The Mines! 



Out of the Gulches and Canyons 

 Flow Golden Streams of Wealth — 

 Fabulous Fortunes Are Annually 

 Taken From the Mountains of 

 Montana and Uncounted Millions 

 Yet Lie in Rock-Ribbed Hills. 



By JOHN H. McINTOSH, 

 Mining: Editor of the Butte Miner, 



Mining was Mon'tana's first occupation. Until recent years it was by all 

 odds the pre-eminent occupation. 



And from this statement the inference should not be drawn that the 

 metal producing industry in Montana has had a recession, but rather that 

 agriculture has grown with such remarkable strides, it has caused the 



groiwth of mining to appear slow by comiparison. 

 Mineral Pro- It was the lure oi gold that brought the pioneers of this 



duction vast territory across ithe plains and over the mountains in the 



Continues to late 50's and early 6o's. It wa."^' the quest for the yellow 

 Increase. metal that popuated Alder gulch. Last Chance gulch, Bannack, 

 the Moose creek country and other placer camps of early days. 

 Mining it was that invited to what was then a wilderness the hardy and 

 adventurous sons of the middle west and east, and also the experienced 

 miners from the Sandy creek beds of California. 



Thus it was that mining was responsible for blazing the trails, for re- 

 placing the grizzly and the Indian Avith the white man, for opening the 

 eye of civilization to the fact that Montana's timber, hay and grain land. 



— Brains and brawn pay big dividends in Montana. 



