Gold From Montana Helped Build St Louis City
The article recounts how $40 to $50 million in Granite County Montana gold funded St Louis expansion. It details the Philipsburg Granite Bi-metallic mine, early prospectors like E H Holland and James Estill, a Louis syndicate led by Charles D. McLure, and how the mine’s wealth financed railways, libraries, and institutions in St Louis. It also notes the Phillipsburg Pioneer Association and notable colonists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Montana
Mississippi River
Philipsburg
Granite County
Holland
James W. Estill
Deer Lodge
Estill
Charles D. McLure
Charles Clark
L. M. Rumsey
Mose Rumsey
John Lionberger
John W. Hall
McLure
J. W. Griffith
Old Griff
Griffith
Los Angeles
Helena Fourth of July Celebrated In Unionville Camps
The first Helena Fourth of July celebration was held in Unionville four miles from Helena after discovery of Last Chance gulch in 1864. Jim Whitlatch founded Unionville with the Union lode, making the camp prosperous and prompting a grand all night dance with guests from Helena and nearby camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Eliza O'Neill
George M. Pinney
United States
Montana Post
Virginia City
Owyhee Park
Jim Whitlatch
Uniontown
Whitlatch
Benton Avenue
Broadway
Whitlatch Union
Black Hills
Park County
Park Lode
Wdgerton County
Unionville
J. A. Sanders
Last Chance Gulch
John Cowan
Reginald Stanley
John Crab
D. J. Miller
Bob Stanley
Minnesota
Dakota
Bannack
Aldergulch
Virginia Vigilantes
George Ives
Sun River
Crabtown
Main Street
Hopkinsville
Hopkins
Grizzly Gulch
Park City
Oro Fino Gulch
Roosevelt City
James W. Whitlatch
Pennsylvania
Colorado
Nevada
Idaho
Mr. Whitlatch
Union
Montana
Oro Fino
Grizzly
London
Brooklyn
Last Chance
German film combine aims at world cinema control
A London dispatch to the New York World reports the Universal Film Co Ltd is a $6,250,000 alliance of German financial political and official interests. Its purpose is to exploit films in Germany for the ruling caste and to control cinema industries in England France and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
New York World
Universal Film Co., Ltd
Germany
England
France
United States
Montana’s Resources Make It Nation’s Richest State
The piece extols Montana as the nation’s wealthiest in resources, noting its size rank, Civil War era gold from mountain streams, leading wool production before fluctuations, and exceptional copper zinc and silver output. It forecasts Montana becoming a top beef and wheat producer, with vast water power aiding future manufacturing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Atlantic Seaboard
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Ursuline Academy to Open Normal Course and Music School
Ursuline Academy of Great Falls Montana will start a Normal course for training young teachers in September. The school will also launch the Academy School of Music under director Louise Valverda Kelley with an expanded staff for the new scholastic year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scanlan
the Star
Joe Scanlan
S. E. Peterson
Great Falls
George Cade
Kalispell
Association
Ursuline Academy
Academy School of Music
Louise Valverda Kelley
Leschetti
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Milestown
Henry Watterson
Pine Hills
Port Keogh
Remount
Old Fort Keogh
Reform School
Miles City
State
Joseph D. Scanlan
Miles City Daily Star
State Editorial Association
Chamber of Commerce
Marie Henry Watterson
Miles
Nelson A. Miles
Keogh
United States Army
State Industrial School
California
Louisa M. Kaiser
Frank D
Sandbar) Brown
Montana Society of Pioneers
Herman Kaiser
Boise
John Kaiser
State Historical Library
Kaiserhof
John G. Morony
First National Bank of
Josiah M. Merrill
John Rains
John G. McLean
John Landes
George Plaisted
Henry Imkamp
D. H. Anderson
G. V. Sherman
Daniel Sisson
Angus McIntyre
J. H. Monhart
William Hammond
Sim Shively
Mr. Stanley
Society of Montana Pioneers
State Historical Society
Tootsie Brown
M. W. Brown
Crow Creek
Radersburg
P. B. Clark
Portland
Ore
Clark
Bozeman
Lucia Fergus
James Fergus
Prickley Pear
Junius Sanders
C. Gilpatrick
Lewistown
Flowerree Sheep & Horse Co
Flowerree
Lowry, Montana
Mount St. Charles College
Capitol Hill
Helena, Montana
Montana State University
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