Big Sky Fishing Gallery - Stewart Mine Gallows Butte, MT

Taken in Butte September 2004.
Mr. Foley who grew up in Butte during WWII. Here is what he said: The photo of the head frame with the American flag waving above it is of the Stewart mine. It faces Woolman Street in the north part of Butte, and was one of the last deep mines to close. I immediately recognized it since I lived on Woolman St. for 15 years as child during WWII.

Historical Documentation found at: http://members.aol.com/MontanaMinin...HistoryPage.htm

The Stewart mine (aka West Stewart or Steward) was one of Butte's deepest and most productive copper-silver mines from the late 1890s until its closure in 1973. The Stewart shaft eventually reached a depth of 4,400 feet, making it one of Butte's longest operating and deepest copper mines (Shovers 1987). With the exception of the Original mine, the Stewart has the only remaining brick hoist house (not pictured here) on the Butte hill. Erected in 1898, the headframe at the West Stewart, constitutes one of Butte's earliest examples of the larger headframes, the 126 foot headframe permitted the use of five-ton skips and a ten-foot diameter sheave wheel. The construction of this headframe resembles the one erected at the Original mine in 1902; the Gillette-Herzog Mfg. Co. of Minneapolis manufactured both headframes. The headframe was designed so ore could be shunted directly from ore cars via a tramway into loading bins, from which rail cars could be loaded. In later years the Anaconda Company abandoned this rail line and used trucks to haul ore to the Weed Concentrator (Harrier and Farnham 1930; Piper 1987).

Miners connected the Stewart underground to the Kelley on the 3000-foot level so that ore mined in the Stewart could be raised through the Kelley taking advantage of its larger skips and more powerful hoisting engine.