Editing Metaline Falls, Washington (section)

==History==
By 1810, [[Animal trapping|European fur traders]] were crossing the area. The settlement of Metaline Falls was founded in 1900, with most of its residents then employed by the Mammoth and Morning lead-zinc mines.<ref name=majors>{{Cite book|last=Majors|first=Harry M.|title=Exploring Washington|publisher=Van Winkle Publishing Co|year=1975|page=59|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CoWrPQAACAAJ|isbn=978-0-918664-00-6}}</ref> Metaline Falls was officially incorporated on May 3, 1911.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/Record/View/628B65AE67A9E11E1A4A11EC3DCC424C|title = Stevens County Board of Commissioners, Meetings, 1860-1913, 2005-2009 - Stvcocommmin19110503.Tif - Stevens County}}</ref>

The name Metaline comes from the abundance of [[lead]] [[ore]], [[galena]], found in the region.  Though these lead deposits were known since 1869, mining did not commence until 1886.  Then in 1910, Metaline Falls was connected with the [[Idaho and Washington Northern Railroad]].  The Lehigh Portland Cement Co. plant was soon built, taking advantage of the region's [[limestone]] deposits.  The Pend Oreille Mine was developed in 1929 by Lewis P. Larsen, and combined with production from the Grandview Mine and the [[Metaline]] Mine, the area became the state's largest producer of lead and [[zinc]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bethune |first1=George |title=Mines and Minerals of Washington |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kqcRAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 |website=Google Books |publisher=State of Washington |accessdate=July 2, 2020 |location=Olympia |pages=82–83 |date=1890}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Dings |first1=McClelland |last2=Whitebread |first2=Donald |title=Geology and Ore Deposits of the Metaline Zinc-Lead District Pend Oreille County Washington, USGS Professional Paper 489 |url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0489/report.pdf |publisher=USGS |accessdate=July 2, 2020 |pages=56–58}}</ref><ref name="Full1968">{{cite book |last1=McConnel |first1=Roger |last2=Anderson |first2=Roy |editor1-last=Ridge |editor1-first=John |title=The Metaline District, Washington, in Ore deposits of the United States, 1933-1967 |date=1968 |publisher=The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum engineers, Inc. |location=New York |pages=1460–1480}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Willenbrock |first1=Fred |title=Pend Oreille County braces for economic losses after closure of last major rock mine |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/jun/30/pend-oreille-county-braces-for-economic-losses-aft/ |website=spokesman.com |publisher=The Spokesman Review |accessdate=July 2, 2020}}</ref>

[[File:Metaline Falls, Washington, circa 1980 (50729904433).jpg|thumb|Metaline Falls, circa 1980]]

In 1942, [[Executive Order 9066]] was issued, resulting in the forced internment of [[Japanese American internment|120,000 Japanese-Americans]]. George Kubota, Sr., the patriarch of a Japanese-American family who ran a hardware store in town, was arrested and imprisoned by the [[FBI]] in [[Spokane, Washington|Spokane]]. The editors of the Metaline Falls newspaper and the majority of residents in town protested the arrest, vouching for the Kubota family's loyalty. The FBI eventually released Kubota from custody and did not send the family to an internment camp.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nichibei.org/2016/06/the-kaeru-kid-a-most-righteous-town/|title=THE KAERU KID: A most righteous town|newspaper=Nichi bei News |date=June 9, 2016 |last1=News |first1=Nichi Bei }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2015-07-29/html/CREC-2015-07-29-pt1-PgE1164-3.htm|title=Congressional Record, Volume 161 Issue 121 (Wednesday, July 29, 2015)}}</ref>