Transport Buckets at Magnesite Plant
This file appears in: The Magnesite of Chewelah: The backbone of two world wars
The buckets used to transport the magnesite from the mines in the hills down to the plant. Rumor says that the miners sometimes would hitch a ride down on the buckets claiming to be testing the line.
This file appears in: The Magnesite of Chewelah: The backbone of two world wars
The Magnesite of Chewelah: The backbone of two world wars
The Northwestern Magnesite Company, with its main processing plant just south of Chewelah, Washington and various mines and quarries in Northeastern Washington, helped supply a majority of the…