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 Buildings, Businesses, Mining, People, Railroads, Towns, tagged Alaska, bands, baseball, Bellingham, Black Diamond, Briquetville, Buckley, Burnett, Carbonado, Central Council, churches, coal mining, Confectionery, Enumclaw, fires, hospital, hotels, Kanaskat, Kennydale, King County, Krain, Lake 12, New Black Diamond, Newcastle, Northern Pacific Railroad, Odd Fellows, Pacific Coast Bulletin, Pacific Coast Cement Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co., Pacific Coast Engineering Co., Pacific Coast Railroad, parade, Pierce County, Pool Hall, Port Townsend, Puyallup, Ravensdale, Renton, resorts, schools, Seattle, Selleck, Tacoma, University of Washington, Yakima on May 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, May 15, 1929
Some outfit in the Mountain League may stop this steam-rolling bunch from Black Diamond. The way they are travelling now it is going to take a couple of barricades and few barrages to turn the trick. Bill Cushing is certainly leading a smooth working, snappy bunch of socking sluggers. They don’t do much beefing but, brother, they do a man’s size job of biffing.”
(more…)Posted in Buildings, People, Towns, tagged cemetery, logging, Odd Fellows, Orting, Tacoma on February 28, 2023| 1 Comment »
Originally published in the Orting Oracle, March 1, 1907
Another distressing accident has been added to the list during the last month. Thursday afternoon of last week while John M. Sedgwick, in the employ of James R. O’Farrell on his ranch near the Soldiers’ home, became entangled in a logging chain and was dragged a distance of three-fourths of a mile by a runaway team.
(more…)Posted in Buildings, Businesses, Mining, People, Railroads, Towns, tagged bands, baseball, Black Diamond, Black Diamond Coal Co., Carbonado, Chinese, churches, coal mining, Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad, company store, depots, Enumclaw, Enumclaw School District, Franklin, Green River, Green River Eagles, King County, Lake Wilderness, lodges, Masons, Mine #11, Mine #12, Mine #14, Mine #2, Morganville, Odd Fellows, Pacific Coast Coal Co., saloons, sawmill, schools, Seattle, Show Hall, Tacoma, Welsh, Wilkeson on April 1, 2022| 1 Comment »
Originally published in the Enumclaw Courier-Herald, April 1, 1948
By H.J. Glover
Historians may fail to record or to adequately paint many of the scenes and events which were a part of the early day community life of Black Diamond, but nevertheless the vivid memories of those years live in the hearts of the men and women who were the pioneers, and like a torch whose flame is undying, will be passed from hand to hand as the generations come and go.
(more…)Posted in Buildings, Businesses, Mining, People, Towns, tagged bands, baseball, Black Diamond, briquets, Buckley, bunkers, Bureau of Mines, Burnett, Carbonado, Central Council, churches, coal mining, dances, Diamond Mineral Springs, doctors, Elkcoal, Enumclaw, Kennewick, Krain, mine accidents, mining safety, New Black Diamond, Newcastle, Odd Fellows, Pacific Coast Bulletin, Pacific Coast Coal Co., Primrose, Seattle, Selleck, Sumner, Walla Walla, West Coast, Yakima on July 22, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, July 22, 1927
Not all the work at a coal mine is underground or in the bunkers, as the scene shown above will attest. At the New Black Diamond Mine of the Pacific Coast Coal Company the clerical force is well organized under Accountant Fred Strange, who in the picture is shown at the telephone. In the foreground is F.C. Bergmann, assistant accountant, with Joe Ryczek, timekeeper, at the desk just back of Bergmann. Holding down the last desk is Geo. Haven, general clerk.
The new office at the mine is well lighted and commodious, which greatly facilitates the heavy volume of work handled there.
(more…)Posted in Buildings, People, Towns, tagged Auburn, farming, Green River, Kent, King County, Neely Mansion, Odd Fellows, Thomas, White River on June 10, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Valley Daily News, June 8, 1991
When longtime local farmer and civic leader Aaron Neely Jr. died in 1974, it was the end of a long chapter of Valley history.
The history of the Neely family spans most of the history of South King County.
