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    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1937-01-07


    • Seek new ore near Tonasket - Niagra Falls miners interested in mineral similar to molybdenite

    • 1937

    • Seek new ore near Tonasket - Niagra Falls miners interested in mineral similar to molybdenite - It is reported that engineers representing a Niagara Falls, N. Y., company are directing the exploration of a property 12 miles west of Tonasket,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1937-01-07
    • State history. Columbia Basin. General. 1936-02-22


    • Still undecided as to CVA plan

    • 1936

    • Still undecided as to CVA plan. - Northwest solons will meet soon to act on Columbia power setups. - Two main proposals. - One is an authority similar to TVA; other lets existing agencies handle power sales. - Northwest senators said today they...
    • State history. Columbia Basin. General. 1936-02-22
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Strikes and riots. 1937-04-27


    • Workers ignore employers' call - sympathy strikers at 3 mills still out - loggers demand treatment similar to that given men in plants

    • 1937

    • Workers ignore employers' call - sympathy strikers at 3 mills still out - loggers demand treatment similar to that given men in plants - Sympathy strikers at Linnton, Prescott and Vernonia ignored their employers' command to return to their jobs...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Strikes and riots. 1937-04-27
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1929-07-21


    • Open rich ore in nellie mine.

    • 1929

    • Open rich ore in nellie mine. - Conditions similar to sinshine, says official -- looking forward to production. - Conditions similar to those in the Sunshine, its neighbor in a mountain sense, are being found in the Nellie mine of the Yakima...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1929-07-21
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. General. 1938-01-12


    • Huge machine to bend steel

    • 1938

    • Huge machine to bend steel. - Equipment similar to that used at Boulder dam will be erected. - Fabricating machinery to be used to bend 9000 tons of steel for penstocks and intake tubes in the Grand Coulee dam and pumping plant is expected to be...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. General. 1938-01-12
    • Northwest history. International affairs. 1937-07-16


    • Pope speaks for treaties.

    • 1937

    • Pope speaks for treaties. - Wants agreement similar to Pan - American treaties signed at Buenos Aires. Senator James P. Pope (Dem., Idaho), speaking before the Institute of Public Affairs, today advocated a Europe-American cooperative peace...
    • Northwest history. International affairs. 1937-07-16
    • State history. Native Americans. Employment. 1936-10-22


    • Indian work on

    • 1936

    • Indian work on. - ECW crews make improvements on reservation. - Thirty employed daily. - Expect worker quota to be increased during winter--Projects similar to CCC and SCS. - With approximately 30 men working each day at tasks similar to those of...
    • State history. Native Americans. Employment. 1936-10-22
    • State history. Native Americans. Legends & lore. 1937-05-18. p. 1.


    • 60 Indians help harness highway of forefathers

    • 1937

    • 60 Indians help harness highway of forefathers. - With the help of these Indians, the barren hills in the background may become green by irrigation made possible by the dam. Regalia similar to what is being worn here can be seen at their...
    • State history. Native Americans. Legends & lore. 1937-05-18. p. 1.
    • State history. Native Americans. Legends & lore. 1937-05-18. p. 2.


    • 60 Indians help harness highway of forefathers

    • 1937

    • 60 Indians help harness highway of forefathers. - With the help of these Indians, the barren hills in the background may become green by irrigation made possible by the dam. Regalia similar to what is being worn here can be seen at their...
    • State history. Native Americans. Legends & lore. 1937-05-18. p. 2.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1936-04-02


    • Movie of Coulee dam

    • 1936

    • Movie of Coulee dam. - The bureau of reclamation, through its magazine, The Reclamation Era, announces the release of a two-reel 35 milimeter film explaining the Columbia Basin project, its conservation purposes and structural purposes. The...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1936-04-02
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Maps & aerial views. 1935-06-14


    • Chronicle staff artist prepares drawing to show what Ickes' "Change Order" on Coulee dam foundation actually means

    • 1935

    • Chronicle staff artist prepares drawing to show what Ickes' "Change Order" on Coulee dam foundation actually means. - When Harold Ickes, secretary of the interior, signed the "change order" on the Grand Coulee dam he figuratively instructed the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Maps & aerial views. 1935-06-14
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1934-02-10


    • Huge shovels eat way into earth at Grand Coulee dam

    • 1934

    • Huge shovels eat way into earth at Grand Coulee dam. - Progress of excavation operations at the Grand Coulee dam site can be visualized by a glance at this picture, showing two big steamshovels belonging to Goodfellow Brothers of Wenatchee eating...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1934-02-10
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1934-06-18


    • Rows of cabins spring up in Grand Coulee town

    • 1934

    • Rows of cabins spring up in Grand Coulee town. - A row of cabins is typical of much of the "residential construction" in the boom towns built in the Grand Coulee near the dam site. The cabins are similar to those seen in wayside tourist camps.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1934-06-18
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1934-06-18


    • Good, substantial buildings to house workmen

    • 1934

    • Good, substantial buildings to house workmen. - Tar, papered shacks like these have had their day in the immediate vicinity of the Grand Coulee dam site. Substantial, attractive buildings will be erected in both the engineers' and contractors'...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1934-06-18
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1934-06-18


    • Rows of cabins spring up in Grand Coulee town

    • 1934

    • Rows of cabins spring up in Grand Coulee town. - A row of cabins is typical of much of the "residential construction" in the boom towns built in the Grand Coulee near the dam site. The cabins are similar to those seen in wayside tourist camps.
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1934-06-18
    • State history. Native Americans. Population. 1936-12-04


    • Destroyed Indian population

    • 1936

    • Destroyed Indian population. - The prehistoric Indian population of northern Arizona was destroyed by "tenement" conditions nearly 1,000 years ago. Tracing the habits of the Indian population, an authority said that from the time they moved from...
    • State history. Native Americans. Population. 1936-12-04
    • State history. Native Americans. Relics & antiques. 1899-08-28


    • Found an Indian mummy

    • 1899

    • Found an Indian mummy. - Discovery of a scientist in British Columbia. - The mummy, found in a cave, was of higher type than the Indians at present on the coast--Was embalmed similar to that of Egypt. - Harlin L. Smith, representing the Natural...
    • State history. Native Americans. Relics & antiques. 1899-08-28
    • State history. Native Americans. Relief. 1936-05-26


    • Indians given self-aid homes

    • 1936

    • Indians given self-aid homes. - Indian Commissioner John Collier said today houses and self-help buildings constructed on a community pattern similar to subsistence homestead projects were under way on 50 reservations, including the Tulalip in...
    • State history. Native Americans. Relief. 1936-05-26
    • State history. Native Americans. Schools. 1929-04-11


    • Pleas for Wapato schools.

    • 1929

    • Pleas for Wapato schools. - Representative Summers has requested the commissioner of Indian affairs to readjust compensation of the public schools at Wapato, on the Yakima reservation, so that the schools may again be paid 50 cents a day per Indian...
    • State history. Native Americans. Schools. 1929-04-11

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