The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-09-03

NtlfdTl Canyon was Soauf " NhOSS
who had travelled far, to rival
Switzerland in scenic beauty. Now
a hideous orange colored river, the
Portage river" of Lewis and
Clarke, hurries downward to lose
itself in the Missouri, its overflow
in high water disfiguring the land
on either side of its course.
There is a story told of this
stream by an old-timer, that is we'll
worthy of preservation.
"You see" said he, when the
Great Northern built the Neihart
branch, guess the engineers who
laid out the road did not know
much about mountain streams.
They got the road in alright, and
everything went smoothly until the
spring rise came along and swept
out a good share of the road bed.
They say this made Jim Hill good
and mad, and he declared he would
tear the whole road clean out if it
wasn't for a whole lot Of cars the
flood had left stranded at Nei-
hart"
Possibly this may have been the
reason why the road was repaired,
but it is more than likely that ]. ].
Hill was contemplating investing
in the mines as he afterwards did,
in the Broadwater group.
The Broadwater mine, discov-
cred by James Chamberlain in the
fall of 1881, and filed the follow
ing spring, was the richest, but not
the first mine located at Neihart,
two or three other mines having
been discovered previously.
The Broadwater group COM
prised, according to Mr.. Chamber
lain, the claims, Montana Belle,
Minnehaha, Dickens and St. Jul
ian, the latter being the Macintosh
claim, in which Mr.. Sanborn had
an interest. The Macintosh claim
was below the Broadwater and
about 200 feet of it ran into the
south end of the Montana Belle.
Mr.. Broadwater had an option on
the Chamberlain and Wallace Bell
claims.
After the death of Wallace Bell,
who was partner of James Cham
berlain, Broadwater sold the Wal
lace Bell interest at administrators
sale, and together with Hill, pur-
chased the interests of Macintosh
and Sanborn.
In 1892 Mr.. Clark purchased
the Broadwater, Hill and Chamber
lain interests for from $4,000 to
Sl75,00O. At one time Broadwater
and Hill had the Wallace Bell and
Macintosh interest bonded for
$275, 900, which will give an ap-
proximate idea of thevalue of the
when they acquired it.
AS every Montanan knows, the
of the gold standard
dealt severe blow to Neihart,
from which it is now but slowly re-
covering, and fortunes are being
made there as of yore.
Connected with the sale of the
MacItosh-Sanborn claim in the
Broadwater group of mines, is a
not generally known. Mr..
Sanborn was native of New
Hampshire, and a graduate of Dart
mouth of the class Of 1874. Follow
ing the conclusion of his college
course, he went to California and
in teaching. One of his
pupils, the daughter of wealthy
man, fell in love with the handsome
young instructor, and the attach
ment was mutual, but Sanborn's fl
nancial condition was not such as
to warrant an engagement. Then
reports reached California of vast
sums being made from Australian
wool, and in the hope of lettering
his fortune, the venturesome New
Highlander went to Australia, where
he invested his small savings in the
sheep business.
A dry season, TO which Australia
is frequently subject, followed his
arrival there, and at its close found
Mr.. Sanborn penniless in a for
eign country. Too proud to ask for
aid from his friends, he might have
died there, had it not been for the
interchangeable efforts of the girl who
loved him. She having learned in
some unexplained manner of the
result of his venture,
opened up correspondence with his
classmates, acquainting them with
his condition, thinking they might
aid him in returning to the United
States.
Two Of them, Clinton Hare, now
Of Butte, and my husband, H. P.
Rolfe, being intimate friends as.
we'll as classmates of Sanborn,