Posted in People, Towns, tagged Auburn, Black Diamond, Enumclaw, farming, Henry's Switch, King County, lodges on May 11, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in The Seattle Daily Times, May 11, 1934
C.M. Thomas, retired Enumclaw farmer and well-known resident of that district, was injured fatally in an Enumclaw street last night when struck by an automobile while walking to a Danish Brotherhood lodge meeting.
It was the second tragedy to strike the family in recent months. A son, Arthur, was killed in a fall into an eighty-foot well at Henry’s Switch, north of Black Diamond, February 22.
(more…)Posted in Buildings, Businesses, Mining, People, Towns, tagged Alaska, Auburn, baseball, basketball, Bellingham, Black Diamond, Black Diamond High School, Briquetville, Bureau of Mines, Burien, Carbon River, Carbonado, Cedar River, Central Council, churches, coal mining, Covington Creek, dances, Diamond Cement, Enumclaw, Fairfax, Fife, fire boss, fishing, Green River, hospital, Jones Lake (Lake #14), Kapowsin, Kennydale, King County, Lake 12, Lake Lucerne, Lake Sawyer, Lake Washington, Lake Wilderness, Maple Valley, Masonic Hall, mine accidents, mining safety, New Black Diamond, Newaukum, Newcastle, Orting, Pacific Coast Bulletin, Pacific Coast Cement Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co., Pierce County, poetry, Puyallup, Renton, schools, Seattle, soccer, Tacoma, tipples, University of Washington, washery, Wenatchee, White River on May 1, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, May 1, 1930
The College of Mines Building on the University of Washington campus. See article by Professor Joseph Daniels.
(more…)Posted in Buildings, Businesses, Mining, People, Railroads, Towns, tagged Alaska, Auburn, baseball, basketball, Bellevue, Black Diamond, Black Diamond High School, Briquetville, Buckley, Burnett, Carbonado, churches, coal mining, company store, Dall Island, dances, Eatonville, Enumclaw, Fife, Kapowsin, Kennydale, Kent, King County, mining safety, New Black Diamond, Newcastle, Northern Pacific Railroad, Odd Fellows, Orting, Pacific Coast Bulletin, Pacific Coast Cement Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co., Pierce County, poetry, Primrose, Renton, schools, Seattle, Shuffleton, soccer, Wenatchee, Wilkeson on April 1, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, April 1, 1930
The Pacific Coast Cement Company’s Dall Island crew just before boarding the S.S. Queen for the island. We’ll endorse any statement to the effect that this is a fine-looking bunch. All went north with the exception of W.H. Green, plant manager, standing at the extreme right. Bon voyage.
(more…)Posted in Businesses, People, Towns, tagged Auburn, Black Diamond, Enumclaw, King County on February 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 26, 1974
By Don Tewkesbury
P-I Staff
If promises were gasoline, Black Diamond could fuel every automobile in King County.
Instead, the town approaches its second gasless week with many of the 1,200 residents’ wheels slowing to the pace of a state and corporate bureaucracy almost hopelessly ensnarled in red tape.
(more…)Posted in Businesses, People, Towns, tagged Black Diamond, Black Diamond Police Department, Enumclaw on February 21, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 21, 1974
By Paul Boyd
BLACK DIAMOND – People here are worried, angry, and even afraid these days. This town literally has run out of gas.
The community’s four service stations were pumped dry a week ago. Requests for emergency allocations have been sent in but nobody knows for sure when the next fuel shipment will arrive.
Next month’s allotment is expected March 5, by Police Chief Norman Gumser says his two patrol cars stop their nightly patrols. Talk around the local taverns includes references to “getting out the shotguns.”
Black Diamond is located about eight miles east of Auburn and eight miles north of Enumclaw on State Highway 169. The town has 1,200 people are no doctors or medical facilities. Everyone relies on a voluntary aid car for emergency runs to Enumclaw.
