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At its peak, the mill once employed around 100 workers and produced about 100 million feet of lumber a year, Miller said. Today, those figures have reduced to 22 and 35 million, respectively.
In 1901, the brothers set up a lumber mill near Coeur d’Alene city, about a mile down the Spokane River. [15] Coeur d’Alene & St. Joe Transportation Company Ltd. Formed in April 1903, with James H. "Jim" Spauding, president, J.C. White, vice-president; J.H. "Harry" Spauding, secretary and treasurer. [16]
Seattle - Kerry Lumber Mill - 1900 By 1900, with timber supplies in the upper Midwest already dwindling, American loggers looked further west to the Pacific Northwest . The shift west was sudden and precipitous: in 1899, Idaho produced 65 million board feet of lumber; in 1910, it produced 745 million. [ 53 ]
In Shoshone County at the east end of the Silver Valley, [4] Mullan is in a sheltered canyon of the Coeur d'Alene Mountains at an elevation of 3,278 feet (1,000 m) above sea level. The entrance to the Lucky Friday mine is several hundred yards east of the city center; [ 5 ] the active mine ( silver , lead , & zinc ) descends more than six ...
Post Falls is a city in Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. It is the gateway city to Northern Idaho off Interstate 90 , just west of Coeur d'Alene , and east of Spokane, Washington . The population was 38,485 at the 2020 census , [ 3 ] making it Idaho's ninth-largest city and the second largest city in North Idaho behind Coeur d’Alene.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Valley County, Idaho, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
Kootenai County (/ ˈ k uː t n iː / KOOT-nee) is located in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 census , its population was 171,362, [ 1 ] making it the third-most populous county in Idaho and the largest in North Idaho , the county accounting for 45.4% of the region's total population.
Potlatch planned a lumber mill on the Palouse River in north central Idaho and began construction in 1905, completing it in 1906. Log train outside Potlatch, circa 1907. The company town of Potlatch was built to serve the mill, and over 200 buildings were designed by architect C. Ferris White for the firm.