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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Drilling. 1932-09-25


    • 10 feet zinc in Z Canyon

    • 1932

    • 10 feet zinc in Z Canyon.
      Tunnel to be driven through body and to another deposit ahead. The presence of zinc ore in a body 10 feet wide has been indicated by diamond drilling from the face of a tunnel in the property of the Z Canyon Mutual...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Drilling. 1932-09-25
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1929-10-26


    • 10-foot strike near kellogg.

    • 1929

    • 10-foot strike near kellogg. - Silver crescent, in moon gulch yields lead-silver shoot, engineer reports. - Ore in a body 10 feet wide has been struck in the Silver Crescent mine, a quarter of a mile below the Dickens Consolidated in Moon gulch,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1929-10-26
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1926-03-07


    • 15-foot shoot in Dickens vein

    • 1926

    • 15-foot shoot in Dickens vein.
      Value higher than average kill grade of the Coeur d'Alenes, says manager. Signs of more ore. Found beyond fault, 550 feet east-shaft will be sunk 600 feet. Ore in a body 15 feet wide has been opened on the 400-foot...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1926-03-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1929-05-12


    • 15-foot strike in helena ore.

    • 1929

    • 15-foot strike in helena ore. - Bands of 60 per cent lead and 40-ounce silver in body, says Drumheller. - A vein 30 feet wide of which 15 feet contains concentrating values of high grade has been cut on the 200-foot level by the Helena Silver-Lead...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1929-05-12
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1934-10-16


    • 16-foot shoot in utica mine.

    • 1934

    • 16-foot shoot in utica mine. - Followed from a silver streak on paddy's peak 35 years ago. - Sixteen feet of good milling ore has been struck on the No. 5 level of the Utica mines near Kaslo, B. C. "It will be necessary, it is believed, to drive...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1934-10-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1928-10-24


    • 1600-foot bore for Deer Tail

    • 1928

    • 1600-foot bore for Deer Trail.
      Will follow recently opened body for 1000 feet, says official.
      Open cuts show ore. Says few dollars to $355 in two to 30 foot vein explored for 2000 feet.
      Surface exploration has been completed and the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1928-10-24
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1932-10-18


    • 2 activities near Keller - Pacific Mutual silver lead company lets contract

    • 1932

    • 2 activities near Keller - Pacific Mutual silver lead company lets contract - A contract for crosscutting that is expected to reveal the situation of a parallel ore body on its property near Keller, Wash., has been let by the Pacific Mutual Silver...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Bids & contracts. 1932-10-18
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1926-01-12


    • 200-foot drift in Livingstone - 60 per cent lead and 60 ounces silver reported at depth of 200 feet

    • 1926

    • 200-foot drift in Livingstone - 60 per cent lead and 60 ounces silver reported at depth of 200 feet - The ore body struck in the Livingstone mine of southern Idaho is worthy of the sensation it has created even after the early effervescence is...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1926-01-12
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. General. 1936-09-17


    • 25th fatality on dam record

    • 1936

    • 25th fatality on dam record. - The Grand Coulee dam's 25th fatality, Gerald Coble, 32, San Francisco, was killed as he worked today.
      The death was not witnessed but presumably the heavy steel bucket of a clamshell shovel struck him on the head,...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. General. 1936-09-17
    • 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. Mining. Developments. 1935-05-08


    • 50-oz. silver, mineral point

    • 1935

    • 50-oz. silver, mineral point.
      Four feet may run 200-geologist finds shoot lost 30 years. The 30-year search for the Osburn shoot ended in the Mineral Point mine yesterday with the announcement of Jean M. Peters, geologist for the Coeur d'Alene...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1935-05-08
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1935-05-08


    • 50-oz. silver, mineral point

    • 1935

    • 50-oz. silver, mineral point.
      Four feet may run 200-geologist finds shoot lost 30 years. The 30-year search for the Osburn shoot ended in the Mineral Point mine yesterday with the announcement of Jean M. Peters, geologist for the Coeur d'Alene...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1935-05-08
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1929-02-24


    • 500-ounce ore in venus raise.

    • 1929

    • 500-ounce ore in venus raise. - Struck on lowest production level of famous $4,000,000 silver hill. - Trucked into spokane. - 85 sacks taken to bunker hill for test -- rest of output coming by rail. - Ore in body 20 inches wide, much of it having...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1929-02-24
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1937-03-30


    • 60-foot fall may be fatal - Helcla miner in bad shape after plunge down ore chute

    • 1937

    • 60-foot fall may be fatal - Helcla miner in bad shape after plunge down ore chute - Suffering from compound fractures of the right leg, a possible fracture of the neck and serious body bruises, S. R. Tyler, 50, Gem, is in critical condition at the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1937-03-30
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1934-03-21


    • 8-foot shoot in mayflower.

    • 1934

    • 8-foot shoot in mayflower. - 24 inches of high grade, says Golconda director -- in addition, 700,000 tons. - On the main tunnel of the Mayflower workings of the Golconda Lead Mines, east of Wallace, Idaho, ore in a body eight feet wide has been...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1934-03-21
    • State history. Native Americans. Aged Native Americans. 1937-03-04


    • Living Mummy brought out of retreat

    • 1937

    • "Living Mummy" brought out of retreat. - Scene at the Klamath Indian reservation hovel where Tripo Stanich, described by officers as a "living mummy," made his home through the winter. The officers found Stanich, his body swathed in rags and straps...
    • State history. Native Americans. Aged Native Americans. 1937-03-04
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-06-07


    • Add another shift.

    • 1937

    • Add another shift. - American Zinc, Lead and Smelting company has added another shift to its diamond drill operations in Grandvew mine, started five weeks ago. It already has struck one body of ore of some importance.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-06-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1931-05-10


    • Advance for Sunshine ore - Silver Summit expects change in next 600 feet

    • 1931

    • Advance for Sunshine ore - Silver Summit expects change in next 600 feet - Drifting continues at much depth on the long tunnel level of Strattons Silver Summit mine in the Coeur d'ALene region of Idaho. The westward advance is toward what is...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1931-05-10

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