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 SAFE DEPOSITThe Kendall "Bank Building", a two story stone structure with 15 office rooms on the second floor, was built in 1902 by John R. Cook, at a cost of $10,000. A sandstone quarry south of Kendall provided the building material. Initially the post office occupied the first floor until 1905 when the First State Bank of Kendall moved in, forcing the post office to relocate to new quarters next to the Power Mercantile. Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz Trident, Montana From The River Press Newspaper, June 6, 1900 Accessed via www.montananewspapers.org Would you like to receive our digital quarterly magazine for free? Just send an email with MAGAZINE in the subject to ghosttownsofmontana@gmail.com Please be sure to share this newsletter with a friend! Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz In 1908 construction began on Montana’s first cement manufacturing facility. In May, 1910, the first cement was shipped to a hardware store in Missoula. The company-owned village of Trident was built before the plant was completed and at its peak housed about 200 employees and their families. The village included a store, boarding house, hotel, school (1911-1965), post office, movie theater and pool hall. Only U.S. citizens were allowed to live in the village. Non-citizens lived in dirt-floor shanties down river from the plant in what was known as WOP town (workers without papers). Cement is made from local limestone. Shale and sandstone, iron ore and gypsum, are shipped in to supplement these raw materials. The raw materials (except gypsum) are heated at very high temperatures (2500 °F+) to form clinker which is then ground with gypsum to make the gray powder cement. – Courtesy of The Trident cement plant and The Gallatin County Historical Society.
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