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The Gold, Silver and Lead Belt's of Idaho
A rare and graphically distinctive map of the Coeur d’Alene mining district in northern Idaho at the height of its silver boom, drawn by Henry C. Ihrig and published by Adam Aulbach in 1899.
This map captures the region’s complex web of wagon roads, railroads, trails, mining claims, infrastructure, and mountainous terrain just before the outbreak of violent labor conflict that would define the Coeur d’Alene region's turn-of-the-century identity.
The map charts the South Fork of the Coeur d’Alene River from Cataldo and Kingston east through Wallace and Mullan to the Montana border. Key mining towns such as Kellogg, Wardner, Burke, and Osburn are depicted, along with major lodes and the extensive Silver Belt. Numerous mines are labeled along trails and roads—including the Bunker Hill & Sullivan, Tiger-Poorman, Hecla, and others—illustrating the dense industrial exploitation of the landscape.
The map serves both as a working tool and a booster document, likely distributed to investors, mine owners, and regional developers. Issued the same year as the 1899 dynamiting of the Bunker Hill concentrator during the Coeur d'Alene labor wars, it represents the culmination of two decades of mineral expansion and speculative fervor in one of the richest silver districts in the United States.
Scarce and highly desirable for collectors of Western Americana, labor history, and mining cartography.
Rarity
The map is very rare.
OCLC locates copies in the Idaho State Archives and Brigham Young University.
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