VOLUME 46 NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2017 Downtown Bozeman 1875 GALLATIN MUSEUM photo Montana Ghost Town The Prez Sez TERRY HALDEN Quarterly The Montana Ghost Town Quarterly is published four times a year by the Convention 2017 in Bozeman is all set to go and it looks like Montana Ghost Town Preservation Society, it will be another winner. Margie Kankrik and Marilyn Murdock have P.O. Box 1861, Bozeman, Montana 59771. e-mail: [email protected] done a tremendous job in putting it together, along with some exciting www.mtghosttown.org guest speakers that are sure to inform and entertain you. Next year it Copyright © 2017, all rights reserved. is Darian Halden’s turn to put a convention together. I can assure Founded in 1970, the Montana Ghost Town you, from past experience, it is not an easy task. Preservation Society is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public to In this issue of the newsletter, we welcome back Rachel the benefits of preserving the historic buildings, Phillips who has written an article about the Bozeman Hot Springs, sites, and artifacts that make up the living history of Montana. which is not as well-known as those hot springs between Butte and Opinions expressed in the bylined articles are Anaconda, but nevertheless, sports just as interesting a history. Your the authors’ and do not necessarily represent Vice-President, Brad O’Grosky has written an article about the history the views of the M. G. T. P. S. of bridges in Montana. Although they do not have the romance of SUMMER 2017 ghost towns, they were just as important to the development of Montana and as such their history should be maintained. Finally, as President: Terry Halden Chuck Flood is incapacitated following surgery to his knee and was Vice President: Brad O’Grosky unable to submit a ‘Forgotten Ghost Town’ article, I have stood in (I Secretary / Treasurer: Sally Griffin Website Administrator: Darian Halden hope) and written an article on the forgotten ghost town of Hoover, Facebook Administrator: Darian Halden which is somewhere in the Little Belt Mountains. We wish Chuck a Projects: Darian Halden speedy and full recovery, as we miss his well-crafted articles. Membership: Sally Griffin Newsletter Editor: Terry Halden 2017 Convention: Margie Kankrlik and Membership Chairperson, Sally has indicated that there are Marilyn Murdock 26 members that have still not paid their 2016 dues, despite numerous Directors: Connie Griffin, Tom Low, Cindy Shearer and Gordon Tracy reminders. If you are one of those, who has kept on putting off writing Immediate Past President: John Ellingsen a dues payment check,( $15.00 single or $20.00 family) then be . warned: THIS IS THE LAST COPY OF THE NEWSLETTER YOU WILL RECEIVE. At convention 2009, in West Yellowstone, you were kind enough to elect me as President. I assumed the office with some trepidation as I had the job of filling the shoes of John Ellingsen. At this year’s convention, I will again be following John as I replace him on the masthead as ‘Immediate Past President’. It has been an honor to serve as President, with all the problems, successes, failures, highs and lows. I hope I have lived up to your expectations of what a President should do and I know the Society is in the good hands of my successor Brad O’Grosky and a competent board of directors. Why don’t you join the board? You may find that you have hidden talents and can contribute to our success and at the same time experience a lot of self-satisfaction. I will not be leaving you completely as I am still in the ramrod chair running this rag – and still looking for articles to include in it. Adios, for now. Terry New Members Membership Chairperson Sally reports the following New Members have joined our Association since the last newsletter. Please make them welcome. Bruce & Carol Kron – Livingston, MT John & Renee Loehr – Ronan, MT Bill Sosnowki – Fairfax Stn. VA 2 M.G.T.P.S. BOARD MEETING July 15, 2017 The meeting was called to order at 1:05PM Projects: The Alta Headframe project may not by President Terry Halden. Also present were Vice be possible to complete dues to the missing numbers President Brad O’Grosky, Secretary/Treasurer Sally on the timbers. Cindy suggested that money is needed Griffin, Board Members Connie Griffin and Cindy to help complete expanding the Fort Ellis Exhibit at the Shearer, and a guest Marilyn Murdock who is Co- Gallatin County Museum. She will present budget figures Chairperson of the 2017 Convention. to show that this is needed. Marilyn suggested the Fort A motion was made by Brad to approve the Shaw Military Cemetery. No action was taken on these minutes of the March 17, 2017, Board Meeting as