Library of Congress · resource:sn86075103/1940-03-09/ed-1:page:2
Image 2 of Montana oil and mining journal (Great Falls, Mont.), March 9, 1940
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Aider Gulch Stampede Put End to Bannack Newspaper what is now Montana and which was adult in Bannuk who did not po A few weeks following the discovery of gold to Grasshopper nack a printer with i press and a shirttail full of type ap peared in Bannack unloaded his out fit and announced that he had come to the new gold fields to establish the first paper in the territory which was then Idaho He immediately proceeded to get out his first and only issue of the Bannack NewsLetter a small poster size sheet In this work he was assisted by Col Wilbur F Sanders and several ys after the issue of the creek Ban a small army who wrote the salutato other editorials A few publication of the initial Bannack NewsLetter came the news of the phenominal strike by Bill Fair weather and his friends in Alder gulch where gold had been found in super abundance Immediately thereafter oc curred the Viriginia City stampede one of the most notable gold rushes in da NOW G0 With Montanas Own BIG WEST Polymer Gasoline Higher Test at No Higher Price A Montana product for Montana people Try Polymer gasoline today
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montana historical society; helena, mt. 1940-03-09. Image 2 of Montana oil and mining journal (Great Falls, Mont.), March 9, 1940. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86075103/1940-03-09/ed-1/?sp=2
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