The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-12-01

4 Private Company Anxious to secure Its
Management.

WASHINGTON, November sc. r Ho.
bart, Division Superintendent Of tho North
of the company now forming to supply the
Yellowstone National Park with hotels. He
says depredations have been committed IN
the Park to such an extent that II 1t 10 not
handed over to the care Of company 1t will
4 few years cease to be worth visiting.
The Park Is now well supplied with elk,
blacktail deer and Rocky Mountain sheep,
running In large herds, but At the rate At
which these animals have been SIS us htersd'
lately they would bc exterminated In two
years. Hobarts company 10 allowed, under
the contract With the Interior Department,
to kill such deer and game Is are needed for
supplying the hotels, but be desires to have
the privilege withdrawn 50 that none Of the
game, other than animals with claws, shall
be killed. Recently seven elk weie shot,
and laid ono on top the other. A small
drove was used merely As target, by some
ruthless sportsmsn, who had Ito use for the
meat, aud who did not even take the hides
Cd. Great damage In being done by camp
tires lighted without care, and left without
beink sxt,ngushed. The guides. soldiers,
aud servants whs attended General Sherman
and his party In the recent visit to the Park,
did IN enormous amount OF mischief The
campfres burned over 5000 acres Of wood
md nd shafI la LaI
with bsttering rams for the sake of getting .
few specimens.
Some time ago q contract between the
Secretary Of the Interior on one part, and
Messrs. II. F. Douglas, Of Fort Yates, D. T.
aud e. T. Hobart. Of Fargo, Division Super.
intendent of the Northern Pacific Railroad,
on the other part, for the erection Of hotels
and for providing other accommodations and
was published In these dispatches. Under
this contract the parties Of the second part
have proceeded TO organize . joint stock
company, aud for this purpose, with other
parties Interested In the enterprise, held pre-
tiscted mestings IN Chicago, some time age,
and selected an Executive Committee aud In
part appointed Board Of Directors. This
Board will consist Of many Of the most no
ted capitalists, business men aud politicians
OF the country. 1t Is not quite complete,
two or three prominent gentlemen who have
been solicited not having yet signified q will
ingness to accept Directerships In the asso-
fill
have already been determined upon a. Dr.
reclors: c. A. Roberts. Fargo, D. r.; Il F.
Douglas, Fort Yates. d. T; Roscoe COX
ling, New York; A. J. Vanderpo"', New
York; Rufus Hatch, New York; General J.
A. Williamson, Boston agent Of the Atlantic
and Pacific Railway; J. B LYON, Chicago;
Carroll F. Hobart, Fargo, d. T. Division.
Superintendent Northern Pacific Railway;
II. J. Hastings, editor Of the New York Com
mercial Advertiser; Hon. John r. Brood,
Judge Of the Supreme Court of New York.
Mr.. Hobart, of Fargo, has been elected
vice-President and will be Superintendent
c~ss Of construction from Yellowstone Park,
and will have general supervision Of the A.
fairs # the association. Two hundred men
are nov al work on the branch line and
twenty five men are In the Park getting out
timber for the hotel buildings. 1t 10 ex
pscted that everything will be ready for the
accommodation Of visitors by June 1st next.
Nj. Hobart will locate the lands on which
the hotels are to be erected and expects to
obtain lease from the Government. As
soon IS this Is done the $4,000 which Mr..
Hatch has promised TO advance, it Is said,
will be forthcoming. The managers will
have another meeting in New York on De-
cember Sd, when they will complete their
organization.