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- Magnesite firm puts 100 to work.
- 1933
- Magnesite firm puts 100 to work. - One hundred men will go back to work at plants of the Northwest Magnesite company here, it was announced today. Many of this number will be employed at the quarry, five miles west of here. Forty men have been...
- Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1933-03-24
- Ninety men join magnesite force.
- 1933
- Ninety men join magnesite force. - They're taking the brakes off the wheels of industry in the northwest. Today, 90 additional men were put to work in the quarries and plant of the Northwest Magnesite company at Chewelah, bringing the force to 130.
- Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1933-03-27
- Magnesite firm has big payroll.
- 1933
- Magnesite firm has big payroll. - One hundred and seventy men are now on the payroll of the Northwest Magnesite company. This is the first time in several years that three kilns have been used to take care of the demand. According to Earl Garber...
- Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1933-06-17
- Magnesite workers get raise in wages.
- 1937
- Magnesite workers get raise in wages. - Northwest Magnesite company employees were giben a $1-a-day wage increase last week, with $5 a day minimum pay, E. A. Garber, the company's vice president stated.
- Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-11-19
- Magnesite workers get raise in wages.
- 1937
- Magnesite workers get raise in wages. - Northwest Magnesite company employees were given a $1-a-day wage increase last week, with $5 a day minimum pay, E. A. Garber, the company's vice president stated.
- Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-03-18
  1937-03-19
  1937-05-19
- Webster to rise in house; Talk for magnesite bill
- 1919
- Webster to rise in house; talk for magnesite bill. - Representative J. Stanley Webster is expected to make his maiden speech in the house shortly when the question of placing magensite on the protected list comes up for consideration in connection...
- State history. State officials. U.S. Representatives. Webster, J. Stanley. 1919-08-22
- 15 more men given work.
- 1933
- 15 more men given work. - Northwest magnesite company increases its operations. - According to Superintendent Garber of the Northwest Magnesite company, operations at the quarry and plant have been increased within the last week and 15 more men...
- Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1933-06-13
- Says dam power key to industry
- 1937
- Says dam power key to industry. - Magnesite deposits in Washington are adequate to provide raw material for a large production of metallic magnesium, H. A. Doerner said in his address at the northwest mining convention this morning. He is...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Power. 1937-12-04
- 300 employes get $1 per day wage raise.
- 1937
- 300 employes get $1 per day wage raise. - Vice president E. A. Garber of the Northwest Magnesite company at Chewelah, announced Tuesday that a wage increase of one dollar per day had been made to 300 employers of the firm.
- Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-03-11
- Wages raised $1 a day.
- 1937
- Wages raised $1 a day. - Wage increases of $1 a day with a $5 a day minimum wage were greanted to 300 employees of the Northwest Magnesite company at Chewelah last week, according to E. A. Garber, president.
- Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-03-18
- Boosts chesaw iron deposits.
- 1918
- Boosts chesaw iron deposits. - Okanogan man here to promote development asks furnace building. - H. B. Smalley of Chesaw, Okanogan county, one of the owners of the iron deposits in that district, is in the city and has been presenting to officials...
- Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1918-07-13
- Ore assaying plant put in at colville.
- 1920
- Ore assaying plant put in at colville. - Kildow Bros. of Colville have established a completely equipped chemical laboratory where fine assaying with analysis and research work on ore treatment is handled. Besides the analytical and assay work...
- Northwest history. Mining. General. 1920-11-19
- Projects of Columbia for 10,000,000 H. P.--Estimate 1 employee to 2 H. P.
- 1935
- Projects of Columbia for 10,000,000 H. P.--Estimate 1 employee to 2 H. P.. - An empire of opportunity lies in wide areas bordering what will be a lake to be backed up by the Grand Coulee dam, it is gathered from an address of Dr. Frank M. Handy,...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Feature articles, editorials, history. 1935-11-15
- Board in session
- 1934
- Board in session. - Chiefs confer here today on changes in structure. - Grant County irate. - Charges work discrimination--W. S. C. Dean tells way to aid magnesite. - Request for permission to establish a private hospital at Grand Coulee dam site...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Hospitals. 1934-02-03