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The Coming Liquidation Hugo Salinas Price Total world debt has been calculated recently at $223 Trillion dollars. World debt has increased some 40% since the crisis of 2008-2009; as I recall, it

was about $157 Trillion at that time. The $223 Trillion is actual debt, and does not include the potential debt lying in derivates of this debt, which is another humongous amount and would become debt should there be any default on the $223 Trillion world debt. The $223 Trillion world debt is like a huge cloud up in the sky. It is of vital importance for the world of finance, as it presently exists, that the $223 Trillion world debt continue up in the sky, and that it not be subject to liquidation. Liquidation and payment are two different things. Liquidation means that holders of debt seek to exchange the debt they hold, for cash. The problem for the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s central bankers is to keep the debt cloud up in the sky and avoid at all costs a deluge of liquidation. That is to say, there must be no movement to get rid of bonds in exchange for cash. World debt will continue to be a massive cloud up in the sky, as long as investors wish to own bonds; since central banks drove down interest rates all over the world to absurdly low levels - even to negative interest rates - prices of previously issued bonds rose to equally absurd levels and thus created huge profits for those who owned those bonds. World debt is not being paid down and has to grow, because the debt is being rolled-over, and rollovers include interest due. So the debt cloud has to get bigger. When interest rates tick up, as they did just recently, this is an indication that the market is showing a nascent preference for cash, rather than bonds. This incipient increase in interest rates is warning that we may see, at some point, a widespread desire to dump bonds for cash; that would mean a jump in interest rates which would lower the prices of bonds, and the fall would cause losses to holders of bonds and other credit instruments which form the debt cloud. Hasty sales of bonds would aggravate the fall in values and reinforce the rise in interest rates. As in all cases of panic, those who panic first have the greater chance of avoiding losses. There is a further problem: the great majority of investors and the giant investment funds are, all of them, invested in bonds, on which they realized great profits when interest rates began to fall. But if all the big investors are owners of bonds, who are they going to sell their bonds to when they wish to liquidate them and get into cash? These investors are going

to suffer big losses, because the prices of bonds will have to collapse. This is going to take place the moment that the investors think that the trend in interest rates is no longer down, but up. Banking systems are investors in bonds, and bonds make up an important part of their assets. In Europe, if the assets of the banking system fall by only 4%, then the whole European banking system is bankrupt. A collapse in bond prices caused by rises in interest rates would be deadly for the whole European banking system, and if Europe collapses, the rest of the world would have to follow suit. Interest rates will have to rise, sooner or later; central bankers tremble when they see the slightest sign that interest rates are ticking up. Obviously, the FED and ECB cannot even think of raising interest rates; they are trapped and wait in dread for the deluge of bond liquidation when the $223 Trillion debt cloud hanging over the world turns into a cloudburst.

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MINES MANAGEMENT ANNOUNCES VOTING RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS Spokane, Washington – June 18, 2015 – MINES MANAGEMENT, INC. (NYSE-Market: MGN, TSX: MGT) is pleased to announce the voting results for the annual general meeting of shareholders (the “Meeting”) which was held on June 18, 2015 in Spokane, Washington. All director nominees set out in the management information circular dated May 11, 2015 were elected as directors to serve (3) three year terms. In addition, all other measures submitted for business were approved. Details of the voting were as follows: Proposal #1 Votes For Russell C. Babcock 6,875,178 Douglas D. Dobbs 6,854,641

Proposal #2 Votes For Tanner LLC appointed 17,356,195 as independent accounting firm The results of voting will be filed on the website of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 8K and with Canadian disclosure on SEDAR, as well as the Company’s website, www. minesmanagement.com. About Mines Management

Mines Management, Inc. is engaged in the business of acquiring and exploring, and if exploration is successful, developing mineral properties containing precious and base metals. The Company’s primary focus is on the advancement of the Montanore silvercopper project located in northwestern Montana. The Montanore is an advanced stage exploration project containing 81.5 million tons of mineralized material with average grades of 2.04 ounces silver per ton and 0.75% copper. A Canadian NI 43-101 technical report has been completed on the project calculating a measured resource of 4.03 million tons of material grading 1.85 ounces per ton (“opt”) silver and 0.74% copper, an indicated resource of 77.5 million tons grading 2.05 opt silver and 0.75% copper, and an inferred resource of 35.1 million tons grading 1.85 opt silver and 0.71% copper. The project is currently undergoing the permitting process. Additional information is available at Mines Management’s.

