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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1918-11-09


    • Increase force at interstate - underground men being employed- mill may be operated soon - ore reached in tarbox - lead disclosed at 1000-foot depth- crosscutting toward Sherman

    • 1918

    • Increase force at interstate - underground men being employed- mill may be operated soon - ore reached in tarbox - lead disclosed at 1000-foot depth- crosscutting toward Sherman - The Consolidated Interstate-Callahan Mining company is expected to...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1918-11-09
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-07


    • Morning underground scene

    • 1936

    • Morning underground scene - This is the 800-foot station of the Morning mine. From this level the shaft, the scene of yesterday's disaster, descends more than half a mile. The cage containing the miners fell about 1000 feet in this shaft.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-07


    • Verdict declares accident unavoidable - witnesses tell of events surrounding district's major underground mine accident

    • 1936

    • Verdict declares accident unavoidable - witnesses tell of events surrounding district's major underground mine accident - A coroner's jury today investigated the accident at the Morning mine of the Federal M. & S., company at Mullan which took the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Appointments & resignations. 1919-10-12


    • Direct Loon Lake work - engineer Cole to take charge of mine operations

    • 1919

    • Direct Loon Lake work - engineer Cole to take charge of mine operations - John T. Cole has been placed in charge of underground operations at the Loon Lake Copper company, Loon Lake, Wash., under the direction of W. L. Ziegier, superintendent. Mr....
    • Northwest history. Mining. Appointments & resignations. 1919-10-12
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-07-24


    • Rich underground.

    • 1937

    • Rich underground. - When the fountain of the new plant of the Pend Oreille Mines and Metals company at Metaline Falls was put in, it was found that the ground under the foundation and on which it rested was heavily mineralized, carrying, in some...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-07-24
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1921-08-12


    • New wage scale set for mines

    • 1921

    • New wage scale set for mines - A new wage scale has been announced in the state for mine workers on an opern shop basis, giving the day workers, both above and underground $6 a day, common laborers, underground, $5.25 a day, according to a Seattle...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1921-08-12
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exhibits. 1928-03-03


    • Exhibit of ore west's greatest - specimens from 100 properties being displayed for mining association - many dividend mines - British Columbia and four northwestern states show underground wealth

    • 1928

    • Exhibit of ore west's greatest - specimens from 100 properties being displayed for mining association - many dividend mines - British Columbia and four northwestern states show underground wealth - People move in a steady stream into the exhibit...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exhibits. 1928-03-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exhibits. 1936-12-18


    • Underground peep at Metaline m. & l.

    • 1936

    • Underground peep at Metaline m. & l.
      An interesting and unusual ore display from the property of the Metaline Mining and Leasing company is on exhibit in the office of F.D. Graves & Co., in the Radio Central building. It represents samples of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exhibits. 1936-12-18
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Core drilling. 1933-10-01


    • Diamond drills charm visitors at Grand Coulee dam project

    • 1933

    • Diamond drills charm visitors at Grand Coulee dam project. - Bring up cores of rock to test solidity of foundations at dam site. - Eat through granite. - Compass needle, set in gelatin, tells direction of bore deep underground / by R. A. S.
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Core drilling. 1933-10-01
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1919-11-18


    • Slow progress to rescue men - crew of men works at cavein - no more signals given

    • 1919

    • Slow progress to rescue men - crew of men works at cavein - no more signals given - Imprisoned 1500 feet underground since Saturday morning, when a tunnel of the Hunter mine at Mullan, Idaho, caved in, at noon today chances for the release alive of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1919-11-18
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-06-24


    • Shaft station hit by dynamite

    • 1936

    • Shaft station hit by dynamite - While the night shift miners employed in sinking the new four-compartment shaft at teh Sunshine mine were outside eating their lunch in the dry room at 3 a. m. this morning, three boxes of dynamite, stored in a short...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-06-24
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-06-25


    • Sunshine damaged by strange blast

    • 1936

    • Sunshine damaged by strange blast - An underground concrete storage room 160 feet from the portal of teh Sunshine mine's subway level on Big creek in teh Coeur d'Alenes was wrecked by a dynamite blast of undetermined origin Wednesday. Pipelines and...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-06-25
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-11-18


    • Rescue scene at Montana mine where two men died

    • 1936

    • Rescue scene at Montana mine where two men died - The bodies of Antoine Gustafson, 40, and Oscar Gevart, 45, miners, were taken from this tunnel, entrance to the underground placer workings of teh Deep Creek mine, 16 miles south of Superior, Mont.,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-11-18
    • Northwest history. Mining. Appointments & resignations. 1919-08-04


    • Sanford leaves the Bunker Hill for Arkansas

    • 1919

    • Sanford leaves the Bunker Hill for Arkansas - Joe Sanford, for 11 years connected with the Bunker Hill & Sullivan property as an engineer, has resigned his position with the company and will go to Arkansas to take charge of underground operations...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Appointments & resignations. 1919-08-04
    • Northwest history. Mining. Appointments & resignations. 1935-07-17


    • New manager at Gnome gold - reported to have netted $8500 as Lessee, Koomler put in charge

    • 1935

    • New manager at Gnome gold - reported to have netted $8500 as Lessee, Koomler put in charge - R. F. Koomler, who, as the lessee, is reported to have taken $8500 net from his operation of the Gnome Gold mine, near Orogrande, Idaho, in six recent...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Appointments & resignations. 1935-07-17
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1935-04-14


    • Idaho Mother Lode gold reports $92 a ton output

    • 1935

    • Idaho Mother Lode gold reports $92 a ton output - Since he succeeded to the general superintendency of the Idaho Mother Lode Gold Mines, Inc., Murray, Idaho, Ross L. Roundy, an experienced operator of the Coeur d'Alenes, has been doing work...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1935-04-14
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assessments. 1920-12-27


    • Levy assessment for Wardner mine - announcement of third call for money made- work is described

    • 1920

    • Levy assessment for Wardner mine - announcement of third call for money made- work is described - Assessment No. 3 has been levied by the Wardner Leasing company, and, with the announcement stockholders received today a letter from J. H. Eby,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assessments. 1920-12-27
    • Northwest history. Mining. Associations. 1935-12-17


    • Bliss More heads miners

    • 1935

    • Bliss More heads miners - Bliss Moore, mining engineer, was elected president of the Northwest Mining association by its directors yesterday. He was with Chino Copper on the Mexican border as chief engineer for five years and was with the Utah...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Associations. 1935-12-17
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1927-08-04


    • Takes three mine jobs - Decker to open Evolution, Jumbo and Lead Blossom

    • 1927

    • Takes three mine jobs - Decker to open Evolution, Jumbo and Lead Blossom - Two more contracts for underground development have been closed by the Decker Mining and Contracting company, acording to Clifford Decker, manager, Kellogg, Idaho, one with...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1927-08-04
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1930-07-27


    • Will head traveler mine - former Constitution official takes tunnel contract

    • 1930

    • Will head traveler mine - former Constitution official takes tunnel contract - Management of the Commercial Traveler mine, near Kellogg, Idaho, has ben given to Otto Achord, former underground superintendent of the Constitution mine for many years,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1930-07-27

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