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  1. The Dream of a Smokeless City

    Boosterism meets industrial ambition as White Bluffs looks toward the construction of a massive hydroelectric dam.

    Jun 8, 1923White Bluffs SpokesmanPriest Rapids, Kittitas CountyBoom & Bust

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  1. The Coal That Wasn't: A Town’s Brief Hope for a Mining Bonanza

    A newcomer to Seattle claims to have found a vein of coal in the hills, sparking local excitement before the details vanish into silence.

    Jan 23, 1889The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle

  2. The Cold Truth at City Hall

    A winter coal shortage brings a parade of desperate applicants to a city official who doles out fuel with a mix of bureaucratic cruelty and casual dismissals.

    Feb 15, 1883Seattle Daily Post-IntelligencerCity Hall, Seattle

  3. The Unending Mountain: The Promise of the Newcastle Coal Mines

    A detailed 1878 report on the labor, engineering, and seemingly limitless coal wealth of the Newcastle mines, then the engine of Seattle’s industrial future.

    Aug 24, 1878The Northern StarNewcastle

  4. The Coal King of Snohomish County

    Clarence Coulter outlines plans for a massive new coal shipping operation and rail line, eyeing the Northern Pacific market.

    Mar 31, 1886Seattle Daily Post-IntelligencerSnohomish River, Snohomish

  5. The Railway to Nowhere

    Citizens of Seattle fronted $150,000 for a coal railroad, but with the tracks stalled and workers laid off, the project has become a dead-end.

    Mar 11, 1884Seattle Daily Post-IntelligencerSeattle

  6. Keeping the Miners Fed When the Coal Market Collapsed

    Receiver John H. Bryant asks a judge to spend $500 clearing company land near the Gilman mines so idle miners can grow hay for the company's horses — and keep drawing wages through the slump.

    Mar 1, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerIssaquah

  7. The Price of Coal

    Miners in Roslyn and Gilman strike against wage cuts, pointing to a race-to-the-bottom in labor costs driven by railroad contracts.

    May 4, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerRoslyn

  8. The Logging Revolution on Skookum Chuck

    Innovation in Snohomish: How timber barons traded oxen for steam-era ingenuity to keep the mills running.

    Mar 29, 1879The Northern StarSnohomish

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