The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-06-10

where White Sulphur Springs now
stands. A year later it was suggest
ed by Horn Miller, who had returned
to the upper country on Clarks Fork
where he and Yankee Jim had made
their discovery, that the men band to-
gether and form a prospecting party
to examine the country, and surround
ing mountains where Miller and Jim
had their claim, they having kept the
secret to themselves until that time.
Yankee Jim, in the meantime, had
gone to Hamilton's ranch. Jim and
Hamilton were to meet the rest of the
party at the natural bridge on the
Boulder river They waited for some
time at the bridge for Yankee Jim
and Hamilton. When Jim arrived at
last, he informed them that Hamilton
had dropped dead at his ranch. This
prevented the party from making a
general examination of the country on
the Clarks Fork, as was intended.
Horn Miller and Yankee Jim both
returned to the Camp on the Clark's
Fork, having located additional claims
on what is known as Miller Mountain.
Yankee Jim built a small smelter to
reduce their ores. In the meantime
the information had filtered through
to the lower country that there was
gold and silver, copper, lead and zinc
to be found, and prospectors gradually
began to drift into the camp. Various
good leads We're found all over the
mountains. Henderson, Miller, Crown
Butte, Scotch Bonnet, Sheep, Fisher,
Woody and Republic mountains had
revealed to the prospector their posi-
bilities.
A great rush was made into the
camp by men of all types and nation
alities. The usual miners cabins, ho-
tells, and gambling houses grew up
like mushrooms One day there ap-
peared on the scene in the camp man
who was silent and observing. After
alighting from the stage coach he in
quired for the best hotel He was in
formed that he had been brought to
the only hotel in the camp, which was
called "The Cosmopolitan. After
glancing around him he walked into
the hoel lobby, where he registered as +
Mr.. Houston. The host, Mr.. Jack !
Allen, a short man with a bald head I
and overhanging eyebrows and a
ferce-looking mustache, eyed the new
conner keenly and wondered what the I
new man might be in camp for. (This
hotel has stood the test of time and is
in just about the same condition after I
forty-three years has elapsed as it was
at the time Houston registered there,
and Jack Allen and wife still receive
the public)
Houston the next day sauntered out
into the camp, studying the general
Having wandered across
the creek, he came upon the claims of
Miller and now known as the Republic
Lode. He was so impressed with it's
value that he negotiated with the
owners to sell to him, which they did.
feeling we'll satisfied with his
left the camp. During this
period a great undertaking was being
pushed forth, which was the building
of the great Northern Pacific Railroad,
an undertaking which required an
amount of capital The
financier who undertook to furnish
capital for this enterprise was bank
err of Philadelphia, Pa, Jay Cooke,
who sold $700,000,000 of bonds to
carry on the war of the Rebellion in
LAO days. The linking of the name of
this financier, who had the courage to
undertake the enormous task of build
ing the great railway system, with the
mining camp on the Clark's Fork,