1904 Map of Republic

About this map

Republic serves as the industrial and social heart of this 1904 survey, established as a major gold-mining center in the Colville Indian Reservation just years before this mapping. The landscape is heavily defined by late nineteenth-century mineral extraction, with numerous workings concentrated north of the townsite including the Mountain Lion Mine, Tom Thumb Mine, and the Klondike Hill prospect. These operations were supported by a maturing infrastructure of transportation, most notably the Spokane and Northern Railway which follows the Curlew Valley Line north toward the United States - Canada Boundary Line.