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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Drilling. 1937-10-02


    • Sunshine mine will drive drifts to open orebody.

    • 19

    • Sunshine mine will drive drifts to open orebody. - A new working agreement has been negotiated with the Sunshine Mining company whereby it has agreed to prosecute the development work of the Sunshine Consolidated Inc. property, through the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Drilling. 1937-10-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1906-12-23


    • Bourninite in the Enakops

    • 1906

    • Bourninite in the Enakops.
      Spokane company made rich find in Montana. "We are busy sinking our main working shaft on the Enakops copper mine near Marysville, Montana," said A.M. Brant, of the E.C. Tousley company, yesterday.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1906-12-23
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1906-12-23


    • Two shifts on the Gold Ridge

    • 1906

    • Two shifts on the Gold Ridge - Dan Davis, who is manager of the Gold Ridge Mining company, has just returned from the property, and says the new improvements, shaft and boiler house, and blacksmith shop, are completed and now two shifts of men are...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1906-12-23
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1909-04-16


    • Resumes work on olentangy.

    • 1909

    • Resumes work on olentangy. - President of Mining Company near Chesaw starts operations. - President John H. Arnold of the Olentangy Mining company has arrived from at work in the shaft on the property three miles northwest of town. The property is...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1909-04-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1916-04-17


    • King david.

    • 1916

    • King david. - Local corporation developing promising property at neva. - The King David Co., owning five claims at Neva, between Bovill and Elk River, on the Chicago, Milwaukke & St. Paul railroad, 40 or 50 miles southwest of Wallace, is sinking a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1916-04-17
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1916-08-02


    • Shaft is sunk in una property.

    • 1916

    • Shaft is sunk in una property. - McCaig reports progress on elk city gold mining claim. - Ralston McCaig, in charge of the development work being done by the Una Mining company, 21 miles east of Elk City, Idaho, reports that a 40-foot shaft and a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1916-08-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1916-10-09


    • Work progressing at security mine.

    • 1916

    • Work progressing at security mine. - Shaft now down 495 feet and drift will be run to copper ledge. - Fine progress has been made on the Security Copper company's property, according to work from Chewelah. The shaft is now down 495 feet and will...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1916-10-09
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1916-06-13


    • Rich ore at Loon Lake - mine's east drift making good showing - all of shipping grade, declares Andrew Laidlaw after visit to the property

    • 1916

    • Rich ore at Loon Lake - mine's east drift making good showing - all of shipping grade, declares Andrew Laidlaw after visit to the property - "The biggest and richest ore showing we have ever had in the Loon Lake copper mine is in the face of the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1916-06-13
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1916-06-13


    • Find new shoot in success mine

    • 1916

    • Find new shoot in success mine.
      Ore discovery, it is said, will add greatly to productiveness of property. Galena, zinc and lead. President Gearon says change in formation gives much encouragement. "Two important developments in the Success mine...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1916-06-13
    • Northwest history. Mining. Inspection. 1916-07-14


    • Northern light showing up well

    • 1916

    • Northern light showing up well.
      President and officials are here from the East for inspection. Sinking shaft deeper. Silver value is increasing as work progresses - plenty of funds, is claim. "We are well pleased with the development of the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Inspection. 1916-07-14
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1916-05-06


    • Signs of ore in Metropolitan - found in shaft and said to exist elsewhere in property

    • 1916

    • Signs of ore in Metropolitan - found in shaft and said to exist elsewhere in property - In the last year the Metropolitan Mines corporation, adjoining the Sunshine mining company on Big creek, near Kellogg, Idaho, has had more encouragement than in...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1916-05-06
    • Northwest history. Mining. Buildings. 1917-12-25


    • Bluebird raises steam - Loon Lake plant has been in operation 10 days - surface work completed- shaft is being retimbered- sinking soon to be resumed

    • 1917

    • Bluebird raises steam - Loon Lake plant has been in operation 10 days - surface work completed- shaft is being retimbered- sinking soon to be resumed - "The Loon Lake Bluebird company has completed the shaft within 30 days," said Harry H....
    • Northwest history. Mining. Buildings. 1917-12-25
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1917-12-22


    • Mine water hurts hands.

    • 1917

    • Mine water hurts hands. - Spokane copper employes suffer in sinking shaft. - "The Spokane Copper company has attained at the suface in a shaft started at the surface several week ago in the Loon lake district of Washington," said E. A. Moye,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1917-12-22
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1917-12-25


    • East caledonia at 600.

    • 1917

    • East caledonia at 600. - Expects to reach ore on this level next month. - The East Caledonia Mines company has about attained the 600-foot depth by shaft and expects to be near the locality or ore on that horizon within three or four weeks,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Developments. 1917-12-25
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1917-03-01


    • Work big force on Douglas Mine

    • 1917

    • Work big force on Douglas Mine - Eighty men are now employed at the Douglas mine on Pine creek in the Coeur d'Alenes, under bond to the Anaconda Copper company. It has installed machinery for shaft work and reports from the mine this week are that...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1917-03-01
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1917-12-08


    • Morning cuts mine force - half will be retained on repairs and installation - suspension necessitated by swelling in shaft, which will be retimbered

    • 1917

    • Morning cuts mine force - half will be retained on repairs and installation - suspension necessitated by swelling in shaft, which will be retimbered - A suspension of operations in several parts of the Morning mine of the Federal Mining and...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1917-12-08
    • Northwest history. Mining. Examination. 1917-07-30


    • Declares tarbox has good future - Moyle expects good body of shipping ore in the 800-fool level

    • 1917

    • Declares tarbox has good future - Moyle expects good body of shipping ore in the 800-fool level - "I have examined the Tarbox mine and think it one of the biggest propositions I ever say," says William Moyle of the Saltese, in a telegram to one of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Examination. 1917-07-30
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1917-12-28


    • Exploring for ore found near the shaft at surface

    • 1917

    • Exploring for ore found near the shaft at surface - "Crosscuts are proceeding in two directions from the bottom of a 175-foot shaft in the property of the SIlver-Antimony Mining company, Chewelah, Wash.," said G. H. Van Dusen, a stockholder,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1917-12-28
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1917-12-28


    • Double drive in Ajax - seek veins at points one mile apart near Burke - 600 feet driven from Oom Paul- shaft being sunk from Ajax level

    • 1917

    • Double drive in Ajax - seek veins at points one mile apart near Burke - 600 feet driven from Oom Paul- shaft being sunk from Ajax level - Veins probably will be reached at the same time in operations a mile apart in the property of the Ajax mining...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1917-12-28
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1918-03-23


    • Rex properties in new hands.

    • 1918

    • Rex properties in new hands. - Reorganized company now holds all its property and equipment free of debt. - Apportion capital stock. - Make 500-foot addition to shaft -- other properties being investigated. - The reorganization plans of the Rex...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1918-03-23

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