Idaho Washington Northern
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- Jan 2, 1908Fifty Jobs and a Logging Camp Pull Newport Out of the PanicA new McInnis Brothers logging contract south of town gives nearly fifty men six months of work and eases a winter of post-panic unemployment.Newport, WA
- Jun 4, 1908A Packed Council Chamber, a Railroad Franchise, and a Fight Over Public StreetsNewport's city council meeting drew a standing-room crowd as aldermen tangled over an Idaho Washington Northern street-vacation request, a conflict-of-interest accusation, saloon licenses, and an electric-light contract.Newport, WA
- Oct 15, 1908An Engineer Bets Newport Could Rival SpokaneA Spokane mining engineer reports on the Bead Lake and Conquest claims, arguing that capital, a concentrator and a five-mile rail spur could turn a dormant district into Newport’s future.Newport, WA
- Dec 10, 1908Railroad Money Buys the Ground for IoneDeeds filed at Colville show the Idaho & Washington Northern’s investment company assembling the old Stecker ranch and nearby tracts for a brand-new townsite on the Pend Oreille.Ione, WA
- Jan 28, 1909The River Wakes Up—and Newport's Steamboats Go AdriftAfter three weeks frozen, Pend Oreille navigation resumes, but a broken boom and an ice floe send the Metaline and Fram downstream and leave the Ruth without a dock.Newport, WA
- Jun 10, 1909The River Is Still Rising: Newport Watches the Pend OreilleAt 16.6 feet above low water, the Pend Oreille has not yet crested. Calispel flats are flooded, dikes are holding, and boatmen are waiting for the water to turn.Newport, WA
- Jun 10, 1909The Railroad Pushes Seven Miles North—Dalkena by June 15Tracklayers, ballast crews, and a stubborn slide: the Idaho Washington Northern extension is racing high water and sharp curves toward Dalkena.Newport, WA
- Jul 8, 1909The Day Newport Showed Off: Fourth of July, 1909A rain-threatened holiday still drew crowds for an industrial parade, patriotic speeches, baseball, log-rolling and a dance—without a single arrest.Washington Avenue, Newport, WA
- Nov 4, 1909The Rails Reach IoneTracklayers beat their deadline, a first freight train rolls in, and a new passenger schedule is set for Nov. 8.Ione, WA
- Nov 11, 1909The Last Steamboat Ties Up as the Railroad Reaches MetalineWith the Idaho Washington Northern extension complete, the Pend Oreille River's freight and passenger boats went out of service — ending an era that old-timers remembered as romantic and hard-won.Newport, WA
- Apr 7, 1910Fourteen Sections of Timber and Twenty Miles of TrackThe Panhandle Lumber Co. laid plans for a logging railroad up the Diamond Lake road from the wye west of Newport — six miles this summer, twenty in the end, and maybe a permanent line clear through to Spokane.Newport, WA