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Rocker

A view from 1939:

ROCKER, (5,395 alt., 96 pop.), virtually a suburb of Butte, is an industrial town through which pass long trains of gondola cars loaded with ore bound for the reduction works at Anaconda (see Tour 18). Oil refineries and a plant for treating mine timbers are here.

SILVER BOW CREEK, named in 1864 when three prospectors saw the sun shining on it through a rift in the clouds, is muddied with the refuse of Butte mines, though in places it is intensely blue from dissolved copper salts.

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.