Chain of title — the deeds — 1316 Bozeman Avenue

Legal (live county tax card, accessed 2026-08-26): NORTHERN PACIFIC ADDN, S29, T10 N, R03 W, BLOCK 25, Lot 1–4, 35' CLOSED COOKE ST. Geo 05-1888-29-2-32-15-0000. Tax ID 2852. Acres 0.65. Address on card: 1316 BOZEMAN ST.

Source: Lewis & Clark County iTax, https://itax.tylertech.com/LewisAndClarkMT/detail.aspx?taxid=2852 — last updated on card 2026-08-25 19:30.

Index opened this pass (2026-08-26): EagleWeb public login, https://eagle-web.lccountymt.gov/recorder/web/ — index only, no images. Clerk: Amy Reeves, 316 N Park Ave Rm 113, Helena · images/subscription 406-447-8337.

What is proven on the live index (newest first)

Instruments that name Northern Pacific Addn Block 25 Lots 1–4 (this warehouse). Do not mix Inter City II or Block 1 / Block 23 / Block 24.

Date	#	Type	Book / Page	Parties	Status
2016-04-11	3287733	Reconveyance	M51 / 1993	Wells Fargo → Dorothy M Horne + Capital Transfer (rel. 3121626 / M35:8672)	VERIFIED index. Same four lots.
2010-05-26	3187170	Deed	M41 / 9974	HORNE DOROTHY M ESTATE → HORNE JOHN L	VERIFIED index. Document date 2007-12-31 — re-record of the estate deed, not a second sale. Fee $11. Return: Harlen Law Firm, 36 W 6th Ave, Helena 59601. Notes: Ordinance 1758. Related book shown as 53 / 463 (likely the same ordinance family as 253/463; image needed to settle).
2008-02-07	3143012	Assumption of mortgage	M37 / 8749	Capital Transfer + John L Horne → Wells Fargo (rel. 3121626). Notes name HORNE DOROTHY M	VERIFIED index. After the estate deed; John and the company take on her Wells Fargo paper.
2007-12-31	3141282	Deed	M37 / 7167	HORNE DOROTHY M ESTATE → HORNE JOHN L	VERIFIED live on EagleWeb (opened `viewDoc.jsp?node=DOCC3141282`). Rec. 12/31/2007 1:56 PM. 1 page. Fee $7. Return: Harlen Law Firm, P.O. Box 1152, Helena MT 59624. Legal: NP Addn Lots 1–4 Block 25. Family succession, not an outside sale. Matches the iTax card.
2007-11-14	—	MT SOS C176736	—	Capital Transfer & Storage LLC organized; agent John L. Horne, 1316 Bozeman	VERIFIED SOS (prior brief). Two weeks before the estate deed.
2007-01-23	3121878	Reconveyance	M35 / 8910	Wells Fargo → Dorothy M Horne + Capital Transfer and Storage of Helena. Rel. 3086550 / M32:7570. Notes: Ordinance 1758. Rel. book 253 / 463	VERIFIED index. Same four lots.
2007-01-18	3121626	Mortgage	M35 / 8672	Dorothy → Wells Fargo	VERIFIED index (from Dorothy name search + later assumption/reconveyance).
2005-07-18	3087605	Substitution of trustee & reconveyance	M32 / 8563	Wells Fargo → Capital Transfer + Dorothy M Horne. Rel. 565062 / M19:4600. Notes: Ordinance 1758. Rel. book 253 / 463	VERIFIED index. Same four lots.
2005-06-28	3086550	Mortgage	M32 / 7570	Dorothy M Horne → Wells Fargo. Notes: Ordinance 1758. Rel. book 253 / 463	VERIFIED index. Same four lots. 18 pages.
1997-07-14	565062	Mortgage	M19 / 4600	Dorothy M Horne + Capital Transfer and Storage → Norwest Bank Montana	VERIFIED index. Same four lots.
1995-06-08	533951	Reconveyance	M16 / 8584	Norwest → Dorothy Horne + Capital Transfer and Storage. Related: Book M3 p.278	VERIFIED index. Proves an older mortgage at M3/278. That older instrument does not appear as its own EagleWeb row (book/page search for M3/278 returns only this 1995 reconveyance).
1995-05-26	533388	Mortgage	M16 / 8132	Dorothy M Horne + Capital Transfer and Storage → Norwest Bank Montana	VERIFIED index. Same four lots. Earliest public-index lock of this family + company on this warehouse.

Board sentence: The Hornes were already on this ground with the company by May 1995. The 2007 paper is Dorothy’s estate to John, prepared by Harlen Law. They filed it again in May 2010 with the same document date.

What is not this warehouse (same names — do not mix)

Date	#	Why it is not 1316
2003-03-17	3036872	Norman / Gloria E Bypass Trust → Dorothy + Capital Transfer — legal is Inter City II Minor Subd Tract 2, not Block 25.
2006-04-13	3105384	Dorothy + Capital Transfer → North Park Transportation — same Inter City II tract.
2005-10-31	3096380 / 3096387	Dorothy / Wells Fargo ↔ Verizon / Gold Creek Cellular — NP Addn Lot 8 Block 1 (cell lease, other Horne ground).
2026-04-09	3448812 / 3448813	John Horne / Jean M Horne ↔ Verizon — Lot 8 Block 1 again.
2018-11-02	3330016	John Horne buys 1315 Bozeman — Block 24 Lots 3–6, taxid 25120. Other parcel.

