Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1902-09-12
GEBO NINE TROUBLES
The Mccarthy Filings on Adjacent
Coal Lands Give Rise to
Wild Rumors.
COMPANY NOT ALARMED
1t Has Plenty Of Patented Land and
Cast Off as Useless the
Mccarthy Claims.

A report was current in Red Lodge
the first of the week to the effect
that the Clarke Fork Coal Mining COM
pany of Gebo was up against harder
proposition than the 100000 mort
gage held by Frederick III. Davis of
Omaha, one of the principal stock
holders, or the temporary injunction
under which the mine is now idle.
This report credited J. G. Mccarthy,
who is president of the company and
persona non grata to the present man
agement, with having adopted retail
iatory measure against the company
by jumping all Of the unpatented coal
lands previously filed on by the corpo-
| ration. The rumOr had it that through
some oversight the company had per-
mitted it's filings on these lands to
lapse under the law which requires
their purchase and the perfection Of
title within fourteen months OF the
date Of location The statement was
also made that Mr. McCarthy's filings
covered all the unpatented coal land
in the Gebo field and extended up to
1 the very mouth of the company's
slope It has developed, however, that
these rumors are only partially true
and that Mr.. McCarthy's actions are
not intended to seriously hamper the
company in it's coal mining opera
tions or in future exploitation of the
measures While it is fact that Mr..
Mccarthy has filed on several hun
dred acres contiguous to the Gebo
mine, these filings do not seriously af.
feet the Clarke Fork company. From
II. H. Griffith, the secretary and treas
urer of the company, who was in the
city from Gebo yesterday on district
court matters pertaining to the suit
instituted by the Link Belt people, il
is learned that the company has sev
eral hundred acres of patented Goa
lands and as much more under films
for which title has not yet been per
fected To Picket reporter Mr. Grif
fifth said:
"The rumors that have been Sc
afloat concerning the Gripping of ou1
property, by reason OF the filings
made by Mr. Mccarthy, are wild ant
extravagant and wide Of the mark
AS a matter Of fact we have all tht
coal lands we want and could hav'
had the land recently taken by MI
Mccarthy if we had desired it, Th'
Mccarthy filings We're made in tn
Bozeman land Office on Aug. IL ant
our interests in these lands were pun
posely allowed to lapse as far bac1
as three years ago. They are not nee
essary to the present or future deve
The coal lands surrendered by us an
filed on by Mr. Mccarthy lie sont
= and east of our holdings and do nc
ieopardiZe our interests in the lcas
Instead Of taking in the whole scop
Of country to the south OF us and e.
tending north to the mouth OF OF
slope, they are somewhat scattere
and their nearest approach to TIA
mouth of our incline is half a mile
While they may be of value to Mr.. Mt
Carthy they are not sought after b
our company and can only be Of di
advantage to us in case that the
should develop a rival mine.
\ 81 can't say when the Gebo min
will open and do not care to discus
this question other than to say thu
the temporary injunction is not in j
self sufficient cause for the presel
idleness of the property
From other sources it is learne
that Mr.. Mccarthy has a force of me
employed in prospecting and develo
ing the coal land filed on by him AZ
that he is now having lumber hau]e
to the second gulch south of Geb
where the coal vein outcrops on tt
surface, for the purpose of erecting
boarding house, it being understoe
that the gentleman expects to explG
the southern measures by running
tunnel in to tap the vein that extent
into the hill.