The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1892-01-16
A Correction Corrected.

January ID | find communication
headed a Correction" and signed by
NJ. W. Fl. Brown, claiming to ''refute
statements made at random" by me in
my article on Nye City IN the Holiday
ENTERPRISE. | stated that neither Cap
tain Blake nor Mr. Brown ever marked
a point on the south line of the Grow
reservation from the West Rosebud to
East Boulder. Mr.. Brown says that
Captain Blake did, and thus refutes ano
corrects my statement. If the corners
he claims "that Captain Blake's EN-
ployes put on that line" were as plain
and monumental as is Mr.. Browns be
lief in the power of a simple statement
from himself. then there would be nc
controversy about that line. Men who
were here and along that line when Cap
tain Blake is supposed to have run it
and who were deeply interested in that
portion of it, failed to see them or to find
since any such marked corners or stakes
or monuments. Tradition saith that
Captain BaEes entire party became
lost Immediately after crossing the West
Rosebud, and after wandering around
for three days finally brought up at the
old Crow agency in half starved and
wholly demented condition, and upon
par tal recovery went from there to the
head of the East Boulder, where they
located and marked the southwest cor
ner of the reservation. [ am charitable
enough to believe that this hallucina-
tion of Mr. Browns about marked cor
ners took possession of his mind in his
wanderings during those three terrible
days and nights, induced by the sight of
the monuments, which are to be found
on the SUBMITS of all the prominent
foothills in this section, supposed to be
the work of the prehistoric sheepherder.
1t may be, however, that these corners
are not visible to the average naked eye.
All searches heretofore made for them
have been based upon the supposition
that they We're, but now science and the
inventors genius will be called to our
aid. Parties will at once take the field,
equipped with the most powerful mag
tooth combs, to search the buffalo grass,
thickets and prickly pear jungles. If
successful in their search Mr.. Browns
future greatness is assured, if the en-
deavors of this community can accom-
plish it. IT not successful, then will we
arise as one man and call Mr.. Brown to
our assistance, with his wonderful eye
sight and vivid imagination. Where he
finds a corner marked we will agree to
pierce the ambient atmosphere with a
marble shaft, not alone to mark the line,
but suitably inscribed to perpetuate the
name and fame of Mr.. Brown. If he
does not succeed, then shall he depart in
peace, laden in his interior with milk
and honey, on his exterior with beauti-
ful chromos and elsewhere be displayed
this appropriate sentiment Slightly
changed for this occasion):
OF all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these, sit SHOULD have been.
Further strong point is this, con-
tinues Mr.. Brown, in his great lightning
refutation act, that I said 'that Nye
City was forty miles from the month of
the Saltwater" and he then adds that
"this is the exact distance elected by the
Northern Pacific survey of $780, and
that he cannot see chow on earth any
rational being can claim Nye City to be
within the old confines of Park county
when that town is located in unsurveyed
township 5 south, range east, which
means some eight miles north of Cap
tain Blake's actual surveys l did not
state that Nye City was forty miles
from the mouth of the Saltwater, but
from the town of Saltwater; nor did the
Northern Pacific survey 'eiicit' that
distance to the mouth; they only "elic-
tied" fraction over thirty eight miles.
| wonder how great distance would be
"elicited" Gf it could be surveyeO, from
the mouth Of Mr.. Brown to correct
statement. My statement that Nye City
is "within the old confines of Park
county" | am not aware of any new con-
tines), is based upon the very survey
which fixed the locus Of Nye City as
given above by Mr.. Brown, and which
also located the south line of the reser-
walton as crossing 4 1-1O miles north of
Nye City. Other rational beings" who
have claimed the same are the former
heads of the Bozeman land office. sur
veyor generals Office at Helena and the
interior and postoffice departments at
Washington, who accepted and APP
proved this survey, not in part, but
wholly, issued patents to mineral Ian dis
here and established postoffice at Nye,
Park county, Montana. AS Captain
Blake never surveyed line through
this section I cannot say whether Nye
City is eight miles north or south of the
Blake Brown mythical line l am treat
ing of facts. and not Of the phantasies
of diseased imagi nation.
can see nothing more in Mr.. Browns
':refutation' excepting those hoary
headed, moss'grown, barnacled phrases
truth must prevail and "arouse the
ire of the most complacent." They
sound well and look we'll in print, con-
sidering their age, and serve to fill up
space, but are away off in their applica-
ton in this inst ance The former, in
conjunction with his statements, is par
ticularly inappropriate, and | can as
sure him that nay ire is not aroused
only my sympathy for him in his delu-
sion. Very respectfully,
J. E. MUsHBAcK.
2. 81 would like to call attention tc
a typographical error in my Nye CITY ar.