Montana Union Railway Co. - Railroad Stock Certificate - Branch Line of the Nort for Sale

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Montana Union Railway Co. - Railroad Stock Certificate - Branch Line of the Nort:
$183.00

Branch Line of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Butte is a consolidated city-county and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver Bow. The city covers 718 square miles (1,860km2), and, according to the 2020 census, has a population of 34,494, making it Montana\'s fifth largest city. It is served by Bert Mooney Airport with airport code BTM. Established in 1864 as a mining camp in the northern Rocky Mountains on the Continental Divide, Butte experienced rapid development in the late-nineteenth century, and was Montana\'s first major industrial city. In its heyday between the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, it was one of the largest copper boomtowns in the American West. Employment opportunities in the mines attracted surges of Asian and European immigrants, particularly the Irish; as of 2017, Butte has the largest population of Irish Americans per capita of any city in the United States. In the late 19th century, copper was in great demand because of new technologies such as electric power that required the use of copper. Three industrial magnates fought for control of Butte\'s mining wealth. These three \"Copper Kings\" were William A. Clark, Marcus Daly, and F. Augustus Heinze. The Anaconda Copper Mining Company began in 1881 when Marcus Daly bought a small mine named the Anaconda. He was a part-owner, mine manager and engine Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.