Photos from Butte Montana are up. Butte is my favorite city in Montana. At the end of the 19th century it was the richest city in the West thanks to the huge copper mine it was built on top of. Lots of wealth was generated, lots of different people moved there (over 100,000 at it's peak,) and lots of big ostentatious (for the non-coastal west at least) building went on. It feels urban. Even to someone from NYC.
Today it is incredibly toxic (double superfund site.) The copper mine became a huge open pit mine, and is now completely filled up with water containing all sorts of nasty heavy metals. This one mine single handedly endangers the drinking water of the entire pacific northwest. Trees wouldn't even grow in the valley until very recently. The people are strange, even to other Montanans. MB called it a "ghost city." We all loved it.
sounds and looks awesome, sorry we missed it and the trip in general....
was a superfund site, i read the program is maybe not continuing, or will continue on our dime not from corporate tax's....:<(:<>(
hey now - i don't seem to have a link to the photos...
The superfund program is being trimmed, perhaps with an eye towards total elimination. But so far Butte has not been cut.
Really? Does this not work either?
nope :-(
Mine works OK. Thanks for the tour, Jim. If I'm not mistaken, Butte was the setting for Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest, which provided the basic plot for many movies about one lone tough guy pitting the city's gangs against each other: Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Leone's Fistful of Dollars, and the awful Bruce Willis vehicle Last Man Standing. But it might have been Billings...
It is not working for me either.
Does anything happen?
Does the cursur change into a hand when you roll the mouse over it?
If so, do you go anywhere when you click it?
Is this happening anywhere else.
the link itself works but takes me to a page that says "I could not find the page you requested."
Julie and Sarah should be able to see them now. Anybody else? Sorry about that.
Hi, Jim. Doesn't work for me out here closer to the action. Also Frank says that I should be on Core, whatever that entails. And I am thinking at some point about upgrading my page with links to Montana news sources and suchlike. Any technical help you can pass along would be appreciated.
You should be able to see them now. Sorry about that. I sent you an email with some other information.
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Today it is incredibly toxic (double superfund site.) The copper mine became a huge open pit mine, and is now completely filled up with water containing all sorts of nasty heavy metals. This one mine single handedly endangers the drinking water of the entire pacific northwest. Trees wouldn't even grow in the valley until very recently. The people are strange, even to other Montanans. MB called it a "ghost city." We all loved it.
- jim 7-08-2002 12:44 am
sounds and looks awesome, sorry we missed it and the trip in general....
- Skinny 7-08-2002 5:36 am
was a superfund site, i read the program is maybe not continuing, or will continue on our dime not from corporate tax's....:<(:<>(
- Skinny 7-08-2002 6:24 pm
hey now - i don't seem to have a link to the photos...
- julie 7-08-2002 6:35 pm
The superfund program is being trimmed, perhaps with an eye towards total elimination. But so far Butte has not been cut.
- jim 7-08-2002 7:13 pm
Really? Does this not work either?
- jim 7-08-2002 7:14 pm
nope :-(
- julie 7-08-2002 8:04 pm
Mine works OK. Thanks for the tour, Jim. If I'm not mistaken, Butte was the setting for Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest, which provided the basic plot for many movies about one lone tough guy pitting the city's gangs against each other: Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Leone's Fistful of Dollars, and the awful Bruce Willis vehicle Last Man Standing. But it might have been Billings...
- tom moody 7-08-2002 8:54 pm
It is not working for me either.
- sarah 7-08-2002 10:43 pm
Does anything happen?
Does the cursur change into a hand when you roll the mouse over it?
If so, do you go anywhere when you click it?
Is this happening anywhere else.
- jim 7-08-2002 11:15 pm
the link itself works but takes me to a page that says "I could not find the page you requested."
- julie 7-09-2002 3:20 am
Julie and Sarah should be able to see them now. Anybody else? Sorry about that.
- jim 7-09-2002 5:26 pm
Hi, Jim. Doesn't work for me out here closer to the action. Also Frank says that I should be on Core, whatever that entails. And I am thinking at some point about upgrading my page with links to Montana news sources and suchlike. Any technical help you can pass along would be appreciated.
- Tom G 7-09-2002 9:23 pm
You should be able to see them now. Sorry about that. I sent you an email with some other information.
- jim 7-09-2002 9:34 pm