Search Our Web Site



Advanced Search

Please Note:
If you are looking for a Montana business or service, click on the MT Web Directory button above (this will take you to a index page for the Directory) or click on the Search by Name button above (this will take you to a search page for the Directory).


Hughesville

A view from 1939:

HUGHESVILLE, (4,960 alt., 66 pop.), is one of a group of mining camps settled in 1879. From this region rich silver and lead ores were hauled by bull team to Fort Benton, shipped down the Missouri and Mississippi to New Orleans, and transferred to ocean steamers for shipment to smelters at Swansea, Wales.

Since 1905 Hughesville has seen several mining revivals. The largest mine in the district is the BLOCK P, which has a mill of the most modern type, with a daily capacity of 1,000 tons of ore, and uses an improved flotation method of ore concentration.

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.