Front: 'Richest Hill in the World. Butte Montana.' Reverse: 'Lithographed in Germany' - No postmark, never sent
[Postcards]
THE OLD WEST
INDUSTRY COMES WEST

Industry Comes West / Old Meets New / Mining

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Monochrome photo of machinery with piles of ore
Front reads, "Convertors at Butte Reduction Works, Visited on 'Seeing Butte' Trip."
Reverse reads, "G. No. 406. American Import Co., Publishers, Minneapolis, U.S.A. Made in Germany" Never sent but buyer writes, "Aug. 23, 1908 Lining of large furnaces only last 8 hrs. Good material clings to lining - slag runs out - red hot." And he also wrote, "Aug. 23 - Sept. 1. Orpheum twice - 10 cent shows."
Colored photo of machinery in water within a man-made pit
Front reads, "C-2625 Western Gold Dredge in Operation   Greetings from Bozeman, Montana" [Reverse caption below]

Reverse reads, "C-2625. Pioneer Prospectors washed gold from 'pay dirt' with gold pans and sluice boxes. The modern method is the gold dredge, often costing over a million dollars. Giant buckets on an endless chain, dig down to bedrock and elevate the rock and gravel to the separating equipment inside the dredge, which floats on a lake of its own making. A Colorchrome Reproduction of a Cecil Nixon Kodachrome." and "Published by Cecil C. Nixon, 208 S. Idaho St., Butte, Montana Natural Color Post Card Made in the U. S. A. by E. C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wis. - (KDL)" Nothing on reverse, never mailed.

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