CHARLES "CHARLIE" DAVIS FAMILY, Bio, Granite Co., MT

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	CHARLES "CHARLIE" DAVIS FAMILY

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Occupation: He was a teamster and saloon keeper at Garnet, Montana 
in 1913-about 1920.  He owned a blacksmith shop with partner Billy 
Liberty.

Married:

Children: 1) daughter 
		2) daughter

The Davis family arrived in Garnet, Montana in 1913, coming from 
Colorado where some mining town had probably just finished it's 
years of prosperity and it's population was ripe for moving on.  

Charlie Davis was, in the words of his daughter, "horse crazy".  
He boasted of having one of Marcus Daily's race horses, and he and 
partner Billy Liberty, the blacksmith, ran a large livery stable 
in the center of Garnet.  

Charlie Davis was an excellent teamster driving ore wagons from 
Garnet to Bearmouth.  With one of his daughters or another guest 
seated beside him high on the wagon seat, he would pull out of 
Garnet and pass under the trestle supporting the car track between 
the main adit of the Grant and Hartford Mine and the dump.  Then 
the high wagon would pick up speed as it rolled down mill hill and 
around the sharp switchbacks.  In three miles the road would drop 
two thousand feet and the speed of the wagon would get faster and 
faster.  The passengers would be scared to death by the time 
Charlie reached the bottom of China grade and slowed down on the 
winding gravel road between Beartown and Bearmouth.

After unloading into the chutes at Bearmouth, Davis' ore wagon was 
hauled back up the grade to Garnet empty, or with freight if there 
was some to go up.  Charlie Davis parked it behind his three-room 
house in Garnet.  

In the evening Charlie was a saloon keeper.  His log saloon stood 
a the forty five degree angle to the street on the corner across 
from the Hotel.  The Davis Saloon burned down in the late 1920's.

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