P a g e 6 G h o s t T o w n s a n d H i s t o r y o f M o n t a n a N e w s l e t t e r Possibilities of Park County. Twelve years have rolled by since the creation of Park county, and the pioneer can turn backward today and mark the wonderful changes that have taken place. It would fill a good sized volume to note them all, even in brief. The thickly settled valleys that are now the homes of industrious beings were then principally wild wastes. The time seems short, but the changes have been marvelous; so marvelous that it is second to no other county in the state today in its resources from diversified farming and developed and undeveloped mineral wealth. Since the misnamed “noble” redmen have disappeared from her mountain trails, and since the advent of the iron horse, the sleeping industries have been awakened and now respond to the touch of enterprise by yielding up their wealth. No better time than the present will ever be experienced here for a man with little or no capital and a stock of confidence and patience to lay the foundations Mrs. J.P. Allen Cosmopolitan Hotel, Cooke City, J.P. Allen, Prop. of a fortune. In this period of “uncertain” times, christened so by the “croakers” and those who hoped to gain riches by other men’s endeavors, all property can be obtained for its true value; in other words, it is at the bottom prices. Town lots, ranches and interests in mines are frequently found in the hands of men who have not the foresight or the patience to hold them, and who are in urgent need of money. On such realties the purchaser cannot fail to reap profitably on his investment. This county of Park is as certain to develop as the population of America is to increase, or capital to seek opportunities for profitable investment. The day is not far distant when every valuable mine of gold, silver or copper in this vicinity will be yielding up its product as rapidly as capital and labor can compass the work, when every accessible coal mine will be contributing its quota of fuel to the furnaces of the west, when the iron ore, which we certainly have, will be contributing its product to supply local rolling mills, foundries and manufactories, when every foot of irrigatable soil will grow a cultivated crop to supply the consumers employed in the mines and mills, when the cry of crowded ranges will be no false alarm, but every acre of grass wall be utilized for the support of cattle, sheep and horses, when
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