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    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Postal service. 1934-12-02


    • $2000 is sent outside daily

    • 1934

    • $2000 is sent outside daily. - Workers on world's greatest dam find many avenues for earnings. - Much goes to wives. - Payments on homes, insurance and purchases of clothes written on money orders. -Two thousand dollars a day is being sent out of...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Postal service. 1934-12-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Booms. 1935-09-01


    • $3,000,000 a year in silver hunt - being spent in dry belt, Hecla's secretary tells Collier's

    • 1935

    • $3,000,000 a year in silver hunt - being spent in dry belt, Hecla's secretary tells Collier's - Facts that its associate editor should have had when he wrote "The Silver Mirage" for Collier's of July 6 are ably presented by Leo J. Hoban of Wallace,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Booms. 1935-09-01
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exhibits. 1937-04-22


    • $300 asked on mine exhibit

    • 1937

    • $300 asked on mine exhibit.
      Want state to finance show of minerals at west Vista Point. Grand Coulee Dam, April 22.-Governor Martin is being requested this week to allot $300 from the $250,000 set aside by the last legislature for advertising...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exhibits. 1937-04-22
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1936-09-19


    • $5000 of $15000 fund for Coulee dam signed

    • 1936

    • $5000 of $15000 fund for Coulee dam signed. - Pledges amounting to $5000 have already been secured toward the $15,000 being raised in behalf of continuation of the federal reclamation bureau policy and completion of the Grand Coulee project, W. S....
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1936-09-19
    • Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Lakes. 1936-01-11. p. 1.


    • $75,000 spent to dike lake at Gaston on Tualatin river.

    • 1936

    • $75,000 spent to dike lake at Gaston on Tualatin river / by Don Woodman.
      - Evidence that private initiative and imagination are not entirely smothered beneath federally-stimulated improvement projects is to be seen out in Washington county,...
    • Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Lakes. 1936-01-11. p. 1.
    • Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Lakes. 1936-01-11


    • $75,000 spent to dike lake at Gaston on Tualatin river.

    • 1936

    • $75,000 spent to dike lake at Gaston on Tualatin river. - Evidence that private initiative and imagination are not entirely smothered beneath federally-stimulated improvement projects is to be seen out in Washington county, near Gaston, where land...
    • Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Lakes. 1936-01-11
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1938-06-12


    • 1000-foot shaft for Whitedelf

    • 1938

    • 1000-foot shaft for Whitedelf - Bids are being obtained by the Whitedelf Mining and Development company for a new hoist. This is in preparation to extend the shaft to the 1000-foot depth from the 400, according to Compton I. White, president, Clark...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1938-06-12
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1935-08-10


    • 12 operations in silver belt

    • 1935

    • 12 operations in silver belt.
      Range from shipments to long tunnels and deep shaftings. A dozen properties by estimate in the silver belt of the Coeur d'Alene region are the scenes of operation as compared with a minor number a year or two ago....
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1935-08-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-08-07


    • 20 men preparing bear top to ship.

    • 1937

    • 20 men preparing bear top to ship. - Murray reports say that the Bear Top mine in that region has 20 men at work, their efforts being centered in preparing the mine for production soon. The Merger Mines corporation controls the Bear Top.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-08-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1932-12-11


    • 20 specialists at mine meet

    • 1932

    • 20 specialists at mine meet.
      Invited to address Northwest convention next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Gold diggers to talk. May tell experiences of the last summer-silver supporters and securities men. The forthcoming convention of the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1932-12-11
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1936-08-15


    • 2300 miles of pipe to cool Grand Coulee dam

    • 1936

    • 2300 miles of pipe to cool Grand Coulee dam. - Steel pipe, 2300 miles of it, is going into the construction of the Grand Coulee dam, being built by the bureau of reclamation on the Columbia river in eastern Washington. The pipe is imbedded in the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1936-08-15
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Materials. 1936-08-15


    • 2300 miles of pipe to cool Grand Coulee dam

    • 1936

    • 2300 miles of pipe to cool Grand Coulee dam. - Steel pipe, 2300 miles of it, is going into the construction of the Grand Coulee dam, being built by the bureau of reclamation on the Columbia river in eastern Washington. The pipe is imbedded in the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Materials. 1936-08-15
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1927-10-22


    • 3 bright spots in Idaho mines

    • 1927

    • 3 bright spots in Idaho mines.
      Eight feet shoot reported in both faces of a new Tamarack drift. Sherman ore superior. Foot of it said to rank with richest-Ajax finds what may be clew. Ore in a body two and a half feet wide has been followed for...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1927-10-22
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Employment & wages. 1935-08-27


    • 3,500 employed
      Potlatch forests, Inc., large employer of area labor
      2,000 in logging projects
      Reminder are occupied in mills at Lewiston, Potlatch and the Coeur d'Alene.

    • 1935

    • 3,500 employed
      Potlatch forests, Inc., large employer of area labor
      2,000 in logging projects
      Reminder are occupied in mills at Lewiston, Potlatch and the Coeur d'Alene.
      More than 3,500 persons are on the payroll of Potlatch Forests,...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Employment & wages. 1935-08-27

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