The Nighthawk Mine Wakes Up
After months of silence, mining operations resume at the Nighthawk, raising local hopes for a prosperous industrial revival.
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Work started up Wednesday morning at the Nighthawk mine, under the supervision of J. P. Gormley, after a suspension of operations for several months. It is now confidently felt that the drills will be kept pounding steadily, and before long the stamp mill will commence treating ore. The Nighthawk is only a short distance west of Oroville, directly on the railroad, and any movement at that mine is bound to be directly beneficial to the town. Systematic development on that property will in all probability result in making a producing mine, and nothing that could happen would give this country a greater impetus than a simon pure money-making mine.
“Nothing that could happen would give this country a greater impetus than a simon pure money-making mine.”
The cycle of 'boom and bust' in mining districts defined much of Washington's early economic history. The Nighthawk's struggle reflects the perennial hope of small towns pinning their entire economic survival on the success of a single local resource.
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