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Diamond Township Legal Case

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Diamond Township Legal Case
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Sheriff or any Constable of Meagher County is hereby told to sell the personal property of Denis Long to cover costs of court and debt he owes. Signed by Moses Daggett, Justice of the peace. Important because Diamond City was the main community in Confederate Gulch and while gold production was at its height, Diamond City roared along both night and day. During its heyday, Diamond City was the county seat of Montana's Meagher County. In their frantic efforts to get at more gold, the miners built ditches and flumes that extended for miles, and employed high pressure hydraulic mining methods which washed down whole hillsides and ate up the gulch floor. The hydraulic mining process stripped the gulch and left huge spoil banks—hydraulic mining even consumed the site of Diamond City, which had to be moved to a new location.



Then the gold ran out, the boom was over and the population simply picked up and left. In 1870 there were only 255 people left and a year later only about 60. Today hardly a trace remains of Diamond City or the other gulch communities. A fun little piece waiting some research. City: Diamond Township State: Montana, Date: 1886 Inventory# 41219