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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • 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. 1920-09-17


    • Make progress in drifting on copper king.

    • 1920

    • Make progress in drifting on copper king. - Two shifts working west on ledge from raise completed 2 months ago. - With two full shifts working on the claim, the Copper King Mining company is making rapid progress on drifting west of the Coeur...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1920-09-17
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1935-06-16


    • Hecla drifting on ore at 3200

    • 1935

    • Hecla drifting on ore at 3200.
      Results on deepest level are satisfactory, says McCarthy-union resumes. The most recent development in the Hecla mine at Burke, Idaho, is the sinking of the winze and the cross-cutting of the ore on the 3200-foot...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1935-06-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1921-02-23


    • Will do drifting; take pay in ore

    • 1921

    • Will do drifting; take pay in ore - Contracts were let this week for an additional 75 feet of drift in the Eldorado tunnel near Kellogg, Idaho. The contractors have agreed to continue the drift and take their pay in the ore wich they can mine in...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1921-02-23
    • Northwest history. Mining. Buildings. 1917-12-25


    • Bluebird raises steam - Loon Lake plant has been in operation 10 days - surface work completed- shaft is being retimbered- sinking soon to be resumed

    • 1917

    • Bluebird raises steam - Loon Lake plant has been in operation 10 days - surface work completed- shaft is being retimbered- sinking soon to be resumed - "The Loon Lake Bluebird company has completed the shaft within 30 days," said Harry H....
    • Northwest history. Mining. Buildings. 1917-12-25
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1918-04-07


    • Ambergris hits high-grade shoot - body four feet wide said to contain much ore of shipping grade - on No. 4 Hercules level - ore expands from a few inches and pinches in course of drifting

    • 1918

    • Ambergris hits high-grade shoot - body four feet wide said to contain much ore of shipping grade - on No. 4 Hercules level - ore expands from a few inches and pinches in course of drifting - High grade silver-lead ore is reported to have been...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1918-04-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-04-02


    • Active at mine

    • 1936

    • Active at mine.
      Development again under way at Palisade. T.W. Schmidt returned yesterday from the Palisade mine on Pine creek, elevation of 6000 feet, and reports 5 to 10 feet of packed snow with 2 to 4 feet of fresh snow. He said the Palisade...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-04-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-03-26


    • Satisfied with year's drifting.

    • 1937

    • Satisfied with year's drifting. - Quite a different picture of development in the Sunshine Consolidated company is contained in a recent statement issued by some of the directors who object to a statement made last week whcih was decidedly...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-03-26
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1929-03-08


    • Important find in the tamarack.

    • 1929

    • Important find in the tamarack. - Drifting being continued in new ore shoot -- is seven feet wide. - Drifting continues to the east on the 600-foot level in the Tamarack and Custer mine in the new ore chute recently opened, and according to a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1929-03-08
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-07-05


    • Silver strike cuts vein deep - 22 feet wide on No. 4- engineer expects ore ahead by drifting

    • 1936

    • Silver strike cuts vein deep - 22 feet wide on No. 4- engineer expects ore ahead by drifting - Intersection of the west vein approximately 120 feet by a crosscut from the shaft station on No. 4 level is announced by L. W. Defenbach, secretary of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-07-05
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-12-06


    • Four M hurries drift to west

    • 1936

    • Four M hurries drift to west.
      Drifting continues westward on the No. 1 vein of the Mineral Mountain Mining and Milling company in Spring gulch, silver belt of the Coeur d'Alenes. The advance has established the continuity of ore for more than...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-12-06
    • State history. Native Americans. Ceremonies. 1935-04


    • Indian adoption of white men declared drifting into 'racket'

    • 1935

    • Indian adoption of white men declared drifting into 'racket'. - When Indians don war paint, dance around a white man and then give him a name, it may flatter the latter, and the former will be the richer perhaps by $5, but these Indians will not...
    • State history. Native Americans. Ceremonies. 1935-04
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. P. 1936-03-22


    • Capt. Parker, Piloting at 12, Bossed Fifty Boats on Sound

    • 1936

    • Capt. Parker, Piloting at 12, Bossed Fifty Boats on Sound - Capt. Herbert M. Parker, who has held shipmaster's papers on Puget Sound for fifty years, walks along the waterfront nowadays intently gazing at the big ships, his memory drifting back to...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. P. 1936-03-22
    • State history. Stevens, County of. 1929-07-31


    • Confer With Dill and Hill- Northern Stevens People Seek Damages from Smelter Pollution

    • 1929

    • Confer With Dill and Hill- Northern Stevens People Seek Damages from Smelter Pollution - Senator C. C. Dill and Congressman Sam B. Hill have accepted an invitation to confer with residents of the norther part of Stevens county at Northport, August...
    • State history. Stevens, County of. 1929-07-31
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assessments. 1937-05-25


    • Betty Lou levy to continue crosscut

    • 1937

    • Betty Lou levy to continue crosscut - The five-mill assessment levied recently by the Betty Lou Mining company is to continue drifting and crosscutting in BUrke canyon, J. G. Hodgins, manager, reports. In the last three months a crosscut, running...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assessments. 1937-05-25
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assessments. 1937-12-16


    • Silver Crescent levies assessment

    • 1937

    • Silver Crescent levies assessment - The Silver Crescent company, operating on Moon gulch, where a consolidation of the Dickens group and the Silver Crescent was effected some time ago, has levied an assessment of one cent per share. The management...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assessments. 1937-12-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1936-03-06


    • Sinking will start

    • 1936

    • Sinking will start - Sinking to the 400 level of the Metropolitan mine in the Coeur d'Alenes will be started early next week, under contract. The new hoisting plant now is in operation. While waiting for completeion of the 200 station pump and...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1936-03-06
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1936-11-30


    • Polaris shaft is completed

    • 1936

    • Polaris shaft is completed - His contract with the Polaris Mining and Development company in the silver belt of the Coeur d'Alenes was completed today by Joseph V. Grismer. He has sunk the three-compartment shaft to a depth of 1907 feet from the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1936-11-30
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1937-09-17


    • Aurora driving to cored vein

    • 1937

    • Aurora driving to cored vein - A cross-cut to the vein from its 600-foot depth has been started by the Aurora Mining company, hwose property i on Deer creek, three miles east of the Silver Crescent, J. H. Eby, mining engineer, reports. A contract...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1937-09-17

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