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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages.1934-11-01


    • 3500 men back to jobs.

    • 1934

    • 3500 men back to jobs. - Butte banker brings news of anaconda's resumption. - The Anaconda Copper Mining company has resumed operations at six of its Butte mines, employing 3500 men, James E. Woodard, president of the Metals bank of Butte, Mont.,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages.1934-11-01
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-03-10


    • 4000 at mines get pay raise.

    • 1937

    • 4000 at mines get pay raise. - High price of metals causes $50,000 monthly boost in wages. - Effective March 16, mines of Coeur d'Alenes will increase wages 50 cents per shift to a scale that sets an all-time high for mining in this district, it...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-03-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Engineers. 1934-09-26


    • 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
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1931-11-22


    • Absorb two Idaho groups.

    • 1931

    • Absorb two Idaho groups. - United M. and M. after lookout and little sunshine. - The Lookout Mountain Mining and Milling company and the Little Sunshine Mining company, near Kellogg, Idaho, will be acquired by the United Mines and Metals Company...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1931-11-22
    • Northwest history. Mining. Business conditions. 1934-03-14


    • Added impetus to Idaho mines.

    • 1934

    • Added impetus to Idaho mines. - The feature of mining in Idaho last year was change from a feeling of hopelessness at the beginning of the year to one of optimism, particularly in the precious metals division, W. H. Simons, mine inspector of Idaho,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Business conditions. 1934-03-14
    • Northwest history. Mining. Engineers. 1936-02-23


    • Adds to list of i.e. metals

    • 1936

    • Adds to list of i.e. metals.
      Hearst reports platinum, palladium, ruthenium and osmium in Drake mine. "I read with interest your Progress Edition of Inland Empire mining and noted your statement on page 4 that the Inland Empire mining area was...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Engineers. 1936-02-23
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1933-10-28


    • Alladin's cave found in mine near Metaline

    • 1933

    • Alladin's cave found in mine near Metaline - The powerful genie, dynamite, gave a fearful roar, and lo and behold! there appeared a beautiful cavern hung with asbestos curtains and containing rich metals, deep in the earth under the mighty hillls.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1933-10-28
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1933-10-28


    • Alladin's cave found in mine near metaline.

    • 1933

    • Alladin's cave found in mine near metaline. - The powerful genie, dynamite, gave a fearful roar, and lo and behold! there appeared a beautiful cavern hung with asbestos curtains and containing rich metals, deep in the earth under the mighty hills.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1933-10-28
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1929-06-24


    • Amalgamated red mine developing

    • 1929

    • Amalgamated red mine developing.
      "Our property looks like the making of one of the biggest mines in the northwest," said H.W. Power, secretary of the Amalgamated Red Metals Mines company, on his return from Yellow Pine, Valley county, Idaho. The...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1929-06-24
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1935-01-01


    • Ask ten million for mining plan.

    • 1935

    • Ask ten million for mining plan. - The suggestion made by the Northwest Mining association in Spokane last week has brough quick response from United States Senator Pope of Idaho, who has proposed that the government expend $10,000,000 and put idle...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1935-01-01
    • Northwest history. Mining. Federal aid. 1935-01-01


    • Ask ten million for mining plan

    • 1935

    • Ask ten million for mining plan.
      The suggestion made by the Northwest Mining association in Spokane last week has brought quick response from United States Senator Pope of Idaho, who has proposed that the government expend $10,000,000 and put...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Federal aid. 1935-01-01
    • Northwest history. Mining. General. 1929-10-04


    • Authorities on metals at congress here.

    • 1929

    • Authorities on metals at congress here. - Mr. Richards, whose home is at Jamaica Plains, near Boston, is known among mining men as the "dean of oro dressing," and his five books on that subject are regarded as authority in metallurgical circles....
    • Northwest history. Mining. General. 1929-10-04
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1936-12-03


    • Bunker hill is setting new page.

    • 1936

    • Bunker hill is setting new page. - Employs 1600 men. - Went through depression without missing a payday. - The Bunker Hill and Sullivan, the old faithful of the Coeur d'Alenes, is keeping pace with the general improvement in the metal industry and...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1936-12-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Business conditions. 1933-05-27


    • Butte miners optimistic.

    • 1933

    • Butte miners optimistic. - Better feeling on copper and zinc -- word for Silver. - More optimism is prevading copper and zinc circles of Butte, Mont., according to James Woodard, president of the Metals Bank and Trust company of that city, a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Business conditions. 1933-05-27
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1931-11-10


    • Chance to cut morning vein

    • 1931

    • Chance to cut morning vein.
      United metals lacks but 800 feet-will raise funds to complete drive. An advance of 700 to 800 feet is expected to bring a crosscut of the United Metals company to one of the largest and richest known veins in the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1931-11-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1936-11-20


    • Coeur d'alene mines raise workers pay.

    • 1936

    • Coeur d'alene mines raise workers pay. - Better prices for lead, copper, zinc and sliver, the principal metals produced here, are responsible, mine officials say, for nearly 3000 miners employed in the nine leading producing Coeur d'Alene mines...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1936-11-20
    • Northwest history. Mining. Drilling. 1931-05-13


    • Cut miners' pay as metals drop

    • 1931

    • Cut miners' pay as metals drop.
      Wages of men employed by the mines of the Coeur d'Alenes will be reduced 25 cents a day, beginning May 16, according to notices posted today to which the names of the Hecla, Federal and Bunker Hill companies are...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Drilling. 1931-05-13
    • Northwest history. Mining. Business conditions. 1936-12-26


    • Deary metals company buys beryllium ground

    • 1936

    • Deary metals company buys beryllium ground.
      Deary, Dec. 25.-T.F. Seiden-Schwarz, president of the Beryl Metals company of Deary, has announced the prchase of 240 acres of mineral land north of here. This increases the company's holdings here to...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Business conditions. 1936-12-26
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1920-09-22


    • Denver to have biggest mining convention ever - coal oil, metals and lumber interests to take part in deliberations

    • 1920

    • Denver to have biggest mining convention ever - coal oil, metals and lumber interests to take part in deliberations - Denver is preparing for the greatest mining convention in history. Problems, national and international, which have arisen during...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1920-09-22

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