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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1935-08-22


    • Some interesting first events.

    • 1935

    • Some interesting first events. - Mr. and Mrs. Benj. S. Lafferty were the first couple to be married in the Murray gold camp. The wedding was celebrated in true gold camp style and took place June, 1886.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1935-08-22
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1907-03-24


    • Miners dream directly results in discovery of murray's richest diggings.

    • 1907

    • Miners dream directly results in discovery of murray's richest diggings. - "Dream gulch" davis and his extraordinary luck figure in most remarkable story of all coeur d'alene lore. - The discovery by a jackass of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1907-03-24
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1919-07-07


    • Petre coming back to spokane country to locate treasure indians told him of -- story of wilson's lost mine brought to memory. / by Russell Arden Bankson.

    • 1919

    • Petre coming back to spokane country to locate treasure indians told him of -- story of wilson's lost mine brought to memory. - News item from Waukegan, Ill.: "Isai Petre has left this place for Spokane, prepared to start search in the Coeur...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1919-07-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1923-10-23


    • Ridiculed for boosting coeur d'alene mines.

    • 1923

    • Ridiculed for boosting coeur d'alene mines. - Okanogan pioneer as youth tried to sell present bunker hill & sullivan to spokane men and was laughed at. - "You frequently hear people say that there are no mines in this district. But the mines have...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1923-10-23
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1925-12-10


    • Hercules made by faith and toil of poor men.

    • 1925

    • Hercules made by faith and toil of poor men. - Modest claim of 34 years ago now among great producers -- drove tunnel 1500 feet by hand. - From his modest claim staked out by Harry L. Day, a prospector on the hills near Wallace 34 years ago, has...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1925-12-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1928-04-09


    • Romance of mine is told by neill.

    • 1928

    • Romance of mine is told by neill. - Spokane capitalist details early struggles to make things go. - R. K. Neill, speaking before the mining bureau of the Chamber of Commerce today thrilled a large audience of business man, bankers and mining men...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1928-04-09
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1929-10-01


    • Walked into murray camp before it was real town.

    • 1929

    • Walked into murray camp before it was real town. - Grandma burton recalls gold rush days in Coeur d'Alenes. - "I had the finest garden around. Folks used to make the trip to Murray just to see my yard. Some of the flowers grew higher than my head."
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1929-10-01
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1929-10-02


    • State's first camp in 1855.

    • 1929

    • State's first camp in 1855. - Gold found in sands at old fort colville, only six years after great california rush, caused stampede to washington. - The first mining camp in Washington was at old Fort Colville, in Stevens county, where a post of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1929-10-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1929-10-02


    • Rocky mountain canary helped find bunker hill.

    • 1929

    • Rocky mountain canary helped find bunker hill. - Old white jackass, with extra long ears and e yes, described as "intelligent" by pioneers, played a colorful part. - Few great mines possess the colorful history attending discovery that is the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1929-10-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1929-10-02


    • Days and their chapter in history of coeur d'alenes.

    • 1929

    • Days and their chapter in history of coeur d'alenes. - There are few chapters of the mining history of the Pacific northwest more romatic than the growth achieved by the Day brothers' organization in the Coeur d'Alenes. You hear of few operations...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1929-10-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1929-10-03


    • Early-day mining.

    • 1929

    • Early-day mining. - Mining in the Pacific northwest, as in California, Colorado and other western areas, began with the search for placer gold. Its presence here was known many years before Marshall found gold in Sutter's mill race in California in...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1929-10-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1930-02-19


    • Helped found placer center.

    • 1930

    • Helped found placer center. - Was original name of wallace -- built first cabin 46 years ago. - Reminiscences of the early day history of Wallace were related to members of the Wallace Rotary club by D. C. McKissick, one of the early pioneers of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1930-02-19
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1931-08-30


    • Spokane's romance in millions shown in its mine buildings.

    • 1931

    • Spokane's romance in millions shown in its mine buildings. - City's picturesque array of structures without parallel. - History is unique. - Town on gateway to gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper bonanzas. - "The days of old, the days of gold." Early...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1931-08-30
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1932-06-16


    • Irishman from missouri recalls colorful early gold rush days.

    • 1932

    • Irishman from missouri recalls colorful early gold rush days. - The rush of amateur gold diggers tot he creeks of the Inland Empire this month is nothing compared with the rush which took place in the Coeur d'Alenes in 1883, in the opinion of E. S....
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1932-06-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1932-12-05


    • Idaho panhandle rich in history and ore burden.

    • 1932

    • Idaho panhandle rich in history and ore burden. - Discovery of a fragment of gold-bearing quartz by a highway worker in Fourth of July canyon near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, has brough a rush of treasure seekers to the district.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1932-12-05
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1933-11-06


    • History of gold days pasted on idaho cabin.

    • 1933

    • History of gold days pasted on idaho cabin. - When Pierce City was a rip-roaring mining camp, during the height of Idaho's first gold rush, some miner pasted on the wall of his cabin a layer of newspaper to keep the winter win from whistling...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1933-11-06
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1934-01-26


    • Man-hauled toboggan to gold rush scene.

    • 1934

    • Man-hauled toboggan to gold rush scene. - When the saga of the Coeur d'Alene mining country development is written the name of George H. Page, N625 Helena, will have its proper niche. When a stripling youth of 14 he man-hauled 200 punds of freight...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1934-01-26
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1934-08-30


    • How they found gold.

    • 1934

    • How they found gold. - The thoroughness in which placer miners searched out and exhausted the bonanza deposits of the Inland Empire, 60 or 70 years ago, has been a constant wonder. Their keen eyes overlooked no "signs"; they prospected the sands of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1934-08-30

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