[silent] Early images of Montana mining practices include: downtown Butte; sawmill cutting timber for mine supports; workers going down into a mine; factory machinery; footage from a moving car within a mine; men working in mining tunnels; workers setting charges; workers eating; workers using pick; loading cars and driving them from the tunnel; using phone in a tunnel; men tending a flume; shoeing a horse; a horse pulling mining cars and men through a tunnel; men coming up from a mine; and men bracing a mine tunnel with timber. Circa 1924. (collection MOV 0140)

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