8th Finglish trip May 2009 #11 In the 1910s around ten Finnish families moved from the mining town of Butte, Montana to California. Later they were joined by others, and finally there were over thirty families. Following their socialist ideals, they establish Finnish Colony Inc., a cooperative farm that paid all its members the same wage. The Finns first shared a single building with a communal kitchen, but the house burnt down and the families lost everything they owned. New

4th Finglish trip August 2006 #2 The Finntown of Butte, Montana gave way to a surface mine. Butte was known in Finglish as Piutti. Berkeley Pit, formerly an open-pit copper mine, is now a lake poisoned by arsenic. The pit and its water present a serious environmental problem, because the water is releasing acid. When the pit water level eventually reaches the natural water table, estimated to occur by around 2020, the pit water will reverse flow back into surrounding groundw