Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-03-21

SCHOLARSHIPS enu "Ie ou'ioihk houSe3 ana
repairing fences preparatory for the plant.
ing Of their, spring crops. In the towns
business is revivihg, and many with their
families who were one month ago packing
their goods to leave the Territory in the
spring, are to-day busily engaged in max
ing preparations for building themselves
permanent homes in the Territory.
Land claims are becoming valuable,
and few are bought and many jumped.
Since the rise in Land Warrants and the
fall of "Greenbacks" most of the settlers
are using the Homestead Law instead of
the Pre- emp.ion Act. These settlers will
need protection from the Indians during
the summer, and care should be taken
that, while the expedition is pushing tar
into the wilds OF the red mans country,
the settled portion OF the Territory may
be left we'll guarded; otherwise, Little
Crow and his warriors may flee the plains
and pour in upon US force that will lay
waste the whole Missouri Slope before the
expedition returns from the north. Ten
good companies can perform this work of
protection, while the rest move upon the
foe | predict that the coming expedition
will repay the Government in developing
the hidden resources of our Territory, and
in bringing to light the mineral and agr-
cultural wealth of the Upper Missouri
valley. The fur trade alone in this Ter
~ 20 y, Al
and dollars yearly, SO much so that four
steamboats, are engaged in the carrying
trade. The time will yet come also when
companies Of men will be made rich in the
business of gathering. drying and packing
hops in the Upper Missouri, and trans.
porting them to St. Louis for market. On
nearly all the small tributaries of this
stream above the month of the Shyenn
river, there are thousands of acres Of wild
hops, which are pronounced by the St.
Louis beer makers 10 be Of superior
quality and are eagerly sought for SOcts.
per pound. An Indian boy or woman will
gather five pounds Of hops per day for
pound of sugar: another pound will get
them dried and packed. They now weigh
three pounds and have cost 80 cents. Five
cents more will take them to St. Louis,
where they will bring 81 10. The profits
on 1000 pounds would be S676 Al.
The gold mines of northern Dakota are
at present attracting the attention of the
leading men in the Territory. A Compa.
ny has been organized in this city under
the head of the "Wind River and Rocky
Mountain Mining and Transportation Co.
of which Hon. James Tufts is President,
and r. G. Williams, Esq, Secretary
Geo. Detwi!der is exploring agent, and is
now in the n,,ues, having pa ssed up on
the steamer Shreveport last season. The
reports brought from the mines are so di.
rect, reliable and encouraging that Mr.
Tufts inte ids starting for the Wind River
gold beds, at the head Of $50 miners early
in the spring. These are the mines spoken
Of in one Of my former letters from infor-
nation obtained from Maj Galpin, who
has traversed that country, as fur trader,
for the last twenty one years
The gold is found in dust ia the river
beds and banks, and covers an immense
region, stretching over all the tributaries
Of Wind river toward the base Of the Roc
Ky Non ntains. The average Yield per man
is from IS to SIS per day. All kinds of
produce have been enormously high in the
mines during the last season. But freight
can be taken by steamboat to within 1870
miles Of the mines for 81 per cwt from
Sioux City, or for Sc from St Louis.
1t is no folly to believe that the grea,
gold fields of the rocky region of the
Northwest will yet fill the lap of the nation
with its yellow harvest, and the Upper
Missouri will vet float carrying trade of
millions Of doIaas This may be consid.
cred wild talk. but the first discovery of
new mines is always considered wild talk
until proven a reality. Bat one thing is
true, there is gold harvest in that region
which needs only to be gathered and one
hundred aud forty thousand dollars in
dust wassed down the river last season on
eamboats and Mackinaws.
To be sure the mines are long wav off, =.
but gold is worth going a long way after
And still these fields are more easy OF access
from the Eastern States, than any other
now oren on the ccntnent The distance
is about 100 miles by steamboat and $50
miles by overland, from the mouth of the
Running Water. But | will say no more
OF the mines at present, for fear it may
be said that am talking for speculation.
| will leave the matter for miners to verify
my Statements The STOCK Of the Wind
River aud Rocky Mountain Mining and
Company" consists of
1900 shares of $50 each. SO that if any
one has the golden fever he can buy a
share, stay at home, and receive his pro
rata of the profits Of the Company. This
is being done by many of the leading men
of the Territory whose. official business
will not admit Of their absence.
The news in our Congressional drawer
is meager nothing of Importance having
been heard from Dakotians at Washington.
Private letters state that Hon. j. f.
Potter, of Wisconsin, and of Pryor duel
notorie,y, has been confirmed G. overnor of
Dakota.
The nomination of Gen. Todd as Brig.
adler General has been rejected by the
Senate; and we shall now look for all
our Dakotians home again.
The weather here is delightful and
warm, and the snow having all disappeared
rom the earth the hazy smoke of spring
$ hanging over hill and dale, as though
ten thousand Indians vera smnkiny thpir