The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-03-28
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to congress. 1t was indeed an unpopula,
~ ~ bill, tackled as a rider to a meritorious
er one, defining the boundary of the Park
=, enlarglng its territory and creating a
n n civil government for its protection and
IN the preservation of life and property
Or In justice to Judge Payson, chairman
!, n OF the public lands committee, | must
st state that at the first meeting of his
lie committee he favored the segregation
T. :. Of the land north of the Yellowstone
10 river, for the purpose of giving free ac
y cess to any railroad. This was entirely
a a consistant with the judges record as an
e opponent of railroad monopolies and
special privileges. But, as he informed
r r me, when at the second meeting of his
it committee, he found the superintendent
$ OF the Park, Capt Boutelle, strongly
# recommending the passage OF the bill,
d with its Montana Mineral railway rider,
d the report with the majority of his com
/, mittee
) Judge Payson never called this bill up
: on any day set for his committee. but on
September 10Th, the day before the close
OF the first session of the 5lst congress,
! Hon. Thos. r. Stockdale of Mississippi
d, asked unanimous consent to put upon
It's final passage S. bill 49l. Anderson
! OF Kansas offered to dispense with the
reading of the bill, provided that section
: OF 1t was read which related to the
building of railroad in the Park.
When it was found that such section
: had been injected into the bill, it was
promptly negatived by Anderson,
Adams, Dunnell, Holman, Vaux and
Gambler of Mass, all of whom objected
to this attempt to run an omnibus bill
through the house in hot haste, at the
close of session.
At the second session, the Montana
Mineral railway bill would have Jared
worse, for many of the members of the
lands committee had become dsgusted
with it and were in active opposition to
it.
If the people of Livingston still hope
to see Cinnabar and Cooke connected by
rail / would advise them to consider the
proposition contained in the following
paragraph of mine published in the
ENTERPRISE of 1888:
while most earnestly opposing any
attempt to cut from the Park that por-
ton of Montana upon which the govern
ment has expended large sums of money
as it has up the Gardiner canyon be-
tween Gardiner City and Mammoth Hot
Springs, there can be no valid objection
to making the northwestern boundary
of the Park follow Soda Butte creek to
the east fork of the Yellowstone river,
thence down to where the Yellowstone
river forms a junction with the Gardiner
river. There are good reasons why this
should become the boundary line. 1t
would interfere with no established Park
road. 1t would cut off nothing of in
| terest to the Park, but would give Cooke
City an opportunity to construct rail
road up the course of these streams by
which it could send it's valuable ores out
and import coke and mining supplies.
It would be a simple act of justice to
render every facility for the develop
ment of this rich mining region"
These were my views in 1883, they are
my views today.
It will be much more difficult to clear
the way for railroad to Cooke City in
the Sind congress than it was in the 5lst.
term, by which the Montana Mineral
railway attempted to secure it's charter
has raised an opposition in congress that
will be hard to overcome. Many of
them say, as Vaux said to me, II am op-
posed to cutting off any part of this
great park to accommodate a railroad.
1t would be a bad precedent; clip one .
corner off to suit this railroad and soon
another railroad company will ask us to
clip it again to accommodate Them"
This and similar views, in opposition
to cutting off or chartering a railroad
through the Park are entertained by
many congressman; it will therefore
need unity Of action to carry this meas
ure through both houses Of congress.
On March 23rd, not Hithstanding the
deep snow still everything the terraces,
Ed Wilson, the famous Park scout, gal
lantly undertook to break track, becom-
ing guide, philosopher and interpreter
to Mrs. Charlie Stuart and Mrs H. B.
Henderson. This party has the honor
of being the first to ascend Terrace
mountain in 1891. They saw the Mar
rowguage terrace; climbed the Orange;
visited Bath lake; drank at the mineral
springs; peeped into Stygian cave and
into the Stalactic cave, the mouth of
which was barred with ice; discovered a
baby geyser which the ladies declared
was beauty, and forthwith there was
christening, and the new darling was
named the Surprise. The trained eye
Of the guide discovered and pointed out
the tracks and signs where band of elk
had recently passed by the Devils
Kitchen. But the most beautiful of all
the beautiful things they saw was Roth
terrace on the Bethesda plateau. This
terrace had been dried up for several
years and had lost all of it's beauty.
Now there we're two rythmic waves Of
boiling water flowing over it's terraces.
It was painted poem in which all the
colors in the rainbow struggled for su-
premacy. Mr.. Wilson ventures the
winter is lifted the Roth terrace will
queen of the terraces, filling the place
formerly held by the Minerva terrace
and Cleopatra's Bowl, both of which are
now pallid and grey. But the novelty
of the day, in Darwinian praseology,
might be termed the descent of woman"
From the Diana terraces to the base of
the giants thumb, the snow was so soft
and deep that the ladies and their guide
frequently vanished out of sight. BY
superhuman efforts the guide tished
them several times to the surface. At
last out of pity for the gallant Wilson,
the taller of the two ladies gathered her
self together and sailed down the en-
bankment, feet first like a Scandinavian
snow shoe. The other, to be original,
choose horizontal position and move
ing by her own momentum and that of
the mountain landed safely at the foot
of Liberty Cap, when she arose and
bowed gracefully to the sphinx. This
original descent of women," from the
Dina to the Hymen terraces was the
closing scene of this first day among the
terraces. U. II. HENDERSON.
Fatal Shooting At Billings.
A quarrel between James Rome and
John Golden, better known as Arkan-