P a g e 2 Ghost Towns & History of MT Newsletter In 1934, C. M. Roos of Helena took over the property and began new development work. He shipped a fair grade of ore to smelter from the old workings, but his men did not find the larger ore body they expected. Roos chatted with Gilbert one day found he was familiar with the situation and engaged him to map out a new plan of development. Gilbert hunched that the original vein should be sought in the hanging wall —all other searchers had ignored this. The first slash into the hanging wall opened up another vein—three feet wide and running $80 to the ton. Oddly, this new find was only six feet ahead of the old workings, and Roos had paralleled the vein for more than 100 feet while working on low grade ore. Roos' men have begun to sink on the vein and the first shipment ran higher than the sample, averaging 2.78 ounces of gold and 11 ounces of silver. A truckload shipment of two and one-half tons netted more than $100 per ton.- The Mineral Independent Newspaper (Superior, MT) Accessed via www.montananewspapers.org Bannack frame shack used as early capitol. From the Dillon Examiner Newspaper- January 14, 1931 The bill organizing Montana territory passed both houses of Congress on May 24, 1864. Two days later it was signed by President Lincoln and the district was erected into a commonwealth and a governor was appointed. Sidney Edgerton was a resident of Ohio and had served two terms as a congressman from that state when President Lincoln appointed him Chief of Justice of the new territory of Idaho. That was in 1863. He left Akron in June of that year in company of his family and his nephew, Col. Wilbur F. Sanders, and arrived by ox team at Bannack, the eastern border of Idaho, on September 17, 1863, in time to attend a miner's court, "where the judge and jury took a recess every half hour to have a drink". He returned to Washington when Montana was created, to learn that he had been named governor of the new territory. He called the first election in the new territory for October 24, 1864. Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz
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