The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-25
rot Given to Montana.

/ The town Of Gardiner was thrown
into spasm of excitement on Monday
last by telegram announcing the pass
age of bin in Congress throwing open
to settlement a strip of land upon which
that promising place is located, and
many valuable tributary mines in Bear
Gulch. For one year parties have been
waiting the passage of this bill, and as
soon as the news reached the town, lots
we're staked out, logs hauled on, and
scurrying scene of activity enacted
pleasant to behold Men who never
were known to move faster than a slow
walk ran like race horses, horses were
put on the run, and a stranger would
have concluded that the citizens had
suddenly gone stark crazy.
Besides the benefits likely to accrue to
Gardiner which wouldnow take its place
as the most important town east of the
range, is the completion of railroad to
Cooke City, which has heretofore been
impossible by reason of the unfortunate
width of the Park The building of
rsilroad to this rich mining country
would be of incalculable benefit to
Cooke City, Gallatin Valley, and the
many Bozeman mine owners, and no
doubt will be built within year.
This excitement and hurried location
of enviable mining claims now proves
to have been slightly premature re-
suit of message sent to Livingston
man by his father who is now in Wash
ington to notify his offspring when to
catch on" The excitable father, ac-
cording to the Washington reporters has
been unfortunately hasty, and the re-
suit of his awkward move an untimely
exposure of desires,
Nearly year ago the Senate passed
bill to change the boundaries of the yell
lOwstone National Park, extending the,
Park to the east and restoring to the
public domain an equivalent territory
now included within it's western bOun-
dairy. This was done for the purpose of
including within the Park several inter-
esting features, which lie just beyond the
present eastern boundary line. The bill
also contains provisions giving the Sec
retary of the Interior authority to lease
suitable portions of the Park, not to ex-
coed two acres for each tract, upon which
may be erected hotels and Outbuildings,
and for the period not to exceed ten
years. 1t also prohibits the granting of
any exclusive privileges, except upon the
ground leased. The bill was referred to
the House committee on Territories,
March IL, 1884, but was not reported to
the House until January "a, 1854, with
amendments. Mr.. Hill, of Ohio, on
Saturday, called up this bill, and the
House, by vote of SO to II, refused to
strike out the amendment, and the bill
as amended was passed. An examina-
ton of the map shows that the amend
ment of the House throws into the pub
lie domain several hundred square miles
in the northeast corner Of the Park, in
which are included some OF the most in
terestiHg and valuable features of the
Park. Among these are Bison Peak,
Mount Longfellow, and Trout Lake,
three or four hot springs, and Soda Butte
spring, which is the most remarkable
spring in the whole Park. This spring
contains soda, carbonic acid, sulphur,
and various other minerals, in combina-
ion with iron.
On Saturday large number of our
citizens signed petition asking Senator
Vest to aid the passage of the bill now
before the Senate, which he Will proba-
bly, do and the bill passed at this session
of Congress.