The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-18

president. The next street was named
Crystal. the idea apparently being to
get back to names of minerals, al
though the original plan had been only
70 name the east and west streets after
minerals. This brought the city up
to Missoula gulch. where its course
westward stopped for many years. the
building up of the territory west OF
Missoula gulch having been begun
within the last decade.
The great obstacle in the way OF
carrying out the plan of Butte's orig
NAL platters was the peculiar name
In which the city grew after the orig
inal townsite had been filled up. There
were little settlements or additions"
which were formed east. west and
south of the city. One by one they
were offered to the city and became
parts Of the city. but they brought
with them into the city their W
names. n these did not harmonize
with the names in the city itself. The
platters OF each addition used their
W fancy in naming their own addi-
tons. sometimes naming the streets
for mining claims. sometimes for the
owners of the claims n the add
tions. When Kings addition came in,
east OF the city. 1t brought with IL
two streets anne for owners OF the
addition, King avenue and Curtis
avenue. and these names have been
retained, although they are continue
lions eastward from Mercury and Sill
yer streets. In the Kemper, Parrot
and Rice additions, three streets were
named for the three streams which
make up the Missouri river, which Is
how Butte has Madison, Jefferson n
Gallatin streets. Talbot and n ad-
dition furnished Talbot avenue King
avenue becomes Division street on the
dividing line between the Leggat &
Foster and Belmont additions. n
further east becomes Talbot avenue
On the south side OF the Kemper ad-
dition next below Galena street, comes
Chicago street.
There was confusion also in the nam
ing of the streets on the east side
which run north and south. The first
street east OF Arizona was named Ohio
avenue, the idea being to name from
states. the names of territories being
exhausted. In the northeastern part
OF the city a new street was opened
up through the Thornton addition.
which was called Thornton avenue
The last year land was condemned and
Thornton avenue was opened through
to Ohio avenue. 1t is probable that
the name OF Thornton avenue will he
abandoned and the entire street known
as Ohio avenue The street next east
of Ohio emu was named Oklahoma
avenue, the territory of Oklahoma
having been formed about the time the
street was opened. Succeeding streets
were named California VENUE, Ne
vada avenue, Oregon avenue, Parrot
avenue from the Parrot addition;
Warren avenue, Shields avenue, KEN
per VENUE, Watson venue and Walk
er avenue. all the last few being nam
ed for well known old-timers and own
ers of additions, which one after the
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When the young city, growing like
a healthy boy, leaped Missoula gulch
going to the west. the first street
north and south was named Alabama
street, in revival of the idea of the
plan of naming for states. But Ii
stopped there. The additions were
plated and named by the real estate
men and they kept their names when
annexed to the city. So next west of
Alabama street is Excelsior avenue,
named from the Excelsior addition.
and then came Emmett avenue, named
for an old mining claim, Barrett ave-
nue. and Western avenue. 1t was ex-
pected that Western avenue would he
the western limit of the town. but
still the city grew, and Prospect ave-
nue., Ophir street, May street N &C.
c.dental street were successfully NAM
ed. Running east and west in the
northwestern part of town, above Cop
per street, are Caledonia N Lew
isohn streets. A new addition or the
farther side Of the Big Butte has
brought to the city the names of Wau-
kesha avenue, Empire, Hornet, Ken
wood. Berkshire, Rochester, Sparta and
Hillside streets. most of them named
for mining claims. while others were
fancies of real estate men.
AS west of Missoula gulch, so south
and east OF the city, the naming OF
the streets was lone in the main by
real estate men often before any nous
es had been built in the additions al
all. Sometimes efforts were made tC
carry out the intentions of the orig.
inal platters. but not often. In Valley
addition, south of the city. are Wis
consin avenue, Iowa avenue, Delaware
avenue, Kaw avenue, Clark street
Valley avenue, Noyes street, Drigg:
street, Irvine street and Cobban street
the last four names being for wei
known real estate men. In the Boule'
are De Smet avenue La Sale avenue
Josette avenue and Greenwood avenue
and Franklin street.
In williamsburg the influence of tn,
Centennial brewery is clearly ppa
ent, for the streets are named Leipsic
Berlin. Vienna, Stuttgart, Dresden
Munich. Nassau, Frankfort. etc.
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southeast OF town. the streets have
names, but they ear only be recognized
on the map. That is true also Will
the names of streets In other additions
southeast of town. The additions have
been plated, but only have a few
houses as yet. In Silver Bow addition
the streets running east and west wer'
named from trees-Pine, Walnut. Lo
Gust and Elm streets. The north ant
south streets were named for presi
dents-Monroe. Grant. Lincoln. Adams
etc. In the Race Track addition th'
names Of the north n south street,
are Kossuth, Lawrence, Moulton, Net
tie and Ottawa streets. In the Hamil
ton addition, south OF the race track
the names of colleges were utilized
and we have Princeton. Yale, Harvard
Amherst and Cornell venue These
however. are all on paper. The cas-
and west streets were named for mill
tary and nava heroes-Crook. Howard
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