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Plat showing mining claims of the east half Chewelah mining district, Stevens County, Washington compiled by E.M. Spedden, (ca. 1900)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Plat showing mining claims of the east half Chewelah mining district, Stevens County, Washington compiled by E.M. Spedden, (ca. 1900) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu317 WSU 317; G4282.C44H1 1900 .S64x http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,526 |
| Creator | Spedden, E. M. |
| Date | ca. 1900 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Chewelah, Wash. : E.M. Spedden |
| Description | 1 map : blueprint ; 72 x 53 cm., on sheet 95 x 57 cm. Originally folded to 25 x 29 cm. WSU Archives has name of donor and date of donation printed in pencil. Chewelah was founded in 1873, but boomed in the late 1880s with the discovery of gold just to the east. Chewelah was always a rough mining town, and copper, silver, and lead mines predominated. When World War One came, Chewelah was one of the U.S.'s largest producers of Magnesite, an important part of the steel-making... |
| Subject | Mining claims -- Washington (State) -- Chewelah Region -- Maps.; Washington (State) imprints, 19th century?, 1900? |
| Type | Maps; Plats; Blueprints |
| Coverage | United States -- Washington (State) -- Stevens County |
| Rights | Contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, for copyright information 509 335-6691 |
| Format | Original maps were photographed using a Mamiya R267 camera on 120 film and scanned at 4,000 dpi as TIFF files on a Nikon Super Cool Scan 8000. The TIFF files were converted into the MrSID format at a compression ratio of 12 to 1 using LizardTech's Geospatial Encoder 1.4 software. These MrSid files were then uploaded into the CONTENTdm database at the Washington State University Libraries. image/jpeg |
| Contributor | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections |
| Language | English |
