The Miser of the Upper Ruby Abe Colwell
Abe Colwell a noted southern Montana eccentric known as the Miser of the Upper Ruby died in fall 1892 after a solitary life on a ranch near the Ruby head. His death followed rheumatic attacks and exposure while away from home for representation work. Rumors swirled of buried gold, hay sales profits, and a famed wild band of horses, with searches failing to uncover money supposedly hidden around his cabin and hay baler.
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Montana
Abe Colwell
Ruby Valley
Ruby
Brown
Virginia City
Brown's Gulch
Abe
Colwell
Old Abe
New
Hia
Vatioua
Wisdom Mercantile Sells Basin Business to C J McFarland
The Wisdom Mercantile Company, a leading concern in the Big Hale basin, has sold its interests to C J McFarland of Reno Nevada. Manager Strawbridge and Mr McFarland completed the deal last week and will inventory stock and finalize transfer. McFarland, an experienced businessman, will continue the firm’s traditions and expand operations with basin growth.
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Big Hale Basin
Wisdom Mercantile Company
C. J. McFarland
Reno
Nevada
Strawbridge
The
Mercantile Company
McFarlin
Wisdom Mercantiles Company
Peter Tibado Hurt Returning From Pasadena Meeting
A private letter from Dillon reports Peter Tibado, a prominent county resident, was seriously injured in Pasadena two weeks earlier while walking home with Mrs Tibado after a meeting of the Woman's Relief Corps Grand Army of the Republic and the Sons of Veterans. He suffered multiple broken ribs and cartilage damage. Mrs Tibado escaped serious harm.
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Dillon
Pasadena
California
Peter Tibado
Tibado
Mra
Tinado
Coast buyers seek beef bargains in valley
Western Montana buyers visited Wednesday for beef stock, while W. M. Mongomery Packing Co. of Butte feeds 150 head at John M. Miffin's place and 20 of his own cattle. Alphonse Gravelle of Jackson corrected feeder totals to 100 head. Ajax mine part owner A. J. Noyes seeks aerial tramway and electric drills to speed ore removal amid equipment shortages.
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W. M. Mongomery Butchering Co
Butte
John M. Miffin
Miffin
Alphonse Gravelle
Jackson
WednesJay
Gravelle Bros
A. J. Noyes
Ajax
Noyes
Have Gone to Old Mexico
Oscar Vandegrift and wife left Wednesday evening for Old Mexico to reside for a time. Vandegrift has led the Brenner dredge boat on Horse Prairie creek for four years since the machine’s installation and is regarded as a top dredge boat man. In Mexico he will work for H. J. Reiling, formerly operating in Beaverhead and well known in Idaho and Montana. They were accompanied to Dillon by brothers Edwin and Thomas Thomason who saw them off.
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Oscar Vandegrift
Old Mexico
Vandegrift
Brenner
Horse Prairie Creek
Mexico
H. J. Reiling
Beaverhead
Idaho
Montana
Dillon
Edwin
Thomas Thomason
Danes Plan Sugar Beet Colony Near American Falls Idaho
A group of Danish residents from Dillon Beaverhead prepare to move to lands near American Falls Idaho under a Carey desert land act irrigation project. They expect 4.50 per ton for beet crops and 20 to 40 tons per acre with lake-like water rights via a state backed canal. Jacob Jacobsen and family buy a 50 acre ranch near American Falls as others scout Idaho Kalla fields for a Beaverhead Danes settlement before 1904.
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American Falls
Idaho
of Idaho
Snake River
Janda
Pocatello
Dillon
Capitaliata
West
Idaho Fajla
American Falla
J. Cusick
Carlisle Mason
Butte
Auccessa
Jacob Jacobsen
American Farm
Juel
Idaho Kalla
Good Silver Ore Prospect in Birch Creek District
Ted Ashworth, in Birch Creek, reports promising prospects in the Utopian district. He attends to assessment work on claims he holds in the area and notes ore yields have produced two disputes of silver, valued from frost 50 to 178 ounces.
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Ted Ashworth
Birch Creek
Ashworth
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Chicago
Union Pacific
Milwaukee & ST. Paul
Claude S. Williams
West Second South Street
Salt Lake City
Utah
First National Bank
Dillon, Montana
Beaverhead County
B. F. White
J. H. Gilbert
Burlington
Pao Een
Denver
West Second South
R. F. Neslen
W. V. Kingsbury
Metlen
T. Blanders, Cof R
Rob't. Swainbank
Sweetwater
Sage Creek
Chaeers
Costa
Mr. Colwell
Morney
Wisdom Mercantile Co
Big Hole Basin
Valley
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