David A. Neely, born in Tennessee in 1823, came west in the 1850s. His family arrived at the fork of the White and Green rivers on Oct. 1, 1854. Nine days later, Saletha Elizabeth Neely was born, the first white child born in the Valley. They were part of the first settlement, called Thomas Station, between Kent and Auburn.
(more…)Posted in Buildings, Businesses, Mining, People, Railroads, Towns, tagged Auburn, bands, baseball, basketball, Black Diamond, Black Diamond High School, Black Diamond School District, briquets, Buckley, Bureau of Mines, Burnett, Carbonado, Central Council, churches, coal mining, company store, dances, doctors, Elks, fire boss, fires, foreman, Franklin, Green River Gorge, hospital, hotels, Kent, mine accidents, mining safety, Mutual Benefit Association, Newcastle, Odd Fellows, Pacific Coast Bulletin, Pacific Coast Coal Co., Pacific Coast Company, Puyallup, Renton, Seattle, soccer, South Prairie, Tacoma, Wilkeson on January 14, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, January 14, 1926
This Link-Belt moveable crane is used at the Briquet Plant not only to load Diamond Briquets from the storage platform into the cars, but also to load coal from the storage piles into cars preparatory to sending it through the plant. (more…)
Posted in Businesses, Mining, People, Towns, tagged Auburn, bands, basketball, Bellevue, Bellingham, Black Diamond, Black Diamond High School, briquets, bunkers, Bureau of Mines, Burnett, Carbonado, Central Council, Christmas, churches, Coal Creek, company store, dances, Elks, hotels, I.W.W., Issaquah, Kent, labor relations, mine accidents, mining safety, New Black Diamond, New Year's Eve, Newcastle, Odd Fellows, Pacific Coast Bulletin, Pacific Coast Coal Co., poetry, Puyallup, schools, Seattle, soccer, Tacoma, University of Washington, Wilkeson on January 7, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, January 7, 1926
If at first you don’t succeed, there’s a reason. Find it before you try again. — The Prism (more…)
Posted in Businesses, Mining, People, Towns, tagged Auburn, bands, baseball, basketball, Black Diamond, briquets, Buckley, Bureau of Mines, Burnett, Carbon River, Carbonado, Central Council, Christmas, churches, coal mining, company store, company town, dances, Elks, Franklin, hospital, hotels, Hyde Mine, King County, labor relations, mine accidents, mining safety, New Black Diamond, New Year's Eve, Newcastle, Odd Fellows, Olympia, Pacific Coast Bulletin, Pacific Coast Coal Co., Pierce County, Renton, schools, Seattle, Snohomish, soccer, South Prairie, Tacoma, University of Washington, washhouse, Wilkeson on December 10, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, December 10, 1925
Richard Goodhead, mine foreman at Burnett, has been a miner in this state almost as long as coal has been dug here. He has been with the Pacific Coast Coal Company at Burnett since the mine reopened several years ago, and prior to that time was at Franklin and Hyde mines.
Loyal to the company, and loyal to the men under him, he has built up the reputation of being a “Square-Shooter,” and a practical mining man. Proof of the esteem in which he is held is shown by the fact that his friends all call him “Dick.” (more…)
Posted in Businesses, Mining, People, Towns, tagged Alaska, bands, baseball, Bellingham, Black Diamond, boxing, briquets, Briquetville, Burnett, Carbonado, Central Council, company store, Elks, Enumclaw, fire boss, fires, Green River Gorge, hospital, hotels, Mine #11, mine accidents, mining safety, Mutual Benefit Association, New Black Diamond, Newcastle, Odd Fellows, Orting, Pacific Coast Bulletin, Pacific Coast Coal Co., Puyallup, Renton, schools, soccer on September 24, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, September 24, 1925
Though these men are not on jury duty no court could find a more impartial nor fair-minded group than the Black Diamond supervisors shown in the accompanying halftone. For confirmation of this statement just ask any miner or workman employed at the mine. The group, from left to right, includes, Jack Emmanuel, Richard Parry, Tom Edwards, E.D. Rockey, and Robt. Cruickshank. (more…)
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