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Badger Pass (el. 6755 ft.) is a high mountain pass in Beaverhead County, Montana. [1] It is located between Bannack, Montana and Dillon, and traversed by Montana Secondary Highway 278. [2] [3] [4] The Badger Pass Mine is located at 45.21659 and W -112.95087. [5]
The earliest known use in print of the name Tobacco Root Mountains is Winchell's (1914) report on mining districts of the Dillon Quad. [3] The name was also used by Billingsley in a 1918 paper on the Boulder Batholith, published by the American Institute of Mining Engineers. "Tobacco Root" appears in most subsequent publications, including ...
When properly worked the Confederate Gulch claims were all rich. The rich stretches along the bottom of the Gulch were very rich. The gold production ran from $100.00 to $500.00 per running foot, and produced $20,000 to $100,000 per claim. [6] Cement Gulch and Montana Gulch were highly productive, but Cement Gulch was in a class by itself.
Jan. 21—A sign above Montana History teacher Kris Schreiner's classroom alerts Kalispell Middle School eighth graders that they are entering Alder Gulch to mine for gold and garnets. Alder Gulch ...
Mark C. Dillon's Montana Vigilantes 1863–1870 Gold, Guns and Gallows (2013) concludes that given the lawless environment and criminal activity in Alder Gulch and Helena at the time, the lack of any functioning justice system and the understanding of due process at the time, the vigilantes acted in a way they thought was best for their ...
The process for staking a claim remains much as it did during the Gold Rush: A prospector hammers four poles into the ground corresponding to the four points of a parcel that can be as big as 20 ...
In 1867, the Four Georgians finally sold out their claims and took $40,000 of gold dust by wagon to Fort Benton to board a steam boat down the Missouri River and eventually all the way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia where they cashed in three years of hard labor in the Montana gold fields. [2]
Dillon is a city in and the county seat of Beaverhead County, Montana, United States. [3] The population was 3,880 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] The city was named for Sidney Dillon (1812–1892), president of Union Pacific Railroad .