The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1872-11-30

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lslssd Il another colsna. M viii - fo1nd
highly interesting. There b 10 doubs that
d.. Haydea's explorations hsvs bess i'm
portant elensuts In the incsesss Of our
knowledge In The West Bas the Doctor
gnes too FIR ii some Of the claims which be
pats forward 70 tho honor Ut osigiai die.
covcry. II seems he hes now discovered
the Snake River. and the four remarkable
passes q HenryS Lake. A. NJ. Gilman
6awtcllc has lived for four or Ave years n
Henry's Lake, and has good wagon>road
to Virginia City, Monsana, the precise
amount of discovery" which d.. Hayden
here claims must be doubtful. Perhaps he
means that bis purity observed the four pass
e., which bad escaped the attention Of pre-.
ceding trsvclers-or perhaps he thinks he Is
the first to call public attention to these
passes.
In either case, VIC must undeccivc him.
Mr.. Raymond, the U. 8. Commissioner Of
Mining Statistics, visited Henry's Lake and
examined these four passes in the summer
of 1871, while Dr.. Hayden was in the Vel.
lowstone country. Recognizing the impor>
tspce of the passes for railroad purposes,
Nj. Raymond 1t that time wrote full iescrip.
tons of the locality to Mr.. Roberts, chief
engineer of the N. P. r. R., at Helena, and
to Mr.. Sickles, Superintendent f the Union
Pacific Railroad, at Omaha. he also w5ote
on the subject 10 Mr.. Billings, Of the for.
mer company, q New York. Moreover, he
described these passes publicly ct tho Cooper
Institute In this city, before the Fnnklin
Institute in Philadelphia, and ON several
other occasions during last winter. Finally,
the following paragraph appears In one Of
his Sketches of Western Travel" In the
Chrssian Usios, May Is, 1872: #tlA
''Hcnry's Lake il the source of the Henry
or North fork VI the Snake. II 10 surroun.
ded by lofty mountains, but connected with
the outer world by four remarkably low
passes--ail practicable. and two of them
(Snake River and tie Reynolds pass, posi-
lively inviting for railrOsd South ward,
the north fork runs with steady grade on.
u the great plains Of Idaho. . Northwest, y
pass over low divide leads to Red Rock
Lake, the head Of branch Of the Resver.
head and the jefferson. Northward, the
Reynolds pass communicates with the ter.
raced valley Of the Madison; and eastward,
the Henry pass gives easy entrance u the
great Madison basin, above the middle can
yon." .. Co.,. ....-. ......
Dr. Hayden gives somewhat different
names u these passes; and his names arc
well chosen, but. We do not recognize his
right 70 bessow them. still less, on the
ground, 10 claim discovery" There Is
some difference between . father and 1
godfather.
We might add to The evidence given above
Of the publication of earlier information
concerning this locality. Mr.. Calvin &.
Clawson, = member Of Mr.. Raymond's
party, published very full account Of the
route in the Deer Lodge NEW NoRrn.
WEST In the Fallof 1871 /; and moreover, Dr..
Hayden met members Of that party near
Yellowstone Lake, few days after they
left Hsnry's Lake; and It IL strange that be
was not informed ct that time of their
course. That some members Of his party
were 20 Informed We personally know.
The whole matter Is perhaps Of slight Inn
portance. Mr.. Raymond himself, while en-.
joyine the hospitality of Mr.. Saw.ellc .,
Henry's Lake, and exploring the four passes
referred y, certainly did mot deem himself
: discOvcrer, and does not now claim that
distinction. On The other hand, we do not
think It necessary for Dr.. Hayden to exag-
gerate the value and novelty of his work.
He has won impesishable glory out Of tho
0eysers and Yellowstone Park, without my
pretcnse Of having discovered them every.
body knows bow valuable ID the work of
his survey; he need not be ''nionsrch Of all
he surveya" Nay, We venture. In the words
Of the poet, 70 remind him, with great re.
spect for his real conquests and achieve.
ments, that "thc whole bouadless continent
sisv kiS's." IS
So, Up 70 the present stage Of controversy,
4 appears the NV NoRr1 WEST was the
6ns paper to publish account Of these pass
= oves which the Professors are now dis.
putting We took some pride . year Or two
40 10 Startling tho world with account of
prodigious turnips (six-pounders), but that
smineuce pales IN the psesspce Of this. II
does not put In showing that
this was matter of newspaper noteriety
previous q ls7l. the IN. n. ". !" has aehiev-
ID Immortality In 1.-TWO sticks Of BREWER"
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