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- A Million-Dollar Cement Mill Is Coming to the Pend Oreille
Backed by Lehigh Valley cement men, the Inland Empire Portland Cement Co. buys Sullivan Creek water and mineral rights and promises a 2,000-barrel-a-day plant—once the railroad reaches Metaline.
- Metaline's Mines Are Ready to Roar—If the Railroad Arrives
With the Idaho Washington Northern extending toward Sullivan Creek, Metaline district companies are staffing up, building mills, and betting on a shipping boom.
- The Battle for Sullivan Creek
A high-stakes legal fight over water rights and industrial development reveals the tension between speculative land-holding and the growth of the new town of Metaline.
- An English Syndicate Bets $100,000 on Stevens County Lead and Silver
A Chicago mining journal tours the Metaline district, where companies are sinking shafts, building tramways and waiting on a railroad to turn lead and silver claims into a boom.
- The Silver-Lead Company Bets on Metaline
Ore assays, new concentrators, and a bunkhouse point to a mining camp shaking off its slow start—and Newport money is buying in.
- A Mining Boom Bites at the Metalines
New concentrators, a wagon road, a rich strike and a $1.5 million company put Newport at the center of a swelling lead-and-silver rush.
- A Saloonkeeper’s Fine and a Woman’s Reputation in Metaline
A Tuesday law-enforcement visit to Metaline ends with a saloonkeeper fined for selling liquor to a woman, a second woman fined under a moral charge, and a warning that Sunday closing and anti-gambling laws will be enforced.
- Help Wanted: The Railroad Boom Outran the Workforce
Crews at Sullivan Creek and Box Canyon needed hundreds more men as clay, springs, and slides slowed the Inland Empire's rail-and-dam boom.