P a g e 5 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 like in 1955. In 1999 Bonnie and her sister Sharon took their mother back up to Garnet for one last visit. They donated some old 1918 Knocker magazines, receipts that were found up in Garnet, and items that they felt that should stay in Garnet, (for future history), of the place where gold mining was ,up in Garnet, in the day. Your Editor, Rita –This article appeared in the December 2024, Garnet Preservation Association Newsletter,.—Courtesy of our friends at the Garnet Preservation Association, Find out more about them and their work or about visiting and supporting Garnet Ghost Town at: http://www.garnetghosttown.org/ HISTORY OF PARK COUNTY-continued From The Livingston Enterprise, January 1, 1900: They have a full line of heavy and light harness, whips, cowboy and jockey saddles—in fact everything which goes to make a complete stock of hardware. The Nolan Brothers also make a specialty of furnishing complete outfits for tourists who visit the Yellowstone National Park. The first venture of this firm in the mining interests of this region was in Cooke City, shipping several carloads of ore from the U. S. Treasury mine, but owing to the expensive operations of same disposed of their interests there, and soon after set several mining enterprises on foot at Lewiston, Wyoming. They are deeply interested in valuable property at Aldridge, while their latest move has been in the development of one of the best propositions in Emigrant gulch. After their experience in the different mining sections of this region, the Nolan Brothers decided that the full value of the minerals and metals could not be obtained without the use of better mining machinery, consequently J. F. Nolan, in the fall of 1898, went on an extensive investigating tour to Denver, Colorado, and other gold-milling centers, returning with the following modern appliances for treating ore, and of which they are the sole retailers in this locality : The Elspass Improved Roller Quartz Mill, which is acknowledged by all mine and mill men who have seen it in operation, to be the best and most economical crushing roller-mill for fine pulverizing yet introduced, having a special merit for screening, both as to excellence of product and capacity; the Cammett concentrator, which is the most recently developed and scientifically designed concentrator on the market, having a capacity of from fifteen to thirty tons per day ; the Jackson Hand-power Rock drill, possessing elements of economy, simplicity, durability and efficiency, features long sought after by manufacturers and users of hand-power drills; and last but not least is the Eureka settler, a process for treating pulp. The excellence of this process has caused it to be adopted wherever it has been properly treated. It is now used in the Homestake mills at Lead City, South Dakota, in Colorado, Utah and California and is being adopted in the richest known mining sections of Park county. In the different ores P.J. Nolan
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