St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-22
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A bill for the opening of small Sec
ton of the National park will be intro
duced during the closing hours of the
present congress. and kilograms from
interested. parties in Washington to
subStantiate that fact are in the posses
sion of a gentleman in this city. This
measure will be formulated in the in-
terest of the Northern Pacific railroad,
and its passage is fraught with impor-
tance to the country in general, and the
Northwest in particular. The Rocky
Fork d Cook City railway have already
built road from Laurel On the main
line to Red Lodge. distance of forty
seven miles Ell: G. Davis is president
and Joseph B. Hubbelf secretary of this
line, and in December last these gentle
men closed deal in New York. with
Gov. Hauser, Henry Willard and other
prominent men for the completion sof
the road, and the development of the
coal fields in the vicinity of the !. Red
Lodge. THESE fields are owned by the
Rocky Fork company, and j. B. Alex
ander, a mining expert, recently made
a survey of them. As a result. Of this
inspection he formulated report last
fall which shows that this field sur
passes any in the world in richness.
The report shows that 1900 tons OF coal
can be mined daily for 465 years -
WITHOUT GOING BELOW
the water line in search for black
diamonds, and it is superior to all other
ccal brought to Montana. In ten months
the company expect to mine 500 tons,
and thirty days thereafter anticipate a
daily output of 1900 tons. The project
Ors of this line hope ultimately to reach
Cooke City, which is situated ON the
edge of the National park; but it would
be impossible to reach their destination
direct from. Red Lodge as the in.
tervening country is practic-
ally impossible. and would battle
the ingenuity of the most
competent engineer. The line. as far
as constructed, follows the course of
Clarke's Fork and Rocky Fork, but the.
company have run a preliminary line in
a southerly directionte the lower. end.
of Clarke's Fork canon, which follows
. the course of Clarke's Fork to Cooke
City. This line Weuld involve. an out
lay of :$2,0O0,O00, but is the only pracsl
ticable one WHICH could be run: Az
Nye City E. b. Langdop, of .Minneape5
lis, and other prominent moneyed menof,
the Flour City, have built a smelling,
works at the head. of the Saltwater,
river, but having no outlet, have al
lowed the plant to remain idle, although
some say that it is situated in the Crow
reservation, and if so. cannot be opl
Grated. The Minneapolis men want,
the Rocky Fork road run down to Ny9,
City, and hope. eventually to extend it
to Cooke City. 1t is the desire and iii,
tentiop OF the Northern Pacific COM
pany not only to ,....i :.
ENCOURAGE. THE EXTENSION ~
of, the, Rocky, Fork road from Red
I Lodge, via Cfarke''s, Fork canon. to-
: Cooke City, but ALSO. with the permis-11,
| sion of congress, to Extend their Cinna,
bar branch, via the Yellowstone river.
and Soda Butte creek, to the same,
point: In the one instance. they could,
bring the mineral products of. Cooke
City IN close, proximity to the cheap
fuel and abundant timber of Rocky
Fork, and tile other branch would
utilize the Park branch, which for nine
months in the year lies In state of
''inocuous .desuetude." The Rocky
Fork route:wouid find local support, as,
it approaches the oil fields and rich
agricultural districts of Northern Wyo-
ming, and would probably develope a
mineral region in the vicinity of
Clarke's Fork canon: The Cinnabar
route would furnish short line to the
great smelterss which are sure to be
built at Livingston this year. Itis cur
rently reported that many st. Paul
people. are interesting themselves in
Cooke City. The Messrs. Mannheimer
and DR.. Beecher are mentioned in this
connection.
By means of the proposed continuous
line Of 1870 miles from Cinnabar. to
Laurel a great country. prolific in nat
uraI resources, will be opened. If the
bill passes congress
THE LINE FROM CINNABAR
to Cooke City will be built immediately,
and an outlet for the ore established.
Livingston is in the heart of the ceking
coal field, and offers all the natural adj
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