St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-12
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Col. Fitzgerald Returns to ST
Paul and Tells of Cooke City,

Col Fitzgerald Returns to ST.
Paul and Tells of Cooke City.
Col. M. W. Fitzgerald, the well-known
st. Paul Republican. who has for the
past year been out West in the gold
fields, returned yesterday from Cooke
City, Mont, and intends to spend
the winter in st. Paul. Like
many other st. Paul people, he is heav-
lily interested at Cooke City and await
ing obviously the passage by congress
of the bill cutting off the northeast cor
ner of the Yellowstone park. There
are now 1,3oo mining claims at Cooke
City, and the owners are Sanguine tSht
it is the richest gold and silver fieI0tn
Montana. The ore there is free mill
ing, and assays very high. All that
stands in the way of fortune for the claim
owners is the lack of railroad. A year
or more ago a forty-stamp mill was put
up there. But the place was so remote
from any railway that it cost $3.50 a
ton for coke, hence the smelter charges
TO men delivering ore were $50 to $50 a
ton. OF course there was no money in
that, and the mill was compelled
to shut down for want of pat
rOnage. The claim owners asked
congress to permit the laying
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ner Of the park, extending it from Cooke
City down the valley to the Soda Butte
creek to the east fork of the Yellow
state, thence down that valley to the
Gardner river, and down the Gardner
valley and the valley of the main Vel
lowstone river to Livingstone. Senator
Vest fought and killed the bill which
was Introduced in the senate granting
the privilege. Later Senator Warren,
of Wyoming, devised another scheme,
which was to cut off the northwest cor
ner of the park. containing about $1,000
acres of mountains, thus giving free ac-
cess to the valleys mentioned. Senator
Warren's bill, which has passed the
senate, and is now the fourth bill on the
calendar of the house of represent
atives, provides for adding strip ten
miles wide along the east side of the
park from the south line up to the
line of the railway which shall be built
through the valleys mentioned. The
added strip would be nearly fifty miles
long, contain about 100000 acres. and
take in the Hood0o range OF mountains,
one of the most picturesque of Amer
lean ranges. In this range Is Terrace
peak, which is nearly $4,000 feet high,
and several other peaks nearly as high.
The range is magnificent sight from
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east bank of the beautiful sheet of
water. while in reality 1t is many miles
away from the east shore.
Mir. Fitzgerald says that the Burling-
ton u Missouri railway stands ready
to run its main line through Cooke City
as soon as the house passes the bill and
it is signed by the president. So COLI
tident are the people ont there that the
house will pass the bill in December
that the construction of an immense
factory for treating tree milling ore 10y
new and improved process is be-
gun. The mill will have ground
dimension of 45 by 40 feet. will cost
100000, and have a capacity for treat
ing 15O tons of ore in twenty-f0ur hours.
The method is known as the cyanide
process. and is in successful use in the
Black Hills, Ceur d'Alene and in the
mines of Arizona. The Burlington
road will reach Cooke City from Sheri-
dan, Wyo., and pass on to Cheat Falls.
st. Paul capital is much more heavily
invested at Cook City than at any other
mining point.