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Evolution, Wallace, Idaho Cautionary Note to U.S. Investors concerning estimates of Measured and Inferred Mineral Resources: This press release uses the terms “Measured Mineral Resource”, “Indicated Mineral Resource”, and “Inferred Mineral Resource.” We advise U.S. investors that while those terms are recognized and required by Canadian NI 43-101, the Securities and Exchange Commission does not recognize them. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that any part or all of the mineral deposits in these categories will ever be converted into mineral reserves. Inferred Mineral Resources have a greater amount of uncertainty as to their existence and as to their economic and legal feasibility. In accordance with Canadian rules, estimates of Inferred Mineral Resources cannot form the basis of feasibility or other economic studies. U.S. investors are cautioned not to assume that part or all of the Inferred Mineral Resources exists, or is economically or legally mineable. The SEC normally only permits issuers to report mineralization that does not constitute ‘reserves’ by SEC standards as “in place” tonnage and grade without reference to unit measures. Accordingly, the information contained in this press release may not be comparable to similar information made public by U.S. companies that are not subject to NI 43-101.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS & A WARM WELCOME TO ALL THE COMING LIQUIDATION by Hugo Salinas Price

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HECLA MINING NEWS & ALS Fundraiser

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WWII WAR HERO “Al” Arguello

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COVER STORY: NJ MINING CO.

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COPPER BRIEFING

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STANLEY EASTON: MR. BUNKERHILL

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UNSUNG HEROES by Sandy Watts

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Hecla Mining Company (NYSE:HL) is a leading lowcost U.S. silver producer with operating mines in Alaska and Idaho, and is a growing gold producer with an operating mine in Quebec, Canada. The Company also has exploration and pre-development properties in five worldclass silver and gold mining districts in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, and an exploration office and investments in early-stage silver exploration projects in Canada.

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The 2nd Annual Silver Valley Ride to Defeat ALS, a fundraising cycling event, was. held on Saturday, June 27 along the scenic Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes, in Kingston, Idaho. The one-day cycling event is a major fundraiser for the Evergreen Chapter of the ALS Association to fight ALS. The ride is sponsored by Hecla Mining Company and the Evergreen Chapter of the ALS Association. Additional sponsors include BDO, Grant Thornton, Numotion, Integrity Print Resources Inc., and Pedal Pushers. For more information on ALS, or to Donate today, visit www.alsa.org. Also, additional information is available online: http://www.RideALS.org, and on the Ride’s Facebook page:

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World War II US Navy Hero: Alcario J Arguello Interview by Julie Lilienkamp

Actual photo of Al’s ship “In 1945, when I was in the Navy, we were in six different battles, and I have all the medals to prove it. They still owe me a purple heart. I was the pointer (guy who fires the gun) of the 40 mm and the breach block was malfunctioning. I ended up with a big chunk of metal in my right eye, so I was sent off to Pearl Harbor to the doctor there. I finally go my paperwork proving my disability years later.”

FOR MORE INFORMATION TO HELP WOUNDED VETERANS, VISIT www. woundedwarriorproject.org, or CALL 877-TEAM-WWP (832-6997). Also visit DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS CHARITY AT www.dav.org. “My name is Al, short for Alcario,” said Mr. Arguello. “I’m one of twelve, five girls and seven boys. And I am the fifth born,” continued Al. I was born March 25, 1926 in Lumberton, NM. My father worked in logging and mining. Lumberton was a logging town, but there was plenty of mining jobs too.” Al was born to Philligona Arguello and Beatriz Alcon, both US born, his father born in New Mexico and his mother in Colorado. Both the Alcon family and the Arguello family immigrated from Spain. The Arguello family arrived in the California Territory in 1509. Al’s mother passed away at the young age of 37, when he was a young boy. The older children were left with the responsibility of watching over, taking care of, and helping raise the younger, as their father worked many jobs. “I remember my father falling trees, then using horses to pull and haul the logs to the big log trucks. When logging was slow, my father rode in the local rodeo, and

WWII Al’s Memorable Navy experiences: “After leaving San Francisco, we went to the Hawaiian Islands and got to swim. That was great until I reached in the water for a rock and came out with a sea urchin and some puncture wounds. Next was a visit to the doctor to get the darned quills out.” he’d even sell whiskey to the Indians for extra cash,” Al said and then laughed. Al’s brothers worked for the government during the depression, as he remembers it, during the Roosevelt era. Al went on to explain the timeline. “My brothers, they worked in the CCC Camps (Civilian Conservative Corp Camps) to help out. Then somewhere around 1939 and tired of being alone I guess my father moved us all up to South Dakota to farm. My sisters took care of the household chores, my brothers worked construction, and my father became a farmer. It wasn’t long until he remarried.” White Eagle School in S.D. was a highly Indianpopulated school, which was quite different than the school Al and his siblings attended in New Mexico. The schools weren’t all that good, so I was ready to get out of there. When I was only 17 years old my brother and I left for Helena, MT to join the military (WWII). Paul joined the Army and I joined the Navy. We then went to say our good-byes to our brother Alex, who was headin’ to work the mines. I was then sent to Farragut Naval Base, between Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and Sandpoint, Idaho. The year was 1943.” Al told to his best recollection. Al met his wife Barbara after the War, in 1947 when he was in Butte, MT working in the mines. They lived and raised their four children there until 1955. “Butte was one of the toughest towns I’ve lived in. You’d go to the bar, buy a beer, and then someone would grab the beer and drink it. The fight was on!” Al smiled. In 1955, Al got notice of a dam job in California, so he and Barbara moved the family to Senora. There were three dams being built, and with as his background and hard work ethic, he was appointed Mucker Operator. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

