After trading much of their grubstake for hoochinoo, or homebrew, they returned to Pilz empty-handed but were promptly sent back to the Juneau area.

There, Kowee took them beyond Gold Creek (near what is now the site of the city's Federal Building) to Silver Bow Basin.

[1] Joe Juneau reportedly bought drinks for fellow miners to persuade them to name the city in his honor.

He usually spent his gold as fast as he mined it, but at the end of his life he owned a small restaurant in Dawson.

His body was brought back to the town that bears his name and was buried in the city's Evergreen Cemetery on August 16, 1903.