placer mining school.mp3
This file appears in: Gold Fever
The curious origin and fate of the Depression-era placer mining school in Peaceful Valley.
This file appears in: Gold Fever
Gold Fever
In the midst of the Great Depression, the Spokane Chamber of Commerce declared that the gold rush was on in Spokane Washington. Captain J. Richard Brown, who was a mining engineer, gave 9 speeches at the relief kitchen on Trent avenue in hopes of…