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    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1933-07-29


    • Blue bell sold to metropolitan.

    • 1933

    • Blue bell sold to metropolitan. - Metropolitan Mines company, in which many Spokane persons are stockholders, have purchased the adjoining Blue Bell group of seven claims, paying the owners of the Blue Bell in stock of the Metropolitan.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1933-07-29
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1916-05-06


    • Signs of ore in Metropolitan - found in shaft and said to exist elsewhere in property

    • 1916

    • Signs of ore in Metropolitan - found in shaft and said to exist elsewhere in property - In the last year the Metropolitan Mines corporation, adjoining the Sunshine mining company on Big creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, has had more encouragement than in...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1916-05-06
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-12-20


    • Metropolitan samples on exhibition here

    • 1936

    • Metropolitan samples on exhibition here.
      "Samples taken from the second vein encountered by the new crosscut on the 400 level of Metropolitan Mines property on Big creek show a decided improvement in ore conditions at the greater depth," Roy H....
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-12-20
    • Northwest history. Mining. Deep mines. 1936-01-09


    • Metropolitan plans deep wok.

    • 1936

    • Metropolitan plans deep wok. - Officials of the Metropolitan mine corporation state they are well pleased with the ore showing made on the 200-foot level of the shaft, where the vein structure demonstrates what may be expected when the greater...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Deep mines. 1936-01-09
    • Northwest history. Mining. Deep mines. 1937-10-02


    • Deep workings metropolitan.

    • 1937

    • Deep workings metropolitan. - In extending the south crosscut on the 400 level to provide for loading track and hoist station at the Metropolitan mine on Big Creek, drillers encountered an increased flow of water, necesitating replacing of the 200...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Deep mines. 1937-10-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-07-10


    • Metropolitan to extend shaft.

    • 1937

    • Metropolitan to extend shaft. - Impressed by showing in drifts extended along two veins on the mine's 400-foot shaft level, Metropolitan Mines corporation directors have made plans to sink the shaft an additional 200 feet, or possibly 400 feet, to...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-07-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-08-12


    • Metropolitan going deep.

    • 1937

    • Metropolitan going deep. - The management at the Metropolitan Mines corporation, developing a property in the silver belt of the Big Creek area, is now making preparation to sink vertically from the 400 shaft level an additional 200 feet to the 600...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-08-12
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1933-03-28


    • Large ore body in metropolitan.

    • 1933

    • Large ore body in metropolitan. - Several Wallace stockholders in the Metropolitan Mines corporation did some sampling of the Big Creek property on their own account last week, getting highly satisfactory results. The vein, which has been opened by...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1933-03-28
    • Northwest history. Mining. Drilling. 1938-06-01


    • Metropolitan plans drilling operations.

    • 1938

    • Metropolitan plans drilling operations. - Metropolitan Mines corporation invites all stockholders to inspect the work at the mine when they go there June 13 for the annual meeting. The property was inspected Sunday by Krammerer, Wilmont and...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Drilling. 1938-06-01
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1933-06-18


    • $21,599 is spent in metropolitan.

    • 1933

    • $21,599 is spent in metropolitan. - Reports favorable change in formation-drove 1130 feet in year-reelects board. - The persistence of the Metropolitan Mines corporation, one of the few development companies continuously active in the Coeur...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1933-06-18
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1930-05-26


    • Metropolitan to extend work

    • 1930

    • Metropolitan to extend work
      Crosscut to be put through 500 feet more--good prospects.
      The crosscut in the property of the Metropolitan Mines corporation in the Coeur d'Alenes will be extended 500 feet to the north vein, the one nearest the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1930-05-26
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1935-07-21


    • Go back to vein in Metropolitan

    • 1935

    • Go back to vein in Metropolitan - The first crosscut from the shaft of the Metropolitan Mines corporation, in the dry belt of the Coeur d'Alenes, has been started. Its shaft horizon is 200 feet and its course toward the vein the course of which has...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1935-07-21
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1937-11-28


    • Monument to tenacity in Metropolitan dump

    • 1937

    • Monument to tenacity in Metropolitan dump
      Persistence of miners of the Coeur d'Alene region of Idaho, when they find a clew, is illustrated by the dump in the foreground on the property of the Metropolitan Mines corporation on Big creek, a few...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1937-11-28
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1937-11-28


    • Deepen shaft in Metropolitan

    • 1937

    • Deepen shaft in Metropolitan
      Stared on 400 and directed toward junction of two explored veins.
      The new shaft of the Metropolitan Mines corporation, on Big creek, near Sunshine, had attained a depth of nine feet last Sunday, according to M....
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1937-11-28
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1931-04-09


    • Metropolitan regains vein -- only 10 feet throw -- better beyond fault, report

    • 1931

    • Metropolitan regains vein - only 10 feet throw -- better beyond fault, report -- The vein on which the Metropolitan Mines corporation has been drifting on Big creek, near the Sunshine mine, has been picked up beyond the fault, according to Eric...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1931-04-09
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1934-05-19


    • Crosscut aimed at vein - Metropolitan under blowout at 1000 foot depth

    • 1934

    • Crosscut aimed at vein - Metropolitan under blowout at 1000 foot depth - A crosscut in the property of the Metropolitan Mines corporation, on Big creek adjoining the Sunshine mine, is close to a place where determination will be made soon whether...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1934-05-19
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1938-04-01


    • Metropolitan shaft deepens

    • 1938

    • Metropolitan shaft deepens - Officers of the Metropolitan Mines corporation, in the Coeur d'Alenes, report the shaft has passed the 500-foot level and will be carried to the 600 station before exploration of the vein system will be undertaken....
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1938-04-01
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-08-07


    • Metropolitan on deep level

    • 1936

    • Metropolitan on deep level.
      A thirty foot sump is now being cut below the 400 level of the Metropolitan company's shaft on Big Creek and a station is to be opened at the 400 level from which a crosscut will be driven to the south to open the two...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-08-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-11-21


    • Metropolitan enters more of minerals

    • 1936

    • Metropolitan enters more of minerals.
      Wallace, Idaho, Nov. 20.-What R.S. Merriam, manager, describes as an "important disclosure" was encountered this week in a crosscut on the 400-foot level of the Metropolitan Mining company's property on Big...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-11-21
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-11-09


    • Metropolitan shaft work under way

    • 1937

    • Metropolitan shaft work under way - Work has started in a new 200-foot shaft which is down seven feet from the 400 level of the Metropolitan Mines corporation on Big creek, above and adjoining hte Sunshing property, John Kammerer, W321 1/2 Main,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-11-09

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