Vignette Vol.1 No. 2
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Davis, H. J. "Bony"
Tone City. Excerpt--"In December 1883, Peter Tone and Josephus Hamilton each took up 80 acres of homestead at the NPRR station at the mouth of Trout Creek. They had 12 men working for them on a trail up Trout Creek, over the rugged passes, into Idaho.
"Downstream at Heron, H.J. "Bony" Davis and Fred Weeks were ahead of them. At a meeting in October they had raised $450 to build the new trail they had located from Heron to the mines at Pritchard, Idaho (30 miles) and Eagle City (20 miles).Heron now had four restaurants, seven saloons and the railroad division building. Andrew Johnson committed suicide. He laid on the railroad tracks and was run over. W.A. Shannon, a Methodist, preached at Heron's Siding on Sunday to 20 of the population of between 300 and 400. The majority of the rest were in saloons where saloon keepers, Ira Hawes, William Fitz and Gus Smith, served a variety of liquors."
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Davis, H. J. "Bony"
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Northern Pacific Railroad Division Point and roundhouses at the first town of Trout Creek, Montana. Referred to as Tone City, and, later as Larchwood. Courtesy Edna Cox McCann collection.
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Tone City. Excerpt--"In December 1883, Peter Tone and Josephus Hamilton each took up 80 acres of homestead at the NPRR station at the mouth of Trout Creek. They had 12 men working for them on a trail up Trout Creek, over the rugged passes, into Idaho.
"Downstream at Heron, H.J. "Bony" Davis and Fred Weeks were ahead of them. At a meeting in October they had raised $450 to build the new trail they had located from Heron to the mines at Pritchard, Idaho (30 miles) and Eagle City (20 miles).Heron now had four restaurants, seven saloons and the railroad division building. Andrew Johnson committed suicide. He laid on the railroad tracks and was run over. W.A. Shannon, a Methodist, preached at Heron's Siding on Sunday to 20 of the population of between 300 and 400. The majority of the rest were in saloons where saloon keepers, Ira Hawes, William Fitz and Gus Smith, served a variety of liquors."
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