“We were getting good pay for that day and age, damn good pay, $300 a week.” Al grinned. “So good, Barbara and I bought a home together. Then in 1959, she surprised me with a divorce.” Al continued, “I stayed in Senora, to help with the kids, bought myself a home, continued working the dams, and soon became the boss—Foreman and then Superintendant. I was titled an engineer, from the school of hard knocks.” Susan became a part of Al’s life in 1960, helping out with all four children, which he had gained custody. The same year they married. By 1961, however, Susan took off with Al’s money and his brand new car. “I divorced her in a hurry, and never saw her again.” Al explained. “The kids then went back to Barbara, who now lives in Lake Tahoe, and I bought my brother’s green and white convertible, with white leather. And then I moved to Martinez, CA, where I found a job in the water tunnels as a foreman for Guy F Atkinson, and of course for more money.” Al went on, “I was kind of wild back then. But in 1962, when I saw this pretty gal and her 2-1/2 year old son walking down the street, things changed.” Al offered Ann and her son, Michael a meal asking, “Would you like to go get something to eat?” Al said, “Micheal looked up at me and said, ‘ya,ya.’ And that was that.” One year later Ann and Michael moved in and they finally married ten years later—the year was1975. Al found work in Alaska in 1977, drilling and teaching

drilling, and also worked the oil fields while Ann stayed home with Michael. Finally, 15 years later, Ann and Al moved to Otis Orchards, WA, where they purchased two and one-half acres and a humble home. Ann passed this last October 2014. Al said she would have been 77 years old this year. Al has raised four of his own children plus Michael, and now has three granddaughters, three grandsons, seven great grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild. Al has remained in the Otis Orchard home, and is happy to now have Michael staying as a“long-term guest.”

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By Jack Weigmann, former Mr. KWAL A lot of people hated Emmy because of her trade. She’d been stuck in that business by circumstance, and circumstance kept conventional life experiences at bay. Emmy was a prostitute. The ugliness of that word, that way of life, set her apart. She spent her time serving men who took her as their option for intimacy. When she loved, it wasn’t in the usual way. I met Emmy when she was 30. That was at Mike’s house. She was newly moved in. Emmy was bright and friendly, but now frail and retiring. I saw her smiling at Mike. Mike loved her, but it wasn’t in the usual way. Mike had been taking out garbage and mopping floors lately. His home was a poorly made cabin of poorly chinked logs. Neighbors had electric heat and air conditioning but Mike had only an iron stove; he chopped wood for cooking and heating. He wore a tired cowboy hat, a scraggly black beard and a dirty pea coat but if you looked really hard, you could find

a grin. I doubted that any decent woman would find him attractive. I figured Mike struck gold by hiring Emmy as his own personal “professional woman.” I was too polite — or perhaps too shy — to inquire openly. That’s what I thought. Now I know I was too stupid to inquire openly. I tried to excuse my lousy attitude by telling myself, “Mike goes his own way.” It wasn’t too many months and Emmy was gone. The prostitute was dead and cremated. Mike said nothing. He took time off from his job to clean his tired log home some more. “Stop over for a beer?” I suggested. “Soon’s I get these chores done,” he mumbled. That’s when I got to figuring it out. Frequent purchases of fruit juice and over-the-counter diarrhea medications were the hints. Adult diapers and bleach hauled in from the car. The sober looks and bloodshot eyes from lack of sleep.There was other evidence. Mike had never been

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New Jersey Mining gets a jump with new equipmnet and offering new jobs--Big Creek, Idaho 2015

