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Mining history of Dewey's Flat Quartz Hill and Vipond Park
Horace Hand recounts the Dewey's Flat Quartz Hill Vipond Park mining district era. The Monroe, Lone Pine, Grey Jockey, Queen of the Hill, and Keystone mines prospered then declined, with mills moved, ore hauled, and multiple owners. Captain Prideaux led the Lone Pine operation. figures cite 20,000 ounces yearly silver plus 8,000 ounces concentrates and strong profits before shifts to New Zealand. Southern Vipond country saw Brown and Vipond develop prospects and sell Grey Jockey to a Michigan syndicate for $90,000.
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Dewey’s Flat
Dave Dewey
Feely
Montana
Dewey’s
Big Hole River
Beaverhead County
Divide
Dewey's
Quartz Hill
Vipond Park
Monroe Company
Partridge Brothers
Nick
Harry
John
Lone Pine
Allen Hay
Jack Brodridge
George Pettingill
Billie Spurr
Big Hole
The
American Developing Company
Monroe
One Pine
New Zealand
Lone Pine Mining Company
Jim Prideaux
Rod
Alec Leggatt
Tobacco Leggatt ‘Company
St. Louis
Tobacco Leggatts
Missouri
Leggatt
Kinobby
Hecla Consolidated Mining Company
Professor Kinobby
Germany
John Evans
Butte
al Brubaker
Isaac Dodgson Sr
Keystone
Keystone Gulch
Wise River
Scot
George Galbraith
Grey Jockey
Virgil Jennings
R. Z. Thomas
Queen of the Hill
Omaha
Thomas
Little Sheep Creek
Horace Hand
Beaverhead Mining Association
L. C. Fyhrie
the Tribune
Prideaux
Vipond
Joe A. Brown
William Vipond
Grey Jockey Group of Mines
Michigan