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Pardee

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A view from 1939:

Ore was discovered at the Iron Mountain Mine near Superior in 1886, and soon the town of Pardee sprang up around it. The surface gold and silver ores were rich enough to justify packing them on mules over high mountain passes to Paradise, on the Northern Pacific Ry. When the Coeur d'Alene branch of the Northern Pacific was built through Superior in 1891, the mine began to operate on a large scale. A mill was erected at Iron Mountain, as the station at Superior was then called, and an aerial tram connected it with the workings. Except for occasional operations by lessees, the mine has been idle for many years, and Pardee abandoned.

Source: Montana: A State Guide Book; Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Montana; September, 1939.