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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • Description: Montana
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    • Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Projects. 1937-06-23


    • Irrigation work under way soon.

    • 1937

    • Irrigation work under way soon. - Construction of $1,605,000 unit near Glendive is believed assured. - Senator James E. Murray of Montana said today the Reclamation Bureau is expediting preliminary work so construction of the Buffalo Rapids...
    • Northwest history. Irrigation & reclamation. Projects. 1937-06-23
    • Northwest history. Mining. Business conditions. 1935-03-08


    • Montana mining activity quickens as spring booms.

    • 1935

    • Montana mining activity quickens as spring booms. - The tempo of Montana's mining activity is quickening daily. Supply houses report an early run on small-outfit and prospectors' equipment. "the lone-wolves" are taking to the hills again. Before...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Business conditions. 1935-03-08
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1926-01-22


    • Form new smelter project.

    • 1926

    • Form new smelter project. - Start $5,000,000 company at basin, Montana. - The Montana Smelting and Refining company, capital stock $5,000,0000, life 40 years, and principal place of business Basin, Mont., filed articles of incorporation here today.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Corporations & mergers. 1926-01-22
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1921-05-23


    • Decide on site of gold finding

    • 1921

    • Decide on site of gold finding - A controversy which has survived two generations over the site of the mining claim in Last Chance gulch, later the location of Helena, where gold was discovered July 14, 1864, has been settled through the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1921-05-23
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1929-10-01


    • 20-foot shoot cut near troy.

    • 1929

    • 20-foot shoot cut near troy. - Scene is montana morning mine -- contains 10 per cent lead and zinc, says official. - Three veins in group. - Only one developed is in snowstorm -- montana men plan large enterprise. - The disclosure of a hanging wall...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Discovery. 1929-10-01
    • Northwest history. Mining. Dredging. 1930-06-22


    • Gold of Salmon to be removed - Montana company employs 17 men on mile of river below Shoup, Idaho

    • 1930

    • Gold of Salmon to be removed - Montana company employs 17 men on mile of river below Shoup, Idaho - The washing of gravel is to be started next month on a large scale on the Salmon river near Shoup, Idaho, by the Montana Coal and Iron company of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Dredging. 1930-06-22
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1929-02-09


    • Montana mine wages move up - men are wanted, production heavy- in Butte 11,000 are employed

    • 1929

    • Montana mine wages move up - men are wanted, production heavy- in Butte 11,000 are employed - Lacking only the glamour of gold rush days, Montana mines, with copper again selling at pre-war level, once more are justifying Montana's rank as "the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1929-02-09
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1933-10-29


    • Montana jumps to gold plan.

    • 1933

    • Montana jumps to gold plan. - Old-fashioned stampede would not surprise -- balch tells of mine activities. - "Montana mining districts, of which there are many, were electrified by the President's announcement that the Reconstruction Finance...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1933-10-29
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1934-05-16


    • Montana mines par 10 cents.

    • 1934

    • Montana mines par 10 cents. - Cut facilitates financing -- stockholders hear mill plan -- elect board. - The par value of the shares of the Montana Consolidated Mines corporation has been reduced from 50 cents to 10 cents a share. The number of...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Finances. 1934-05-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. General. 1936-07-16


    • Montana has wide variety of minerals.

    • 1936

    • Montana has wide variety of minerals. - Will prove valuable assets to state as demand for rare metals increases. - Montana long has been noted for production of gold, silver, copper and zinc but many are unaware of its miscellaneous minerals,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. General. 1936-07-16
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1907-04-03


    • Deep snow near Saltese - twenty feet on level at western Montana property

    • 1907

    • Deep snow near Saltese - twenty feet on level at western Montana property - "There are 20 feet of snow on the level at the workings of the Western Montana Mining company, located near Saltese, Mont.," said A. A. GOolen, who reached here last noght...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Exploration. 1907-04-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Feature articles. 1936-11-21


    • One of Montana's early-day gold camps

    • 1936

    • One of Montana's early-day gold camps.
      Sprinkled through the northern Rocky Mountains are many abandoned mining towns, once bustling centers of activity and now only the home of the pack rate and squirrel. A few buildings are usually standing...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Feature articles. 1936-11-21
    • State history. Native Americans. Allotments. 1936-04-09


    • Cree-Chippewa halfbloods are seeking land allotments and self-government.

    • 1936

    • Cree-Chippewa halfbloods are seeking land allotments and self-government. - Describing themselves as the "first settlers" of Montana, several hundred half-blood members of the Cree-Chippewa tribe in Phillips county are looking forward to land...
    • State history. Native Americans. Allotments. 1936-04-09
    • State history. Native Americans. Census. 1919-12-29


    • Montana Indians are in good shape

    • 1919

    • Montana Indians are in good shape. - Latest census shows twelve thousand now live in the state. - The latest census of the Indian population of Montana, as given by Cato Sells, Indian commissioner, shows 12,130 in this state. These figures include...
    • State history. Native Americans. Census. 1919-12-29
    • State history. Native Americans. Crime. Assault. 1937-11-05


    • Girl charges face Indian in Montana

    • 1937

    • Girl charges face Indian in Montana. - Joe Matt, Montana Indian, was ordered removed to Missoula, Mont., to face charges in connection with a minor Indian girl today after he had appeared in federal court here. Matt was arrested in Hoquiam, Wash.,...
    • State history. Native Americans. Crime. Assault. 1937-11-05
    • State history. Native Americans. Fairs & rodeos. 1919-09-03


    • Directs powwow of reds at fair

    • 1919

    • Directs powwow of reds at fair. - Chief director of the powwow of Indians at the Interstate fair is Montana Red. Montana has been conducting Indian villages at fairs and festivals in the Inland Empire for several years and when he agreed to bring...
    • State history. Native Americans. Fairs & rodeos. 1919-09-03
    • State history. Native Americans. Fairs & rodeos. 1920-07-23


    • "Montana Red" to Colville to meet Indians

    • 1920

    • "Montana Red" to Colville to meet Indians. - "Montana Red" Rosten, in charge of the Indian village for the Spokane Interstate fair, September 6-11, left Thursday for the Colville Indian reservation, where a meeting of the Indians is being held near...
    • State history. Native Americans. Fairs & rodeos. 1920-07-23

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