Philipsburgs Granite Mountain mine story and founders
A hundred years after three men Eli D. Holland Josiah M Merrell and James W Estell met in Philipsburg they aided the Granite Mountain mine rise to wealth. Holland and Estell formed an enduring partnership Merrell brought assay skill and held public offices. The mine yielded millions the town grew and its founders faced fortune and decline amid Montana frontier mining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eli D. Holland
Josiah M. Merrell
James W. Estell
Holland
Philipsburg
Oregon
California
Alabama
Merrell
Orofino
Idaho
Virginia City
Blackfoot
Deer Lodge
Hector Horton
Cordova
Horton
Estell
Flint Creek
Holland and
Granite Mountain
James K. Pardee
John Caplice
Butte
Hope Company
Caprice Smith
Algonquin
Charles Clarke
Hope Mining Company
Charles D. McLure
Clarke
Pardee
Phillipsburgs Silver Camp to Town of Magazines and Movies
The article traces Phillipsburgs mining boom from 1887 with Bowen Bros. and Thompsons foundry, notes early settlers before 1870 and in the 1870s, and recalls opportunists who bought abandoned claims. It surveys a century of change as Eli D. Hollands birth, Albert Blumenthal and his lab work, and Blumenthal’s sociological study reshape the towns image into a modern magazine and film hub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan Bros. & Congdon
Roy A. Neitz
Bowen Bros
Thompson
Philipsburg
John Elery
Charles Freeman
Elias Etheridge
Edward Durfee
Eli D. Holland
Albert Blumenthal
Chicago University Press
Mr. Blumenthal
H. G. Merriam
Northwest
Montana
Mr. Merriam
Phillipsburg
Philipsburg Emerges From Silver Boom Tale
Foreword discusses potential federal action to rehabilitate silver and notes a western hemisphere money move. The Philipsburg silver camp north of Butte stands to regain prosperity, with Grace Stone Coates recounting how Philipsburg formed in a notable new story.
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Grace Stone Coates
Mexico
South America
Philipsburg
Butte
Spring Lambing Report Declares “Never Better”
Murray Stebbins secretary of the Montana Wood Growers Association described spring lambing as never better. Prospects are favorable for an excellent crop of young woollies according to his description given a few days ago.
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Great Falls
Eddie Cantor
Spain
Chicago
Sig Haughdahl
Gus Schrader
Haugdahl
Schrader
North Montana Fair
Northwest
Barney Oldfield
Oldfield
Montana
Murray Stebbins
Montana Wood Growers Association
Distribution of corn hog contract checks begins in Iowa
The initial reduction payment checks are already in circulation for farmers who signed the corn hog contract. The first bundle, about $40,000, was sent to Marion County in Iowa. Mussels lay up food stores for winter use.
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Great Falls
Canada
New York
Abbott
Tarzan
Billie Lorette
America
Marion County
Iowa
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Foor von
Aol
Syracuse
N. Y
Missouri
Hope Properties
Frank L. Perkins
Perkins
Salmon
San Francisco
Emma
Philip Deidesheimer
St. Louis
Nevada
Blackfoot City
Carpenter’s Bar
Fred Bowen
C. F. Jackey
Angus McIntyre
Philipsburg Mail
Montana Flour Mills Company
North Montana
Fair Board
New York Hippodrome
Post Toasties
Mickey Mouse
General Foods
Walt Disney Enterprises
G. F. Corp
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