Coal dealers of Northwest visit mines

Originally published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 23, 1923

156 fuel men tour workings of Pacific Coast Company; are feted at banquet

One hundred and fifty-six Pacific Coast Coal Company dealers, from Washington and Oregon, the largest number of fuel men ever assembled from the two states, visited mines and other plants of the company at Newcastle, Renton, Black Diamond, and Burnett yesterday.

Calling them fuel men is a misnomer because the delegation included one woman, Mrs. Agnes Shano of Ellensburg, said to be the only woman coal dealer in the Northwest.

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Labor Day ending summer in flurry

Originally published in The Seattle Times, September 2, 1965

Although the calendar says otherwise, the three-day Labor Day weekend, beginning Saturday, will signify the end of summer to most Seattleites.

For many it will be a last chance until next year to spend a long warm-weather weekend in the mountains, at beaches, or just relaxing.

Virtually all stores, banks, factories, and offices will be closed, as well as city, county, state, and federal. There will be no work Monday at The Boeing Co.

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Pacific Coast property on Seattle waterfront

Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, June 15, 1928

Occupying a prominent position in the very center of Seattle’s teeming waterfront are four piers owned by The Pacific Coast Company. Here the old Pacific Coast Steamship Company played an important part in the coastwise traffic of a few years ago, and several of the present officials of the company began their careers there. The docks are now under lease to various steamship lines.

The picture shows Piers A, B, C, and D.

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Happy and prosperous year

Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, January 6, 1928

That 1928 may be a Happy and Prosperous year for you is the wish of the Bulletin.

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Yuletide greeting

Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, December 23, 1927

With the universal Yuletide greeting ringing in our ears at this season, it is both a pleasure and a privilege to extend through the Bulletin, a personal word to each member of the Pacific Coast family.

Christmas is a time of good cheer, and therefore it is appropriate that we all lend our efforts toward bringing happiness and brighter days to those less fortunate. In doing this we can all sincerely join in the season’s salutation — “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!”

—E.C. Ward.

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Mural installed at site of Black Diamond miners’ memorial statue

Originally published in the Covington Reporter, December 20, 2012

By TJ Martinell

A mural of the Black Diamond memorial wall and statue where it will be placed.

A new mural for the Black Diamond Miners’ Memorial has been set at the future site outside the Black Diamond Historical Society’s building.

According to Gomer Evans, a member of the historical society and whose father was a fire boss in the mines, stated the mural is intended to help potential donors get a sense of what will eventually be constructed there. As a way to raise funds, the historical society is selling bricks to be laid on the walkway.

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Portion of log company answer ordered dropped

Originally published in The Seattle Sunday Times, August 17, 1930

Judge McGuire makes favorable ruling for city in coming watershed ouster trial; heard in October

Neither the question of whether officials of Seattle or any other city in the state ever decided for themselves what portions of a public utility constituted an “integral part,” nor how they arrived at such a decision is very material in the city’s ouster suit against Pacific States Lumber Company, now logging in the Cedar River watershed, Superior Court Judge Arthur McGuire of Ellensburg has decided.

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Logging ouster trial will be heard in fall

Originally published in The Seattle Daily Times, August 13, 1930

Watershed arguments heard by Superior Judge McGuire in Ellensburg; decision is delayed

Superior Court Judge Arthur McGuire of Kittitas County will try the City of Seattle’s ouster suit against the Pacific States Lumber Company, now logging in the Cedar River watershed, in October, he told attorneys who argued a preliminary motion before him at Ellensburg yesterday.

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2 women die in 3-car crash at isolated Lester

Originally published in The Seattle Sunday Times, July 19, 1959

Grim reminder: Residents of Lester, King County, solemnly surveyed damage to an automobile in which two young mothers died Saturday evening just outside the little Cascade Mountain town. The automobile may be placed at the entrance to Lester to warn others to cut their speed. —Times staff photo by Vic Condiotty.

Two young mothers were killed and three persons were injured in a three-automobile accident near the airport of the isolated mountain town of Lester about 7:15 o’clock last evening.

The dead, both of Lester, were Mrs. Harold Otterman, 20, and Mrs. Walter Roundtree, 21.

Mrs. Otterman was the driver of a car which collided head on with another. Mrs. Roundtree was her passenger.

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Direct to consumer

Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, July 8, 1927

Under the new sales policy of the Pacific Coast Coal Company, which provides for direct distribution of coal from the mine to the home, with only one profit, the company’s trucks are being kept busy making deliveries. This picture shows driver Si Parsons starting out with a big load of New Black Diamond Lump to fill the bins of a Seattle householder who believes in preparing for winter while it’s easy to get the coal.

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