Fair Highlights and Native Dancer Displays
Readers recount Dillon fairs featuring Lemhi Bannack Indians from Idaho, who rode horses bareback with blankets, danced on track, and staged a tom tom drum display. Reports cover balloon ascension, Fox Patrol exhibits, clown antics, and Firemen’s Carnival stalls. A student notes include school prizewins, parade details, and personal fair memories.
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Fair Grounds
Idaho Falls
Eva Gilman
Mildred Taylor
Beaverhead County Districts and Mineral Notes by Jack Selway
The document lists numerous districts in Beaverhead county with locations described relative to towns and geographic features. It notes the presence of metallic minerals including gold silver copper lead zinc bismuth vanadium and mentions a fragment about installing three windows. The passage attributes the remarks to Jack Selway BA.
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Lost Creek
Glen Station
O. S.S
Lost Clouds
Polaris
Grasshopper
Medicine Lodge
North Medicine Lodge Creek
Mulkey
Big Hole Basin
Nicholia
Sheep Creek Basin
Country Pioneer
Wisdom
Ruby Mountain
Ax Canyon
Dillon Utopia
Birch Creek
Parlin Vipond
Old Town of
Dewey
White Bar
Grasshopper Creek
Bannack
Watson Creek
Argenta
Beaverhead County
Jack Selway
Beaverhead county mineral districts show extensive ore deposits
The Beaverhead county report outlines gold, silver, copper and other minerals across Argenta Bannack Blue Wing and neighboring districts. It notes native silver at Argenta and Blue Wing, placer and lode gold in Bannack, varied copper oxides, galena and cerussite in lead deposits, zinc with lead, and widespread manganese magnetite graphite talc and gypsum.
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Bannack
Horse Prairie
Bald Mountain
Watson Creek
Argenta
Pioneer
Bryant
Blue Wing
Lost Cloud
Elkhorn
Blacktail
Beaverhead County
Mulkey Creek
Lost’ Creek
Montana
Utopia
Dillon
Blacktail Ruby Mountain
Ruby Mountain
Big
Big Muddy
Nicholia
Lima
Medicine Lodge
Centennial Valley
Bruce
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TOK
Wighth
Beaverhead
Oanty
Union Pacific
Jin Dillon
Helen Wheat
Walter Stephan
Fox Patrol
Billy Ballard
Billy Bates
EX Simmons
Monte Melton i
Billy
Bayerd
Monte Melton
Bergeson
Bonds
Graeter-Waldorf
Eid
Bourquin
James Kelly
Highth A
Firemen
Allen Moore
Roy Harry Candy Tenday
Indiana
Harlan Harrison
Bek
Indians
Tray
Blackfoot
Idaho
Hris Hansen
Edward Bourquin
Rip van Winkle
Archie Anderson
Terry Conklin
Grandma
Dorothy Brundage
Oertang Fair
Patricia Gilbert
Helen Randolph
Jack Frost
Lorraine McGrath, GA
Frank Pendleton
Anaconda
James Dodd
Butte
Hazelbaker
Beaverhead Auto Sales
House of Kirshmoor
Marshal Field
Kodak
Kodak Film
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