Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1907-11-14
ROMANCE IS ENDED.
The Fire Ficnd Removes Last Vestage OF
the Famous Structure at MedOra.

Mores at Medora, short time ago, the dream of the
mantle young Partisan whose attracted
attention in the early eighties has vanished in smoke and
the last chapter remarkable attempt the beef
market of the country has been written.
In the minds of many of the present generation of West
the memory of the daring but impractical youth is
\st fresh graduate of St. Cyr the French West Point
Ia superb rider dead shot skul swordsman De Mores
parents chose for him the traditional of the family
lin the French army where he ght win and thus
perptuate the coat of of his grandsre the Due de
Dalambroz created by the first Napoleon But the young
man had other aims He had from his land
led Estates and with this he mapped out wonrous wealth
in the unknown Western country of America.
De Mores came to New York about 1888 Soon after
ward he married Medora Hoffman, the daughter of
Wall street banker of wealth, who possessed fortune in
her right and, together, they West out
the schemes in the wlds of North and South Dakota
that filled the active mind of the young Frenchman
At point on the Little Missouri river four miles east
of the ne between North Dakota Montana De
Mores chose his home He took large ranch and set
chase of $4,000 head of sheep which he put shares
Scabes killed them off the first year. Nothing daunted he
set out wider scope and proceeded to buck the then
rising packing house trust a large scale.
He first built huge abattoir his ranch, where he in
tended killing all the beef he could procure Montana and
the Dakotas and the country west of there His scheme
cded the establishment of cold storage houses in Duluth
Bismarck Fargo Helena Spokane and Portland and whole
sale houses in both New York and Washington In this
way he believed that he could kill his beef West ship it
East and find ready market but he figured without his
by product which he had no means of handling Medora
the town named after his American wife, lay directly
Northern Pac1hc ana he believed 1t thing
ship his beef East but the packers promptly put the price
of their Eastern slaughtered beef low that De Mores
could it and 100000 join his sheep LOSSES
Still De Mores persevered. In those days what little
mail there from Montana to the Black Hills came by
courier from Miles City and then around by Spearfsh De
ores conceived another brilliant scheme. He established
handsomely equipped stage line between his ranch Me-
dora and Deadwood using Concord coaches and having
eating stations twelve miles along the Passcn
few but that did the marquis for he had bigger
about to
carrying the daily mail from Montana the Black Hills so
offered do this upendous task for the paty
nualy Back Milwaukee contractors who bid all things and
we'll knew the few he would have carry,
and of course secured the contract
Then De Mores spirit tagged Everything he touched
ruin loss And about this time another of his projects
under De Mores had learned the wealth the
its around Aaddn Wyoming and bent building railroad
there from the Hills and supplying Deadwood with coal One day
he drove in his splendid coach and eagerly sought
views with the business of Dadwood and Lead the subject
askance his flights of fancy So he his steps
With Seth Bullock United States marshall Dakota
marquis haunted Wall street for backing for his railroad His
fatheraw, Won Hoffman, would have of would the
other nancers who scented approaching panic the
Dseaened and cagrned failure, De More then
DID, returned his handsome home Little
Missouri and sold everything he could years after
his West, he turned Paris government
lied expedition into the heart Egypt budding
ouonists there Souanes bullet short his stirring
His wife still makes her home in New York City.
the marks the passing De
land The oneims castle where Fo
months the old abator whose burning the result of
engine spark the sign for free those wo will keep
/ - but the offer.
Twelve miles north and tryvc miles lie the rancho
Theodore Roosevelt learned ride BRONCO and further
along the railroad high up HILL bIazed under which lii
the remains Iene Pete, man of the vicinit
of edor, who drew his gun but failed get the drop the Mar
!. lqus De A,res his lleyday.