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The E-Sylum: Volume 17, Number 2, January 12, 2014, Article 16

MORE ON THE DEERFIELD, MONTANA HORSE CAR TOKEN

Yosef Sa'ar submitted this note in response to Paul Cunningham's article about the Deerfield, Montana Horse car token. Thanks! -Editor

I greatly enjoyed Paul's piece on the Deerfield token in the last issue of The E-Sylum. Here are two more ideas for confirming the existence of this horse car line:

1. I believe even back then the states may have had the equivalent of Public Service Commissions that licence street railways.

2. Maybe a county or state historical library could turn up some mention of a street railway for Deerfield. That's not something that happens every day.

After sitting in front of this screen for a couple of hours, I came up with a little information that may be of interest.

R.L. Polk & Co. of Helena, published their first Lewiston City Directory and Fergus County Directory in 1904. The listings for Deerfield, Montana, are on pages 129-130.

"A country postoffice on the Judith river, first settled 1887, 25 miles northwest of Lewiston, the banking and shipping point, Jesse Sampler; postmaster." A list of 23 residents follows without any A. Myers.

IMHO the token is a mule. Deerfield, Montana, could not even think of supporting a horse car line.

Paul Cunningham adds:

Yosef also correctly pointed out that the last edition of the Atwood-Coffee Catalogue is the 2007 Sixth Edition (I'd cited the Seventh edition in my earlier post).

The one problem I have will live on - if it's a mule, then show me the die or another token that was struck with the die.

To read the complete article, see: THE DEERFIELD, MONTANA HORSE CAR TOKEN (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n01a21.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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