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ST. REGIS - A Mineral County quilting group is working to help renovate the only building that survived the 1910 fire. The blaze destroyed Wallace, Idaho and continued to burn into Montana.

The sound of sewing machines is the sound of service in Mineral County.

"Our main thing is doing service quilts," says Sherrill Christensen, Cabin Fever Quilters of Mineral County Chairperson."Every year we ask the people to send us letters to see what they can use the money for."

The Cabin Fever Quilters group started its service over a decade ago by making large quilts and then raffling them off to help organizations in their community.

"It's just in the heart of quilters to do that," says Gaynelle Stamm, Cabin Fever Quilters of Mineral County Member. "It's very gratifying to make a quilt and have the enjoyment of the sewing and then the gratification of giving it away."

The quilt guild has over 50 members. These women are from all over Western Montana and a couple of them are from Idaho.

It will be the guilds 11th quilt show in August. This year's quilt reflects on the group's 10 years of service to the community.

"From those 10 years, we've given scholarships to the 3 schools, we've given money to the 3 fire departments, we've given defibrillators for the patrol cars," Christensen said.

And the list goes on, but the money from the raffle of this year's quilt will go to toward helping renovate the DeBorgia School House. The school house was built in 1908-two years before the deadly fire of 1910-which is also the worst fire in U.S. history to this day. The school house building in DeBorgia was only one to survive that blaze and it still sits in its original location.

"It needs to be repainted and there's three little old ladies that have been trying to keep that building going for 40 years," Christensen said.

The school house is now used as a community center.

To purchase tickets for the quilt raffle call Sherrill Christensen at 406.214.5041. The quilt will be raffled off during the Mineral County fair next month.