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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1917-12-21


    • St. James cuts stringers - Burke quartzite entered at 600-foot depth

    • 1917

    • St. James cuts stringers - Burke quartzite entered at 600-foot depth - "Stringers of ore in Burke quartzite have just been cute by the St. James Mining company, adjoining hte Sunset mine, on Sunset peak, Coeur d'Alene region," said Mrs. Theresa...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1917-12-21
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-10-03


    • Four M's shaft gaining depth

    • 1937

    • Four M's shaft gaining depth - The two-compartment shaft started two weeks ago by the Mineral Mountain Mining and Milling company has attained the 40-foot depth, according to Lafe Morris, foreman. The stringers cut are slightly increased in...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-10-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1925-08-29


    • Nabob strike pleases miners - accepted as an indication that better bodies await development at depth

    • 1925

    • Nabob strike pleases miners - accepted as an indication that better bodies await development at depth - The body of high grade zinc ore struck below the main tunnel level of the Nabob Silver-Lead company was left by the shaft at a depth of 120...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1925-08-29
    • Northwest history. Mining. Inspection. 1936-02-06


    • Gray copper in Metropolitan - engineer reports three streaks revealed by shaft started at 1000-foot depth

    • 1936

    • Gray copper in Metropolitan - engineer reports three streaks revealed by shaft started at 1000-foot depth - The two-compartment shaft of the Metropolitan Mines corporation had attained a depth of 30 feet or more when inspected by John M. Gleason, a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Inspection. 1936-02-06
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1934-02-10


    • Hecla explores new low depth

    • 1934

    • Hecla explores new low depth - Mining in the Hecla at Burke, Idaho, has reached a new level 3200 feet deeper than the collar of the shaft and 400 feet deeper than the present lowest working level. A station is being cut at this new depth and a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1934-02-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1927-09-10


    • Evolution after large outcrop - let contract for crosscut that will attain depth of 600 feet - mine plant ordered - work to proceed pending arrival - several veins reported in two workings

    • 1927

    • Evolution after large outcrop - let contract for crosscut that will attain depth of 600 feet - mine plant ordered - work to proceed pending arrival - several veins reported in two workings - A point under an outcrop of large size is the objective...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1927-09-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1931-07-21


    • Unwater shaft; sink for depth

    • 1931

    • Unwater shaft; sink for depth - Sinking to greater depth was started last Wednesday by the Washington & Idaho Mining company at its property on Moon creek in the Coeur d'Alenes, Dr. James Murray, president of the company, said today. He was at the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1931-07-21
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1931-09-03


    • Large station at 750 depth - Whitedelf to let contract for 500 feet of development on New Horizon

    • 1931

    • Large station at 750 depth - Whitedelf to let contract for 500 feet of development on New Horizon - Completion of a large station on the recently attained 400-foot shaft level of the Whitedelf mine near Clark Fork, Idaho, and of a skip pocket was...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1931-09-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1934-07-28


    • Seek rich ore at Nellie mine - contract let for drifting to vein at 800-foot depth in silver belt

    • 1934

    • Seek rich ore at Nellie mine - contract let for drifting to vein at 800-foot depth in silver belt - A contract for drifting that is expected to reach an ore body at a depth of 800 feet in the Nellie mine has been let by the Yakima Shoshone Mining...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1934-07-28
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1918-02-08


    • Electric point to seek depth.

    • 1918

    • Electric point to seek depth. - Passes 700-foot point and will go to 1000 feet this spring, is predicted. - Water level is sought. - Disclosures of sulphide ore expected there -- merger of chimneys thought possible. - A true measure of resources in...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1918-02-08
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1929-05-23


    • Record depth at chloride

    • 1929

    • Record depth at chloride.
      Idaho-Lakeview down 1200 feet in Hewer Mine and will continue 200 feet. Shaft in Sulphide. Large operation may depend on what is found on 1400-upper level yielded ore. The Idaho-Lakeview Mines company has sunk to the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1929-05-23
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1925-09-10


    • Ramona company seeking depth.

    • 1925

    • Ramona company seeking depth. - Development work on the property owned by the Ramona Mining company, located near Osburn, is most encouraging, according to R. A. Brockman, presient of the corporation, who visited the mine last evening. A shaft is...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1925-09-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1928-07-08


    • Gaining depth in dickens.

    • 1928

    • Gaining depth in dickens. - Shaft proceeding at rate five feet daily. - The shaft in the Dickens Consolidated mine is dropping into depth at the rate of five to six feet a day from the No. 5 level, according to the report of a director at Wallace,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1928-07-08
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1935-10-05


    • Hecla increases depth of shaft

    • 1935

    • Hecla increases depth of shaft.
      The Hecla Mining company of Wallace has increased the depth of the shaft from 36 to 100 feet since taking an option on eight unpatented virgin gold claims in the Castle Creek section of Owyhee county, Idaho, James...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1935-10-05
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-01-31


    • Aurora tunnel speeds to vein

    • 1936

    • Aurora tunnel speeds to vein.
      Completion in six weeks expected-gains depth on long fissure. The working tunnel started recently by the Aurora Mining company, three miles north of the Dayrock mine in the Coeur d'Algene region of Idaho, has...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-01-31
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-07-19


    • Greater depth for two mines.

    • 1936

    • Greater depth for two mines. - Silver dollar and yakima shoshone plan joint shaft to 2000 feet. - A great depth may be attined in two silver mines of the dry belt of the Coeur d'Alene region of Idaho vitrually at the cost of one, it has been...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-07-19
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1935-12-13


    • Silver strike to great depth

    • 1935

    • Silver strike to great depth.
      Would attain horizons of ore in large mines, says manager. At one stroke, Silver Strike Mining company would go to the depth at which greater widths and lengths begin to appear in ore bodies of the Coeur d'Alenes,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1935-12-13
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1916-11-12


    • Empire hits copper ore - further depth is expected to reveal improvement

    • 1916

    • Empire hits copper ore - further depth is expected to reveal improvement - Copper bearing ore in a body of undetermined width has been entered at a depth of 600 feet in the property of the Empire Copper company, on the Little North fork, Coeur...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1916-11-12
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1918-01-17


    • Nabob strikes more ore - zinc stringer a foot wide at 800-foot depth - third body cut in drive to Denver - railroad work resumed

    • 1918

    • Nabob strikes more ore - zinc stringer a foot wide at 800-foot depth - third body cut in drive to Denver - railroad work resumed - The third of a series of stringers containing ore has been cut by the tunnel of the Nabob Mining company, according...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1918-01-17
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1918-01-17


    • Strike in Reindeer Queen - three feet of copper-bearing ore found at 1500 depth

    • 1918

    • Strike in Reindeer Queen - three feet of copper-bearing ore found at 1500 depth - Three feet of ore have been struck at a depth of 1500 feet in the property of the Reindeer Queen Mining company, three miles southeast of Mullan, Idaho, according to...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1918-01-17

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