Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-01-01

y, 1897. r1II)wlN-rI-l, N,,Mt>f-,,
convention at Red Lodge the citizens took up the question
Of county division and officers were nominated and dele.es
were chosen to attend upon the legislature in the interest Of
bill to be offered before that body all of which resulted in
the passage OF an act providing for the creation of the new
county Of Carbon, which in due course received
the approval of the executive and thus became law
The boundaries set forth in the bill as follows: Be-
ginning at point in the mid channel Of the Yellowstone
river opposite the mouth of the Swater following thence
down the mid channel OF said Yellowstone river to the inter-
section Of said channel of said Yellowstone river with the
township line running between ranges twentyfour 2 east
and twenty five 5 east thence following said township line
due south to its intersection with the boundary the Crow
Indian reservations following thence southwestery drec
ton Of said lines thence running due the intersection
OF the mid channel of tho Big Horn rivers thence following
the said channel Of the said Big Horn river up in south
westerly direction to its intersection with the north line of
the State of Wyoming all of said boundary from the said
northwest corner of the Grow Indian reservation to the
wyoming line being part of the boundary line of the
Crow Indian reservation, established by law proceeding
thence from the intersection of the mid channel of the Biz
Horn river with south line of the State Of Montana due
west to the intersection of the south line of the State of
Montana with the township line separating range fifteen m
east from range sixteen 6 east thence following along
the line between said ranges fifteen U.s. and sixteen 1
east to point in the mid channel of the Saltwater river:
thence following mid channel of said Saltwater river to
place of beginning.
The bill also provided that Red Lodge should be the
temporary county seat until the next general election when
the question should be submitted to the electors Of the
couny that all laws governing the several counties Of the
state should be made applicable to Carbon; that the
county should be attached to the seventh judicial district
and that he indebtedness of the two respective counties
out Of whose partition tho said county Of Carbon is created
as the shall exist at the close Of business on the last
day OF March D. 1885, shall he apporoned respectively
between each Of said two counties the said county Of
Carbon by deuctng from the then existing debt Of each
OF said two first named counties respectively all monies be-
longing to each county in the possession or under the
control Of each respective county treasurer the excess Of
value between tho value Of county buildings bridges real
estate and other county property that will remain in and
belong to each Of said two first named counties after the
erection Of Carbon county aud the value Of county build
'nss bridges real estate and othor cny property If any
that may remain in and become part Of Carbon county II
the greater value belong to Of the said two first
named counties respectively shall be deducted from il the