(more…)Posted in Towns, tagged Bellingham, Black Diamond, briquets, Briquetville, Buckley, Burnett, Cascade Mountains, Centralia, Cle Elum, coal mining, Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad, Elliott Bay, Enumclaw, Green River Gorge, Lake Washington, Maple Valley, Milwaukee Railroad, Mine #11, mining safety, Mount Rainier, Newcastle, Oregon Improvement Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co., Pacific Coast Company, Portland, Puyallup, Renton, Roslyn, Seattle, Seattle & Walla Walla Railroad, South Prairie, Sumner, Tacoma, Walla Walla, Wenatchee on February 17, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 17, 1924
Counting the gifts which Nature showered upon the Puget Sound country, we sometimes omit one of the most precious—coal. From Bellingham, 100 miles north, to Centralia, an equal distance south, black nuggets occur in workable deposits. From under Seattle’s southern doorstep, ten miles from Pioneer Square, coal is taken. It is taken from the picturesque foothill country right up to the Cascade Mountains, and over them. Rushing rivers fill our minds with their promise of “white coal.” But don’t forget that, generally speaking, the grimy old king is still on his throne.
(more…)Posted in Businesses, Infrastructure, Mining, People, Railroads, Towns, tagged Argo, Black Diamond, Black River Junction, bunkers, Canadian Pacific, Cascade Mountains, Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad, Commencement Bay, Elliott Bay, Enumclaw, Franklin, Great Northern Railway, Issaquah, Kalama, Maple Valley, Milwaukee Railroad, Newcastle, North Bend, Northern Pacific Railroad, Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., Oregon-Washington RR, Orting, Pacific Coast Railroad, Portland, Puget Sound, Puyallup, Redmond, Renton, Seattle, Seattle & Walla Walla Railroad, Seattle Lake Shore and Eastern, Snohomish, Snoqualmie, Snoqualmie Pass, Spokane, Sumas, Tacoma, Union Pacific, Walla Walla, White River, Woodinville on January 2, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Janaury 2, 1949
Seattle’s early history and later growth is so inextricably bound up with the promotion and construction of railroads that it is rather astonishing no one has yet written and published even a passably complete account of Western Washington railroad development.
Seattle was made by railroads as surely as Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City were made great by railroads.
(more…)Posted in Buildings, Businesses, Mining, People, Railroads, Towns, tagged Auburn, bands, basketball, Black Diamond, Black Diamond High School, briquets, Briquetville, Buckley, Bureau of Mines, Carbonado, Christmas, churches, coal mining, Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad, doctors, Enumclaw, hospital, hotels, Indian Mine, Kennydale, King County, mine accidents, mining safety, New Black Diamond, New Year's Eve, Newcastle, Northern Pacific Railroad, Order of Eastern Star, Pacific Coast Bulletin, Pacific Coast Cement Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co., Pacific Coast Company, Pacific Coast Railroad, Pacific Coast Railway, Pierce County, Primrose, Puget Power, Renton, schools, Seattle, soccer, Tacoma, Wilkeson on December 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, December 25, 1929
Nearing the season of holly, happiness, and good resolutions, it is again my pleasure and privilege to extend personal greetings to each member of the Pacific Coast family. May the Yuletide bring you much joy and contentment. And may the approaching milestone, Nineteen Thirty, spell naught but health, happiness, and prosperity to you and yours.
In other words, I wish you just an old-fashioned Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
E.C. Ward.
(more…)Posted in Businesses, Mining, People, Railroads, Towns, tagged Auburn, baseball, Black Diamond, Buckley, Carbonado, Cascade Mountains, coal mining, Crystal Mountain, dairy, Enumclaw, Enumclaw Cooperative Creamery, farming, golf, Green River Gorge, Green River Valley, King County, Krain, lodges, logging, lumber mills, Mount Rainier, Northern Pacific Railroad, Pierce County, Prohibition, schools, Seattle, Tacoma, Weyerhaeuser on November 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 25, 1973
By Kathy McCarthy
This is the 74th visit The Seattle Post-Intelligencer staff reporters and photographers have taken to introduce the people, industry, and lifestyles of Northwest cities, towns, and rural communities. Next week: Othello.
Enumclaw doesn’t hire a professional grass-mowing service, but visitors have been known to get that impression after a quick look at the town’s lawns. Trim, green, and brimming with clean air, the town and its plateau nestle on the doorstep of Mt. Rainier, so close the citizens are apt to refer to it as “our mountain.”
(more…)Posted in Buildings, Infrastructure, People, Towns, tagged Bayne, Cumberland, Durham, Enumclaw, King County, Palmer, schools, Selleck, Veazie on November 20, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Pullman Herald, November 19, 1920
The advantages of the large graded school are being appreciated by the people of King County. During the past year 11 of the smaller districts have discontinued their rural schools and are now transporting their children to larger school centers. The school districts of King County are supporting 80 routes of transportation which daily carry 1,603 grade pupils and 513 high school pupils to large central schools.
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