The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-01-19

After spending 10 days in Laurel
investigating the railroad facilities
natural gas, electric power, water
and available location offered there,
officers of the Glengary Mining com
pany have decided to build a smelter
there for the smelling of Cooke City
ore. Work on the project is planned
to start in the spring, and will con
sumo about a year and a half in
building and will be ready for opera
ton upon the completion of the rail
road to Cooke City.
A deal for a tract of land south of
Laurel and near the river is now
being made, and office rooms in the
Hageter block nave been leased for
the general offices of the company.
The Glengary Mining company is a
Montana corporation, composed prin-
cipally of Miles City, Rosebud and
Dawson county people. A number
of the Sc Petroleum company's stock
holders have interests in the Glen
gary company. The mining concern
is capitalized at $1,500,000. The rep
resentatives who have been spending
some time here on investigation work
are P. F. DAILY of Miles City, Ray
Bishop of Cooke, and Sam c. Rice of
Miles City. These men were joined
by Francis A. Hancock of Miles City,
president and engineer of the COM
pany, who spent a portion of last
week at Laurel going over the mat
ter of location for the smelter. He
had previously received reports and
plats from DAILY, Bishop and Rice,
and after making a personal inspec-
ton, he agreed with the opinions of
the first Investigators. s
The smelter is to be constructed I
on the unit system, the first unit ca {
pable of handling 1000 tons daily. &c
AS the mines production increases, i
it is planned to add other units to {
the reduction and smelling plant. I
The equipment will be of the latest t
and most approved type, constructed C
according to specifications involving C
the use of electric currents in separ- a
the metal from the dross or 9
residue.
The first unit is expected to give b
to about 500 men upon a
completion and operation, and largo il
is to be employed during the h
of it's construction. t.
At a meeting held recently, and at Il
ended by the mining eompany's rep
resentatives and the business men of r.
Laurel, the mining men stated that o
hey knew nothing definite concern 0
-ng the Milwaukee's proposed road a
INTO the Cooke district, but that they +
mad sufficient assurance from North c
srn Pacific interests concerning the S
building of a road up the Saltwater 0
valley to Justify the expenditure on il
he proposed Smelter and in further e.
development of the mine. G
Men in charge of the Northern Pa Il
,ific's department of ~mineralogy and RI
subjects have made several
into Cooke and are thoroughly
acquainted with the richness of the b.
il
The Glengary Mining company has p
title to a group of claims a short II
distance north of Cooke. Better than T
$500, 600 worth of ore is said to ia
lave been exposed and cross-section- in
ed on the property. This is estimated Of
On what is known in that district as az
Scotch Bonnet mountain, from which as
the present company derives its name T
.-"Glengary'' meaning Scotch head tt
gear. fe
Below the Glengary property and NJ
n the town of Cooke itself is the Re- tt
public group of mines. producing sill
yer chiefly. The silver ore is being CT
hauled out by trucks to Gardiner at Of
present. The ore is of such richness b,
that even by expensive methods of p,
transportation a handsome profit is pi
made. rs
The Glengary company has expos m
I'd two mammoth veins of copper, vi
silver, gold and lead ore, which run Of
,erpendicularly into the earth. Both tt
ire found on the side of Scotch Bon tt
act mountain, one above the other fC
ind some distance apart. Much pre- hi
iminary work has been done, and W
among the things accomplished has tt