It began around the Bully Boy and Theresa group of mines midway up Squaw Gulch, spreading down to the smelter at the mouth of the ravine.

"I built that big pipe line in Portland; I sold those smelters in Anaconda, and the cyanide tanks for the Highland Girl.

I now worked awhile again with Mr. Henry and we sold our wood to Bill Park, a collier, who made and sold charcoal to the smelters of lead ore.

"T' Maister's too strong for him," said a smelter to his neighbour.