WSU Libraries

Digital Collections

Add or remove other collections to your search:



Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
1927 Apple Week Publicity Scrapbook
Anaplasmosis Babesiosis Bibliography
Best of MASC
Black Oral History Collection
 

Narrow your search by:



You've searched:

Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • Description: Butte
(189 results)



Display: 20

    • 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. Discovery. 1931-01-23


    • Uncover copper of high grade.

    • 1931

    • Uncover copper of high grade. - North butte mining company has three shifts busy hunting large fissures. - Uncovering of new high-grade copper ore in the main range of the North Butte Mining company, affords promise of a new productive zone for the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1931-01-23
    • 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. Developments. 1920-08-21


    • Edith may mine drift extended.

    • 1920

    • Edith may mine drift extended. - On the 3200-foot level of the Edith May mine of the North Butte Copper company at Butte, drifting on the ore has extended 185 feet in the ore 6 feet wide all the way. The assay is 502 per cent copper and 3.6 ounces...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1920-08-21
    • 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. 1919-01-03


    • With miners' strike over, horizon is not so dark as has been painted

    • 1919

    • With miners' strike over, horizon is not so dark as has been painted.
      Helena, Mont., March 1.-Now that the strike of Butte miners is a thing of the past, by the middle of March it should be known whether unemployment in Montana is to assume an...
    • Northwest history.Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-03
    • 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

QuickView

Display a larger image and more item information when the pointer pauses over a thumbnail
on off
 

Layout options:

Thumbnail with title
Grid with smaller thumbnails and more detail
Select the collections to add or remove from your search
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
 
OK
Select the collections to add or remove from your search
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
 
OK