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David Preston Bond (April 11, 1951 – February 16, 2020) was a newspaper reporter, columnist, and editor based in the American Northwest. He chronicled and supported North Idaho’s mining industry over much of his career.
There were two related incidents between miners and mine owners in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District of North Idaho: the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor strike of 1892, and the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor confrontation of 1899. This article is a brief overview of both events.
Shoshone County, Idaho area miners organized into several local unions during the 1880s. Mine owners responded by forming a Mine Owners' Association. [1] In 1891, the Coeur d'Alene district shipped ore containing US$4.9 million (~$150 million in 2023) in lead, silver, and gold.
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The Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, labor riot of 1899 was the second of two major labor-management confrontations in the Coeur d'Alene mining district of northern Idaho in the 1890s. . Like the first incident seven years earlier, the 1899 confrontation was an attempt by union miners, led by the Western Federation of Miners to unionize non-union mines, and have them pay the higher union wage sca
[1] It is located about one mile from the ghost town of De Lamar, Idaho, which had been a mining center in the late 19th and early 20th century. The mine was under construction from 1975 to 1977 and began operations in 1977; the first extracted silver was poured in April 1977. [ 2 ]
Blackbird mine was a large cobalt mine in Lemhi County, Idaho, United States.. Mining for gold started in 1893, and the mine produced copper and cobalt between 1902 and 1968. [1]