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You could never pay me enough to be a police officer or underground hard rock miner!🤔

Nicely done! Just some observations: *** On the 1870's map, there are two small shafts indicated and a discovery. These were left over from the pre-1872 district mining laws where each miner could only stake one claim that was a maximum of 100' square per lode. The first miner could stake two 100' claims - one by discovery and one by pre-emption. When the federal1872 mining law was passed it invalidated all of the earlier local mining claims, and allowed for claims up to 600' x 1500' (about 20 acres) which provided for industrial sized mining. Due to lack of communications, the law did not invalidate the old claims until July 1, 1874, and then was again pushed back to January 1, 1875. On New Years Day 1875 the whole hill was restaked in a frenzy of activity. Incidentally, that is where the 'Con' comes from in many of the mine names as the old small claims were consolidated into the larger federal claims (eg, Mountain Con Mine). The old claims were registered in the Silver Bow County Recorder's Office. The restaking went on for the rest of the year, which is apparently when the Anselmo claims were staked. *** John Ryan pushed Anaconda to modernize in the late 1920's, and many of the small mines in Centerville were closed down to consolidate them into fewer large mines. There were three around 1928 - Anselmo, Mount Con, and I think the Badger State that were upgraded with larger headframes (can pull up more ore skips at one time) and newer DC electric funicular hoisting motors were added to replace the old steam engines. Anaconda owned Montana Power Co, and had a nearly endless supply of cheap hydroelectric power. The DC motors were rarities, as most mines used AC Keppe systems. DC was more expensive because the power came in as AC (lower line loss) and had to be converted to DV using an AC motor coupled to a DC generator ('MG set'). The mines were also equipped with the latest Lilly controllers for overspeed protection (English inventor William Lilly's son George was a mining engineer for Anaconda). *** I don't remember all of the dates, but by the 1950's the next wave of modernization and consolidation was being implemented. The Kelley Shaft had been sunk circa late WWII and most of the hauling was being re-routed to it as it was more efficient due to the use of block cave mining techniques. The Berkeley Pit was started in the mid-1950's, and needed the area around the Kelley for expansion. The Anaconda engineers came up with the Northwest Project as a final plan to mine the entire district. All of the uptown shafts would be abandoned, and all hoisting would be done through through a new central hoisting shaft - the Ryan - located northwest of the Alice pit dump. The Ryan was located far enough away from any potential expansion of the Berkeley Pit that it would not interfere with surface operations. The Butte Forward drive was started to move the entire uptown to the flats. The Ryan Shaft was designed as the only mine in Butte to have a circular configuration, and was equipped with 4 x 7,000 HP Nordberg DC electric hoists - largest in the world at the time. The circular outline of the shaft was laid out and the concrete collar was poured, but the shaft was only excavated 4'. At that time Cornelius Kelley, the Anaconda CEO who had been pushing the project, died and the project stalled, never to be resurrected. But I believe that the consolidations to anticipate the Northwest Project was what ended the operations at the Anselmo Mine. Cheers! Andy Stroud

This man once came into the prison in montana to teach the orthodox faith to inmates.

Neat information! I Love history, especially Montana history :). Of course, I had to google Gertie! Thanks for writing a bit about her!

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He needs his own movie I picture a “There will be blood” “Michael Collins” style movie. James has a very Sigma, On his own, on edge, witty with a good sense of humor personality. A Thriller, Drama, Comedy, Western, Documentary, Historical, Suspense, Rise to power film. Big Budget or nothing though it’s got to have the best of the best of effects and props, Explosions, costumes etc.

Nicely done, Jim. Nicely done. Sister Mary Clarence would be impressed. Tap’er lite.

Thank you for the wonderful history lesson and songs. Anywhere we can get lyrics and maybe even chords?

You should review the murder of the Chief of Police Gerry ( The Wise) Murphy and the capture of his murderer. The good citizen was Earl Denny, the Campus Foreman at the School of Mines, who was a Marine MS in his younger days.

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Fascinating. I was born and raised mostly in Butte, born 1940 in a house in Centerville. My mom's family were miners, starting with my grandfather, who came to Butte about 1917 and worked the mines 35 years, mostly at the Mt. Con. Stepdad at the Lexington, uncle at the Kelly, and others. I left in 1957, and worked in the electronics industry, and I make occasional visits back to Butte. I was glued to my chair for the entire time of this video, and I want to thank you for the most interesting history of the Anselmo. Looking forward to more!

Metals have a smell. Copper mines in Nicaragua, Chile and Mt Isa in Australia smelt just like Butte (The Stewart specifically) in my experience. The Badger smelled of Zinc, just like the zinc mines at Mt Isa. I graduated from the School of Mines almost 60 years ago, and have spent 55 years in Australia, do not miss the heat of those mines!

