Jefferson Valley News--December 19, 1913

(This article was a special edition put out by the paper with help from the Whitehall Women's club)

B.H. Hunt-- Truly a pioneer is B.H. Hunt of Waterloo, whose advent to this state dates back to the territorial days of 1863, and who, for a half century has lived in this section and knows by experience the vast and remarkable changes that have taken place.

It was in the spring of the gold strike in Alder, 1863, that Mr. Hunt came from Idaho to Montana and at that place mined for about a year.  In the fall of '64 took his team of oxen and went to Idaho to marry Miss Tryphena Marshall.  Mr. and Mrs. Hunt remained in Franklin, Idaho for about one year then returned to Montana.  They lived first on the Ike Milliner place near Pleasant Valley near C.W. Winslow's (This was near where Gene Hanson is now) Mr. Hunt freighted that summer, from near Benton to Helena.  The following year the Hunts moved near Pipestone Springs where Mr. Hunt mined and put up a quartz mill. (May have been up near the Columbia Mine, north of the Springs)  After spending some time in the Pipestone country Mr. Hunt and family in 1867 to what is known as Paul ranch one mile west of Whitehall vicinity and in the early seventies moved to the Silver Star mining camp where they stayed about three years and in 1875 Mr. Hunt again did some mining at Cooke's diggings near Pipestone (possibly above what we know as Cactus Inn) but the following year went to Pleasant Vally and lived on what is now the Wm McGee farm.  He peddled vegetables from that place to Highland with oxen.  Mr. Hunt decided to take up a homestead so in '77 filed on and near Silver Star where the family lived and followed farming for about 10 years then got a ranch on Spring Creek where for nearly twenty years they toiled and a few years ago Mr. Hunt bought the place where they now reside in the rich Waterloo country.

Mr. Hunt is 78 years old while Mrs. Hunt is 66.  They have living the following children:  Mrs. Sarah Lorenz of Waterloo, Mrs. Bedford Love, Renova, Alfred Hunt of Butte, Arthur Hunt on a farm adjoining the parents farm, and George Hunt who with his wife live on the old home ranch.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Hunt are very active.  They are beloved wherever they are known.  Representatives of the old band of pioneers, whose ranks are thinning, day by day, they are well deserving of the respect and esteem in which they are universally held, and command a high place in regard of those who are admirers of the people that have helped to build our great state.