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| 1907 | 1 |
| 1908 | 55 |
| 1909 | 28 |
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- The Road Money That Went to Colville
Ten thousand dollars was appropriated for the Newport–Orient state road. Six thousand of it vanished into 'preliminaries,' and the actual construction ended up in the county seat instead of at either end of the road.
- The Road Newport Was Promised—and the Colville Detour That Ate It
State Road No. 3 was supposed to run from Newport through Metaline and Northport to Orient. Instead, Newport’s share of the money went to surveys and improvements near Colville, leaving the lower river country with nothing but promises.
- Newport Builds Its Way to the Water — One Petition at a Time
Rail engineers run spur lines to the Pend d'Oreille River Navigation Co. docks while the Commercial Club passes the hat for lumber to extend a sidewalk down Pine Street to the Idaho line.
- 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.
- 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 Railroad That Became a Levee
Property owners along the Calispel petition to join Diking District No. 2, where a rail embankment and a concrete culvert will hold back the Pend Oreille and reclaim a swath of farmland.
- Newport Bets $12,000 on a Concrete Hotel — and a Street of New Homes
A three-story, thirty-room hotel at Washington and Second leads a summer building rush that will remake several Newport blocks.
- Dynamite in the Dark: A Great Northern Car Is Blown Apart
A locked dynamite car was opened and detonated near Newport, and detectives suspected disgruntled construction workers. No one had a clue.
- 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.
- Newport’s Railroad Future Takes Shape in a $150,000 Yard
The Idaho & Washington Northern Railroad unveils plans for terminal yards, depots, switches and a loop through old and new Newport—and west-side farmers lobby for the line down the Calispel valley.
- A Panic Year Boom: Newport Built Through Hard Times
Despite a national financial panic, Newport added 87 homes, six concrete business blocks, new depots, churches, and a reshaped downtown—proud evidence of a town betting on itself.
- She Started in a Tent and Fed the Men Who Built the Great Northern
Anna Quick, Newport's first hotelkeeper, arrived in 1890 when Old Town held two residents, cooked for the Great Northern construction crews out of a shack, and died this week of a cancer she had fought for a year.
- Four Million Feet of Logs: The Boom Comes to the Pend d'Oreille
A logging company began driving pilings for a 4-million-foot log boom and a new sawmill on the Pend d'Oreille riverfront.
- Eastern Capital Bets on Newport's Electric Future
Flynn Bros. plan a 600-horsepower plant four times the current size, promising day-and-night power and a magnet for manufacturers.
- Newport's Cesspool Crisis Made a Sewer System the Town's Biggest Need
With refuse in the streets and an epidemic feared, the Newport Miner backed a bond-financed sewerage plan in 1909.
- Spokane Capitalists Map an Electric Railroad and Irrigation Empire West of Newport
Surveyors traced a line from Arcadia to Newport while a syndicate secured water rights on five Stevens County lakes, promising power, irrigation and a transformed countryside.
- The Nagles Take On the Railroad Over a Spur Past Their Door
Phillip and Mary Nagle are suing the Idaho Washington Northern Railroad for $3,000 over a dock spur built past their State Line Avenue property.
- A Stern-Wheeler for the Pend d'Oreille: Newport Bets on the Metaline Trade
Seven thousand dollars subscribed, a hundred-foot boat drawing two feet of water, and a captain promising to be running ore to Newport by June 1.
- 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.
- Newport's 1909 Boom: New Additions, Orchards and Fifteen Houses at Once
Real-estate agents opened fresh tracts on the edge of town while a land company put thirty men and ten teams to work clearing apple orchards.
- The Ione Is Coming: Newport Builds the River's Largest Excursion Steamer
Material arrives for a 135-foot, 400-passenger steamer as Pend d'Oreille River travel booms and promoters dream of tourists.
- New Owner, New Wires: Newport Telephone Service Gets an Upgrade
After selling the local telephone line to Mr. Anderson, Newport sees longer hours and a new central office planned for the Antler Hotel's former sample room.
- Two Men Crushed in a Railroad Cut — and Fifteen Walked Off the Job
A 35-foot construction cut collapsed at Gilbert Brandt's camp opposite LeClerc Creek, killing Otto Blad and Gus Nelson and injuring two others.
- State Regulators Tell Great Northern: Build a Real Depot
After the railroad missed its July deadline, the State Railroad Commission orders a modern Newport depot with running water, electric lights—and a flagman at Union Avenue.
- Another Railroad Rumor, Another Promise That Newport Will Be a Railroad Town
A Northern Pacific engineer says the Burlington wants its own line from Sandpoint through Newport to Chewelah, Conconully and Rockport — and the Miner is already dreaming of division-point shops.