Grant Brackebusch, the Vice President of the New Jersey Mining Company comes from a line of passionate miners and friends of. He was born and raised in Kellogg, Idaho, and earned his Degree of Mining Engineering at University of Idaho. His father worked at the Hecla Mine for 18 years before owning his own consulting business. In 1996, Brackebush’s father started the New Jersey Mining Company, not far from the actual current mill, in Big Creek, Idaho, and where John Swallow, now President of the company has been a shareholder from the near-start. Dale Steiner, Chairman. “There’s no drilling right now, as things have been pretty slow,” explains Brackebush. “However, we are working a skookum (or gold vein) at the Golden Chest Mine up near Murray, Idaho. We’re gettin’ iron-pyrite (gold) and shippingto Belgium.” The New Jersey Mining Company opened its doors to a full operation in 2014, creating 50+ jobs,

including the new mill and mining operation. “We’re considered the ‘largest’ gold mine operation in Idaho, and we can hold up to 400 tonne of fine ore in our new equipment here at the mill,” continued Brackebusch. “Our operation at the Golden Chest is run by a company called Juniper. We are in phase three, now with power from Murray and a new secondary escapeway. The mill is our ‘Gold Gravity Curcuit.’” Brackebusch smiled. NJMC built and is the majority-owner and operator of a fully-permitted, recently-upgraded, 360-tonne per day flotation mill and concentrate leach plant near Kellogg, Idaho. The Company is ramping up the mill to handle pending ore shipments Grant Brackebush, VP--New Jersey Mill from the nearby Golden Chest Mine. Besides the new gravity curcuit, the mine has also and tailings circuits. A total of 130 tonnes of material made sure to tune up the crushing, grinding, flotation, grading approximately 2.5 grams of gold per tonne were processed during the test run. The material was sourced from the Company’s adjacent New Jersey Mine. Once at full production of approximately 360 tonnes of ore per day, the mine is expected to feed the mill at a steady state throughout 2015 and into 2016. Stock open for purchase under NJMC. Remembering Sunshine Mine Miners and Rescuers!

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Copper Briefing Service Overview, May 2015:

Divergence in Concentrate and Cathode Markets Copper prices have struggled for direction over the second quarter-to-date. Demand fears continue to restrict the extent of upside moves, whilst supply disruptions at the mine level have more recently provided a floor to prices following the early-year selloff. As a result, cash LME prices have spent much of the past month trading within a $5,900-6,150/t range. A key theme in copper has been the divergence in trends in the concentrate and cathode markets over recent weeks. In the concentrates market, a sharp tightening of material availability has been highlighted by the weakening in treatment and refining charges since the start of the year. Supply disruptions have been in part accountable, notably in Chile where heavy floods disrupted output at a number of operations from late March. We now forecast Chilean production at a little over 5.8m tonnes this year. Meanwhile, likely in part reflecting recent worker-related disruptions, Freeport recently announced that it has downgraded expected 2015 sales from its Grasberg mine to 885 million lbs (401 kt). This is down from its late-January guidance of 1 billion lbs (453 kt). In addition to supply disruptions, the ongoing strength in smelter and refined output has continued to drive healthy demand for concentrates. Meanwhile, robust offtake from traders, reflecting ongoing requirements for clean concentrates for blending, have had a notable effect in reducing spot terms for high purity concentrates. Looking ahead, however, maintenance shutdowns at some smelters in China and elsewhere in Asia scheduled for the coming months may temper concentrate demand somewhat... Keep reading the complete overview here: http:// go.snl.com/rs/snlfinanciallc/images/SNL-MetalsMining-Copper-Briefing-Service-CBS-Overviewpage1.pdf Thank you for citing SNL Metals & Mining if you choose to use this information in your reporting. As always, we request that you please do not reproduce the report in its entirety.

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On my list of unsung heroes is the miner. The hardrock miner. The underground miner. The Silver Valley miner. According to Dictionary.com, the definition for unsung hero is: A person who makes a substantive yet unrecognized contribution; a person whose bravery is unknown or unacknowledged. I admire these people who do a job I could not do. Having grown up in the Silver Valley, I never really thought about the uniqueness of a mining community. Every day was business as usual and the norm was up early, ready for school during school months, breakfast, school, dinner when Dad got home, chores, homework, tv, bed, etc. One day a big dark panel truck stopped by the house. My sister who was babysitting because Mom was in the hospital,began crying when the man talked to her. Dad wouldn’t be coming home that day. Nor the next. It would be a long time before he would come home again. There had been an accident at the mine and Dad had broken his back. Months went by before he would be able to walk again and subsequently return to work and return he did— back to the mine.