Capital Transfer “both names” search returned 12 hits. Only the Block 25 rows above are this house.

Ordinance 1758 / Book 253 p.463

Later Block 25 mortgages and the 2010 re-record cite Ordinance 1758 and related book 253 p.463.

A book/page search for 253 / 463 returns 23 later instruments across the Northern Pacific Addition (Horne Block 25, Marlow Block 23, Region IV Family Outreach Block 3, cell leases on Block 1). It is an addition-wide city ordinance, not a Horne-only paper.

The ordinance document itself was not isolated as its own EagleWeb row this pass. Strong candidate for the tax card’s “35' closed Cooke St” (or a related plat/vacation). Image + the original recording date are still at the clerk. Do not claim the ordinance text until the page is read.

What the county will actually give you next

Index (free, guest): EagleWeb — https://eagle-web.lccountymt.gov/recorder/web/

About page: index covers documents recorded since January 1, 1865. https://eagle-web.lccountymt.gov/recorder/web/about.jsp
Public Login = search index, no images.
Registered / subscription = images. “To subscribe to images please contact the Recorders Office at (406) 447-8337.”
County note: records since April 1, 2001 are automated; conversion of older books is “ongoing.” That is why M3/278 (pre-1995 mortgage) is a related pointer, not a clickable image.

How to walk title before Dorothy (do this at the counter or on a paid login — do not invent names):

Buy / view images of #3141282 and #3187170. Confirm they are the same estate deed (document date already matches).
Open M3 p.278 (the mortgage released in 1995). That is the oldest named Horne/company paper. Read grantor/grantee — it may pre-date Dorothy’s name on the 1995 mortgage.
Open Ordinance 1758 / Book 253 p.463. Read whether it vacates Cooke Street or amends the NP Addition plat.
Search grantor/grantee for whoever sold to Dorothy (or to Capital Transfer) — that name is not on the public index for Block 25.
Also search these names as grantor and grantee (known occupants, not proven owners unless a deed says so):
NASH FINCH / NASH-FINCH / NASH BROTHERS
CHRISTIE TRANSFER
UNION MERCANTILE
KLEINSCHMIDT
LINDSAY FRUIT (adjacent liquor-warehouse lineage, not this lot unless a deed says so)
Search document type PATENTS for T10N R03W Sec 29.
Platted legal: Subdivision Northern Pacific / NP Addn, Block 25, Lot 1 — walk every deed, not only Horne.

Adjacent Horne parcel — do not mix

Field	Warehouse (THIS file)	Other Horne lot
Tax ID	2852	25120
Address	1316 Bozeman	1315 Bozeman St
Legal	NP Addn Blk 25 Lots 1–4 + 35' closed Cooke	NP Addn Blk 24 Lots 3–6
Deed	M37/7167 #3141282 2007-12-31 (estate → John; re-recorded 2010 as #3187170)	M54/8958 #3330016 2018-11-02
Acres	0.65	0.34
2025 market	$716,000	$311,320

Source: iTax 25120, https://itax.tylertech.com/LewisAndClarkMT/detail.aspx?taxid=25120 — accessed 2026-08-26. Same mailing address. Different block. Different deed. Not the warehouse.

Abstract that already exists (sibling lots, not ours)

Montana Historical Society, Helena Abstract and Title Company records, 1864–1973 (MC 421). Finding aid (Archives West): includes an abstract of title for Lot 5, Block 19, Northern Pacific Addition, “established by Allen M. Wilkinson in 1870.”

https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv40790

That is Block 19, not Block 25. It proves: (a) NP Addition title chains are a known MTHS holding; (b) someone named Wilkinson is in the addition’s origin story — unverified for our lots. Order path: MTHS Archives, 225 N Roberts, Helena · 406-444-2681. Ask: “Do you hold an abstract for Northern Pacific Addition Block 25 Lots 1–4 (now 1316 Bozeman)?”

What we still do not have (honest)

Any image (the pages themselves)
Title before Dorothy — who sold this warehouse to her / to Capital Transfer
The M3/278 mortgage text (exists as a related pointer only)
The Ordinance 1758 text (addition-wide; Cooke St vacation is a hypothesis, not proven)
Federal patent image (see 02_PATENT.md)
Proof that Union Mercantile, Kleinschmidt, Nash Finch, or Christie ever owned this ground (Nash-Finch / Christie are 1935 occupants, not proven owners)

Gold for the board, from deeds alone: the land is in the Northern Pacific Addition, four lots plus a closed street remnant. The Horne family and Capital Transfer were on the mortgage by 1995. At the end of 2007, Dorothy M. Horne’s estate conveyed the house to John L. Horne — same lawyer, same lots, re-filed in 2010. The older chain is at the Clerk — indexed from 1865 — and at MTHS as a class of abstracts. It has not been bought or photographed this pass.