Photograph of a placer gold mining operation. Placer is an open pit form of mining using water pressure to extract minerals from the earth without tunneling.
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist (Spokane, Wash.); Church architecture -- Washington (State)
Photograph of the construction of St. John's Cathedral in Spokane Washington. Photograph shows a distant view from the north of the cathedral partially completed. Construction was halted at this stage in 1929 as a result of the stock market...
Cheney (Wash.) -- History; Washington (State) -- Cheney -- History; Railroads; Railroad cars; Railroad stations; Washington Water Power Company -- History
Photograph of the Washington Water Power interurban electric terminal in Cheney, Washington. Photograph also shows railroad car and passengers.
Washington Water Power Company; Four Lakes (Wash.) -- History; Railroad stations -- Washington (State); Transportation -- Washington (State) -- History
Photograph of travelers watching the interurban train arriving at the Washington Water Power Meadow Lake Station in Four Lakes, Washington.
Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.);Hydroelectric power plants -- Washington (State);Dams -- United States -- Design and construction.
Preparation for constructing the pumping station to bring water from Lake Roosevelt into the Grand Coulee itself. Boring the tunnels for the pumping plant.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Sauk River (Minn.)
Sauk River at the point of the expeditions "ford is about 120 feet wide, though, owing to the obliquity of the banks and rapidity of current, the ford is near 300 feet wide and the water five feet deep." Plate III.
Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Columbia River; Channels; Indian encampments; Canoes; Dalles (Or.)
The Dalles is a narrow place in the Columbia River, where the channel has been worn out of the rocks, below which about ten miles, is the mouth of the Klikitat River. Drawing shows an Indian encampment on the bank and a canoe on the water. Plate...
View of water powered flour mill at Chapman Lake in southern Spokane County, Washington. Gristmill was established by Ole Dybdall in the late nineteenth century.