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137 stories matching work
- Three Hundred Men to Build the Pend d'Oreille Bridge
The Great Northern will put 300 workers to work at Newport on March 1 to finish its new river bridge and the cutoff toward Albeni Falls.
- A 150-Man Spur for the New Fidelity Mill
Caughren & Woldson took the contract for three miles of Great Northern spur track to Fidelity Lumber’s new mill, with heavy rock cuts and a payroll paid through a Newport bank.
- 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.
- 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.
- Newport Bets on the Railroad
The Idaho & Washington Northern will break ground on a brick passenger station next week, with a freight depot and $75,000 in yard improvements close behind.
- $10,000 for a Road, and Not a Shovel of Dirt Turned
A $10,000 appropriation for a Newport-to-Columbia road vanished into surveys and clerical work, The Miner charged, leaving Stevens County without a graded mile to show for it.
- A Railroad Survey Promises to Wake the Pend Oreille Valley
Engineers began staking a route down the Pend Oreille River, with Newport yards and valley development hanging on the survey.
- 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.
- 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.
- Eighty Men, a Night Crew, and a Forest of Logs: Newport's Timber Boom in Full Swing
New rail spurs and new mills put scores of men to work across the Pend Oreille country — until the cold snap and the frozen lake threaten to slow the saws.
- New Steel, New Docks, and a Railroad That Won't Say Which Side of the River
Crews are relaying 102 miles of Great Northern track through Newport and building a freight dock that lets a train meet a steamboat — while the town waits to learn whether the Idaho & Washington Northern will run up the Washington or the Idaho bank. One west-side rancher is so sure he has ordered ten cars of wood.
- The Railroad Gets Its Street Vacations—and Newport Gets a New Grade
Mayor Appel signs the I.W.N. street-and-alley vacations, clearing the way for regrades, depot improvements and a rebuilt riverfront rail corridor.
- Newport Bought Its Fire Hydrants — Then Never Had Them Installed
The town paid for fire plugs in September, but the council never ordered the water company to set them. Now the work can't be done until spring — and the paper is warning that the town may pay for the delay.
- 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.
- Newport Gets a Direct Express Line — and Three Trains a Day to Spokane
The Idaho Washington Northern opened express offices, accepted two 119-ton freight engines, and promised three through trains a day to Spokane.
- 1,500 Men and a Steam Shovel: Newport Builds the Metaline Line
The Idaho & Washington Northern extension turns Newport into a construction boomtown, with subcontractor camps, mule trains, dynamite barges and a temporary hospital.
- A Spokane Syndicate’s Apple Orchard Dream at Marshall’s Lake
Col. J. E. Lindsay and backers planned a four-mile irrigation ditch and 640 acres of fruit trees five miles north of Newport, betting that water rights could transform the valley.
- Panhandle Logging Camp Reopens, 50 Jobs Return
After a temporary shutdown due to impassable roads, the Panhandle logging camp south of Newport will reopen within ten days, employing about 50 men through the summer under Robert McInnis.
- A Lumber Company Builds the Ferry
Fidelity Lumber Co. will take charge of the Pend Oreille crossing after Newport residents pledge $1,000 toward a $2,300 ferry.
- The Colville Reservation Is Set to Be Broken Into Homesteads
A federal allotment plan would divide 1.3 million acres and assign parcels to about 2,452 Indians, opening the rest to settlement.
- Prospecting the San Juans by Sloop
Two local men set out on their annual voyage to find coal and adventure among the islands.
- The Boom That Wasn't: 350 Workers Stranded in Newport
As the Idaho & Washington Northern extension stalled, contractors shipped in men before camps were ready; saloons fed and sheltered the stranded workforce.
- West Bank Wins the Railroad
Idaho & Washington Northern picks the west side of the Pend Oreille for its Metaline extension, promising Ione by late next year and a boom for the Calispel valley.
- The Outsider Candidate Fighting the Political Ring
Frank W. Bixby of Lynden emerges as a reform-minded candidate for prosecuting attorney, bucking against established county political machines.
- Three Trains a Day: Newport's Railroad Boom Arrives
The Idaho & Washington Northern's new equipment, a nearly finished depot, and Sunday river excursions promise to bring tourists and growth to the Pend d'Oreille valley.