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of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers gave him the William Saunders Gold Metal Award for distinguished service to mining. He also received an honorary Doctorate of Science from Whitworth College and honorary degrees from the University of California and the University of Idaho. He is listed in the Idaho Hall of Fame. Easton’s contributions were not confined to the mining industry. He was always very civic-minded. Some of his involvements and contributions include: Member of the Board of Regents of the University of Idaho and the Idaho State Board of Education, member of the Board Overseers of Whitman College, member of the Kiwanis Club, the North Idaho Chamber of Commerce, and the Wardner Lodge Number 331 of B.P.O.E. He served on the Republican State Central Committee and was an Idaho elector. While attending college, Easton became a close friend of Herbert Hoover. When Hoover became president he appointed Easton as head of the Belgian Exchange Commission. The Boy Scouts was one of Easton’s primary interests. He was one of the organizers of the Shoshone County Boy Scout Council in 1916. In addition to serving three years as president of the council, he helped with the purchase of the first scout camp site on Lake Coeur d’Alene. The camp was later name Camp Easton. For his work in scouting Easton received two distinguished citations, the Silver Beaver Award 1932 and the Silver Antelope Award in 1946. In 1905, Easton met Estelle Greenough at a dance in Spokane. They were married on November 15, 1906. From 1906 to 1923, they lived in a large home on McKinley Avenue in Kellogg, near the main Bunker Hill office. Three daughters, Jane, Ruth and Anne were born there. Today that home is the Staff House Museum. In 1923, the Easton family moved into their new home at 1321 East Lakeshore Drive in Coeur d’Alene. Stanly and Estelle lived in their beautiful home on Lake Coeur d’Alene until Stanly’s full retirement in 1958. The house was sold and they moved to California. In December of 1961, Stanley A. Easton died in his California home at the age of 88.

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Wallace, Idaho – Railroad buffs from around the world will descend upon Wallace in the fall of 2016 when the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association (NPRHA) conducts its annual convention at the Northern Pacific Railroad Depot Museum here. This will be one of the few times in the 2,000-member association’s 34-year history that NPRHA will hold its annual convention at a train station without actual railway service, and the NPRHA’s first annual convention to be held in Idaho. The association is a group of rail fans, model train hobbyists, educators and historians who gather to discuss the Northern Pacific Railway’s colorful history. The NPRHA is an independent, non-profit, educational organization formed in 1981. NPRHA publishes the quarterly magazine the Mainstreeter, operates a company store at HYPERLINK “http://www.NPRHA.org/”www.NPRHA.org, publishes an annual railroad photo calendar, and conducts modeling contests and other train-related events. It is dedicated to preserving the history of America’s first northern transcontinental railroad through research into the operations, equipment, and facilities of the NP and by modeling and publishing various research findings. Ken Vogel, membership chairman for the NPRHA, said he first proposed the Wallace Northern Pacific Railroad Depot and Museum as the 2016 convention site to association members in jest. But he said his idea was greeted with enthusiasm and support. “There wasn’t a person on the convention committee opposed to the idea of our 2016 convention being held in Wallace. And while Wallace may not have a working railroad, it has a beautiful chateau-style depot and a 72-mile railroad trail to investigate,” Vogel said. Past locations for the NPRHA’s annual convention have included St. Paul, Minnesota; Portland, Oregon; Spokane, Tacoma and Yakima, Washington; Butte, Billings, Helena and Missoula, Montana, along with sites in North Dakota and Minnesota. The signing of the charter for the Northern Pacific Railway by Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and completion of its mainline in 1883 were major factors in the opening of the northern tier of United States. The NP was involved in some key events affecting the development of the nation, and was an innovator in the areas of on-board dining services, the 4-8-4 and 2-8-8-4 steam locomotive designs, the center-truss flat car and much more. The Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association anticipates about 150 attendees to this convention. They will hold workshops, contests, member functions, dinners and other events in the historic railroad and “mining camp.” Of course there will be plenty of shopping and museum touring during this weekend convention. There are plenty of volunteer jobs available at the NP Railroad Depot Museum in Wallace before and during the convention. The depot staff welcomes people who would like to greet many tourists to the mining community and all rail fans are welcome to make additions and contributions to a working model in the upstairs of the museum. The latest addition to the historic railroad icon in Wallace is the opportunity to hold weddings and intimate special events in the Women’s Waiting Room. Please see the N.P. Depot and Museum webpage at www.npdepot.org for details on the museum, Depot Days, events and tax-deductible membership. For further information, please contact: Shauna Hillman, Director http://www.npdepot.org/ Northern Pacific Railroad Depot & Museum 208.752.0111 (208.651.3426 mobile) npdepot@gmail.com

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Prostitution in America Touches Home Part One

