The Dickinson press., 1912-03-16
HISTORICAL
INCIDENTS
Ninth 1nstallment BY G.s. Gryne,
Historian Of Stark Co. and
Member Of Gladstone
Colony of 1882.

The latter part of September. 1882.
the Hayden and Peale" expedition.
or rather a part Of it, stopped at Glad
stone and gave the country around a
good thorough looking over, with a view
to bring their labors to an end.
Dr.. Peale, an old acquaintance of G.
S. Cryne, was a guest of his for more
than a week, and secured many
forms Of archaeological research at
Gladstone, notably Of the Apindis and
Veburnum genus. Fossil of all kinds
were secured between Gladstone and
Glendive. notably about fifteen mileo
north Of Allard. Montana. These fossil
belong to what Is termed the Larimae
Flora of the Fort Union strata.
DR.. Peale's labor here. terminated the
labor of the Hayden and Peale expedi-
ton which has succeeded in giving to
the public the knowledge of what the
Yellowstone Park contained from the
scientific viewpoint ; this gave an i'm
petus to the Northern Pacifc's activi-
ties in that direction. and thereafter
that highway to the Park was one of
the drawing cards of the management of
the railway company.
Many notable coteries of visitors stop
ped at Gladstone and Dickinson in the
first years, on their way west on excur-
sions to spy out the land n of the
parties was headed by ''Uncle Rufus
Hatch" as he was familiarly known in
railway circles: his party called a halt
at any and every place in that region
of any note. and spent a few hours, or
even days in looking the ground over
thoroughly, always trying to find out
something of the natural resources. In
view of those visits of capitalists and
scientific men and notable men in other
walks of life, I have wondered often
where they got their. curiosity aroused.
to the extent that it was, about the
country west of the river.
Professor Daniels. Of the Minnesota
State University, stopped with the Cryne
family for a week. and was ~afforded..am-
pie opportunity to look at the country +;
and from that visit of a geological ex-
pert the country received a great deal
of favorable advertising.
A German baron was a visitor to this
part of the country in the fall of 1882
he ostensibly came to look for invest
ments. but really to get specimens of
Zoology and Pal%eontology for the Ger
man National museum. The learned
gentleman secured some very fine and
also rare things hereabout, notably a
fine mounted head of a mountain sheep
he. secured this specimen from r. E.
Lameraux, station agent for the N. P.
at Dickinson.
It, was understood that he paid $751; 90
for the specimen which has never been
equalied for perfection and beauty by
any other that the author has ever seen.
The worthy baron made q sketch of
Gladstone when three months old, fol-
his private collection of memories Of
the west. and the author made one
for the Golden Northwest at the
same time, that was engraved and
printed in that little sheet in its Christ
mas number of 1882.
All the tine in the sos specimens
of clay, coal and different metals tina,
appealed to the settlers as being wortf
something. wele being sent to thu
different universities for ASSAY ant
the water was everywhere q subject Of
analysis.
Pyrites of iron about once q month
for the first year, would be about a fai
average of the analysis of that ever
present well.nieh worthless substance
analysis of a sample of the clay lynn
directly under the thin vein of coal tha1
underlies the town plat of Gladstone
which carries the water supply to thu
numerous springs that flow out of tn
bank toward the Heart river, wa
made for G. S. Cryne at Cleveland
Ohio, in 1882, which resulted in beint
sent back to him in the shape of a small
tea saucer of great beauty: of cours'
the clay had been mixed properly witt
other suitable clays, but the sample
showed great value.
To show what simple things some
times result in Investigation BY men o
ability and research will relate an an
ecdote j. S. Let's was one Of the mosl
~all-around capable men that ever CAM
"a the west. and he sometimes indulRe'