Show A miner who blade twelve WilH HUS Marys villo r ariy thirty miles from helena is a beconi wickes in appearance but when one remembers the wealth of the mines which have created the town he forgets the ugliness of the streets and ceases to notice the dilapidation of the adely built cabins marksville marysville Marys ville is chiefly famous as the site of the drum gium mon but does not on mine alone for its support the town is the chief seat of an extremely rich district already well developed and is an important suburb of helena it is connected by rail with the latter city and will eventually be the terminus of a branch of the manitoba road the discoverer of the drum lummon was mr thomas cruse in the days before he sold his property and returned to helena a much honored millionaire mr cruse was locally known as old tommy and was looked upon as a somewhat visionary man none questioned after a time that his mine where he lived and labored alone was valuable but few placed its worth so high as did the patient owner when he refused half a million for his mine the people of helena called him foolish and when he turned away from the offer of a million they called him a fool but the miner was wiser than his friends and eventually received his price and a goodly number of shares in the new company then as so often is the case the old familiarity was dropped and the tommy of bygone by gone days became mr thomas cruse capitalist A kind thoroughly honest man of whom all who know him are ready to say a good word he is a familiar figure on the street ef helena and today to day is president of a savings bank ilithe city years ago he kasnot trusted for enough to keep himself alive As an illustration of the a miners life ha is a notable example |