WALTER AND RUTH MOORE FAMILY, Bio, Granite Co., MT

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	WALTER AND RUTH MOORE FAMILY

Born:
Place:
Died:  Walter died after 1971.
Place:

Occupation:  Walter Moore drove the stage for Frank Davy for four 
years.  The Moores ran the Wells Hotel at Garnet.

Married:  He married Ruth ?.

Children:
	1)  Mae Moore
		Born:
		Place:
		Died:
		Place:

	2)  James "Jim" Moore
		Born:
		Place:
		Died:
		Place:

The Moore Family arrived at Garnet in 1917 or 1918.  Walter's 
father was a miner at the Shamrock Mine picking up pieces where 
the rich ore had already been taken out.

Mr. Moore recalls early day Garnet, "Excitement?.  Most of the 
excitement was caused when promotions came to town.  They'd get 
everybody worked up about a mine someplace and then sell stock.  
Most of it wasn't worth anything, they took some people for 
fools....What was that fella's name?"

Mr. Moore recalls his stage coach days, "Ride on it?... Huh, I 
drove it for four years.  Once when I was coming up I broke a 
breast strap, you know that piece that goes across the front of 
the horse?  Well, I pulled up front of Davy's Store and asked him 
if he had any of those little snap things I could repair it with. 
 Frank told me to come in and look for it myself.  Inside his 
store, it long shelves with ladders up on the wall.  So I climbed 
up and started lookin', took quite awhile, I was enjoying myself, 
look'in at all them old things he had in there.  When I found a 
box in the back labeled breast strap buckles, I looked inside, and 
it was filled with gold nuggets.  I brought it down to Frank and 
said Yep, I'd take one of these.  When he saw what it was inside 
he was surprised.  He said he'd hid the box 30 years ago."

In the late 1950's Walter Moore and his family came rolling into 
Garnet one afternoon to find another man and his family already 
there.  They  were on the roof of the Hotel, leaning over the 
front trying to pry loose the fancy gable decoration.  They had 
ruined the whole west side of the roof to get up there, prying off 
a couple of roof boards and tearing up most of the shingles.  Walt 
Moore ask him what he was doing, and the man evidently told him 
that he had found the tools on the roof, and was just holding them 
while he was leaning over the edge to get a better look a the 
ornament, a very likely story.  Walt Moore got the tools as 
another car left in a cloud of dust, but they did not make up for 
the damage done to the Hotel.  

Water now leaked in and wet down the Saturday Evening Posts that 
had not been sold a the auction.  These formed a kind of wet paper 
machete all over the west side of the dining room, and wet leaves 
blown in the windows and litter from picnic lunches disposed of 
inside the Hotel added to the damp soggy mess.  Eventually the 
floor boards and joints began to rot and the west side of the 
Hotel to sag.  

On January 8, 1971 Walter Moore lived at 326 28th Street, Ogden, 
Utah 84401.
























Bibliography:

Ingram, Pam 1971.  Interview with Mr. Walter Moore concerning life 
in Garnet.

Moore, Walter, 1971.  Letter to Mr. John Crouch concerning life in 
Garnet.

Morin, Mary Jane Adams, 1995.  Interview with Bureau of Land 
Management concerning persons who lived at Garnet, Montana, 
unpublished.