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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • Title: Butte
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1916-07-27


    • Great butte gets old copper mine.

    • 1916

    • Great butte gets old copper mine. - The Great Butte Copper Mining company has been organized and has raised $264,000 with which to pay the obligations and operate the property of the Butte and Bacon company, which has not been worked for 10 years.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1916-07-27
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1937-05-15


    • Rainbow absorbs butte mine holdings.

    • 1937

    • Rainbow absorbs butte mine holdings. - A meeting of Butte Mining company is being held in Spokane today to ratify a conveyance of the property to Rainbow Mining company. George Austin of Spokane is president of both companies. The properties are...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1937-05-15
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1937-09-10


    • How Butte mines are ventilated

    • 1937

    • How Butte mines are ventilated - "Air-conditioning, or air-cooling, for the ventilation of the Butte Mines is distinguished from most other air-cooling methods mainly by the fact that the cooling effect is derived directly from the compressor or...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1937-09-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bonus. 1920-03-10


    • Bonus system paying well - Butte miners and company but O. K. on new system put into force

    • 1920

    • Bonus system paying well - Butte miners and company but O. K. on new system put into force - According to a Butte report the bonus mining system inaugurated this year by the North Butte Mining company at its several Butte mines is proving to be a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bonus. 1920-03-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1931-05-15


    • Spokane men get bald butte.

    • 1931

    • Spokane men get bald butte. - Famous Montana gold mine being prepared for further yield of metal. - Has 80-stamp mill. - Modernized with flotation -- ore opened on 400 and 600 -- large dividend record. - Preparation is being made by a group of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1931-05-15
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1937-03-23


    • Butte highland runs in April.

    • 1937

    • Butte highland runs in April. - The reorganization of the Butte Highland Mining company, changing the capital from 1,500,000 shares, par value $1, to 2,500,000 shares par value 10c has been approved by a preponderating vote of the shareholders...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1937-03-23
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-02-17


    • Butte miners returning to work

    • 1919

    • Butte miners returning to work.
      Dinner bucket parade again started-expect all mines to reopen. Butte, Mont., Feb. 17.-"The dinner bucket parade of miners, which procession halted here on Feb. 7, when members of the Butte Metal Miners union...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-02-17
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-02-18


    • Butte whistles as mines resume; thousands back

    • 1919

    • Butte whistles as mines resume; thousands back.
      Eleven thousand miners will be back on job tonight. Butte, Mont., Feb. 18.-Choruses of whistles, shrill, depp and medium, loudly proclaimed to the citizens of Butte this morning that normal times...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-02-18
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1937-08-22


    • Amazing width for gold value - 41 feet in Butte highland reported to average $19.50- sampler, assayer able

    • 1937

    • Amazing width for gold value - 41 feet in Butte highland reported to average $19.50- sampler, assayer able - An ore body of unusual value for its width has been exposed in a crosscut from a winze sunk from the 600-foot level of the Butte Highland...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1937-08-22
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1926-02-06


    • Find new body of galena - Butte mining co gets ore in property near St. Maries

    • 1926

    • Find new body of galena - Butte mining co gets ore in property near St. Maries - John Martinides, president of the Butte Mining company, whose property is located about 12 miles from St. Maries, came into town with the report that a body of high...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1926-02-06
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-08-12


    • Butte highland in 41 feet pay.

    • 1937

    • Butte highland in 41 feet pay. - Thirty-seven feet averages $14 gold to ton -- rest being sampled. - An ore body 41 feet wide has been opened on the 600-foot level of the Butte Highland mine, according to telegraphed information to W. S. Norman,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-08-12
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-09-17


    • Butte highland hits large body.

    • 1937

    • Butte highland hits large body. - A new strike in the Butte Highland mine near Butte, Mont., has opened ore carrying $18.20 to $21 in gold to the ton, says a report today from the mine. The ore body discovered is 40 feet wide and has been exposed...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-09-17
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-09-19


    • Butte highland in ore 43 feet.

    • 1937

    • Butte highland in ore 43 feet. - An ore body of unusual size for its gold value surprised the officials of the Butte Highlands mine, south of Butte, Mont., when it had been sampled for 41 1/2 feet along the crosscut.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-09-19
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1918-05-02


    • Idaho miners go to Butte - labor shortage in Coeur d'Alene region due to wage conditions

    • 1918

    • Idaho miners go to Butte - labor shortage in Coeur d'Alene region due to wage conditions - "There is a great shortage of labor in the mines at Mullan, Idaho," said C. Earl Smith, mining man, of Mullan, at the Victoria yesterday. "This is reducing...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1918-05-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-13


    • Many miners are leaving Butte

    • 1919

    • Many miners are leaving Butte.
      Hundred a day for last 10 days is report of railroad men. Butte, Mont., Jan. 13.-More than a hundred miners have left Butte every day for the Pacific coast and other sections of the country during the past week or...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-13
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1926-12-29


    • $2,250,000 wage for Butte men - Anaconda spending $3,000,000 in preparation for 5000-foot shaft, says visitor - to electrify three - Badger may be included in equipment plan- Colonel Peak in ore again

    • 1926

    • $2,250,000 wage for Butte men - Anaconda spending $3,000,000 in preparation for 5000-foot shaft, says visitor - to electrify three - Badger may be included in equipment plan- Colonel Peak in ore again - The payroll in the Butte district of Montana...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1926-12-29
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1928-04-16


    • Underwater mine; ready to ship - Butte & Coeur d'Alene finds good ore- to go to mill soon

    • 1928

    • Underwater mine; ready to ship - Butte & Coeur d'Alene finds good ore- to go to mill soon - Shipments to the Hercules mill at Wallace will be started by the Butte & Coeur d'Alene Development Co. as son as the roads will permit, T. B. Cosgrove,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1928-04-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1929-04-24


    • Butte mine wages cut - will equal war rate, even with the reduction

    • 1929

    • Butte mine wages cut - will equal war rate, even with the reduction - A 25 cents a day wage increase given when the price of copper advanced to 24 cents a pound was taken away from Butte miners, effective May 1, operators announced today.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1929-04-24
    • Northwest history. Mining. Experiments & research. 1920-07-15


    • Mine experiment station likely, Butte claims

    • 1920

    • Mine experiment station likely, Butte claims.
      Butte claims that town is favored for one of the new experimental stations which are to be established by the United States bureau of mines. One station is expected to specialize in zinc and lead...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Experiments & research. 1920-07-15
    • Northwest history. Industrial Workers of the World. 1920-09-20


    • Bury I. W. W. riot victim at Butte.

    • 1920

    • Bury I. W. W. riot victim at Butte. - One thousand men, many wearing red emblem, march in parade. - One thousand men, some of them wearing the red emblem of the I. W. W. marched through the streets of Butte today behind the funeral car bearing the...
    • Northwest history. Industrial Workers of the World. 1920-09-20

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