What to see in America . 40,000,-000 has been taken from Last Chance Gulch, which runsthrough the city. The same year that gold brought Helena into being itput Butte on the map. It was discovered near Buttespresent Main Street, and a great deal of the precious metalwas taken out by placer mining in the next few years. Laterthe district became a large producer of silver. The railroadarrived in 1881, and then the copper industry developedrapidly at Butte. For a time the smelting was all done nearthe city, but presently there was constructed at Anaconda, 338 What to See in America twenty-seven mi
What to see in America . 40,000,-000 has been taken from Last Chance Gulch, which runsthrough the city. The same year that gold brought Helena into being itput Butte on the map. It was discovered near Buttespresent Main Street, and a great deal of the precious metalwas taken out by placer mining in the next few years. Laterthe district became a large producer of silver. The railroadarrived in 1881, and then the copper industry developedrapidly at Butte. For a time the smelting was all done nearthe city, but presently there was constructed at Anaconda, 338 What to See in America twenty-seven miles away, a plant which has become one ofthe largest copper smelters in existence. The Butte districtis unrivaled in its total output of copper, and a large partof this copper has come from an area of only a few squaremiles. So far as value is concerned, Buttes metalliferousarea has been the most productive of its size on the globe, and the cityboasts with rea-son that it is thegreatest of allmining the smelt-. Ranger on Mt. Silcox ers were pournigout their de-structive fumesthere was not aspear of grass nora green leaf vis-ible in the vicin-ity, but now that most of the ore is smelted at a distancethe valley is recovering some of its vegetation. Great shaftbuildings and tall smokestacks rise from the mouths of thecopper mines in and about the town, and the rocks under-ground are honeycombed with workings, some of whichreach a depth of three thousand feet, and in which laborgoes on day and night without cessation. West of the cityis the conical hill. Big Butte, from which the place derivesits name. Montana can be seen in a very different aspect in theGallatin Valley, fifty miles to the east, in the very heartof the Rocky Mountains. This valley is known as theGarden Spot of the state. It is about thirty miles longand fifteen broad. Much of it is as level as a floor, butalong the borders are big softly rounded hills with a back- Montana 339
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