Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-11-15
INTERVIEW

~ ISL L ally tiilnS u Btt tASit-
ed abOut-at least such is the
opinion of nj. E. Martin, an
engineer for the United States
bureau of public roads, who
came out from the isolated
mountain town a few days ago.
HE arrived at the Grand
hotel Saturday after a circuit
GUS journey from the famed
ghost city. In order to avoid
deep snow he was obliged to go
through Yellowstone National
park, emerging at Gardiner, he
reported.
'The nearly completed Red
Lodge road to Cooke City lis
completely blocked by snow,
the engineer reported, but ma
tives of the region are looking
forward to an OId-time boom
when road conditions again per-
init travel.
"As far as the gold is con-
cerned, it's there. Mr.. Martin,
however, had no idea of how
much yellow metal may be
awaiting fortune hunters.
ssThe engineer was skeptical
over reports of assays running
as high as $1,000 a ton on clay
in which the yellow metal was
found. He admitted, though,
that some tests have ranged as
high as S135 a ton while most
of them have been closer to
$40.
''The separation of the gold
from clay, he believes, will be
a big problem and probably too
expensive for the average gold
seeker. Amalgamation pro-
cesses, sIuicers and placers
probably will be employed, he
said"
In the first place, Mr.. Mar
tin protests, he did not give
any such interview as pub
lished in the article and that
his statement was distorted.
The facts are that MI. Martin
has not been in Cooke City
since last August and then only
on a vacation as he was going
through Yellowstone park.
Therefore, he could not have
come out after his "circuituous
journey from the famed ghost
city" How the old timers in
Cooke City will like this term
"ghost city!
We have visited Cooke City
many times. We know and
have talked with most Of the
sturdy old pioneers and old
timers, the very type that have
made America and | am sure
they will be pleased being
dubbed as living in a ghost
city.
No matter whether Mr.. Mar
tin made such a statement or
not is of little concern. We
would much prefer to take the
word of the superintendent of
the East Helena smelter than
we would any opinion of MIR.
Martin or anybody else's OBJ
se~rvation. The smelter recent
" verified the values of gold,
as described in The Carbon
County News. AS to Mr.. Mar
TINS opinion that the separ-
alton of the gold from the clay
win be a big problem, again
we much prefer to take the
word of a mining engineer in
stead of a civil engineer. Again
The Gazette may have garbled
Mr.. Martins statements, but
this is nothing new.
The people of Red Lodge
have observed time and again
that The Billings Gazette never
fails to give Red Lodge the
worst of any story when they
can. Some of these days the
people of Red Lodge may wake
up and decide to really do their
trading at home. Red Lodge
never fails to give Billings OF
any other town a boost wher
possible; if we can't say some
thing good, we never say any
thing bad about Montana.
Probably the management oil
The Gazette had nothing to d.
with this. It was probably some
irresponsible reporter, but il il
occurs again, as it has contin
uously for the last few years
we will commence TO believ,
that the management has some
thing to do with it.