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| 1854 | 2 |
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| 1876 | 24 |
| 1877 | 15 |
| 1878 | 8 |
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| 1882 | 1 |
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| 1899 | 14 |
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- A Copper Strike Four Miles North of Newport
Spokane investors return enthusiastic from the Bornite claims as crews push an 800-foot tunnel through the winter.
- Crushed Under a Falling Tier of Ties at the Newport Docks
A Northern Mercantile superintendent is pinned by heavy timbers while unloading a waterlogged barge, his back lacerated and left foot crushed.
- The Railroad Comes Down the River: Metaline Line to Run by Summer
With the financing closed and the election safely out of the way, the Idaho & Washington Northern will start building south from Newport this month — and Newport merchants are already counting the payroll.
- Sullivan Lake's Summer Resort Dream Hinges on Roads and the Government
A new resort permit and a push to turn old trails into wagon roads promise to bring pleasure seekers to Sullivan Lake—if federal officials do their part.
- New Capital, New Mill: Dalkena Lumber Co. Takes Over
A Minneapolis-backed corporation buys the D. K. Mill, plans a band mill and retail lumber trade, and bets on the coming railroad.
- Is Newport in Washington or Idaho? Surveyors Head North to Redraw the Line
A government party leaves Lewiston to retrace the Washington–Idaho boundary, and Newport may learn before election day which state it really belongs to.
- Sixty Houses in One Season
Newport's 1908 ledger of construction: sixty residences raised or under way, a three-story hotel foundation at Washington and Second, and a lumber mill going up across the river.
- Great Northern Races to Finish Its Newport Cut-off by September
A rumored route change, a new bridge and crews working through slides and clay banks point to a major reworking of the railroad between Newport and Spokane.
- The Rails Come to Newport: Yards, Depots, and a Town Betting Its Future on the I. & W. N.
Railroad brass walk the ground for new yards, surveyors push down-river, a depot rises, and the town council is asked for a franchise — as high water stalls the Great Northern bridge at Albeni Falls.
- Five Hundred Men and a Steam Shovel: Newport Becomes a Railroad Town
The Idaho & Washington Northern finally signs Grant Smith Co. to grade the line up the Pend Oreille to Ione — and Newport bets its winter, its wages and its warehouses on the boom.