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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Legislation. 1937-04-03


    • Pierce authoring Bonneville bill. - New measure to be given to Congress today.

    • 1937

    • Pierce authoring Bonneville bill. - New measure to be given to Congress today. - Representative Walter M. Pierce of Oregon will introduce his own Bonneville legislation tomorrow.
      Pierce have been meeting nights with E. H. Foley and other young...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Legislation. 1937-04-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1934-08-25


    • Pierce metal in 20-foot vein.

    • 1934

    • Pierce metal in 20-foot vein. - Driving tunnels and sinking--uses 50-ton mill -- opening snowshoe. - The Pierce Metal Development Mining corporation is doing largely development work on a 20-foot vein in its Ozark holdings, a mile and a half...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1934-08-25
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1931-07-12


    • Fine vein open in pierce city.

    • 1931

    • Fine vein open in pierce city. - Upper levels to be drained by diamond drilling from low tunnel workings. - One of the finest veins he ever saw, lying in a perfect structure, has been opened by drift for 150 feet in the Pierce City project of the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1931-07-12
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Power. 1937-05-09


    • Pierce scored for dam 'flop'.

    • 1937

    • Pierce scored for dam 'flop'. - Cascade locks citizens denounce solon. - Switch to blanket rate declared inimical to industry lure / by Duane Hennessy, staff writer, The Oregonian - Aroused by what they believe to be a complete reversal of his...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Power. 1937-05-09
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1936-08-20


    • Pierce metals financing ends.

    • 1936

    • Pierce metals financing ends. - In a circular letter, the Pierce Metals company, having a property in the central Idaho gold belt, announced completion of its finances.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1936-08-20
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. General. 1937-04-14


    • Pierce authoring Bonneville bill. - New measure to be given to Congress today.

    • 1937

    • Pierce authoring Bonneville bill. - New measure to be given to Congress today. - Representative Walter M. Pierce of Oregon will introduce his own Bonneville legislation tomorrow.
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. General. 1937-04-14
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Legislation. 1937-05-09


    • Pierce dam bill to be ignored by Power Board.

    • 1937

    • Pierce dam bill to be ignored by Power Board. - The Federal Power Commission advised the House Rivers and Harbors Committee Friday it would make no report on a bill by Representative Walter M. Pierce, democrat, Oregon, to set up administrative...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Legislation. 1937-05-09
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Politics. 1937-04-15


    • Pierce bill asks Congress for 'king' over Bonneville.

    • 1937

    • Pierce bill asks Congress for 'king' over Bonneville. - Inspired by a group of young lawyers of the Interior Department and at urgency of Representative Rankin, Mississippi, Representative Walter M. Pierce, of Oregon, today introduced another...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Politics. 1937-04-15
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Power. 1937-06-19


    • Equal power rates asked. - Distant Bonneville users should not be penalized, says Pierce.

    • 1937

    • Equal power rates asked. - Distant Bonneville users should not be penalized, says Pierce. - People of Oregon and Washington who live at a distance from Bonneville, should share in advantages the Federal government has placed there, Congressman...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Power. 1937-06-19
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1921-10-28


    • Gold is found in Moscow hill - recently discovered region said to yield 15 to 55 cents to pan - finder aged 65 years - sought fortune Alaska to California - expects mountain to rival Pierce

    • 1921

    • Gold is found in Moscow hill - recently discovered region said to yield 15 to 55 cents to pan - finder aged 65 years - sought fortune Alaska to California - expects mountain to rival Pierce - At the east end of Moscow mountain, 10 miles northeast...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1921-10-28
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1931-06-21


    • Gold strike at pierce city.

    • 1931

    • Gold strike at pierce city. - Four feet of ore reported -- vein sought long by other operators. - Looks fine, says head. - Drift running along at 10 feet daily -- body opened 521 feet at surface. - A telegram from Charles A. Phillips,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1931-06-21
    • Northwest history. Mining. Dredging. 1934-11-06


    • Pierce miners making good - more gold there than mined, says operator- reports new showings

    • 1934

    • Pierce miners making good - more gold there than mined, says operator- reports new showings - There is more gold in the placers and lodes about Pierce City, Idaho, than has been taken out, in the belief of M. J. Bray of Spokane, who is poerating a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Dredging. 1934-11-06
    • Northwest history. Mining. Examination. 1932-08-10


    • Engineer likes Crawford area - Richardson says strike probably the best in Pierce city in many years

    • 1932

    • Engineer likes Crawford area - Richardson says strike probably the best in Pierce city in many years - The presence of one or more veins above the large vein in which the Crawford strike was made is suspected by Samuel H. Richardson, mining...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Examination. 1932-08-10
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Legislation. 1937-04-24


    • War over Bonneville project. - Bitter word battle waged between Martin and Pierce as hearing adjourns.

    • 1937

    • War over Bonneville project. - Bitter word battle waged between Martin and Pierce as hearing adjourns. - House hearing on Bonneville dam administrative legislation were recessed indefinitely tonight as discord developed among Oregon officials over...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Legislation. 1937-04-24
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Politics. 1937-05-23


    • Oregon chief hits critic on Bonneville dam.

    • 1937

    • Oregon chief hits critic on Bonneville dam. - Enmity between Gov. Charles Martin and Representative Walter M. Pierce flared into the open here last night when the governor said Pierce "apparently had the motive of wrecking" the future of...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Politics. 1937-05-23
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Politics. 1938-01-25


    • 11 million asked for Bonneville.

    • 1938

    • 11 million asked for Bonneville. - A $11,450,000 appropriation for Bonneville dam will be asked of the House Appropriations Committee tomorrow by Representative Pierce, Democrat, Oregon.
      Budget estimates proposed only $1,450,000 but Pierce...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Politics. 1938-01-25
    • State history. State officials. Miscellaneous officials. 1936-12-18


    • Legislators from pierce pay visit to east side

    • 1936

    • Legislators from pierce pay visit to east side. - On the second day of their excursion into eastern Washington, four Pierce county members of the legislature visited the state institutions at Medical Lake. On the preceding day a delegation of...
    • State history. State officials. Miscellaneous officials. 1936-12-18
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. P. 1935-05-12


    • First white woman at Peach

    • 1935

    • First white woman at Peach
      Mrs. W. F. Pierce of Miles, Wash., who is active at 70, is the first white woman that settled at Peach. She and her first husband, the late Lester Bayley, homesteaded there in 1881. She is the only one remaining of...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. P. 1935-05-12

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