What to see in America . 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. Seeley Lake cities of its size in the world. Gold to the value of $40,000,-000 has been taken from Last Chance
What to see in America . 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. Seeley Lake cities of its size in the world. Gold to the value of $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 wit
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