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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1934-02-10


    • Hecla explores new low depth

    • 1934

    • Hecla explores new low depth - Mining in the Hecla at Burke, Idaho, has reached a new level 3200 feet deeper than the collar of the shaft and 400 feet deeper than the present lowest working level. A station is being cut at this new depth and a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1934-02-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1938-02-07


    • Explore ore body

    • 1938

    • Explore ore body - A stringer of ore an inch wide, that assays from 100 to 540 ounces in silver, sill be explored by three Spokane men, Archie Gilbert, W. H. Schermerhorn and John E. Lee, who have taken a lease and option on it. The property...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1938-02-07
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1938-04-29


    • Prospects showing

    • 1938

    • Prospects showing - Mineral Mountain mining company has started a shaft to further prospect an ore showing made in the tunnel leve, driven from Spring gulch, a short distance from the Polaris in the Coeur d'Alenes. The vein filling is...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1938-04-29
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1938-06-02


    • Gray copper leads the way - Chinto equips for deep descent into Amazon vein on three shifts

    • 1938

    • Gray copper leads the way - Chinto equips for deep descent into Amazon vein on three shifts - Exploration and equipment completed, the Chinto Mining company is about to begin a deep descent by shaft into the Amazon mine near Chewelah, it is...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1938-06-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-01-04


    • Lost vein sought in Independence

    • 1936

    • Lost vein sought in Independence.
      Wallace, Idaho, Jan. 3.-A slip that cut the vein in recent operations, has caused the silver vein on which drifting by the Independence Lead Mines company, east of Mullan, was being done, to become temporarily...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-01-04
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-01-16


    • Properties busy in silver belt

    • 1936

    • Properties busy in silver belt.
      At this time there are a number of promising properties carrying exploration programs in the silver belt, among which are the Globe Silver, where new equipment has recently been installed to open a promising vein...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-01-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-04-23


    • Will explore chester ground

    • 1936

    • Will explore chester ground.
      A crosscut from the Silver Summit is now being extended into Chester ground to explore the vein system in that property. The Chester is owned by the Polaris company and adjoins that property on the east. The crosscut...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-04-23
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-06-05


    • Sinking on ore

    • 1936

    • Sinking on ore.
      Ralston McCaig of Spokane, secretary treasurer and member of the board of directors of the Una Mine Co., was in town Wednesday consulting with other members of the board. Following exploration work the last few months following a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-06-05
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-06-05


    • Sinking on ore

    • 1936

    • Sinking on ore.
      Ralston McCaig of Spokane, secretary treasurer and member of the board of directors of the Una Mine Co., was in town Wednesday consulting with other members of the board. Following exploration work the last few months following a...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-06-05
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-07-08


    • Plan to cross-cut on Metropolitan

    • 1936

    • Plan to cross-cut on Metropolitan.
      A 30-foot sump is being cut below the 400-foot level of the Metropolitan's shaft on Big Creek, near Kellogg. A station will be opened from which a crosscut will be driven south to open two silver bearing veins...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-07-08
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-08-02


    • Metropolitan to drive whem sump completed

    • 1936

    • Metropolitan to drive whem sump completed.
      Wallace, Idaho, Aug. 1.-Now down to the 400-foot level, work of cutting a 20-foot sump in the shaft at the Metropolitan Mines corporation on Big Creek is under way, an official reports. A crosscut will...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-08-02
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-09-19


    • Minnie Moore drive at 500

    • 1936

    • Minnie Moore drive at 500.
      Objective is lost segment of vein that yielded millions in ore.
      A crosscut from the shaft in the Minnie Moore mine, Bellevue, Idaho, started recently, has attained the 500-foot point, according to a report received...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-09-19
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-09-25


    • Silver strike optimistic

    • 1936

    • Silver strike optimistic.
      Manager L.W. Defenbach of the Silver Strike mine near Murray reports the crosscut on the 200-foot shaft level has been extended 255 feet to a point near the vein. E.A. Butenschoen, Portland, inspected the property this...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-09-25
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-11-13


    • Metropolitan drives for vein

    • 1936

    • Metropolitan drives for vein.
      The crosscut on the 400 level of the Metropolitan shaft is making good headway toward its objective, according to R.S. Merriam, manager. One vein has already been cut which gives promise to interesting developments...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-11-13
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-11-19


    • Metropolitan cuts ore showing

    • 1936

    • Metropolitan cuts ore showing.
      The crosscut on the 400-level of the Metropolitan shaft has been the scene of important disclosures duing the past few days, Manager R.S. Merriam stating that at a point 249 feet from the showing a seam of highly...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1936-11-19
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1937-07-04


    • Whitedelf cuts new ore source

    • 1937

    • Whitedelf cuts new ore source.
      Yields car of $8-ton average--shaft will be sunk to 1000-foot horizon.
      A settlement sheet revealing a gross value of $2880 for 35 tons of lead-silver ore from the Whitedelf mine, Clark Fork, Idaho, was exhibited...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1937-07-04
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1930-12-16


    • Near shoot in Golconda

    • 1930

    • Near shoot in Golconda
      Crosscut lacks but 150 feet, says head--mill runs
      The crosscut toward the shoot on the 1800--foot level of the Golconda Lead Mines has procceeded 300 feet of the 450 feet from the shaft, according to William A....
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1930-12-16
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Geology. 1935-10-17


    • Noted engineer tests dam rock

    • 1935

    • Noted engineer tests dam rock. Cooper calls it perfect for foundation, seamless and water resistant. - Armed with a miner's hammer, Hugh L.Cooper, noted engineer, returned to Grand Coulee dam site Tuesday to see how his 1920 predictions of the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Geology. 1935-10-17

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