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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Dredging. 1927-10-16


    • $18 gold to man

    • 1927

    • $18 gold to man.
      Relief creek run reported by lucky five. 37 ounces of metal taken in 16 days-placer put in operating shape. "Thirty-seven ounces of gold were obtained in a 10-days run with two men sluicing on the Relief creek placer of the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Dredging. 1927-10-16
    • 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. Dredging. 1933-05-24


    • $3 gold to man near Columbia - daily average of seven men with dry land dredge for two months, says Angle - Plum, Peach also good - many places along river where skill and equipment will win wages, says miner

    • 1933

    • $3 gold to man near Columbia - daily average of seven men with dry land dredge for two months, says Angle - Plum, Peach also good - many places along river where skill and equipment will win wages, says miner - Still taking out an average of $3...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Dredging. 1933-05-24
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1936-02-02


    • 12,000 cublic yards of concrete a day

    • 1936

    • 12,000 cublic yards of concrete a day. - The assembly of building, trestles and cranes that forms the Grand Coulee Dam concrete mixing plant, largest ever constructed, with a capacity of 12,000 cubic yards daily. Small locomotives wheel the buckets...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1936-02-02
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. E. 1936-06-12


    • 1884 Homestead is still theirs
      Mr. and Mrs. George Engelland defeated hardships of pioneers.

    • 1936

    • 1884 Homestead is still theirs
      Mr. and Mrs. George Engelland defeated hardships of pioneers.
      Mr. and Mrs. George Engelland, who observed their golden wedding July 7 in their home here, were married in 1886 in what was known as the Watson...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. E. 1936-06-12
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Visitors. 1936-04-26


    • 200 times carriers travel today, see Bonneville dam.

    • 1936

    • 200 times carriers travel today, see Bonneville dam. - Today's the day that more than 200 sturdy carrier-salesmen of The Times feel they have a world at their feet.
      For today they leave on one of the most complete excursions attempted by the...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Visitors. 1936-04-26
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Visitors. 1936-04-26. p. 1.


    • 200 times carriers travel today, see Bonneville dam.

    • 1936

    • 200 times carriers travel today, see Bonneville dam. - Today's the day that more than 200 sturdy carrier-salesmen of The Times feel they have a world at their feet.
      For today they leave on one of the most complete excursions attempted by the...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Visitors. 1936-04-26. p. 1.
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Visitors. 1936-04-26. p. 2.


    • 200 times carriers travel today, see Bonneville dam.

    • 1938

    • 200 times carriers travel today, see Bonneville dam. - Today's the day that more than 200 sturdy carrier-salesmen of The Times feel they have a world at their feet.
      For today they leave on one of the most complete excursions attempted by the...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Visitors. 1936-04-26. p. 2.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-03-11


    • 300 employes get $1 per day wage raise.

    • 1937

    • 300 employes get $1 per day wage raise. - Vice president E. A. Garber of the Northwest Magnesite company at Chewelah, announced Tuesday that a wage increase of one dollar per day had been made to 300 employers of the firm.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-03-11
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. W. 1935-05-07


    • 50 years' work with one line - F. E. Whittlesey, engineer on northern pacific, always in this region

    • 1935

    • 50 years' work with one line - F. E. Whittlesey, engineer on northern pacific, always in this region - Though 67 and on the job every day, F. E. Whittlesey has never had but one employer and that one is the Northern Pacific railroad, since he was...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. W. 1935-05-07
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Visitors. Tourists. 1937-06-02


    • 5000 visitors in day.

    • 1937

    • 5000 visitors in day. - Tourist officials at the dam, after comparing notes on the number of tourists here Sunday and Memorial day, declared today that a new all-time high had been set Sunday, when it is estimated some 5000 visitors made their way...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Visitors. Tourists. 1937-06-02
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Controversy. 1919-10-04


    • 600 quit work at Elk River - increase in cost of board cause of trouble at mills and logging camps - agitators at Bovill - Lumber comanies claim they bear loss even with raise to $1.25 a day

    • 1919

    • 600 quit work at Elk River - increase in cost of board cause of trouble at mills and logging camps - agitators at Bovill - Lumber comanies claim they bear loss even with raise to $1.25 a day - The increase in the price of board from $1 to $1.25 a...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Controversy. 1919-10-04

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