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- Sold down the river?
- 1935
- Sold down the river? - By far the largest exportable surplus of Canadian lumber is that produced in British Columbia. In type and quality it is directly in competition with that manufactured in Oregon and Washington, the chief industrial product of...
- Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Tariff. 1935-11-16
- Approval given vacationland
- 1936
- Approval given vacationland. Writing to The Times, this outdoor man says: "There seems to be a lack of realization on the part of most of us, as to what Washington's wonderful climate, and its thousand and one beautiful scenic places offer us in...
- State history. State of Washington Government. Publicity. 1936-09-02
- Miners demand $1 pay increase.
- 1937
- Miners demand $1 pay increase. - Major companies given notice by montana union head. - Signing himself a representative of Wallace, Mullan, Burke and Kellogg locals International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Thomas F. McGuire, Anaconda,...
- Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-02-24
- Eye strike front - state traffic officers are called to Orofino - argue over small mills - pickets are busy at Pierce and plans made to contine holdout while many swim and fish
- 1936
- Eye strike front - state traffic officers are called to Orofino - argue over small mills - pickets are busy at Pierce and plans made to contine holdout while many swim and fish - Quiet marked the day on the Orofino strike front as the pickets...
- Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Strikes and riots. 1936-07-07
- 700 invited to a. i. m. e. meet.
- 1934
- 700 invited to a. i. m. e. meet. - Foremost mining and metallurgical engineers to have papers here friday. - The men who reroute a crosscut wandering from the vein, those who seek fault-concealing shoots and those who extract the gold, silver, lead...
- Northwest history. Mining. Engineers. 1934-09-26
- How the Grand Coulee dam looks today
  Blasting in the wake of jackhammer drilling
  Completed foundation section of the river barrier
  Rocks are trucked away from their age-old home
  Blocks of concrete and steel rising to form a 150-mile...
- 1937
- How the Grand Coulee dam looks today
  Blasting in the wake of jackhammer drilling. - Left--Several times daily dynamite is set off in holes drilled into the former river bed. This blast scene is in area B.
  Completed foundation section of the...
- State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Photographs. 1937-05-16.
- Coast editor writes column on fireside chat with congressman Hill at Omak
- 1935
- Coast editor writes column on fireside chat with congressman Hill at Omak. - William D. Welsh, editor of the Port Angeles News, has been in this Central Washington country, lately and while in Omak had a visit with the Congressman of the Fifth...
- State history. State officials. U.S. Representatives. Hill, Sam B. 1935-11-08
- Zioncheck and party leaders in open break--Congressman fights with both Stevenson and Bone over George Starr appointment / By Lester M. Hunt
- 1936
- Zioncheck and party leaders in open break--Congressman fights with both Stevenson and Bone over George Starr appointment / by Lester M. Hunt. - Representative Marion Zioncheck and County Commissioner John C. Stevenson have reached the parting of...
- State history. State officials. U.S. Representatives. Zioncheck, Marion A. 1936-01-19
- Zinc smelter casts shadow - ultimate need suggested by ore developments and prospects at Metaline
- 1937
- Zinc smelter casts shadow - ultimate need suggested by ore developments and prospects at Metaline - Two trucks will be hauling ore from the Metaline M. and L. mine to the Grandview mill at Metaline Falls and a third has been ordered for the same...
- Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-10-24
- Engineers see plants.
- 1928
- Engineers see plants. - Observe lead and new zince smelting. - Hear papers on methods and operation and bolivia mining at banquet. - Members of Columbia section, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, held meetings in Kellogg...
- Northwest history. Mining. Engineers. 1928-11-10
- Reduction made in miners' pay.
- 1937
- Reduction made in miners' pay. - Four companies in coeur d'alenes announce slash of 50 cents daily. - Wage reductions of 50 cents a day, effective January 1, were announced today by four of Coeur d'Alene district's large mining corporations, the...
- Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-12-31
- Miners to take 50-cent cut.
- 1937
- Miners to take 50-cent cut. - The payroll of 3265 men will be affected January 1 by pay reductions of 50 cents per day for miners in the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating company; Federal Mining and Smelting company; Hecla Mining...
- Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-12-31
- Bunker hill is busy and many men are now on job.
- 1937
- Bunker hill is busy and many men are now on job. - The Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating company at Kellogg, Idaho, in its mine, mills and smelter and zinc plant, now has 1800 men at work, a number that is said to set an all-time...
- Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-10-08
- Finances better at bunker hill.
- 1935
- Finances better at bunker hill. - Debts more than offset by cash on hand and receivables, president announces. - A production revenue of $3,564,699 in 1934 is reported by the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating company of Kellogg,...
- Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1935-04-14
- Students inspect mines and mills
- 1935
- Students inspect mines and mills
  Supplementing their theoretical work, 14 students from the school of mines at Washington State college completed an inspection of the mines and mills in the Coeur d'Alenes Friday. They visited the Page and...
- Northwest history. Mining. Inspection. 1935-05-11
- Public utilities fire on Grand Coulee.
- 1937
- Public utilities fire on Grand Coulee. - Friends of the Columbia Basin project will gird themselves for a hard battle at Washington this session. Apparently the organized public utilities have opened fire on this and other meritorious projects. A...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Politics. 1937-01-06. p. 2.
- Public utilities fire on Grand Coulee.
- 1937
- Public utilities fire on Grand Coulee. - Friends of the Columbia Basin project will gird themselves for a hard battle at Washington this session. Apparently the organized public utilities have opened fire on this and other meritorious projects. A...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Politics. 1937-01-06. p. 1.
- Call it saloon or liquor store
- 1930
- Call it saloon or liquor store. - What's the difference in a name?--If rum is allowed it will be sold / by Wesley L. Jones.
  Nobody professes to watn the saloon back. If we have intoxicating liquors they must be sold somewhere. What difference...
- State history. State officials. U. S. Senators. Jones, Wesley L. 1930-02-01
- Goose and gander.
- 1937
- Goose and gander. - Unconsciously, perhaps, Senator Schwellenbach argued against the whole security act when he protested Tuesday against its application to operators of fruit warehouses and their employees. He said it worked an "injustice" on...
- State history. State officials. U. S. Senators. Schwellenbach, Lewis B. 1937-01-14
- Blessings among first to settle in Spokane valley
- 1934
- Blessings among first to settle in Spokane valley
  Neighbors were few and far between in 1884, when Mr. and Mrs. Anton Blessing came west to settle on their 223-acre farm a mile and a half southeast of Trentwood, where the long since forgotten...
- State history. State of Washington Pioneers. B. 1934-03-24