The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1922-11-24

lode" Walker records the passing
of its discoverer as follows
Charles Savage, found dead Sun
day, March IA, 1887. He was frozen
to the ground near his cabin. An
old bachelor and the discoverer of the
Smokehouse lode. His cabin was
back from the poor farm. Age So
years"
So persisted the dream of wealth
that lured on pioneer to battle
with nature in the raw in the Butte
of so years ago.
The passing of a soldier of the war
with Mexico is recorded thus: Judge
Irwin died Feb. z, 1891, in Anaconda.
He lived in Deer Lodge in the early
days and was one of the old Mexican
soldiers in 1896"
Charley Savage was not the only
old-time prospector who lived to see
his location become important in the
public mind. Witness:
Jimmy Fowley died in a lodging
house at South Butte Aug. 80, 1893.
Jimmy lived in a dugout near the
PARROT smelter. He had a good deal
of money. He worked placer claim
in Dublin gulch In 1868 and was
the discoyerer of the Wake Up jim"
The grizzled veterans of Montana's
pioneering days, who have made
their last stampede and sunk their
last location holes this side of the
pearly gates, march again in sad re-
view across the pages of old Tom
Walkers diary.
He sat in his cabin on Woolman
street, like an image of Fate, noting
the passing of each comrade of the
pick and pan days, each trail blazer
who added to the development of the
state.
The names, the date of death, ORR
ginal trade or occupation, with some
bit of family history sandwiched in
between, are set down. Fred Gamer,
Dennis Driscoll, Sam Marchesseau,
Dave Upton, Tommy Cruise, Hiram
Cornelius Hedges, Hiram
Knowles and dozens of others are re-
corded, as are dozens of men and
women whose names are unknown to
the modern Butte.
The men who died in the poor
farm received the same attention as
he who achieved fame and fortune.
In. some instances the writer gave
the poor man more attention.
OF one well-to-do oId-timer he
writes: "He died and left $4,000
behind him." The ups and downs
If the mining industry are reflected
n many paragraph which records
he pots of gold that fell to the hands
Of the rainbow chasing prospector
who spent it in pursuit of more
wealth, only to die in poverty at last.
IN many such cases the entry reads,
He was buried through the kindness
If Mrs. John Noyes."
Here is Walkers entry on the
leath of the discoverer of a we'll
,nown Silver Bow county gulch:
"Pete Brown died at Warm
springs in Deer Lodge valley in the
month of January in the year 1900.
Browns gulch is named after Pete
Brown He camped there when he
irst came to Butte. Pete was the
iscoverer of the High Ore mine. He
old it to Joe Suprenant for SIS, 900.
Te was the discoverer of the Hope
nine at Basin. He sold it for $780,
90. He was the discoverer of
nine on RAIDERS creek, Jefferson
ounty. He sold it for $1,000.
"In the spring of 1879 Pete built
imself a cabin on the east end of
he Stewart mine near the Anaconda
Dad, where he spent good many
ears of his bachelor days. But the
Id log cabin is fallen and is burnt
Dr. firewood while Pete's many years
/ Butte, his ups and his downs are
,rgotten, and his body sleeps quietly
/ the Protestant cemetery"
The death of the only naturalized
hinaman in the United States reads
5 follows: Jimmy July, the old
hinaman who had his queue cut off
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