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Durston Building, Anaconda William A. Clark - The Anaconda Standard political cartoon, 28 Oct 1900 This is a list of newspapers in Montana . Current news publications
The new publication was renamed The Montana Record-Herald. [8] Additionally, on November 22, 1943, another merger followed: this time with The Helena Independent, to become the Independent Record. [9] After over thirty years of ownership by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, the IR was sold to Lee Enterprises in 1959. [10]
In November 1894, Helena was chosen over Anaconda by a margin of around 2,000 votes: Helena received 27,024 votes (51.8% of the total), and Anaconda received 25,118 (48.2%). [13] The total cost for the campaigns was between $1 and $2 million, [ C ] in part because of their elaborate campaign strategies—which included fireworks, memorabilia ...
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For most of its history, KTVH was the only source of television news covering the Helena area, and local news capacity was slowly built up over the years by different owners. In 1983, there were 4.5 full-time positions in news at channel 12; [84] there were eight by 2008. [72]
On September 12, 1928 the Anaconda Standard's Butte edition merged with Butte Miner to form The Montana Standard. [3] At the time it was owned by the Anaconda Company. [4] In 1959, It was sold to Lee Enterprises. [4] In 1971, under the leadership of Betty Danfield, the paper's women's section won the Penney-Missouri Award for General Excellence ...
Anaconda was founded by Marcus Daly, one of the Copper Kings, who financed the construction of the Anaconda smelter on nearby Warm Springs Creek to process copper ore from the Butte mines. Daly originally named the site "Copperopolis", but that name was already used by Copperopolis, Montana , a small mining town in Meagher County .
In 1889, Montana's smelting centers reported record numbers in tons of ores per day: Butte, 4000; Anaconda, 2500; Great Falls 1250; East Helena, 550; Glendale, 250; Wickes, 125; Argenta, 120. The two main producers of silver were Silver Bow County (the Butte district), which produced 43.2% of the state's silver, and Deer Lodge County (the ...