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Identifier: ForeststreamXXVIA (find matches)
Title: Forest and stream
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Periodicals Hunting Fishing Outdoor life Sports
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : (Forest and Stream Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Clarks Pork mining district.The town was located near one of the earlier discoveries of the region, and is on its extremesouthern border, almost all of the claims and prospects being to the north and separatedfrom the town by an impassable mountain range. Prom most of the mines the ore wouldhave to be hauled by wagons for a long distance to the south and east to the south branchof Clarks Pork, and then—if the Park Railway should be built and Cooke should be itsterminus—up that and over the divide to Cooke. This would be a great thing for the town,but it would not be so good for the mine owners. A railroad built up Clarks Fork wouldenable the great body of the mines to get their ore to a shipping point by a much shorterhaul than if it were necessary to take it by wagon down to the Billings road and then upthe river to Cooke, for of course the ore would be delivered at the nearest railway station.A railway terminus at Cooke would benefit chiefly the two mines which lie close to that
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MAP SHOWING LOCATION OF MINES AND COOKE. place. To most of the other mines some point east of Cooke would be far more convenient,as well as much cheaper. Cooke City real estate owners and the proprietors of the minesadjacent to it will be satisfied with nothing less than a railway to Cooke, but so far as thedevelopment of the district is concerned, that small town may be altogether left out ofconsideration. A glance at the accompanying map will show the reader more clearly than any expla-nation, the relation which Cooke City bears to the mines of the district. It will be seenthat it is just on the borders of the National Park, and quite a distance south of many ofthe mines. There is no reason why it should be the terminus of the railway. The projectors of this railway scheme desire a road built to Cooke not because of any relation which this town bears to the mines, but because it is so close to the borders of thePark that it furnishes them an excuse for urging the building of a road

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