Montana's first gold discoverer Granville Stuart remembered in lore
The article recounts Granville Stuart, Montana's pioneer prospector, who found gold on Gold creek and helped put Montana on the map as a mineral state. It details his camps near Rumsey, Cable and Granite Mountain mines, Hall, Summit valley, Anaconda hill, Silver Bow placer diggings, and his lifelong elusive wealth despite vast ore riches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Granville Stuart
Montana
Stuart
Granite
Rumsey
Fred Burr
Granite Mountain
Hall
Summit Valley
Anaconda Hill
Silver Bow
German Gulch
Gold Creek
Four Men Who Found Gold in Montana Camp Near Hall
A memoir recalls four men who first found gold in Montana at a permanent camp near Hall. The narrator mentions Stuart Station in the valley and notes he became a librarian and a rancher. He references Granite Mountain and Cable mines, German Gulch, Silver Bow placer diggings, and the Anaconda hill as rich sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Hall
Stuart Station
Stuart
Granite Mountain
Poisoning birds probe to test gopher poison impact
Montana game warden M. W. Potter announces experiments next summer to determine whether gopher poison used on farms harms song and game birds. Conflicting views exist, with some researchers finding no effect while others report birds dying after exposure.
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Potter
State Game and Fish Warden
Montana
M. W. Potter
Parker
Bitter Root
United States Biological Survey
Wyoming
First Discovery of Gold in Montana 1858
In spring 1858 John Powell, Fred Burr, Thomas Adams, Rezan Anderson, James Stuart and I camped on Flint Creek near Hall town. We found a five foot deep prospect hole on Benetsee Creek with ten cents in fine gold. We killed and dried meat for Fort Bridger, then returned to Montana in 1860 and started mining on Gold Creek in 1862. Our letters to my brother in Colorado spurred a large Montana prospecting party.
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John Powell
Fred Burr
Thomas Adams
Rezan Anderson
James Stuart
Flint Creek
Forks
Halli
Deer Lodge
Fort Bridger
Red River
Benetsee Creek
Adams
Salt Lake
California
Montana
Gold Creek
Thomas
Colorado
The Ladle of Fortune and the West’s Persevering Prospectors
Old timers recall how fortune slipped away from miners like Granville Stuart and Charley Thaler while others struck luck by chance. Tales of the Southern Cross mine, a jackass led discovery, and Harry Orchard’s “Hercules” vein thread through Idaho Montana mining lore.
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Vada
Bozeman
Charles Thaler
Shamokin
Penn
Thaler
Southern Cross
Peru
Montana
Lady Luck
Granville Stuart
Charley Thaler
Mexico
Klondyke
Idaho
Harry Orchard
Hercules
Idaho Penitentiary
Steunenberg
Beck
Molalla
Ore
Spokane
Day Brothers of
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Bezan Anderson
Gold Creek Bar
Northern Pacific
Milwaukee
Mary E. Lalor
Montana Pioneers’ Society
Henry Comstock
Henry P. T. Comstock
Comstock Lode
Nevada
Croesus
Yellowstone
Big Horn
Comstock
Bozeman Cemetery
Nelson Story, Sr
Story County
Orchard
Judge Beck
Colbert and
Twohy
Charles Colbert
James Twohy
Colbert
Jay Cross Bush
Wisconsin
Peter Breen
Bush
Breen
Europe
Mpeey
Postum Cereal Company, Inc
Battle Creek, Michigan
Jackass
Iasted
Syndicate
Winnett, Montana
Olece
Winnett
Cat Creek
Hasselquist & Borgert
Montana Building
Lewistown
Town
Mont
P. O. Box
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