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| Year | Stories |
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| 1908 | 1 |
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5 stories matching muddi
- Ione Drew Its New Town Limits—and Left the Bridge Bill Outside
Incorporation planners included the boarding houses and shoreline but excluded objecting landowners, partly to avoid making the new town pay for a Big Muddy crossing.
- The Ione Mill Dam Gave Way, Taking Half a Million Feet of Logs With It
A Tuesday afternoon break at the Panhandle Lumber Co. dam sent a 35-foot head of water through the canyon and delayed the mill for months.
- A Dog Wallowed in a Spring. Then Northport Struck Gold.
A ranch dog's muddy wallow exposed flake gold, touched off a Black Canyon claim rush, and gave Stevens County one of its strangest mining origin stories.
- A Town Determined to Stay on the Map
Cusick lays fresh sidewalks to the depot, grades its muddy streets, breaks ground on a drainage dike, and chases a long-idle sawmill back to life.
- The Cave at the End of the Boundary Trail
A 1908 Newport writer follows a blazed trail north of Metaline into a limestone cavern of bath-like basins, a 'Guardian of the Baths' and a music room already being vandalized.