Onceino.e the Billings, Clark's Fork A^Cooke City railroad project Is being re^^vived. This corporation has had a check^^ered career and has met with many re^^verses since It was first Inaugurated. Its^bill for a right of way. which was intro^^duced In congress In I w^ wsb delayed In^passage for several years for want of a^champion, while the bill for the Kocky^Fork right of way went through at once.^Tbe original incorporators had but very^little mone), and P. M Gallagher, the gen^^tleman who now sa^s the completion of^the road Is s certaiuty, was one of these.^Mr. Symns. of New York, who has the^reputation of being an adventurer, got Into^tbe B , C. F. A C. C, scheme, leading the^projectors to belive he could wield great in^^fluence. With him and the fact that the^Kocky Fork people and Its Washington ad^^vocates, who w anted the right of way for^themselves, had given the other road a^black eve, tbe scheme fell through for (he^time, the incorporators felt discouraged^and were out of pocket a good^deal of money, while air. Galla^^gher expended his all, amounting^to about S6.0UO. This gentleman has not^been Idle, it appears, but has associated A.^G. Uooley, of New York city, with tb ^^company, who represents s vs*t amouut of^capital. It Is said. His father, also. Is a^New York millionaire. With such back-^IngasMr. Gallagher claims to have there^la no reason to disbelieve his statement^that the completion of the road In the near^future is a certainty. The route it pro^^poses to take Is one of great resources, and^was explained In a dispatch from Hillings
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ling,Clark's Fork A Cooke City^road large beds of petroleum exist^On the em grant trail through this section^many an old-time pioneer used this petro^^leum to grease the axles ol his wagons, lie-^sides this, natural gas has been discovered,^and good grades of marble and granite,^suitable for building have been found. All^these resources, which only require the^magic hand of capital to bring tiwin out,^have all along been known to the road's^projectors, which lustlfy them in putting^in a railroad which will result in the tie^velopment of the mines and other resources^which exist in that section. In connection
1ththis line the Midland ,v .Southern^route has been surveyed from the Union^Pacific in Wyoming through the oil fields^and thence southwest to Three Forks.
