The Livingston enterprise., 1889-12-25
TnfNEw WORLD DISTRICT.
Interesting a,,! Descriptive Letters In Re-
Attnn to This Future ''(ireatest Mtn-
< Camp On Earth ,"
WAS. l,-... of Goa, Adjacent. Which Nav
Dc~cl"p Int" Anthracite Veins.

Dcyrl,,t Into Anthracite, Veins.
The principal qnartz mining camp in
Park county is Cooke. The district is
known us thc New World Mining Dis
trirt. though it is; frequently spoken OF
as the Clarks Fork District. The first
discovery OF silver lead ore was made in
1872 Whom tn ,untry was still on the
Grow lndira = rive. In 1871 the East
cru Montana Mining and Smelling Com
pAny. OF BolrnH... made a short run IN
;,u ol,istonc snelter that is stll standing.
The Isaunock Indians raided the camp
about this time and destroyed some OF
the machinery. The true opening ofth
district was in April. lSS2. when the re
serve was cut otT. Some prospcctors had
wnite, all winter in the mountains ready
to maxi locations as soon rs the treaty
was signed, others were stationed in
Rnzcin;n and FASTENED over the noun
tAins a5 soon wv the telegraph brought
the news Of the REIMBURSEMENT 81 the
Indian title. The snow was still deep
and the last twenty or thirty miles had
To bt made on snow shoes. Some of the
most valuable mines we're located at this
time ana are still held by the original lo-
Gators. VIII" anxiously await the coming
Of q railroad, without which it IS imIms-
siblc to work the mines economically.
The first sale was made by Geo. Huston
and others tn :i,c Republic Mining Com
l,any. This company expended large
sums in building; smcltcr. developing
its mines and other Improvements. No
run of amy consequence was made in tho
smeltcr until the fall of 1855, when the
company vent actively to work and was
The expense for freight was SO heavy
that work was not profitable. ana all OPP
erution@ wrr, discontinued and have not
since been f,aumcd
The Eastern Montnn! Mining and
Smcltins. t,inpany's s,nrlter has been
run several times. In lSs3 II company
a Pittsburgh men made Il short run I'M
der the rharyn of Mr.. ~ Wills In iss5
HNeFa! uillti'ilt runs were H'i't' -. .li
Frank l.Sl~r. and by Arssrs. Gasssrrt \
Re,laing. The high rate of freight pre-
vented any al tn. alton, ON bp
ing pru,itable Sine Is>'; the district
has been developed py ,hn prosp'cturs.
and no s;.lo uI any importance has been
made eNrrs. mat of the ".Nlire Is lode
to "A collpHny formed IN louisville. ky
This company has done considerable dc
velupmrn; work. but nothing III the way
of reduction either by milling or sn.elt
my has YET been attempted. Messrs
Gasscrt K Redding, after selling the
great "Bluc Bird" lode near Butte. r..
moved lu Cooke and have developed the
"Morning Star" "Sl,ou s'iy and BLACK
Warrior" lohrs. which are now bonded
to Mr.. James NJ. Whitlutch.
The geological character of the New
World Mining District is by no mcuns
unifMW.; The western portion is all in
limestone, broken in many places by
dykes of pnrphyry and un.lerlai,l by slate,
while the northern and eastern l,,yt is
granite. All the oldest locations were
made in the limestone. The granite
country was not prospcctea until 1889.
and till now has not been much devel
oped, except ON the Acme" and "Raru
Avis" loles. The country squite rough,
the mountains rising nearly three thous-
snd feet above tho level of the town of
Cooke, tho highest being very little short
II clrye:! thousand feet. The engineers
81 .,.u ..o.thesn Pacific railroad have
during ti,,s past summer surveyed about
fosly miles of road. The stakes show a
str.r, OF curves that will make rs inter
e5, J IA engineering feat as the crossing
Of the Marshall Pass by the Denver Il
Rio Grande. The snow remains on these
high mountains uatil the end of June.
but the town of Cooke is usually clear
sometime: in April.
There have been more than one thous
and locations made since the opening of
tho district in 1882. At present there
are about three hundred locations that
receive the annual assessment work re-
quired by the statutes. About dozen
lOC1es have been SURVEYED and Datenfed