Prostitution is a sad business,.but in its many centuries, nothing quite makes it go away. In 1930 the ladies worked in “houses” where they were sheltered and had regular meals. Much of the population had less than that. Men working isolated or remote jobs came to town and shared their wealth. Houses all over the world were full of customers. Idaho’s Shoshone County was as busy with prostitution as anywhere else. There have long been claims that the law looks the other way. Shoshone County Prosecuting Attorney, Richard Magnuson explained that in states like Idaho there was no law against prostitution. There was no looking the other way to do. Except in Wallace. Because the women were sometimes connected to Mafia bosses, the FBI requested that Wallace have the girls stop by the police station to be photographed and fingerprinted before checking in to work. Prostitutes didn’t mind. Having someone know their whereabouts was comforting. They dared not become too well acquainted with customers. Serious relationships frequently became disasters far worse than prostitution. Thus the girls worked a long cycle of cities and towns, working in each only a few weeks at a time. Wallace Police Officer, Lou Adams, explained that the FBI occasionally consulted the photo and fingerprint files to know about the girls’ connections. Sometimes the girls were goldmines for the bureau. The hooker circuit started in Las Vegas and went up through the plains states and into Montana, Idaho and Washington. After that they worked Oregon and California, finally returning to Las Vegas to start again. Officer Adams proudly showed equipment and files to friends but large-scale media coverage would have been risky. The Mob shouldn’t catch on. It was hard for prostitutes and madams to pay taxes in the usual way so the houses made generous donations to their communities, donations that can be seen to this day in Wallace. There were much-needed

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trucks to plow snow, scholarships for kids and even money for construction of a church. By 1985 prostitution in America, like blacksmithing, was fading. Faced with new attitudes toward sex, the hookshops were mere shadows of their earlier success. Then Idaho’s legislature adopted a batch of laws that saved money in the courts because they had been thoroughly court-tested in another state. Buried in those was one that made prostitution, like nine-pin bowling in Connecticut, illegal. Wallace’s identification program no longer seemed important and Wallace forgot the records.

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A History of Idaho Forest Industries and the Atlas Tie Company By Tom Richards Introduction (Part I) North Idaho was the last frontier for the timber industry in the United States. British colonists began harvesting timber on the Atlantic seaboard soon after landing to satisfy the demand for timber and masts for shipbuilding. Mature timber was quickly depleted and mills began moving inland by the early 1700’s. The area to the east of the Mississippi River was largely cut over by the early 1800’s, and timbermen turned their sights on stands of white pine in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and yellow pine in the South. The industry’s next move was to skip over the Rocky Mountains entirely, and begin production on the coasts of Washington and Oregon, where large stands of mature timber lay next to deep water ports, allowing finished products to be shipped by sea. A combination of factors finally led the timber industry to the northern Rocky Mountains. The timber industry in the upper Midwest was based on white pine production, but the supply of mature white pine was almost gone by the turn of the century. The Inland Empire, made up of northern Idaho and adjacent areas in northeast Washington and northwest Montana, contained large stands of high quality, mature white pine. Railroads had begun to penetrate communities in Idaho allowing companies to ship finished products to markets in the east. Land was readily available at reasonable prices from the states of Washington and Idaho as well. This area at the turn of the century was poised for the country’s final timber boom. In the period between 1900 and 1929, dozens of sawmills were built in the Inland Empire. Twenty four sawmills with an annual capacity of 5 million board feet or more were built in the three counties surrounding Coeur d’Alene lake and the Coeur d’Alene and St. Joe rivers during this period. Numerous small mills were also built. By 1900, there were 45 sawmills in Kootenai, Benewah and Shoshone counties, and the total climbed to 77 in 1910. The average life of a large sawmill during that period was eighteen years, while small mills averaged only four years before they shut down. Bankruptcy and fire were the most common reasons that small mills and firms ceased operations. By 1940, only 44 sawmills remained in the three county area, and by 1995 only eight mills remained. Of the nineteen large sawmills in the area with an annual capacity of 20 million board feet or more, only six lasted until the second world war, and only two are still in business at the present time. The Atlas Tie Company is one of those two sawmills. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 32

