P a g e 4 G h o s t T o w n s a n d H i s t o r y o f M o n t a n a N e w s l e t t e r In 1892, Granite had no fewer than 17 saloons, numerous restaurants, a weekly newspaper (The Granite Mountain Star), a brewery and soda pop bottling facility, several hotels, a post office, two skating rinks (ice and roller), four churches, a Knights of Labor Hall, a Masonic Lodge, and an Odd Fellows Lodge as well as others. The Granite Mountain Company had three mills, two in Granite and one in Rumsey, located three miles to the south and supplied by ore carried on an 8,750 foot gravity feed Bleichart Aerial Tramway that generated 14 horsepower with a vertical drop of 1,297 feet. The Bi‐Met Company had one mill located at Clark (also known as Bi‐Metallic), near Philipsburg, supplied by a 9,750 foot Bleichart Tramway, also generating 14 horsepower with a 1,225 foot vertical drop. The Bi‐Metallic Mine, which you passed when you first entered Granite, is drained by an 8.850 foot tunnel intersecting the Bi‐Met at the 1,000 level and the Granite Mountain Mine at the 1,450 foot level. The two mines produced upwards of $45,000,000 worth of silver and gold with no less than $15,000,000 in dividends paid to the stockholders of the two companies between 1882 and 1903. They always said, "Nothing ever closed, nothing ever stopped in Granite, Montana!"
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