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BUTTE , the largest See also:

city of See also:Montana, U.S.A., and the See also:county-seat of See also:Silver See also:Bow county. It is'situated in the valley of See also:Deer See also:Lodge See also:river, near its See also:head, at an See also:altitude of about 5700 ft. Pop. (1880) 3363; (1890) 10,723; (1900) 30,470, of whom 10,210 were See also:foreign-See also:born, including 2474 Irish, 1518 See also:English-Canadians, and 1505 English; (1910 See also:census) 39,165. It is served by the See also:Great See also:Northern, the Northern Pacific, the See also:Chicago, See also:Milwaukee & See also:Puget See also:Sound, the Butte, See also:Anaconda & Pacific, and the See also:Oregon See also:Short See also:Line See also:railways. Popularly the name " Butte " is applied to an See also:area which embraces the city, See also:Centerville, Walkerville, See also:East Butte, See also:South Butte and See also:Williamsburg. These together See also:form one large and more or less compact city. Butte lies in the centre of the greatest See also:copper-See also:mining See also:district in the See also:world; the surrounding hills are See also:honey-combed with mines, and some mines are in the very See also:heart of the city itself. The best known of the copper mines is the Anaconda. The See also:annual output of copper from the Butte district almost equals that from all the See also:rest of the See also:country together; the annual value of copper, See also:gold and silver aggregates more than $6o,000,000. Although mining and its allied See also:industries of See also:quartz crushing and smelting dominate all other industries in the See also:place, there are also foundries and See also:machine shops, See also:iron-See also:works, See also:tile factories, breweries and extensive planing See also:mills. See also:Electricity, used in the mines particularly, is brought to Butte from See also:Canon See also:Ferry, 75 M. to the N.; from the plant, also on the See also:Missouri river, of the See also:Helena See also:Power Transmission See also:Company, which has a great See also:steel See also:dam 85 ft. high and 63o ft. See also:long across the river, and a 6000-h.p. substation in Butte; and from the plant of the See also:Madison River Power Company, on Madison river 72 m.

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Norris, whence power is also transmitted to Bozeman and See also:Belgrade, See also:Gallatin county, to See also:Ruby, Madison county, and to the See also:Greene-See also:Campbell mine near See also:Whitehall, See also:Jefferson county. In 19ro Butte had only one large smelter, and the See also:smoke See also:nuisance was thus See also:abated. The city is the seat of the Montana School of Mines (1900), and has a See also:state See also:industrial school, a high school and a public library (rebuilt in 1906 after a See also:fire) with more than 32,000 volumes. The city See also:hall, Federal See also:building and Silver Bow county See also:court See also:house are among the See also:principal buildings. Butte was first settled as a placer mining See also:camp in 1864. It was platted in 1866; its See also:population in 187o was only 241, and for many years its growth was slow. Prosperity came, however, with the introduction of quartz mining in 1875, and in 1879 a city See also:charter was granted. In the See also:decade from 1890 to 1900 Butte's increase in population was 184.2%.

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