Butte is a community living with a fading reflection of itself
and is
challenged to find a new economic base. The people of Butte are resiliant
and strong
and seem determined to attract businesses to its high altitude location. Granite
Street
ends where the Berkeley Pit begins. In the distance, steam can be seen rising from the
900 feet
deep hydrothermically heated toxic red waters from the Berkeley Pit. The Pit's presence looms large in
this town. It draws thousands of people off Interstates 90 and 15 each year. People are astonished to see where the Pit sits in Butte.
