbcund
for Dawson or downbound for St.
Michael and way ports, called at
Eagle. The Alaska Pioneer Mining
and Milling Co. operated a sawmill
and there was another sawmill at
the fort. Lem Stenger, Fred Vande
w'all, C. L. Andrews, John J. Hill
ard and George Woodruff were in
the Customs Office, and Luther C.
Hess was assistant U. S. Attorney.
J. P. Coulter and D. H. Jonas ran
a saloon and so did Ben Boone
and W. W. McDonald and W. A.
Robertson and several others, while
Gus Bruns operated the Eagle
Brewery. Among the men who ling
ered awhile in Eagle before going
on to other prospects were H.
Graehl, Phil Stack, J. B. Powers,
Jay Livengood, Jim Lennon, E. R.
Jesson and Fred Horn.
Felix I’erro was tne man woo
started Eagle on the downgrade.
He found gold in the Tanana coun
try and soon there was a little up
start mining camp approximately
200 miles due west of Eagle. It was
called Fairbanks.
The new camp had none of the
advantages of Eagle. It was not on
the broad highway of the Yukon
River, or even on one of the main
tributaries, but off on a slough
where it could be reached only now
and then by the smaller river
steamers. It was not on the All-Am
erican route or any other regular
trail. It wasn't hooked up writh the
telegraph line and it didn’t have
an Army post.
But Fairbanks did have gold in
large quantities in nearby creeks
and the camp grew into a town and
the town continued to grow. On Dc
Pfield~propane gas !
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| Walter D. Field — Phone 581 {
Refrigeration Service
PARSONS ELECTRIC, Inc.
-Phones
1016 and 161
IF
in town or
in ihe "Sticks"
CALL
Glacier Cab
666
At Chamber of Commerce Barbecue ft....»
Delegates, 1. to r. Jim O'Brien, manager Baranof Hole!: J. Clifl rd Kayncr, President NEA; Don Eck,
Cieneral Manager NEA; Bob Ellis, Business Manager Junean Clinic: ffcrb Rowland, President Juneau
Chamber of Commerce; and Hotel Baranof chef Ha ry Bur ls!!. (Mai elm C.reany. Photo)
cember 1, 1904. the District Court j
was moved there from Eagle. Then,'
In 1911. Port Egbert was abandoned l
ty the Army and the military tele
graph began to fall Into ruins.
The Customs Office remained and
is still there, although there are
few vessels now traveling that part
of the river. And Eagle, with one
of the finest townsites on the up
per Yukon, will soon have an en
larged airfield and before long will
be connected by road with the
growing highway system of Interior
Alaska.
Fifty years ago it was impossible
to predict the rise of Fairbanks to
her present-day importance, with
the concurrent decline of Eagle. But
today it would be unsafe to write
off Eagle on the Yukon as a total
H. K. Conn, who w in Juneau
recently, has left for McDames
Creek in British Columbia on an
asbestos mining exploration.
Conn is with the Johns-Man
ville Co,, Canadian branch with
headquarters at Quebec.
Asbestos deposits were discovered
about a year ago in t ie McDames
area and several lar; e mining com
panies arc now d: v< uoping the dc
j posits. Conwest Exploration, Ltd.,
I has acquired some of the proper
I ties as has also Pacific Asbestos,
[ Ltd., of Vancouver, B. C.
i Government reports say that the
McDames zone deposits contain
chrystolilc fibre of good length,
principally us cross fibre in reins
in serpentine.
Conn, whose c mpany is one of
the largest producers at asbestos
in the world, is also interested in
Alaskan deposits. There are lenown
asbestos deposits along the Kobuk
river, in several interior Alaska
regions and on Admiralty Island
there is a deposit which has not
yet been explored as: to commer
cial value.
Anyone in Alaska knowing of any
other deposits are requested to 110
tify Conn at his Canadian sales
office, Johns-Manville Co., Homer
street, Vancouver, E. C.
W. W. Oughtred, of the Thetford
Asbestos Co., of Thetford, Quebec,
is expected in the Territory shortly
to do exploratory work on asbestos.
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