The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-06-17


al and do not always tell my business,
tut under the present circumstances l
suppose it is in order to wet up, so all
step up and liquor up at my expense,
which invitation was quickly respon-
ded to.
"In answer to your inquiry, | do not
know how long | might be in this
country, except that it depends upon
what l can find"
"Ah', exclaimed the man who had
addressed Hartz and whose name was
Bill Nichols, 'then you expect to find
something. Mineral | suppose. We'll,
Pard, there may be some left in this
country that we have not located, if
that is what you mean. Over to Cooke
City and Whereabouts, where Horn
Miller and Yankee Jim made the first
discovery, things have 9Gieted down,
and only the old boys who went in
after Cooke and Huston started up the
Republic Mine and which has given up
a great amount of silver and gold,
remain. This information was eag-
erly taken by Hartz, who felt inclined
to get more if possible. Turning to
Nichols he said
"What is your name?"
"My name is Bill for short"
"Well, mine is Bud. BY your talk
presume you could tell me some more
about this camp Cooke"
well, yes, if knew about what you
wanted to know.
Has there ever been any smelters
in that camp or any companies beer
formed to get out the ores?"
you bet your life there has, and
some money made. There was thai
crowd from Bozeman, Bill Randall
Matt Black, Bill Anderson and a boss
by the name of Ennis who built the ole
Rock smelter just below the present
site of Cooke. In that same year 6
soldier fellow by the name of Majoi
Eaton, U. S. A. had come with the
Jones party up the Sinking Water tx
Mammoth Hot Springs. The way then
fellers went and the trail they mad,
is called the Jones Trail. You asl
why the river was called the Shrinking
Water? Well, Pard, that was don'
by the Indians, who did not know wha
Sulphur was, so they applied the bes
name they could, and say, Pard, i
you could smell that water or be nea-
, it, you would have the same desire tt
call it by the same name. 1t is caused
by the hot sulphur springs which fov
E into the river, and the vapor arisin!
carries the fumes.
When Major Eaton returned from
Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowston
Park, he and his party came out b,
Cooke. The Major saw the value o
the Republic Mine, bought it in am
built the Republic smelter, assocatinl
with his three men from Bozenan b,
the name of Sturgis, Col. Pease an,
Senator Hoffman, afterwards associat
ed with Thos. A. Edison and tn
Brooklyn Edison Co. New York Now
there was another man by the name O
Adam Gasset who built and operate,
the Little Smelter on claim by tina
name, and by the way, | almost for
got, but this same Gasset run the Rocl
Smelter that the Bohemian crowd built
l guess maybe this is some informa
ton, Pard, and / seem to be about tn
only one who is doing any talking.
feel kinder dry now. These other fel
lers they know some too if you can ge
it,"
By this time there was a genera
clearing of throats. It was noticeable
that the usual game Of poker and slut
had been suspended during the recita
by Bill Nichols, as all seemed inter
ested. Hartz, taking the hint tina
was implied in the actions of Bill ant
his comrades, called them up to thu
bar, where they took their favorit'
beverage. A tall, rawboned mine,
spoke up and said:
"If. Bill could not remember an.
further he might help him out if But
cared to hear any more"
go ahead, Spike" (whose real nam,
was Geo. Smith).
"Well, you fellers know that | wa
up in the camp several years ago, an(
l was working at the Republic smelter
1883 to sc was the most active periot
in the camp. Jack HUMPHREYS wal
smelter boss during the successful per
iod of the old smelter) and during tina
run there was twenty thousand tons o.
ore put through which run two tt
three hundred ounces of silver to tn,
ton, and twenty to twenty-five dollars