CORRECTION

Reader Darrel Stuver of Redmond emailed The Miner with a correction on the cutline, “Another day on the job, back then,” a historical photo that ran in the Oct. 8 edition of The Miner Newspaper.

In the photo, which is from the Washington Rural Heritage Collection, the miner with his arms folded is Harry Bagnall, not Baghall.

“I grew up in Metaline and knew some of his family members,” Stuver says. “Harry divorced and returned to his hometown in Michigan and passed away there.

Early day photos show mine concentrate from the Oriole Mine being loaded on a barge in Metaline to be towed across the Pend Oreille River by the steamer Metaline. It was then loaded into railroad cars in Metaline Falls for transport to smelting facilities. The Oriole Mine was the object of toxic cleanup in the past … Harry’s former wife, Bertha, who grew up in Tiger, Wash. remarried my next-door neighbor Hiram ‘Bill’ Wilson who came from Canada. His son was a pilot with the Royal Air Force during WWII.”