suggestions printed in the newsletter. Connie seconded. Motion Newsletter: Terry reported that the July edition passed. is ready to print as soon as he receives the meeting Sally gave the Treasurer’s Report. For the minutes and the mailing list. fiscal year July, 2016, – June, 2017, we had income Old Business: Marilyn passed out the of $6,805.00, and Expenses of $12,161.50, for a net completed schedule and reservation form for the 2017 loss of $5,356.50.This loss was attributed to the fact Convention in Bozeman. that the previous year we had received a grant of Darian could not be at the meeting so there was no $5,000 which was not spent until this fiscal year Cash report on the 2018 Convention in Sidney. Balances were Petty Cash, $60.20; Checking Terry said that only 2 people have submitted information Account, $4,203.90; Savings Account, $13,408.47; for the personal business cards we had decided to do. and no CD’s for a total of $17,672.57. Brad moved If Terry does not receive more, he may not go ahead that we accept the Treasurer’s Report and Connie with the project. seconded. Motion passed. New Business: 2019 Convention – where shall Secretary’s Report: An email from Board we hold it? Suggestions were made for Lincoln and Member Larry Hoffman was read. He is resigning White Sulphur Springs but other locations could be from the Board because of his many volunteer considered. We are supposed to name the location at activities in Butte do not leave him enough time to the General Meeting at the convention this fall. participate on the Ghost Town Board. The email from Montana Historical Society Convention 2017 – Terry in reply accepting his resignation was read. Terry Terry will not be attending this year and no one else has received word from former Board Member Don showed an interest in going. Black that he will be rejoining the Board at the next CBS Bozeman Ghost Towns Show – Brad has meeting. We also received several newsletters from not been able to meet with anyone from the group that other organizations, and there was a letter from the is working on this. Carbon County Historical Society’s new Executive The idea of putting a 2019 calendar together was Director Sarah Russell in which she outlined plans discussed and rejected and activities she would like us to know about. She Terry announced that he will be retiring as also sent an application for us to become members. President effective at the convention. Brad has agreed Cindy moved and Brad seconded that we become to become President. Terry will continue to be the “Individual” members. Brad asked to know how many Newsletter Chairman. We will need a new Vice similar organizations our group a member of. Sally President. said perhaps 3. Brad suggested that we do more in There being no further business, Cindy moved this area. It was then moved by Brad and seconded and Sally seconded that the meeting be adjourned. It by Connie that we become members of the was 2:20PM. Headwaters Historical Society in Three Forks. We have donated to support their depot renovation project. Respectfully submitted, The motion passed. Membership Report: Sally said that we now have 219 members. Of those, 26 have not paid their2016 and 2017 dues. An additional 25 have not SALLY GRIFFIN paid their 2017 dues. It was decided to drop those members who have not paid 2016 and 2017 dues after the July newsletter goes out. Terry is printing a notice about this in the newsletter, and Sally will insert a note to these members also. 3 A HISTORY OF BOZEMAN HOT SPRINGS On January 16, 1865, Paradise Valley miner by RACHEL PHILLIPS John S. Hackney wrote in his diary: “I went out to the Before the 1870s, the natural hot springs hot springs and washed my dirty ‘duds.’” Hackney did located just west of Bozeman were likely used by his dirty laundry in what is now Chico Hot Springs, just passing American Indian tribes and cattlemen during south of Livingston, Montana. Fortunately for miners spring livestock roundups. The first commercial use like John, natural hot springs dotted the western of the area for health and recreation came in the mid- Montana landscape and provided convenient places for 1870s when Francis Albert Lund marketed the springs washing off the sweat and grime that came with mining. as a cure for various ailments. F. A. Lund was a Swedish immigrant who came to Montana Territory Long before miners arrived, native people during the gold rush, but it is unclear when he first frequented Montana’s hot springs to bathe and rest. As acquired the hot springs property. According to an white settlers came in force in the late 19th century, article in Bozeman’s Avant Courier newspaper in some hot springs were made into health resorts.