New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-30

fossil-bearing rocks. Between Glendive and Miles
City the hills and buttes for twenty miles
either side the river filled with fossliferous
stones. Leaf Impressions fish Impressions and all
the ancient forms OF shell fish are found in profu-
sion The fossils rct4n their dainty rainbow hues
and show their cellular construction MS perfectly rs
they did when they swan about In the Yellow
stone million years ago, the Yellowstone that
then stretched across the country from five TO
twenty miles
II any faith is 10 he put in signs, Livingston,
thus pcturcsqnCly placed. will soon be one OF the
greatest ore markets in the world, and n centre
for thc most extensive smelling and reduction
operations. About 100 miles southeast Of the
city is n chain Of hills 5000 feet in elevation,
spur Of the Rockies, swhcre mineral wealth of
startling proportions has been found. The min
ing camp is called Cooke City. and as many as
1000 clnms have been stnllcd ont within an area
Of fifteen miles The promoters of mining com
panieS not always thr most Trustworthy sort OF
people, and yet the evidence is abundant md
reasonably credible that this camp ia full Of gold,
silver lead and iron, and many dISintcrcstcd per
sons believe It destined TO become n greater camp
than Butte Why not? Nothing that can be
claimed for the mountains Of Montana is unbe-
hcvahlc 0YtFr ono examines the record Of what
hrs been achieved in them. The mineral
product OF last year amounted IN s42, 100000
II has increased steadily year by year
since gold WINS FIRST found Mt Virginia CITY. Thou
SantS Of claims we'll known 10 be rich are lying
ldIr to-day only because they arc too far from the
railroads TO he proiitably worked. That is the
trouble with Cooke City. Its mines were dscov-
cred fifteen years q o, but their development has
occurred only within the last eight months, and
the only thing that can now be done is 70 pile mp
tho ore and whit for IA" rallrond. ! examined
some thirty or forty assays, made by the United
Stairs aS>ayrrs Of spec men tons Of from these
mines, and they ran in valuc all the way from
s3i 10 $500 One >arlpir contained siissO in
Ivcr 81 % in gold ami $@l sc IN lead. TIL" poorest
sample from that mine was worth s329. The mines
situated physically 10 be exceedingly dim
,ult OF approach The chief engineer OF the
Northern Pacific is now making personal exam
nation Of three routes, but h. has snail hopes Of
being able 20 surn0unt tho difficulties that lie in
tho Of railroad construction over two Of them.
The other one which IS undoubtedly f,asihlryhrs
along the east fax Of the Yellowstone. but It
p,sscs through the no. crn limit q the yellow stone
Park An effort made last year, and viii BE-
renewed this winter, to induce Congress to render
the development OF these mines possible by making
the Yellowstone and SODA Butte Greek the north.
IL" lark s'!ip SIX mile, wide" saId 20 contain no
rr"orlral or typographical formation, Of iuterrst.
How f1r thcS' representations are accurate, do
mot know, but o." matter is now hing invcStl-
gated hy Government surveying wrty.
Tho mountains around Livingston are full OF
coal An irnn"rsr field of htumInons cual n, Red
Lodge IS reached hy IA hgnuch line Of IN" Northern
rnrIi,r ard il h"il- prrn'nh!, "lcrnt-i On - large
scalr N,ar CInu.lnr = coal hi> been found winch
roEus readily. and similar mluys Arr nuT in oIs.ra-
ton "a few milrs west Of This CITY. The output
hire a!rraly reaches 20u tons - Day. Ia" dIss"y-
cry 81 THIS cokug coal has been Of lncalcu'ahlr
yaluc 10 MTl'nua. Tho s'n"l'"rS NJ Helena and
I,ntt", which formerly had 70 hrng thc7 coke all
tho We, from rcnrsI lvanin, n" now Supplied from
his c!i-. They usr H." Livingston COX" cn'lr'lr.
H." railroad uses ilr coal. :" that rvrrc ton mined
hA. IN iIumrlll'" market. tn" cost OF r"du' ing
or ha, l,-n l,~srUcl D.Nrv 90 I"r cent, and u
further rslGc'iuu VIII %" male - soon n, tn
collng flrrucrS now being hul' hare and NJ Gin
raior are finished 1h.>r roa! mines rrr1"r I.v-
=. srcn ~" best roin' Montana f"r Nn"!tinE
srl rclurinE o-cs The wrVV;.in' mr." ful 81
s'rra and lime nd cyrryih,US c.>" n'N'"starry 10
,,ru n quart, rock INTO lar o! par" metal ON
liz WHOLE know u u" pla'" ~ ali th" Northwest
VI osr future j. more Nfly assured Than th.S
bri.ht uud beautiful h''lr cl,y. L. y. y