Butte News on West Side Hunting Paradise for Sportsmen
Butte reports Montana as a premier hunting and fishing region drawing visitors from across the United States. The article highlights the West Side’s abundant game in Big Hole basin and Clearwater country with hunts by parties from New York Ohio Michigan and Kentucky. It notes rail routes from Butte to fishing and hunting grounds and mentions Race Track creek and Brown's lake as notable sites though catching declined at Race Track creek.
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Montana
Butte
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Montana Union
West Side
Big Hole Basin
Granite
Deer Lodge
Silver Bow
Ravalli
Beaverhead County
Madison County
Powell Counties
Clearwater Country
Flathead
Elf
New York
Ohio
Michigan
Kentucky
Race Track Creek
Warm Spring Creek
Warm Springs Sanitarium
Brown's Lake
United States
Big Hole camp hosts 1500 in summer gathering
Report from hunting parties notes that about 1,500 men women and children camped on the Big Hole during the current summer season as the west side remained similar to past patterns.
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Big Hole
Carriage Factory Origins and Wild Stampede Tale
Sixteen years earlier the building housed a carriage shop run by Harber and Paradise with John Gay and T. M. Grady among the workers who later preserved the business. They built wagons and a noted delivery wagon for J. D. Thomas. A stampede of cattle, a bull, a dog, and a hunter sparked a chaotic chase that left the wagon damaged and the driver miraculously unharmed. That night workers attended Fred Ritchie’s show on tickets from Thomas.
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Elvers & Co
Harber & Paradise
John Gay
T. M. Grady
J. D. Thomas
West Park Street
Paxson & Rockefeller
Drugo Gists
Butte
Beck Barteau
Dad” Barnett
Homestake Gulch
Thomas
Hoyrs
Fred Ritchie
Gold Rush Reawakens Low Grade Ores Across Montana
The piece notes renewed interest in low grade free milling gold ores in Montana as ore processing becomes cheaper. It cites historical mining near Highland Gulch and youth of Helena ore loads worth $4 to $8 a ton relocated for next summer development, with prospects in Georgetown and multiple Montana leads expected to produce gold again.
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Montana
Great West
Montanas
Penobscot
Union
Highland Gulch
Helena
Georgetown
Walkerville Street Car Line Opens After Year of Debate
One year old this week the Walkerville Street car line began operation after a year of council agitation and negotiations. The route chosen curves over Missoula gulch after debates about Centerville Sil and Lexington mill hill. Service shortened from 40 to 20 minutes as patronage grew, and Manager Wharton says it is now among the best paying lines on the system.
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Walkerville
Hill City
Wharton
Walkerville Considers Piecemeal Sewer System
An alderman states if a full town sewer cannot be built at once, starting with one block and expanding as funds come in is a workable approach. He asserts citizen support is nearly unanimous, though finance dominates the discussion and urges beginning soon.
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Walkerville
Elephant Ancestry Puzzle Advances at Cromwell Road Museum
The London Chronicle reports on 38 boxes of fossils from the Libyan desert at the Cromwell Road museum. Professor Andrews identifies a vertebrate as the original ancestor of the mammoth and elephant, potentially settling the origin of proboscidean mammals and solving a long-standing palaeontological puzzle.
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London Chronicle
Cromwell Road Museum
Libyan Desert
Pr. Andrews
His Queer Homecoming A Prodigal Returns To An Unexpected Welcome
A newspaper man recounts a Christmas homecoming gone awry as he surprises his family in Wisconsin. He enters the old residence with a joyful ruse, only to be confronted by a shotgun and a wary neighbor who clarifies the family has moved. He leaves with a humbled lesson on growing up.
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Feller
Jones
After the Wreck
A Chicago Tribune report quotes passengers reacting to an emigrant train wreck. One survivor laments helping those in the forward car while noting the migrants fled burning car in only their clothes. A second passenger, still in pyjamas, jokes about the four suits they wore.
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The
Chicago Tribune
Gold and Garden Truck Work in Butte Chinaman Patch
The Butte gulch between Butte and Silver Bow hosts a long running Chinaman truck gardening operation on former placer grounds. The patch near Rocker yields tens of thousands in value as portable produce sells to town, with two firms hauling goods by wagon and later by wagon teams.
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Butte
Silver Bow
Rocker
Columb Dens
Sir Besant Leaves Estate After Popularity Declines
The Boston Journal reports that after rising fame Sir Besant left an estate of $40. The piece notes that only a few British citizens earn more than bread and questions whether money is at least half true.
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The
Boston Journal
Sir Besant
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