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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • Description: drives
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    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1920-04-24


    • Priest river has its greatest log drive

    • 1920

    • Priest river has its greatest log drive - One of the most difficult drives in the history of logging in Bonner county is on this week at Priest river, the water bing lower than in any other year since annual spring drives began on this stream. And,...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1920-04-24
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1929-04-29


    • Low water holds log drives back - mills in downriver country may run out of logs too early

    • 1929

    • Low water holds log drives back - mills in downriver country may run out of logs too early - The unusually low stage of water in the Pend Orielle river for this time of the year and also low water in the Priest lake country streams is holding back...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1929-04-29
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1938-04-17


    • Mighty drive of logs begins - River experts risk necks to move 40,000,000 feet of timber 100 miles

    • 1938

    • Mighty drive of logs begins - River experts risk necks to move 40,000,000 feet of timber 100 miles - Potlatch Forests, Inc., has sounded the call for its ninth annual log drive down the north fork of the Clearwater river, and over night 30 picked...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1938-04-17
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1929-04-15


    • Huge log drive to start soon - Lumber company plans to float 20,000,000 feet down to mill

    • 1929

    • Huge log drive to start soon - Lumber company plans to float 20,000,000 feet down to mill - The Winton Lumber company is planning one of the largest timber drives in the history of operations on the Little North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene river,...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Drives. 1929-04-15
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assessments. 1938-06-07


    • Mineral Point drives in July

    • 1938

    • Mineral Point drives in July - With the proceeds of the last two assessments the Coeur d'Alene Mines corporation met all its indebtedness, including the purchase of mining claims held under option, additional equipment for sinking, and the sinking...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assessments. 1938-06-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1927-05-29


    • Drives for Galena crop - Sterling lets another contract for tunnel work

    • 1927

    • Drives for Galena crop - Sterling lets another contract for tunnel work - A contract for 100 feet of tunnel to the 1500-foot point, has been let by the Sterling Silver Mountain Mining company, whose property adjoins the Sunshine, according to a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1927-05-29
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1926-06-27


    • Drives 15 feet daily in syringa.

    • 1926

    • Drives 15 feet daily in syringa. - Expects eight feet milling ore in foot wall in next 30 feet. - Work on the Syringa mine near the Great Northern railway is progressing at the rate of about 15 feet a week in the 176-foot lower tunnel and the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1926-06-27
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1931-06-28


    • General mines drives far

    • 1931

    • General mines drives far.
      1360 feet of work in last year and half. In nearly a year and a half to June 20, the General Mines corporation, operating three mines east of Kellogg, Idaho, performed 1343 feet of work, nearly all of it on the porphyry...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1931-06-28
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-11-25


    • Silver crescent drives crosscut.

    • 1936

    • Silver crescent drives crosscut. - Good progress is being made with the work in the crosscut toward the Silver Crescent ore body from the 600-level of the Dickens shaft, according to President James Mohr.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-11-25
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-01-10


    • Lucky Boy drives crosscut

    • 1936

    • Lucky Boy drives crosscut.
      Operating in a field several miles south of the Sunshine, the Lucky Boy Mines corporation is carrying on a steady program looking toward the development of a strong ledge carrying silver-lead values and traceable on...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-01-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-09-02


    • Silver queen drives on vein.

    • 1937

    • Silver queen drives on vein. - Operations on the Sunshine Silver Queen property on Big Creek are progressing in a very encouraging manner, according to President-manager Carl H. Anderson. A drift is being extended on the vein which shows a width of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-09-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Drilling. 1937-06-24


    • Glacier drives for 6-ft. shoot.

    • 1937

    • Glacier drives for 6-ft. shoot. - A crosscut was in progress last week to pick up the vein encountered in diamond drill holes on the No. 4 tunnel level of the Glacier Silver-Lead Mining company, Charles H. Goodsell, consulting engineer, reports. ...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Drilling. 1937-06-24
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1928-07-20


    • Callahan drives east and south

    • 1928

    • Callahan drives east and south.
      Will explore new vein and untried territory-also drills deep.
      Wallace, Idaho, July 20.-(Special.)--Callahan Zinc-Lead company has entered upon an extensive diamond drill exploration and development program at...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1928-07-20
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1928-10-27


    • Lincoln drives for a mile

    • 1928

    • Lincoln drives for a mile.
      Will drift toward Sunshine line 4000 feet distant.
      What is believed to be the Sunshine vein has been encountered by a crosscut driven more than a mile by the Lincoln Mining company, near Kellogg, Idaho, according...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1928-10-27
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1934-09-25


    • Pend Oreille drives at 500

    • 1934

    • Pend Oreille drives at 500
      Crosscut to join shaft to be sunk from 300-foot level--facilitate mining
      Crosscutting is proceeding from the Hidden Falls tunnel of the Josephine mine of the Pend Oreille Mines and Metals company, according to...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1934-09-25

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