Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1901-01-04
CLARKE Fork GOLD
A Red Lodge Company Will Soon Be
Able to Extract the Metal From
This Mountain Stream.
DIFFICULTY DISAPPEARS
With Full Control For Twelve Miles,
Nothing Will Prevent Successful
Process Of Dredging.

Success after difficulty is the story
that number OF Red Lodge business
men will have to tell within Il few months
Some few months AGO The Picket had
something to say concerning the formal
tlon OF a company for the development
Of the Clarke Fork placers. Those com
posing this company are L. II. Pollard.
DR.. Lutz, j. NJ. Siegfricd, j. nj. Garrison
and y. 7. Sichler. At the time the de-
signs Of this company were first exploit
ed, they had practical coutro Of twelve
miles Of placer ground On the Clarke
Fork, extending from 4 point two miles
below the Chance bridge to The mouth
Of the Little San Coulee
| The fact that there were few claims
intervening which they did not control
did not ut the time seem Of vital import
ance to the pushers Of the company.
They only came to a realization of the
Importance Of this fact when 4 few
weeks ago they had Representatives Of
the Chicago Dredging and Development
company here to look over the proposition
with a view of putting il one of their
dredges to work the undoubtedly rich
sands. The companys representative,
after paying visit to the Clarke Fork,
in company with some Of the interested
gentlemen, expressed his faith in the
richness Of the sands, believing that they
would undoubtedly pay weliin dredging
The great obstacle to his company tax
ing hold Of the proposition was the fact
that the Red Lodge company did not
control the stream uninterruptedly for
tho full twelve miles. It is necessary in
dredging to work up the river. If the
dredge came to 4 portion Of the stream
held by other parties asa placer claim,
it could not proceed further. and the
expense Of taking the whole apparatus
and packing it overland to point above
where they could resume operations
would be very apparently unfeasible, and
would destroy the profit of the mining.
There were other minor considerations
upon which they could not agree
With nnquestionable faith in the en-
terprise, the Red Lodge people set
quietly to work to get control of tho
claims which caused the difficulty.
They have been successful in all eases
except where strip OF two miles is con
trolled by Governor Diedrich OF Nebras-
l. =, I,o1: Al, II
be any great trouble in securing tho
right to operate on this claim also.
Mr.. T.. p. Sichler, who has been one Of
the most active and enterprising Of the
Red Lodge company, left yesterday for
Butte, where he will meet one Of the
prominent members Of the above named
dredging company. Immediately there
after Mr.. Sichler will leave for Chicago,
where he believes he will have no diff.
Guilty now in making final arrangements
with that company for taking hold Of the
proposition. Mr.. Sichler will also stop
on the way to see Governor Diedrich and
try to make arrangements with him con
cerning his Clarke Fork claim. In the
event of his success there and in Chica.
go, the dredging company will, as soon
as the weather permits, make the final
prospect Of the whole stream. prepara-
tory to beginning the actual work Of
separating the shining metal from the
baser gravel.