This was a wonderful presentation and i had no idea of this history I grew up in the 50s in shelton ct which was part of the then ansonia/derby/ shelton manufacturing towns. Now all deindustrialized and struggling.

1:50 Really puts the lyrics "Get the water right down to your socks" into perspective.

Love this. Would also love it if you could post the lyrics to “The Miner”!

Thank you so much for putting this together! I was wondering if anyone had a photo of a small Mom & Pop's store on the northeast corner of Main and Woolman? I can't remember the name, but I believe the building is a residence now. Thanks for any help! :)

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My dad worked in The Con mine that's where's he lost his third finger.His name is Jackie Kittson Blackfeet Indian

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Mr. Enzler, I have a question about the ferry that jim bridger worked for. I heard you say that he lived 2 miles from turkey hill. That places him very close to fort Piggott and where Piggott established his ferry. He was supposed to be the first ferry service to st louis. Quite a few of the ferry services were in Madison County so you can eliminate them. There were 2 other located near Piggotts ferry. Piggotts landed in st louis near the armory on the west side and just north of where Eads bridge would be. Just wanted to check with you to see if your research might indicate any clues.

Burton Wheeler was a corrupt Nazi shill whose legacy is a national disgrace.

Wow, I did not know but now I do...

🤔🤨💭 ~ 0:20 That smell was the "Honey Pots" needing changed 😁 Yup⁉.

Wow, what great info! Thank you!

Indians did not become citizens until 1924!

What a great presentation, Doug! I wish I could have been there.

History is fascinating 👏

This is so great! My uncle Joe Zunick owned Joe's Grocery on Paxton back in the day. He was blind and had to close the store when paper money became prevalent. It was the best place to "play store" when I was a kid in the 80's. Thanks so much for doing this.

Wish I had seen this before doing my video. Great info. Here's my video on it your people might want to see from amateur perspective. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aajEiXaPpdOqecU

I am so happy to find this wonderful video of the history of some of the mom and pop stores in Butte. I heard the voice of one of my relatives on your video, Claire Combo Holman commenting that her family owned a store. We lost Claire a couple of months ago to dementia, so you can imagine how good it is to hear her being alert and oriented. My uncle and aunt, Hugh and Betty Sheridan owned the Cash N Takit. Thank you so much for researching this. I need to be reminded how hard people worked to survive and how people used to take care of each other. This is so Butte!

Very glad to find that this presentation of this incredible story was recorded. Very good work Mary.

Cool sign and history

I want to be a seasonal!!!!! Omg I do.

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This is going to sound weird but I had a dream about my grandson being the direct descendant of Jim Bridger (of course he isn't 🤣😂). Nevertheless, here I am. Thank you for sharing this. What a fascinating man.

I'm a fan of Bridger but I suspect there is more to the story between Bridger and Brigham Young. Mormons are decent people who took Indian affairs very seriously. They actually dealt with Indians squarely and probably had a legal case against him. I suspect Bridger probably felt like he wasn't obligated to follow territorial laws. A view which is understandable since Bridger had been there for decades before the Mormons showed up. In the Mormon archives there is a bill of sale for the Fort and all its holdings for $9,000 with bridgers mark next to his name. This is the document that Young showed the government when they investigated the matter.

Is the handout mentioned posted anywhere? Thanks!

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Ty a great lecture I learned a lot and these men and era of American history isn't taught enough

So why did he betray Hugh glass???

I did not grow up in Butte so I learned a lot of interesting facts and history of the M&M from this presentation. Jake did intensive research and interviewed many people which made for a very interesting book. I greatly appreciate how Jake is telling the history of Butte, one book at a time... Keep up the good work Jake.

Nice understandable translation of geology jargon.

Hey, Pat! Great presentation and good choice of slides. Small correction, or maybe you just mis-spoke. But Mom’s maid of honor in the wedding photo is Lolita Young Woo, wife of Howard Woo, the little adopted boy. Thus Yee Sing’s wife, Liang May, is Lolita’s mother in law, and not shown in the wedding photo. I think that one of the legal loopholes that enabled wealthier Chinese of that era to re-enter China and then re-enter the U.S. was that the Chinese Exclusion Act exempted those who were MERCHANTS. No laborers, farmers, scientists, physicians, or poets, or their wives or children, just those who could prove they had established family mercantile business interests. That was how my Mom was able to re-enter in 1937. She had some ownership shares in John’s Place. Happy to answer if you have more questions.

You should keep your political opinions out of a video of history. It's disgusting.