Pony and Norris branches. Pony was formerly one of the early placer mining camps and is now a thriving town, having a number of producing gold quartz mines, with large concentrators and mills. At Norris, Red Bluff and Sterling are mines and mills in active operation.
Going back to Butte, I take the Oregon Short Line to Dillon, where the State Normal School is located, and which is the largest and most prosperous city in southern Montana. Here is the center and distributing point for the Big Hole cattle country and the many surrounding mining camps. Red Rock is an important cattle shipping station and stage depot. From here the Concord stages daily arrive and depart for Salmon City, Gibbonsville and other towns of Central Idaho. Lima is a division on the Oregon Short Line
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