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 29 Founded in 1909, the Atlas Tie sawmill has today become a part of Idaho Forest Industries, a lumber manufacturing firm still headquartered in Coeur d’Alene. The company’s beginnings were quite different than that of most sawmills in the area, leading the company to pursue products and tree species largely ignored by the other mills, and allowing it to survive and prosper where most sawmills struggled to stay alive. Marcus D. Wright Most of the Inland Empire’s larger sawmills were built by men who brought both experience in the lumber business and capital to the area. Frederick Weyerhauser sent agents to Idaho to purchase timberlands and establish sawmills in Sandpoint, Coeur d’Alene, Potlatch and Lewiston. After years of financial difficulty, Weyerhauser’s Humbird mill in Sandpoint was closed and the remaining three mills were reorganized into the Potlatch Corporation. F. A. Blackwell moved to Coeur d’Alene from Pennsylvania, where he had operated sawmills, and established the Blackwell Lumber Company in Coeur d’Alene and the Panhandle Lumber Company in Spirit Lake. Both of these mills suffered financial difficulties, and both closed by 1937. Fred Herrick owned shares in Midwestern and Southern lumber companies when he moved to Idaho in 1909. Herrick built his empire by buying troubled sawmills. The first one was the Grant Brothers mill in Harrison, which Herrick purchased in 1914, and renamed the Export Lumber Company. He then purchased the Coeur d’Alene Mill Company and the St. Maries Lumber Company. Herrick’s bankruptcy in 1928 marked the end of all three ventures. At the time Herrick owned 15 companies, and was said to be the second largest owner of white pine stumpage in the world. The beginnings of the Atlas Tie Company were much less auspicious. The company’s founder, Marcus D. Wright, was born in 1851 in Kentucky. He lived in Missouri briefly, then moved to Montana in 1871. Wright worked at least one wagon expedition over the Mullan road between Montana and Walla Walla, Washington in 1872, and was hired to guide General Sherman and a large number of troops over the same road in 1877, at which time he relocated to Spokane, Washington. He moved to Kootenai County in 1881 and began a long career of entrepreneurship that eventually led him into the timber industry. Wright helped to found the city of Rathdrum, and established a mercantile store there, as well as one in St. Maries. He was also instrumental in establishing Kootenai County, and served as the county’s first assessor. In 1886 Wright acquired a contract from the Northern Pacific railroad to deliver railroad ties. At

that time, most railroad ties were manufactured by hand in the forest. Crews of two men selected small Douglas Fir trees which were felled and hewn on two sides to make ties. The ties were hauled out of the woods by horse to the nearest railroad line. Wright continued this business for years. He claimed on a float in the Coeur d’Alene 4th of July parade in 1909 to have produced 10 million railroad ties in Kootenai County. In October of 1909 Wright purchased a piece of property on the Spokane River just east of Coeur d’Alene, and established the Atlas Tie Mill Company. Wright purchased sawmill equipment from the Woods Brothers and McGee Lumber Company, which had operated a mill in Hayden Lake until it burned that summer. Two factors helped provide financial stability to the new company. First of all, the company was not concerned with railroad shipping rates. Markets for white pine lumber were in the east, where the wood was used for millwork, paneling and furniture making. Mills that produced white pine were at the mercy of whichever railroad served their location, and the rates that they charged. When the Panama Canal opened in 1914 the situation turned disastrous for Idaho mills. Sawmills on the Washington and Oregon coast were able to ship lumber to the eastern seaboard by ship at much lower rates than Idaho mills paid for rail transport. Atlas Tie, however, dealt with the railroads as a supplier rather than as a customer. The railroads transported their own railroad ties to wherever they needed them, leaving the manufacturer concerned only with producing the ties, not with shipping them. The second factor that allowed Atlas to succeed was the use of Douglas Fir timber for railroad ties. Most of the mills in North Idaho were designed and built to cut Idaho White Pine. White pine was “the aristocrat of the woods, sometimes reaching two hundred feet in height.” Competition for white pine timberland was fierce, and companies went heavily into debt in order to tie up large blocks of timber. Huge forest fires in 1910 destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of prime white pine. Fires continued to take public and privately owned timber in 1919, 1922, 1926 and 1931. White Pine blister rust, a European disease fatal to Idaho White Pine, was introduced from France and took a heavy toll on forests in the Inland Empire. Railroad ties however, were made of Douglas Fir, and did not require stands of large, mature trees. Smaller fir logs were passed over by other mills, and were readily available for Atlas. Wright incorporated the Atlas Mill Company as the Atlas Tie Company in 1915, along with two partners. Wright owned 499 shares of stock, 250 shares were owned by Thomas J. (T.J.) Stonestreet, and one share was owned by the mill manager, George Straughan. Wright’s other

