Oldtimers

1 Years ago

January 7, 1926

Authority was granted for the removal of Mackton’s spur at Big Sandy by the Montana Railroad Commission. The Great Northern Railway had applied for removal of the 785-foot spur, which extended to the old Mackton coal mine and had been constructed several years earlier.

Mr. J.A. McClintock, a former resident of Big Sandy who had lived in Auburn, Washington, for the past 18 months, passed away at Tacoma General Hospital on December 25, 1925. He was 58 years old. Mr. McClintock was laid to rest in Oakville, Washington, near where his father had been buried a few year...