- 1930

Fire Chief “Dolly” Gray announced July 23 that Juneau volunteer firemen would henceforth wave a white handkerchief while driving to the scene of a fire. This would identify them to police officers and give them the right of way. Speaking of fires, in one of the most damaging fires in Juneau’s history, the entire Malony Block, a two-story frame building at Second and Seward Streets, was destroyed April 23. Fires also caused destruction of most of the remaining buildings of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Co. at Perseverance and several of the buildings of the old Auk Bay Salmon Canning Co. cannery at Auke Bay, closed since 1923.

The February snowfall was heaviest of any February in the history of Juneau weather records, measuring 65.5 inches, with one 3-day snowstorm virtually shutting down all traffic in Douglas.

A Canadian company, the Taku Transportation and Trading Company, announced May 9 the start of a regular freight and passenger service up the Taku River to the newly discovered mineral belt. A local boat will carry passengers and freight to Taku Inlet where they will be picked up for the river trip on the company’s 45-foot river boat Taku River.

A new air transport company in the area , Pioneer Airways, was introduced September 30 to residents when its president Roy Jones arrived from Seattle on one of their new planes, the Northbird,  Jones is a well-known pioneer pilot in Southeast, and had brought up his original Northbird plane in 1922 from Ketchikan to begin a short-lived air service here.

Six destroyers of the Sixth Destroyer Squadron arrived in port July 12 on a training cruise for reserve officers . Later in July, the HMS Dauntless, a British light cruiser on cruise from its homeport in Bermuda, spent nine days in the Juneau harbor.

Juneau’s first midget 18-hole golf course opened October 20 on the second floor of the Goldstein Building – par for the course was 50 strokes.

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