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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1933-08-26


    • $20,000 added to mine payroll at wallace.

    • 1933

    • $20,000 added to mine payroll at wallace. - More than $20,000 a month will be added to the payroll in this district as the result of a 50-cents-a-day increase in wages announced by the Hecla Mining company, the Federal Mining company and Smelting...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1933-08-26
    • Northwest history. Mining. Fires. 1928-04-27


    • $25,000 fire at sidney mine.

    • 1928

    • $25,000 fire at sidney mine. - Coeur d'Alenes property has tram loading station destroyed in blaze. - The loading station at the mine end of the three-mile aerial tram between the Sidney mine and the mill near the Bunker Hill smelter was destroyed...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Fires. 1928-04-27
    • 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
    • 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
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-07-15


    • $40 ore strike on cedar creek.

    • 1937

    • $40 ore strike on cedar creek. - Lee Eller, a mining engineer of St. Regis Mont., visiting his brother, Lloyd L. Eller, E202 Crown, a member of the city e ngineer's staff, told of the development here yesterday of a gold quartz property on Cedar...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1937-07-15
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exhibits. 1937-08-22


    • $500 contributed to mine display

    • 1937

    • $500 contributed to mine display.
      The Central Washington Mining Council at Wenatchee has subscribed $500 to be used in fitting up mineral display cabinets in the proposed new Natural Resources and Science Building in Seattle, it was announced...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exhibits. 1937-08-22
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1928-03-15


    • $500 ore struck near Elk City

    • 1928

    • $500 ore struck near Elk City.
      Six-inch streak in Idaho-Nevada often runs $1000 to ton, says operator. One to 3 feet shipped. Rejected ore runs $50 to $100-discovery confirms theory of manager Kleesattel. A 10-ton sample of the ore he struck in...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1928-03-15
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1929-09-07


    • $5000 is asked for mine meet - business houses invited to help defray costs of big convention

    • 1929

    • $5000 is asked for mine meet - business houses invited to help defray costs of big convention - Business houses and financial institutions of Spokane will be asked to raise $5000 for the mining convention which opens September 30 for one week. This...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Conventions. 1929-09-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1933-05-21


    • $700 gold dug in six hours.

    • 1933

    • $700 gold dug in six hours. - Oregon creek official exhibits steam shovel achievement -- 200 men in region. - Gold nuggets having an estimated value of $700 from the placer of the Oregon Creek Gold Mining company, 10 miles from Superior, Mont.,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1933-05-21
    • Northwest history. Mining. General. 1931-08-29


    • 10 mine by parachute.

    • 1931

    • 10 mine by parachute. - Wenatchee operator will drop into slate creek from plane. - Joe Romano is planning on leaving Saturday by airplane to his mining properties in Slate creek district. He will fly from Wenatchee and drop from the plane by...
    • Northwest history. Mining. General. 1931-08-29
    • 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. 1936-08-18


    • 10-ounce ore in Gnome gold - struck on lowest level, run but short distance, engineer reports

    • 1936

    • 10-ounce ore in Gnome gold - struck on lowest level, run but short distance, engineer reports - After mining and milling a lower grade of ore for a few years, the Gnome Gold Mining company, Orogrande, idaho, has encountered rock that carreid 10...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1936-08-18
    • Northwest history. Mining. Examination. 1934-09-03


    • 13 pass mine foreman test

    • 1934

    • 13 pass mine foreman test - Six men were granted certificates as foremen and seven as assistant foremen of coal mines in the state of Washington as a result of state mining examinations held at the Mines Building, University of Washington, it was...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Examination. 1934-09-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1935-05-07


    • 15 feet of ore, mineral point - place of concealment shown by diamond drill at 600 feet depth

    • 1935

    • 15 feet of ore, mineral point - place of concealment shown by diamond drill at 600 feet depth -The Coeur d'Alene mines corporation reports 15 feet of ore struck in diamond drilling, east of the fault on the No. 3 1/2 level of the Mineral Point...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1935-05-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1935-05-07


    • 15 feet of ore, mineral point

    • 1935

    • 15 feet of ore, mineral point.
      Place of concealment shown by diamond drill at 600 feet depth. The Coeur d'Alene Mines corporation reports 15 feet of ore struck in diamond drilling, east of the fault on the No. 3.5 level of the Mineral Point...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1935-05-07
    • 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. Filings. 1927-03-12


    • 17 new yakima mine claims.

    • 1927

    • 17 new yakima mine claims. - Wide area and variety of minerals covered by 1927 filings. - Seventeen notices of location of mines have been recorded since the beginning of the year, according to the county auditor. They are not in the same district,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Filings. 1927-03-12
    • 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

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