A-Grant Lumber Co; B-Interior of St. Maries Drug store; C-Cedar Creek Placer Mining Co. panning gold; D-St. Maries street view; E-Kootenai Co. State Bank and Pearson Mercantile Co. street view.
Last surviving member of the Grimes party which discovered gold in Boise Basin in 1862. This picture was taken in November 1921 at the age of approximately 90 years. Mr. Splawn was within six feet of George Grimes when the latter was mortally...
Miners; Mining equipment; Headframes (Mining); Children; Women
Eleven miners, a boy and a woman (in light dress with umbrella) gathered around a wooden headframe at the A D & M Mine near Gibbonsville in Lemhi County, Idaho. Head frame for the new shaft. People unidentified
In his two interviews with Anabelle Alexander, conducted June 20, 1975 and July 1, 1975, Willis Brassey remembers his life in Idaho. Brassey spoke of the time period between the 1870s and 1940s where he mined in Quartzburg, ran a stage, hauled ore...
Triumph Mine, the longest operated mine in the Wood River Valley, sitting at foot of sage-covered hills. There is a tailing pond in foreground, and a waste dump and shaft on the hillside in the background. The ore bins are at the very top of the...
Washing out gold using hydraulic mining equipment in the Salmon River Country, Lemhi County, Idaho. Hydraulic mining was done alongside mountains and riverbank.
