Roundup High School - Rodeo Yearbook (Roundup, MT)

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COMMENCEMENT E..XERCISES Thursday, May 29, 1941 High School Gymnasium Processional-- Pomp and Chivalry --Roberts . . . High School Band To a Wild Rose --McDowell ......................... Girls' Chorus The Best Books Haven't Been Written ................ Donald Beckman Cast Dovm Your Bucket Where You Are...................Viola Kerzan Goin' Home --Dvorak ........................... High School Band Possibilities .................................. » Harold Eliasson The Warrior of the Broken Sword ................... William Mitchell I Passed by Your Window --Brake ................... Girls' Chorus Presentation of Diplomas ............................ B. H. Matzke Vice Chairman Board of Education Recessional-- Pomp and Chivalry --Roberts . . . High School Band Honor Students Peggy Holloway Matilda Maris William Mitchell Marie Rediske Margaret Tait

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i,rs iUA, j xien you hear the word ‘'gold-rush, you quite naturally W Jj Jk J] think of California. Did you ever wonder why Montana is called the Treasure State ? From the time way back when Benetsee Francois Findaly, a French-Canadian half-breed, discovered gold on Benetsee Creek, up to the discovery of the Last Chance Gulch near Hele- na, all the law-breakers, convicts, and deserters who left home, poured into the golden frontier of Montana in search of wealth or, sometimes, for adventure only. The Stuart brothers, as they returned from the California gold rush to their homes in Iowa, prospected a little on Bene- tsee Creek, and found what they considered a good find; but, because they lacked equipment and because the Indians stole their horses and everything else, they left, returning in 1860 to develop the first real mining camp in Montana. A journal which reported this, also stated that gold could be shaken from the roots of the sagebrush at the Beaverhead Mines where the Grasshopper Creek meets the Beaverhead River. Good news travels fast, and in 1863, a gold-rush almost equal to that of the forty-niners poured into Montana to shake up the sage- brush, Henry Edgar and William Fairweather discovered Alder Gulch, at the head of the Jefferson River, as the result of Old Bill's search for a little tobacco money. They rushed back to town to get tools and upon their return found half the town following at their heels. Other rich discoveries were Last Chance Gulch (later Hele- na), Cooke City, Confederate Gulch, Silver Bow, and Emigrant Gulch. The gold production in Montana from 1862 to 1896 amounted to $144,400,000, and up to 1930 the sum had doubled; even now it increases daily. The Land of the Shining onward 11 Mountains marches triumphantly