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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-07


    • Bodies of mine disaster victims are brought to surface

    • 1936

    • Bodies of mine disaster victims are brought to surface - As sorrowing relatives and fellow workers stood by at dawn, the bodies of 10 miners who fell 900 feet to their death in a shaft of the Morning mine at Mullan, Idaho, were brought to the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-07


    • Surface workings of Morning

    • 1936

    • Surface workings of Morning - This is the scene of the surface workings of the Morning mine at Mullan, Idaho. Ten men were killed in the fall of a cage in teh deep mine workings yesterday.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Buildings. 1933-05-07


    • Speeding work at Jack Waite - surface plant being restored and development resumed in mine- new stope opened

    • 1933

    • Speeding work at Jack Waite - surface plant being restored and development resumed in mine- new stope opened - Progress is satisfactory in the restoration of the surface plant of the Jack Waite Mining company in the Coeur d'Alene region, begun last...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Buildings. 1933-05-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1929-09-30


    • Miners divided on land issue - are about evenly split on surface and subsurface rights

    • 1929

    • Miners divided on land issue - are about evenly split on surface and subsurface rights - Mining men of the Inland Empire are divided on the question of delegation of the surface and subsurface land rights to the several states by the federal...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1929-09-30
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1934-02-27


    • Sultan starts sinking shaft

    • 1934

    • Sultan starts sinking shaft.
      On the strength of two well-known mining engineers, C.A. Sargent of the Northwest Magnesite company at Chewelah, and R.S. Merriam of Wallace, the Sultan Gold Mining company has started a shaft on its property known...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1934-02-27
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1926-01-03


    • Idaho star expects strike - tunnel near ledge, says official- opened at surface

    • 1926

    • Idaho star expects strike - tunnel near ledge, says official- opened at surface - A propserous new year is expected by the Idaho Star Mining company. A basis for expectation is the discovery of ore at a new place on the surface at Adair, Idaho, and...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1926-01-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1930-12-30


    • Mines and mining.

    • 1930

    • Mines and mining. - Rich ore hit by shamrock. - Two-foot vein ahs 200-ounce silver content at surface, says manager. - Another source of silver-lead ore, found at the surface on the property of the Shamrock Silver-Lead company, near Keller, shows...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1930-12-30
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1931-01-20


    • Several Idaho croppings big.

    • 1931

    • Several Idaho croppings big. - Bunker hill estimated at more than 15 feet, morning and golconda eight each. - Poorman had six feet. - Tiger surface rich -- all early strikes became famous and profitable. - The surprising discovery of ore at the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1931-01-20
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-04-12


    • Two-foot surface strike of silver

    • 1936

    • Two-foot surface strike of silver.
      Isadore Gauchat, for six years manager of the Queen of Sheba mine, has purchased the Theoharis lease on the new Premier mine, six miles west of the Sheba, whose recent shipment of 15 tons of silver ore from a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-04-12
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1917-12-28


    • Exploring for ore found near the shaft at surface

    • 1917

    • Exploring for ore found near the shaft at surface - "Crosscuts are proceeding in two directions from the bottom of a 175-foot shaft in the property of the SIlver-Antimony Mining company, Chewelah, Wash.," said G. H. Van Dusen, a stockholder,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1917-12-28
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-03-18


    • Get 450 feet depth on surface discovery

    • 1936

    • Get 450 feet depth on surface discovery.
      Wallace, Idaho, March 17.-A drift being cut by the Lucky Boy Mines corporation in the Big creek district has been extended 900 feet and a depth of 450 feet attained on the ledge, Henry Giguere, president,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-03-18
    • State history. Native Americans. Litigation. 1919-10-17


    • Can use surface soil for ditches

    • 1919

    • Can use surface soil for ditches. - Government's claim on Yakima reservation is sustained by Judge Rudkin. - Upholds an injunction. - Decision in litigation with John H. Clarkson to have important effect. - Judge Frank Rudkin this morning sent in a...
    • State history. Native Americans. Litigation. 1919-10-17
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1935-04-05


    • Mighty machines gouge out dirt far below surface of Columbia

    • 1935

    • Mighty machines gouge out dirt far below surface of Columbia. - "We get the dirt!" might be an apt slogan for the MWAK company, contractors on the Coulee dam job, for they're getting it at the rate of more than 40,000 cubic yards per day from this...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1935-04-05
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. General. 1935-12-03


    • Tunnel diggers near surface

    • 1935

    • Tunnel diggers near surface. - Government employes to meet; administration city is one company job. - Only 90 feet of tunnel needs to be bored in the granite rock before the drainage tunnel will reach the top in the ravine behind the dam site...
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. General. 1935-12-03
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Photographs. 1935-04-05


    • Mighty machines gouge out dirt far below surface of Columbia

    • 1935

    • Mighty machines gouge out dirt far below surface of Columbia. - "We get the dirt!" might be an apt slogan for the MWAK company, contractors on the Coulee dam job, for they're getting it at the rate of more than 40,000 cubic yards per day from this...
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Photographs. 1935-04-05
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1936-03-26


    • Report riches in Tourmaline - sample from Winze yields $112 gold to ton - ran but $4 at surface

    • 1936

    • Report riches in Tourmaline - sample from Winze yields $112 gold to ton - ran but $4 at surface - Gold ore assaying 3.2 ounces or $112 to the ton has been struck in the Homestake group of the Tourmaline Gold Mines, Inc., near Morris, Mont.,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1936-03-26

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