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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
    • 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. Developments. 1937-03-26


    • $3,000,000 ore plant proposed.

    • 1937

    • $3,000,000 ore plant proposed. - The immediate establishment of a large gold-silver-copper mining concentrator on Railroad creek, near Lake Chelan, was announced Wednesday by E. A. White, superintendent of the Tacoma smelter, a Guggenheim holding.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1937-03-26
    • 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. 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. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1937-05-02


    • $60,000 blaze eats tie mill

    • 1937

    • $60,000 blaze eats tie mill - Fire, which started in the boiler room at about 6 a. m. today, destroyed the sawmill of the Atlas Tie company on the Spokane river near here. John S. Richards, manager, estimates the loss at nearly $60,000, about half...
    • Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Fires. 1937-05-02
    • 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. 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
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1936-11-28


    • 100-year-old Indian friend of whites, dies

    • 1936

    • 100-year-old Indian friend of whites, dies. - Robert Edwards, who relatives said, was 100 years old and who was a prominent Spokane reservation Indian, died in his home in Stevens county near Detillion bridge Wednesday, it was learned here today,...
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1936-11-28
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1936-11-28


    • 100-year-old Indian friend of whites, dies

    • 1936

    • 100-year-old Indian friend of whites, dies. - Robert Edwards, who relatives said, was 100 years old and who was a prominent Spokane reservation Indian, died in his home in Stevens county near Detillion bridge Wednesday, it was learned here today,...
    • State history. Native Americans. Obituaries. 1936-11-28
    • 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
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. W. 1927-08-07


    • 150 Old Pupils Join Miss West- Reunion of Pioneer Teacher's Former Charges is Great Event in Seattle

    • 1927

    • 150 Old Pupils Join Miss West- Reunion of Pioneer Teacher's Former Charges is Great Event in Seattle - The last week has been a busy one. On Wednesday it was my privilege to attend a luncheon given especially for the old-time Iowa pupils who went...
    • State history. State of Washington Pioneers. W. 1927-08-07
    • 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

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