Major Silver Strike in the Cascades

A new mining discovery near Snoqualmie Pass promises wealth and excitement for the region.

“Excitement is at its highest pitch, and numbers of claims are being located.”

The Bear Who Drank the Molasses: A Lumber Camp Disaster

A hungry black bear broke into a West Branch Lumber Company supply shed in Washington's Cascade Mountains, getting hopelessly stuck in a keg of molasses and becoming a spectacle for the workers.

The Snoqualmie Pass Struggle

A drove of 200 cattle fails to cross the Cascades due to deep snow, highlighting the desperation for better infrastructure.

“recent snow had been so heavy that, after ten days' struggle, the effort was abandoned”