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 Wed Oct 08, 2014 9:24 pm |
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Ok, this one is really a stretch to include in a hiking related forum (but it IS in a mountain town...), but I'm wondering if someone here might have an answer to a strange question:
What is an ocean-going sized ship's screw doing in Butte, Montana? I asked a couple shop owners, and they had no idea...
Ship's Screw
I *really* hope someone here has an answer.... 
"Out, OUT you demons of Stupidity"! - St Dogbert, patron Saint of Technology
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touron
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Wed Oct 08, 2014 9:33 pm |
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I can't remember where I read this, but the inland ocean use stretch in quite a ways, and ships would frequently sink after being dashed against the hoodoos in the continental divide. Finally a lighthouse was built in Anaconda. Later as the inland waters receded, the lighthouse was converted into the Anaconda smelter, which is now a state park.
You will still find propellers and anchors scattered about, and the hardy Butte miners have used the propellers, such as that in the photo, to mix large Margaritas.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
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Wed Oct 08, 2014 9:41 pm |
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Wed Oct 08, 2014 9:53 pm |
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da da da
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I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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Pyrites
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Wed Oct 08, 2014 11:22 pm |
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Screw from one of the two USS Buttes?
Keep Calm and Carry On?
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Stay Excited and Get Outside!
Keep Calm and Carry On?
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Thu Oct 09, 2014 6:21 am |
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| Pyrites wrote: | | Screw from one of the two USS Buttes? |
That seemed to be somewhat plausible, but according to Wikipedia (yeah, I know...but so far that's the only reference I have), both were sunk as target ships:
..."Butte was sunk as a target off the east coast of the United States using Tomahawk and Harpoon missiles and a Mark 48 torpedo fired from USS San Juan. Coincidentally, the previous USS Butte was also sunk deliberately in 1948 after use as a target ship in Operation Crossroads." ...
I love exploring the mountains and wondering about the sometimes strange things I find there (a week ago I saw a pickup down maybe 100' below a trail, looked to have been there for maybe 30 years), and the things I read about here that others have discovered, but so far, this one is the most unusual.
So, onward....
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Thu Oct 09, 2014 7:12 am |
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It belongs the Washington State Ferry System. With Global Warming the expect to have a new run there.
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Did the glacial lake that carved the Grand Coulee area when the ice dam broke back up as far as Butte? Unfortunately the timing is a little off for large ships motoring around the lake...
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It only takes one winter to realize how screwed you are to live there.
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Thu Oct 09, 2014 7:59 pm |
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Riverside, props to you for posting, but I'm worried that if someone from Butte reads it, they will be completely torqued off. Of course, winter hasn't arrived yet so they may not fathom what you are talking about.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
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Malachai Constant
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From the title I thought this would be about dams on top of a mountain in MT. 
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Backpacker Joe
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"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
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