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    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1928-06-07


    • Bobby Anderson extends drift - commercial ore in drift - 500 feet from portal - work by contract

    • 1928

    • Bobby Anderson extends drift - commercial ore in drift - 500 feet from portal - work by contract - Development of an ore shoot which will place the BObby Anderson mine on Pine creek in teh producing column is now well underway. The ore was...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1928-06-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-10-18


    • This portal is expected to by busy spot in Coeur d'Alenes.

    • 1936

    • This portal is expected to by busy spot in Coeur d'Alenes. - Here is the portal of the Polaris-Silver Summit tunnel, near Osburn, in the silver belt of the Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho, which is expected by mining observers to become one of the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1936-10-18
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1935-06-20


    • Major development in Coeur d'Alenes is being done here

    • 1935

    • Major development in Coeur d'Alenes is being done here - This portal scene of the Polaris mine on Big Creek shows part of the work which the Hecla Mining company is doing. It is the most important development enterprise in progress thisyear in teh...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1935-06-20
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1928-10-20


    • Jackson mine has rich ores - stringer of high-grade is continuous from portal of tunnel

    • 1928

    • Jackson mine has rich ores - stringer of high-grade is continuous from portal of tunnel - Four men are at work and have six tons of high grade silver ore on the dump at the Jackson mine on Red Top mountain, according to Claude Fowler and son,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1928-10-20
    • 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. Assays. 1921-08-15


    • Strike new vein accidentally - on way to distant ore body in Majestic- promising strike made

    • 1921

    • Strike new vein accidentally - on way to distant ore body in Majestic- promising strike made - Just as men were about to commence work on a 2600-foot new crosscut tonnel to reach a distant vein in the property of the Majestic Mining company in the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1921-08-15
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1921-08-15


    • Rainbow mine to resume work

    • 1921

    • Rainbow mine to resume work - The Rainbow Mining company, on the Little North Fork, in the Coeur d'Alenes, will resume operations soon, after a suspension since last fall. George Austin, manager, intends to let a contract for a 50-foot winze at the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1921-08-15
    • 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. Developments. 1929-05-07


    • Plans to sink for two thousand feet

    • 1929

    • Plans to sink for two thousand feet.
      Old C. and R. will be developed by Boundary Corporation. Wallace, Idaho, May 7.-(Special.)-Preliminary steps for cutting a large station about 900 feet from the portal of the lower tunnel by the Bounday...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1929-05-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1929-12-20


    • Douglas mine in development

    • 1929

    • Douglas mine in development.
      West drift best yet opened in mine; piling up reserve. The west drift under the creek from the bottom of the 300-foot shaft in the Douglas mine in the Coeur d'Alenes has three feet of solid zinc-lead ore in its face....
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1929-12-20
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1928-08-25


    • Bobby Anderson starting shaft.

    • 1928

    • Bobby Anderson starting shaft. - Begun on galene ore -- tunnel directed toward large surface showing. - The Bobby Anderson Mining company, operating near Kellogg, Idaho, has started a shaft on ore at a point in the tunnel 700 feet from the portal...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1928-08-25
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1934-08-27


    • Says silver dollar is making progress.

    • 1934

    • Says silver dollar is making progress. - Progress is being made in advancement of the Silver Dollar preliminary operations, near Osborn, Idaho, it is stated by E. G. Gnaedinger, engineer in charge. Mr. Gnaedinger was in Spokane Saturday, consulting...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1934-08-27
    • 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. 1935-08-22


    • General mines plan deep work

    • 1935

    • General mines plan deep work.
      The cut below shows the huge dump below the portal of the main working tunnel of the General Mines, evidencing the large amount of development work completed, on another promising property in the Kellog district, on...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1935-08-22
    • 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. Discovery. 1920-07-06


    • Strike ledge of low grade in Wallace Mine

    • 1920

    • Strike ledge of low grade in Wallace Mine.
      Last week the Wallace Mining, Milling and Realty company, driving a long tunnel just south of Wallace, struck what appears to be a ledge at about 2700 feet from the portal. The ledge is not well...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1920-07-06
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1926-03-03


    • Strike ore by accident

    • 1926

    • Strike ore by accident.
      Shoot at junction of Snake and Salmon rivers. Lewiston, Idaho, March 2.-Mining men have inspected samples of ore received by the Lewiston commercial club from the silver-lead strike made accidentally last week by the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1926-03-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1927-04-02


    • Tamarack cuts more ore

    • 1927

    • Tamarack cuts more ore.
      New body believed to be in Snowy Peak. Three feet of lead has been struck in a northerly drive from the No. 7 tunnel of the Tamarack & Custer Consolidated Mining company, according to a Wallace, Idaho, report. It is...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1927-04-02

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