business interests in the area were extensive. He was at one time President of the Lake City Hardware Company and Vice-President of the Lakeside Furniture Company. Wright and Stonestreet also owned the Wright-Stonestreet building, still standing in downtown Coeur d’Alene. Wright built a large brick house at Seventh and Lakeside in Coeur d’Alene which became the home of the Coeur d’Alene Public Library from 1945 until 1987. He died in Coeur d’Alene on February 23, 1916. The front page headline in the Coeur d’Alene press accompanying his photo read “M.D. Wright, Good Citizen and Loyal Friend of Coeur d’Alene, Died Today.” Over the next few years labor unrest plagued the timber industry. The Industrial Workers of the World, or IWW, was very active in organizing sawmill workers and lumberjacks in the Northwest, and in the summer of 1917 the union called for a strike. The demands of the “wobblies”, as they were known, seem fairly reasonable by modern standards – clean bunks and sheets, an 8-hour workday, Sundays off, toilets and laundry facilities and medical care. In addition, they wanted company discrimination against union men to end. The industry was adamant that none of these demands would be met. Logging was for all practical purposes shut down in North Idaho for several months, and the industry was paralyzed. In the fall of 1917 the industry petitioned Idaho Governor Alexander to call out the National Guard. Federal troops marched into union halls in Spirit Lake, Sandpoint, Bonners Ferry, St. Maries and Spokane. Along with local law enforcement officials, the troops rounded up members of the IWW and threw them into makeshift jails known as “bullpens.” They were charged under the recent Idaho laws against criminal syndicalism, but the strikes continued. The Federal Government ended the strike in the spring of 1918 by banning the IWW, while simultaneously forcing timber companies to accept the 8-hour workday. The government’s main interest was to maintain a steady flow of timber for the war effort. The Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, or 4-L, a government sponsored union, was formed to take the place of the IWW, although the wobblies continued to control some logging camps. How the labor situation affected Atlas Tie is unknown. Atlas Tie at this point in time was not seen as a major player in the area. Histories of the labor situation tend to focus on Weyerhauser and the other large companies of the time, and do not mention Atlas Tie. Marcus Wright had owned 10,000 acres of timberland, but this land did not become a part of the Atlas Tie Corporation so Atlas was probably not operating their own logging camps at this time. Wright’s partner, Thomas Stonestreet, had taken over as president of the company, but few records of his tenure exist today.

No doubt the mill had a difficult time obtaining logs during this period. By the end of the decade however, the company was purchased by the Richards family which maintains a controlling interest in the company to the present time. (Richards, Tom, A History of Idaho Forest Industries and the Atlas Tie Company; April 22, 1999, History of Idaho and the Pacific Northwest, Prof. Debbie Gish) See PART II in Aug/Sept 2015 Expert Business Journal of Timber, Construction, and American Industry.

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Nearly everyone has seen dead trees dotting northern Idaho forests. Most of the trees you notice were killed by bark beetles, but many other insects and diseases kill trees, often in less visible ways. Native insects and diseases are a natural part of the forest, but they sometimes kill more trees than we want them to, especially when we have (often unknowingly) created a favorable environment for them. Unfortunately, many people do not act on insect and disease issues until they see conspicuous symptoms. Most methods to minimize forest insects and disease problems are preventive, and should be implemented before problems become obvious. On Friday, July 24th, the Forest Insect and Disease Field Day will give participants first-hand exposure to a wide range of organisms that impair the growth of trees and forests in north Idaho, including: Douglas-fir beetle and other bark beetles; armillaria and other root diseases; white pine blister rust; indian paint fungus, pini rot and other stem decays; and dwarf mistletoes. Experts will help participants identify insect and disease symptoms and discuss practical long and short term methods of dealing with them. Continued on next page

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Life Center CDA is a relatively new church in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The founding pastors are Sean and Tan McCartin. The church was started with a team of volunteers in February 2014. This new church plant is sponsored by Life Center Church in Spokane. The goal of LCCDA is to serve the CDA community and help spark a new desire to know and follow God throughout the CDA region. Sean and Tan want to encourage people to pursue their relationship with God passionately, to own their faith so it grows, and to seek ways to invest into other people’s spiritual development. The slogan of Life Center CDA is to Love God and Love People, and its mission is to help people find and follow Jesus Christ. The church was started by the formation of a handful of small groups called Journal Groups. Each group consists of a few people gathering weekly to read, journal and share from the Bible. From that point, a team of some 25 volunteers ventured out to start a weekly Sunday morning gathering; its purpose was to build up those seeking God and to provide a place for the larger community to discover a relationship with God. The first six months they met at Woodland Middle School and have since moved to North Idaho College, where they meet every Sunday at 10 AM. Pastor Sean observes, “We have realized that many people are looking for relationships and connections that will help deepen their spiritual life. Many people are hungry for God, but have been wandering without having the consistent reinforcement and encouragement that a local church can provide. A local church should serve as a home base or launching pad for those interested in growing their faith in Jesus Christ. A local church seeks to provide support and training that will help people push through limits, unlock God-givenpotentia, and bring greater focus to life.” LCCDA seeks to help people break out of spiritual boredom by realizing they can apply their faith in Christ to every condition and situation in life, as opposed to compartmentalizing their spirituality to just one area. “We are excited to see people renewed in their walk with God, while getting a fresh vision for a spiritual life that applies everywhere, anytime, and in all things.”

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