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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • State history. Earthquakes. 1934-02-01


    • Quake damages Mina, Nev

    • 1934

    • Quake damages Mina, Nev. - Tiny desert town badly shaken by series of temblors. - Merchants, mine operators and other residents of this tiny desert town counted heavy losses today as reports of damage from yesterday's severe earthquake were...
    • State history. Earthquakes. 1934-02-01
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. General. 1934-06-02


    • Public works forge ahead. - Count 76 in May, 53 more to be let this month in this region.

    • 1934

    • Public works forge ahead. - Count 76 in May, 53 more to be let this month in this region. -Totaling $14,934,188, 76 Public Works contracts covering engineering projects only were let in the Pacific northwest during May, a Pacific Builder and...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. General. 1934-06-02
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Visitors. 1937-08-27


    • House members here soon to inspect dam.

    • 1937

    • House members here soon to inspect dam. - Representatives Schrugham (Dem., Nev.), Fitzpatrick (Dem., N.Y.) and O'Neal (Dem., Ky.), members of a house subcommittee on Interior Department appropriations, will visit federal projects in the Pacific...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Visitors. 1937-08-27
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Freight rates. 1934-09-30


    • Rates' revision lumber's doom - Coeur d'Alene industry ruined unless long and short haul clause stays

    • 1934

    • Rates' revision lumber's doom - Coeur d'Alene industry ruined unless long and short haul clause stays - Pointing out that the lumber industry in Coeur d'Alene would be jeopardized through ruinous competition if the freight rates on rail shipments...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Freight rates. 1934-09-30
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1934-12-14


    • Oddie predicts rise in silver

    • 1934

    • Oddie predicts rise in silver.
      Declaring this country needs a greater production of gold and silver, former United States Senator Tasker L. Oddie of Reno, Nev., arrived in Spokane this morning and will give an address on that subject at the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1934-12-14
    • Northwest history. Mining. Engineers. 1935-12-07


    • Region big need is more power

    • 1935

    • Region big need is more power.
      U.S. metallurgy head thrills mining engineers. He gives facts. Tells Northwest metals need of development-Mabbutt speaks. "Cheap power will be the only solution for this region," Dr. J. Koster, in charge of the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Engineers. 1935-12-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Geology. 1937-10-08


    • Geologist speaks.

    • 1937

    • Geologist speaks. - E. N. Pennebaker, Kimberly, Nev., chief geologist for Consolidated Coppermines, who is in the Coeur d'Alenes on consulting work, was the guest speaker at a meeting of the Geological society of the Coeur d'Alenes in Kellogg this...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Geology. 1937-10-08
    • Northwest history. Mining. Experiments & research. 1936-12-13


    • Pullman solving peninsula problem

    • 1936

    • Pullman solving peninsula problem - At the Reno, Nev., station, the U. S. bureau of mines has developed an electrolytic process for the recovery of manganese metal from the ores, at the Reno station. The discovery is hailed as important. At...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Experiments & research. 1936-12-13
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1919-10-18


    • Main divide is big mine - struck accidentally, says P. W. Clark, Spokane operator

    • 1919

    • Main divide is big mine - struck accidentally, says P. W. Clark, Spokane operator - P. W. Clark, a mine operator, has returned to Spokane after an absence of several months' time, part of which was spent in the new district of Divide, seven miles...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1919-10-18
    • Northwest history. Mining. Inspection. 1936-04-03


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    • 1936

    • The state division of mines and mining has requested the chamber of commerce here to submit 500 pounds of Olympia Peninsula manganese ore for inspection by the United States bureau of mines at Reno, Nev. Large bodies of the ore are available on the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Inspection. 1936-04-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Federal aid. 1935-04-21


    • West is united to hoist mining

    • 1935

    • West is united to hoist mining.
      To draft plan, act in concert for its success.
      Washington, April 20.-Western congressmen, meeting Saturday, agreed to act in concert in seeking aid for the mining industry, and to evolve a plan all could...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Federal aid. 1935-04-21
    • State history. Native Americans. Epidemics. 1920-02-23


    • Piutes dying fast from flu

    • 1920

    • Piutes dying fast from flu. - Extermination by influenza of an entire settlement of Piute Indians living near Dyer, Nev., is threatened, according to Fred Fletcher, a rural mail carrier. He said every adult and child has been stricken and that 150...
    • State history. Native Americans. Epidemics. 1920-02-23
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Power. 1935-12-10


    • Uses for Coulee power

    • 1935

    • Uses for Coulee power. - Dr. J. Koster, in charge of the United States bureau of mines electrometallurgical testing and research plant at Reno, Nev., brought a message of cheer and importance to the Northwestern Mining association Friday. He said...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Power. 1935-12-10
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1936-08-04


    • Tuberculosis claims Nevada Indian youth

    • 1936

    • Tuberculosis claims Nevada Indian youth. - The body of Murphy Dave, Owyhee, Nev., Indian youth who succumbed to tuberculosis yesterday at the Lapwai sanitarium, is resting at the Brower-Wann parlors pending funeral arrangements.
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1936-08-04

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