Pioneering Bannack liquor tales of Jaggers in Montanas old days
Jaggers recalls Bannack days in 1866 67 selling high wines and rot gut with peach pulp reforming it into whiskey. He details prices at four dollars a quart whiskey ten dollar wines and champagne from California plus a dance hall in the saloon and nightly drunken crowds and payments in gold dust.
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AM Jaggers
Montana
Beaverhead
Dillon
Pipers
Jse
Jaggers
Bannack
James Harvey
Virginia City
Old Alder Gulch
Los Angeles
California
Golden State
St. Louis
Deer Lodge
John Rockwell
George D. French
Japgers
New York
Salmon River
Leesburg
Rooker
Bual Neas
Yank Williams
Canyon
Marysville
Yank
Williams
Boston
Marynville
Virginia City Bank
William Sturgis
Teton Country
Saw Mill in Sheep Canyon Heads to Full Production
David Davies runs a saw mill at the head of the south fork of Sheep canyon and spent a few days in Dillon last week. He notes that current favorable weather boosts logging and expects to produce a large batch of saw logs. His mill can rough lumber at 3,000 feet daily and aims to meet sidewalk material demand when the season resumes. An abundance of fir logs awaits good logging weather to keep operations steady.
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David Davies
South Fork
Sheep Canyon
Dillon
Bear bounty records from Beaverhead and Big Hole area
The Beaverhead clerk’s bounty books list twelve bears killed by residents including James Blair J B Logan Frank T Neibart James Maurier Henry R Rash Charles Salamian Charles C Schultz J M Warcheater and Frank Wilkie with W R Smart also noted. Bruin killings by Butte residents noted in the Big Hole region with no hides turned in. One mountain lion pelt was filed for a $7 bounty by Thomas Childers.
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Beaverhead
James Blair
J. B. Logan
Frank T. Neibart
James Maurier
Henry R. Rash
Charles Salamian
Charles C. Schultz
J. M. Warcheater
Frank Wilkie
W. R. Smart
Examiner
Bruin
Butte
Big Hole
Thomas Childers
Barnes King mine clean-up yields seventeen thousand five hundred
The Kendall mine partially shut down last month with stamps idle over a week affecting production. A semi monthly clean-up completed last week produced 17500 dollars, while typical monthly output runs about 40000 dollars.
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Barnes-King
Kendall
Fair trial bills signed as special session ends
Governor signs four fair trial bills after a special session ends. Disqualification rules for judges set, venue change provisions defined, costs and venue change rules amended, and new standards for appellate review of findings outlined. Beaverhead legislators return home as per diem is noted.
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Beaverhead
Coes
Duggan
Board of County Commissioners
Hoffman
Supreme Court
Eupreme Court
Erected Pumping Plant Supports Frying Pan Sheep Co
David Davies built a 24000 square foot corrugated iron pumping shed at Frying Pan Sheep Co headquarters for Senator Murray. The complex includes a stone workers’ building with living rooms and a five-tire gasoline engine feeding a 15 foot diameter reservoir to supply troughs. The well reaches 155 feet in desert terrain and is supplied by N O Nelson Mfg Co. A prisoner named Michelson, who escaped Kalispell officers, has been captured about 12 miles from Havre.
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Frying Pan Sheep Co
Jas. P. Murray
Benjamin Bend
Frying Pan Yuleh
Walla
N. O. Nelson Mfg. Co
St. Louis
New Mill at the Ajax Aims for a 20th Start at Five-Stamp Site
A. J. Noyes reports the Ajax mine has torn down the old five stamp mill and installed a new ten stamp mill with Wilfley tables. The plant should be completed by the 20th, with first run immediately after. Ore will be milled on site and bullion sent to the U S assay office at Boise. About 20 men are employed as work continues on extensions and tramway site plans.
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A. J. Noyes
Big Hole
Mr. Noyes
Ajax
Ita Place
U. S
Boise
George Rk
Mellenine
Divide
Lucky Boy Copper Glance Show At Birch Creek District
Sherman Sapp reports a strong copper glance ore showing at the Lucky Boy claim in Birch Creek, near the Indian Queen mine. A shaft reaches 35 feet with a cross-cut exposing a three and a half foot wide ore body. full vein width and assays are pending. The owners are Sapp and David Robb, and the find promises valuable ore at a greater depth than the Indian Queen’s current showing.
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Sherman Sapp
Birch Creek
Mr. Sapp
David Robb
Indian Queen
Sapp
City Council Votes to Bond Red Lodge Electric Plant
At a recent city council meeting in Red Lodge the decision was made to bond the city for the purpose of securing municipal ownership of the electric light plant.
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Red Lodge
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Bar Ag
Murray
Michelson
Kalispell
Havre
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