The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-04-24
OUR MINES.
Fact and Theory to Prove the Richness
of the Upper Yellowstone and Clark's
Fork Districts.

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IA la Occur d'Alene) with all its attend
ing reaction, no more opportune season
could he chosen than the present, to in
vite and introduce to the many thousands
who will be more than disappointed in
their realizations and expectations of that
country, the many advantages and won-
derful mineral resources of eastern Mon
tana, with the vast acreage yet unpros-
pected and unexplored, now SO easy of
access by the Park branch of the North
cru Pacific railroad, to which an cxten-
sion will he added this season, passing
to the very centre of the coming second
California of America, headed on the south
west by the New World mining district or
Clark's Fork. To within two years ago
the hardy and daring miner who ventured
to explore the mountain Businesses and
craggy heights in search of precious met
ais was debarred from actual right or
title, this district at that time being part
or parcel of the Crow Indian reservation.
But westward the star of empire takes it's
way Clark's Fork, Bear Gulch, Chico
and Emigrant Gulch had long enough
been held subservient to the red mans
use, and wisely all that country now en-
braced in Gallatin county, Montana, was
by treaty restored to the public domain.
Since which, Cooke City, from six or
eight log shacks, is gradually increasing
in the size and number of its dwellings,
all of substantial and come-to stay ap-
pearance, with daily influx to its popu-
latlon, and all the attendant Indications
IN men and the means used which, by a
fixed and solid determination at once no
ticeable, seems to answer back to the
towering heights of Henderson mountain
which says, Here are riches. Here are
muscle to unfold and capital to develop
them! Thus, in its mcrest infancy to-day,
is commencing the work in face of many
natural obstacles the prospecting and de-
veloping of one of the greatest coming
mining districts in all America. Space
would forbid my cnumerating the many
lodes recorded and the wonderful prepar-
ations now in progress for the coming
seasons work, and to the many hundreds
of disappointed Occur d 'Aleners about the
middle of June, would say, look out the
city of Livingston, Gallatin county, Mon
tana territory, on your atlas, seek the
the country of the Uppeg Yellowstone, and
take your choice of Chico, Emigrant
Gulch, Bear Gulch or Cooke City, and the
writer ventures an opinion that no disap-
pointment, no bitterness of feeling through
falsely conveyed impressions and infor-
nation will occur, no gall to feel yourself
sold through and by the persuasive and
seductive placards of eastern boomers.
Provided you come in earnest, honest in
intent and purpose to work, the riches are
here, the opportunities are offered, the
field is an inviting and golden one, com
mencing an era of prosperity with more
mineral wealth awaiting development,
quartz and placer, than is offered in any
state or territory in the United States to-
day. To quote authority for what might
appear to those unacquainted with the
writer. somewhat an enthusiastic declara-
ton. / give an extract from Prof. Hayden's
geological report of this country, made IN
1871, in which he says: "On the cast
side OF the Yellowstone river the eye takes
in at glance one of the most symmetri-
cal and remarkable ranges of mountains
have ever seen in the west. 4 series or
cone shaped peaks looking like gigantic
pyramids are grouped along the east side
of the valley for thirty or forty miles with
their bald dark SUBMITS covered with snow
tile vegetation growing thinner and small
Ter as we ascend the almost vertical SIDES
On all sides deep gorges have been
gasled out by aqueous forces, cutting TO
the very core of the mountains anel form
ing those wonderful gulches, which only
the hardy and daring miner has venrured
to explore. The greater portion of the
external surface Of this range is compact
basalt: but the cones or central portions
are granitoid rocks in which the gold is.