Edward B. Skeels reminiscence, 1969.

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Edward B. Skeels reminiscence, 1969.

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Edward Skeels' reminiscence (1969) describes his work on a homestead survey on the Middle Fork of the Flathead River in what later became Glacier National Park and on a railroad survey for the Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad on the Lemhi and Salmon Rivers in Idaho in 1909 and 1910. (SC 1470) This collection consists of a reminiscence written by Skeels in 1969. The reminiscence describes his work on a homestead survey on the Middle Fork of the Flathead River in what later became Glacier National Park and on a railroad survey for the Gilmore & Pittsburgh Railroad on the Lemhi and Salmon Rivers in Idaho in 1909 and 1910.

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Skeels, Edward B.

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Edward B. Skeels was born August 7, 1887, in Wisconsin. In 1908, at the age of 21, he was working for the engineering firm of Sibley, Bonner & Toole of Missoula. The firm secured a contract to survey homestead lands east of the Rockies and the boundaries of Glacier National Park. The next year, 1909, Skeels was working for the Gilmore & Pittsburgh railroad during their construction of the railroad over the continental divide and along the Lemhi, Salmon, Snake, and Columbia R...

Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad Company

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Incorporated in 1907 under the state laws of Idaho, the company operated a railway line that linked the mining towns of Gilmore and Salmon, Idaho, with the Oregon Short Line at Armstead, Montana, in order to carry ore to the Butte and Anaconda smelters. It was controlled by the NP through stock ownership, and itself held stock in the Lemhi Telephone Company and the Idaho Development Company. Plagued by financial problems throughout its corporate life, it discontinued operations in 1939 and was d...