The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-04
Lodge is located, it being the outgrowth of

Lodge is located, it being the outgrowth of
the Rocky Fork coal company's operations.
It is reached via the Northern Pacific at
Laurel, w. where s,;, the o Rocky Fork branch
road is forty-six miles long. The Rocky
Fork company has expended fully 100000
in opening up its mines. The coal beds are
very extensive and the veins vary
from 20 to rs feet in thickness.
The The o COMPANY s,d fully equppeed sh for
thirty-two carloads of coal per day.
1t is expected that before long 1000 tons
per day will be shipped, as every foot of
development in the mines shows superior
quality of coal and the grade grows better.
There are many other coal claims in the
worked. The Montana company has
twelve tunnels in different veins. This
company proposes to 90 to work on larger
scale this year.
It is near Red Lodge that the marble of
Park county is found. On Crandle creek
grade of marble. In the vicinity of Cooke
city great deal of marble has been To-
Gated. Petroleum has also been found in
the southwestern section of Park county.
At Cokedale, eight miles west of Living
ston is 100000 plant where 100 tons of
the property of the Livingston Coal and
Coke company, where the best coking coal
yet discovered in Montana is mined. The
mines are situated on the eastern slope of
the Belt range of mountains. Coal was
first discovered there in 1888 and in 1886 a
company conn ANY was organized with capital of
$3.50, 600 to engage in tho coal and coke bu-
siness. The incorporators were s. T. Hau-
ser, A. L. Love, 81. d. Hauser and E. w.
Toole. After thorough tests the coke was
pronounced by experts to be frst-class.
Operations were begun on a small scale and
last summer there were 100 ovens in opera
tion, making continuous line of more than
one and one-fourth miles. To produce 100
tons of coke daily about 200 tons of coal is
mined, furnishing employment to 25O men
and showing a monthly pay roll of about
$4,000. 1t is the intention to increase the
plants rs capacity this year hy the addition
supplies coke for the smelters at
East Helena, Butte and Wickes. Last
year concentration was added to the plant
to wash the coal preparatory to the burning
process. The capacity of the concentrator
Is seo g. tons ons per day and was built at cost
The company has purchased valuable coal
measures two miles above the mines now
operated, and to this new field their
railroad will be extended, furnishing
an abundant supply of coal for as many
ovens as the demand for coke will war
rant.
Cokedale, the business center brought
into existence by the company's works, is q
thriving village and can boast of two gen.
eral stores, postoffice, one boarding
house, hotel, two meat markets and numer-
GUS other business enterprises of less i'm
portance. During the past summer the
company has erected between thirty and
forty neat and commodious cottages for the
benefit of employees, and this number will
necessarily be augmented by the increasing
output of coke.
Another coking enterprise of growing inn
portance is that of the Park Coal and Coke
company, whose property is located at
Horr, thrifty village on the Park branch
of the Northern Pacific and forty miles
from Livingston. It is a Livingston enter
prise, its promoters all being residents of
the county seat. There are about forty
ovens in operation and this number will be
increased this year. The company has not
been in existence very long, but it has a
very valuable property and produces a fine
quality of coke. The mines are thoroughly
and systematically opened mp and give
daily yield of about 15O tons of coal. Over
20 90 tons of coal were taken from one of
the company's eight tnnnels. The coal is
free from slate or rock and other foreign
substances.
At Cinnabar. also on the Park branch,
il another extensive coal region
where coke making il the chief industry.
This property il about one mile east of
Horr. Work was practically begun in 1889,
and at depth of fifty feet a good mer-
chantable article vas found. and Is depth
vas attained the quality improved.