The Wallace Miner (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
887 issues from 1907 to 1924, published in Kellogg, Idaho, digitised for Chronicling America.
H.W.C. Jackson founded the Wallace Miner on February 21, 1907. Wallace, Idaho, the “center of the Coeur d’Alene mineral belt,” had a population of roughly 4,000 when Jackson published the first issue. Jackson claimed that the Coeur d’Alene district ranked among the top few of the greatest mining camps in the entire world, and the Miner would record “its general progress as well as the development of individual mines and properties.” Jackson sold the Miner in November 1907 to George F. Stoney, who solidified the paper’s political stance as Republican. He also clarified that the Miner was “heartily in sympathy” with organized labor and hoped to “prove itself a friend to the working man.”
Devoting the majority of its content to mines, smelters, land claims, prospecting, and national mining news, the Miner was a weekly eight-page, six-column paper published on Thursdays. It covered all of Shoshone County, including the surrounding towns of Kellogg, Wardner, Murray, Mullan, and Avery. The Wallace Miner was full of statistics supporting Idaho’s mining industries. For example, Idaho produced 1/3 of all the lead in the country in 1906, followed by Missouri, Utah, and Colorado. The paper reported on the production, in pounds and dollars, of gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper, and antimony, of each mine or company in the region. The Miner also covered stories on droughts, rainfall, and irrigation, as water supply was strategically important to the workings of the mines.
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- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Kellogg, Idaho, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress