Garnet
Garnet
Preservation Association and Bureau of Land Management
of Montana
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of Garnet by Daniel Ter-Nedden
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A view from 1939:
GARNET, (5,904 alt., 25 pop.), a few years ago a ghost
town, is a busy mining camp. Many of the old-timers are still
here, prospecting and spinning yarns. One of the yarns is
of a winter when, because of deep snow, supplies could not
be brought in and men could not get out. At length one man,
equipped with a miner's lamp and laden with carbide, worked
his way down to Bearmouth through the mine tunnels and arranged
for supplies to be brought in.
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. |