The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-04
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There are nodess than 400 mining claims

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There are no less than 400 mining claims
in the New World district and work has
been done on 400 of them. The above tab
.prises,. yet it shows that $lOe, 79O has been
expended upon them computing at the low
estimate of $40 per foot. The Republic
company alone put $850, 600 into their prop
critics in building smelter, bitches, houses
and mine development and mincrs' wages,
and this would bring the total up to more
than $4OO, 900. It 10 . low estimate to place
the amount OF money invested in develop
ing the mines of the New World district at
half million dollars: All this has been
cash and labor are patiently awaiting the
returns that must come to them az soon as
railroad is built there, and in short
time their meritorious labors will
be rewarded, their hearts gladdened aud
the railroad which shall transport it's ores
camp of Cooke at its present stage can
guarantee an export Of at least loo tons
of ore per day. and this will be increased
rapidly by the impetus a railroad naturally
gives to mining districts. Cooke City will
become one OF the famous mining regions
tains, in picturesque country where q
hundred peaks have perpetual snow. The
section has the unqualified endorsement Of
Prof. G. O. Swallow, an eminent geoloRiet
and the present state mine inspector for
Montana. He has. written several letters de-
scriptive of the great camp and suggested
routes for railway, and among many in
teresting things he says:
The discoveries and owners Of the
Cooke City mines belong to the true pio-
neer class Of Americans, who have civilized
vast agricultural resources. and who have
opened the mines of the Rocky mountains
and the Pacific slope in the face of the moet
daring hostile tribes, thousands of miles
away from the nearest supplies of food and
clothing and mining implements and the
protection they might need from their gov
ernment
1.-The pioneer miners and their helpers,
full of enterprise and manhood, and quick
to learn, are now masters of the situation at
Cooke City, at Eeihart. at Rarker, at
Maiden, At Castle and many other mining
camps. They believe in their mines and
are determined to hold them and wait for
the railroads, which alone can give them
cheap transportation and make their smelt-
ing ores profitable.
Ores that would be much sought for ut
Butte, Wlckes, Helena and Great Falls have
no present value or sale at Cooke City, at
Maiden, at Barker, at Castle and at Neihart.
But the railroads will fill all these waiting
camps with life and activity, and rive
electric force to their picks and dynamite.
These men have worked out hundreds of
WILD VA SOIN dHA bllNOT UUlllOus OUT 30 0l.
luted with lead that the freights exhausted
| all the profits of working.
when Cooke City has railroad which
will furnish cheap freights she will furnish
1.-THE bullion to keep trains in constant mo-
ton to eastern markets for the next hum
naces will be all aglow with vital energy. A
Thousand miners will take the ore from, a
hundred mines, and the furnaces will pour
out glowing streams Of golden bullion.
| "ISut how shall the railroad come? Men
are ready and have been ready for years to
build. but their chosen route has been
blocked by congress.
"The way up the Yellowstone and Soda
Butte creek is the natural route. But some
congressman have been inspired with SEN
timental notions that such road will de-
stroy the symmetry and the wonders of the
park. We have shown this road will inter-
fere with neither the symmetry of the park
nor pass within many miles OF its adver-
tised wonders. No tourist ever saw or ever
will see the boundaries of the park and adj
mire the symmetrical PROPORTION Of four
straight sides.
ARTISTS tell us there is little beauty in
rectilinear boundaries. But if the above
named streams above Gardiner be made the
boundary, the artistic tastes of all tourists
Will be cultivated and eratified by endless
there are valuable lines along this northern
boundary Of the park; but the miners can
not tell and no one can, tell where the
boundary does run. and the miner may be
driven from his discovery and his mill erect
ed in good faith, by soldier who can only
guess at the position of an imaginary
line in its course over mountains and
valleys without metes or blazes. There are
parties now who would erect mill ON one
of the best mines ip the state; but they
cannot tell whether the soldiers would claim
the mill site as part of the Park. Make
the Yellowstone and Soda Butte the bound
airy and all doubts would be at an end; and
and the miner and tourist could work and
hunt and fish on opposite sides of the same
streams, and together admire Soda Butte
and drink it's waters and share the generous
as friends and countrymen."