What to see in America . present town of DeerLodge. The first mine was opened in 1861. Helena, thecapital, sprang into existence as the result of finding ex-traordinarily rich gold-bearing placers where the city nowstands. A party of four prospectors who had gone west overthe adjacent Continental Divide had turned back after aseasons fruitless effort. They decided to make a final attemptto discover gold on a small creek, where some indications ofprecious metal had been discovered on the outward one of them expressed it, That little gulch on thePrickly Pear is our last chance. Thus t
What to see in America . present town of DeerLodge. The first mine was opened in 1861. Helena, thecapital, sprang into existence as the result of finding ex-traordinarily rich gold-bearing placers where the city nowstands. A party of four prospectors who had gone west overthe adjacent Continental Divide had turned back after aseasons fruitless effort. They decided to make a final attemptto discover gold on a small creek, where some indications ofprecious metal had been discovered on the outward one of them expressed it, That little gulch on thePrickly Pear is our last chance. Thus the place became , known to the party asLast Chance Gulch be-fore the actual findingof gold in paying quan-tities that midsummerof 1864. The news ofthe discovery spreadfar and wide, and atown came into beingwhich grew with therapidity characteristicof placer camps. Atfirst the chief overlandtransportation routewas the MissouriRiver, by which steam-ers could reach FortBenton during high Lake McDonald Water. But the period. Montana 337 of high water did not last much more than a month, andsteamers were often forced to stop at the mouth of the Yellow-stone four hundred and fifty miles distant. In 1883 theNorthern Pacific Railroad was completed to Helena. Thearrival of the first regular train on July 4 was the occasionof a great celebration, and on that day the first bulliontrain departed carrying 1,000,000 pounds of silver fromMontanas mines. Helena now ranks among the wealthiest
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