Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-10-18

! raham Lincoln Of Illinois. and Andrew
I Jackson Of Tennessee, nominees Of the
| republican national convention at bal
timore, June z, 1854, or the portraits
/ Of George B. Mcclellan Of New Jersey
and George H. Pehdleton of Ohio. who
were nominated at the democratic ma
tional convention in Chicago Aug. %,
1864
A third ticket had been placed in
the held that year at the republican
radical convention held in Cleveland.
May 81, 1864, when John G. Fremont
Of California, and John c. Cochrane
of New York had been nominated for
president and vice president, respec-
lively, but their names did not 90
before the voters as Fremont withdrew
and recommended the support Of the
regular republican ticket, which rec
concentration was carried out by his
followers. The popular vote at the cleo
ton Of 1854 was: Lincoln, 2216O67: /
Mcclellan, 1.SO8,725.
The trinkets were dug I'D from the
grave Of a child at a point Just out
side the outlines of the old stockade
by F. A. Weinrich. While he had Gull |
tivated the land surrounding the fort
he had not disturbed the ground where
the fort stood.
Weinrich, who resided at Mondak on
the Montana side, had been a resident
OF that section for many years.
WhIe the character of the trinketS
are indicative Of an Indian grave the
hair upon the skeleton found there was
OF reddish hue, leading to the belief
that 1t may have been that Of a white
child.
AS the medal found in the grave bore
the date of 1854 and Fort Union was
destroyed in 1868, it is evident that the
grave was dug within that period.
Fort Union, which was the largest
and most complete trading post on the
Missouri river during the thirties and
The forties, was begun in 1929 by Ken
meth Mckenzie but was not completed
until four years later. It was enclosed
BY a stockade 220 by $40 feet in, dimen-
iions, consisting Of palisades 20 feet
nigh made of large hewn cottonwood
md founded upon stone.
At the southwest and northeast cor
lers we're baStions built entirely of :
'tone, "a feet square and 80 feet high.
he walls being three feet in thickness
Around the tops of the second stories
# these bastions were balconies for
observation purposes.
cannon in Bastion
In one bastion was a three-pounder
ron cannon, a brass swivel and a dozen
luSkets, while the other bastion con-
aimed brass swivel and a supply of
1uskets. These weapons were kept con-
nually loaded.
In the front and rear palisades we're
arge gates, IL feet wide and IA feet
Ugh. At the front entrance there was
lso an inner gate, so arranged that
ne Indians could be admitted through
lie outside gate to large trading space
nd still be shut out from the fort
rounds by the inner gate
Inside the palisades were the fort
lildings proper, including among 9TH
s house for the bourgeois, or super
tendent, 70 by "a feet in dimensions.
store building l27 by %, an employees
Hiding 119 by 81, together with build
gs for stables, shops and other pur-
,ses.
1t also contained a powder maya
ne Is by Is with walls of stone four
ct in thickness at the base and
ched over the top. The walls in
eased with the curve of the arch
I'd were six feet thick at the top.
yer this was an 18-inch course of
cks and gravel and the whole was
vered with a wooden top, the idea
ing that in the case of a fire which
ght consume the wooden roof the
e or heat could not be communicate
to the powder below.
Although Fort Union had been aban-
ned as trading post it was allowed
stand until in 1868 when by order