The horses were a sorrel named Jean, weighing 1,320 pounds and standing 16 hands high, and a grey named Jess weighing 1,360 pounds and also 16 hands high. They served until April 1917 and were sold to the Montana Lumber Company.
History says one of the horses died of old age and the other had to be put away.
The latter was injured in an accident in which it became entangled in a set of harrows. It developed blood poisoning. Neither horse lost a shift while working for the fire department. According to those who knew the horses, it was claimed that the Montana Lumber Company made no bargain in buying them from the city. They claimed that the horses bolted and ran away whenever they heard the fire alarm bell rung at the city hall just three blocks away from the lumber yard.