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Earliest Quartz Mining in Stevens County and Rise of Similkameen Lode
Historical account by John Slater traces quartz mining beginnings in Stevens County after placer exhaustion. It covers early barriers to development, the 1872 mineral lands law, transcontinental rail impact, and the Similkameen lode discovery near Angle Camp with key locals and Olympia Company participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stevens County
Columbia
Fort Colville
Washington
Placer
Okanogan County
Similkameen River
Angle Camp
Aurora
J. O. Jackson
J. W. Crouch
H. F. (Okanogan) Smith
Charles Snyder
B. L. Johnson
Similkameen Lode
Similkameen
Colville Company
W. W. Brown
W. P. Winans
Henry Wellington
Capt
Evan Miles
A. W. Wiggins
Francis Wolff
S. F. Sherwood
W. Barry
Thomas Earl
A Thorp
J. ©. Haynes
Harry EF. Young
Guy Haines
Olympia
Olympia Company
J. A. Gallagher
2. S. Garfield
Garfield
Congress
Daniel Braly
Braley
J. C. Haynes
Haynes
Oscoyoos
B. C
M. Thomas
Elwood Evans
Evans
Frank ‘Tarbell
Tarbell
General Milroy
W. Milroy
E. Ferry
E. P. Ferry
Ferry County
H. G. Struve