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New Year

A view from 1939:

NEW YEAR, (3,980 alt.), is a ghost camp. New Year sprouted brashly along with other camps of the Judiths and Moccasins after the discovery of gold at Maiden (see below) in 1880. Its mill used the cyanide process of extracting gold that made the Judith and Moccasin mines so profitable.

CRYSTAL CAVE (guide and light necessary) opens off the main shaft of the New Year Mine. It has been only partly explored. In the main chamber, 300 feet across and about 100 feet high, dripping water saturated with calcites and various minerals has created a sparkling showroom full of endlessly varied rock crystals.

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.