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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1937-04-21


    • Machines arrive for Bonneville.

    • 1933

    • Machines arrive for Bonneville. - Machinery and equipment for the powerhouse here is arriving almost daily. Largest of the pieces being assembled is a main bearing bracket which supports the entire turbine shaft, propellor (propeller) and the...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Construction. 1937-04-21
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Power. 1937-04-04


    • Machines arrive for Bonneville.

    • 1937

    • Machines arrive for Bonneville. - Machinery and equipment for the powerhouse here is arriving almost daily.
      Largest of the pieces being assembled is a main bearing bracket which supports the entire turbine shaft, propellor (propeller) and the...
    • Northwest history. Bonneville dam. Power. 1937-04-04
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1925-08-09


    • Ajax clearing new stope - expects to find remaining bodies lost in flood

    • 1925

    • Ajax clearing new stope - expects to find remaining bodies lost in flood - The muck that descended into the raise of the Ajax mining company at Burke, Idaho, came from a breach 125 feet long in the 200-foot level of the Moonlight tunnel shaft...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1925-08-09
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1930-02-24


    • Two miners die as cable snaps - ride bucket in Sunshine mine to death at bottom of shaft

    • 1930

    • Two miners die as cable snaps - ride bucket in Sunshine mine to death at bottom of shaft - Two miners, Charles Bush and Al Burns, were killed today as a cable carrying a bucket in which they were riding snapped and hurled them 135 feet to the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1930-02-24
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1930-04-16


    • Death mine inspected - cause of blast taking 17 lives sought - Governor Hartley takes part in plans for state inquiry at Carbonado

    • 1930

    • Death mine inspected - cause of blast taking 17 lives sought - Governor Hartley takes part in plans for state inquiry at Carbonado - Twelve state and federal officials and mine experts entered the shaft of the Pacific Coast Coal company mine at...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1930-04-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-06-24


    • Shaft station hit by dynamite

    • 1936

    • Shaft station hit by dynamite - While the night shift miners employed in sinking the new four-compartment shaft at teh Sunshine mine were outside eating their lunch in the dry room at 3 a. m. this morning, three boxes of dynamite, stored in a short...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-06-24
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-06


    • Nine miners killed as cage cable snaps - elevator plunges with them 900 feet down in shaft on Coeur d'Alene

    • 1936

    • Nine miners killed as cage cable snaps - elevator plunges with them 900 feet down in shaft on Coeur d'Alene - Nine miners plunged to their deaths early today in the Morning Mine near this place when an elevator cable snapped. The accident occurred...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-06
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-06


    • Crowd watches removal of bodies after morning mine disaster

    • 1936

    • Crowd watches removal of bodies after morning mine disaster - Six hours after a cable snapped, dropping a Morning Mine elevator at Mullan, Idaho, 900 feet to the bottom of a shaft, the 10 bodies were extricated and brought to the surface. The...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-06
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-07


    • Mine diaster cause sought - ten lose lives in worst accident in history of Idaho mining; inquest called

    • 1936

    • Mine diaster cause sought - ten lose lives in worst accident in history of Idaho mining; inquest called - Saddend residents of this mountainside mining town looked today to a coroner's inquest to explain why a cable broke, droping 10 men 900 feet...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-07


    • Morning underground scene

    • 1936

    • Morning underground scene - This is the 800-foot station of the Morning mine. From this level the shaft, the scene of yesterday's disaster, descends more than half a mile. The cage containing the miners fell about 1000 feet in this shaft.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-07


    • Bodies of mine disaster victims are brought to surface

    • 1936

    • Bodies of mine disaster victims are brought to surface - As sorrowing relatives and fellow workers stood by at dawn, the bodies of 10 miners who fell 900 feet to their death in a shaft of the Morning mine at Mullan, Idaho, were brought to the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-08


    • Ten men hurtled to death in mine - steel cable broke 800 feet from cage just as ten more were to be loaded on - five of dead were married

    • 1936

    • Ten men hurtled to death in mine - steel cable broke 800 feet from cage just as ten more were to be loaded on - five of dead were married - Ten men trapped in a steel cage at the Morning mine at Mullan went hurtling to their death in an 800 foot...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-08
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-08


    • Purely accident - coroner's jury so pronounces Mullan mine tragedy - cable break unexplained - was designed to carry 12 times the weight on it at time of break; inspected weekly

    • 1936

    • Purely accident - coroner's jury so pronounces Mullan mine tragedy - cable break unexplained - was designed to carry 12 times the weight on it at time of break; inspected weekly - The plunge of 10 miners to their death at the bottom of the Morning...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-08
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-09


    • Mine men die as cable breaks - Mullan miners go to death in mine cage from 3,000 level

    • 1936

    • Mine men die as cable breaks - Mullan miners go to death in mine cage from 3,000 level - When a cable controlling an elevator cage broke, precipitating ten Morning mine miners 900 feet to the bottom of the shaft, early TUesday morning, all were...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1936-10-09
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1937-10-07


    • Accident stops mine operation

    • 1937

    • Accident stops mine operation - Operations at the Star mine at Burke were at a standstill today as the result of teh splineting of 1400 feet of shaft guides in teh Hecia mine shaft last night. The Star operates through the Helca shaft.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1937-10-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1938-01-29


    • Caving of shaft fatal to miner - crew recovers his crushed body- pal is hurt

    • 1938

    • Caving of shaft fatal to miner - crew recovers his crushed body- pal is hurt - The body of Yak (Jack) Maki was recovered tonight from a cave-in in the Morning mine shaft which earlier in the day caused grave injury to Maki's working partner, but...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1938-01-29
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1920-08-09


    • Shafts widen in gold group - two veins spread with depth in silver-lead-copper ground

    • 1920

    • Shafts widen in gold group - two veins spread with depth in silver-lead-copper ground - M. M. Fry of Bonners Ferry reports that hte gold group of four claims at Katka, near Bonners Ferry, owned and operated by T. A. Hooker and his partner,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1920-08-09
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1929-06-24


    • Secesh property tests favorable - dredging company's asays proving developments

    • 1929

    • Secesh property tests favorable - dredging company's asays proving developments - Drill and shaft tests show 22 to 28 cents in gold to the cubic yard, with gravel from 12 to 45 feet thick, at the property of the Secesh Dredging, Mining and Milling...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Assays. 1929-06-24

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