The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-09-08
THE NEW GOLD COUNTRY.
AMONG THE BLACK Hills

AN INCIPIENT GOLD NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Or
CANNING TO GO TO THE NEW DIGGINGS-
AN ORDER FROM GEN. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
THE FIRST GoLD-THE RICHNESS AND EX-
TENT.
The recent expedition of Gen. Custer has
been the means of producing great excite
ment in the discovesy of gold in the Black
Hills. The New York Tribune correspon-
dent writes thus from Chicago: The publ
cation of the results of Gen. Clusters explo-
ration of the Black Hills country has excl
ted as much interest here as in the East.
Gen. Forsyth's letter and diary have been
widely read. In the Chicago Tribune of this
morning he writes from Bear Butte, Aug.
Is: 1.-The two miners we have with us tell
me that they found 'color'' in every pan OF
dirt they washed near Harney's Peak; that
the diggings there in Clusters Gulch will paw
SO per day now; that they only had two or
three days in which to prospect,
as we kept moving so fast, but
that, in their opinion, when the
will be found there in abundance. / am in
clined to think so, for the very roots of the
grass would pan five cents to the pan in our
camp near Harney's Peak. There have been
signs OF gold fever here as the consequence
of these discoveries. Expeditions are now
Iowa, Dakota and Wyoming, 10 go to the new
diggings. They have forgotten that these
lands are secured a reservation to the
Sioux Indians, and that they have no right
to enter them. Gen. Sheridan recalls this
fact to their notice in an order published to-
day, as follows:
HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF
THE MISSOURI, CHICAGO, Aug. q, 1873.
Brig.-Gen. A. H. Terry, st. Paul, Mimi:
The lieutenant-general commanding, di-
reefs me to say that unofficial business in
formation has reached these headquarters of
the organization of parties at Sioux City,
Yankton and Bismarck, to invade the Sioux
Indian reservation, with the view of visiting
the country known as the Black Hills.
Should such information be correct, you
will please notify to such parties that they
will not be permitted to go unless undar
authority from the honorable secretary of
the interior or Congress. r. @. DRUM,
Assistant Adjutant General.
A correspondent of the Black Hills ex-
petition writes on the 10th inst: If Charles
Reynolds, the bold and experienced hunter,
who, at the risk of his life, undertook to
carry dispatches from the expedition to Fort
Laramie, arrived there in safety, you have
before this been informed by telegraph of
THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD
in the Black Hills. The Indian couriers who
take this letter will carry additional dis
patches. more circumstantial account
have reserved for the mail. 1t was a wise
forethought which induced Gen. Custer to
secure, in addition to the scientific corps ap-
pointed by the department., the
services of two skilled and experienced
miners, who should supplement the
accurate geological survey of Prof Winch
tell by minute and special research for
valuable minerals. The men selected for
this purpose were ii. N. Ross and w. T.
Mckay, of Bismarck, Dakota, who, as pros
pectors and practical miners, had served a
long apprenticeship in California, Montana,
and Nevada. They provided their own
team. wagon, and mining outfit, and had
liberty to prospect wherever they chose on
the route of the expedition. The result
of their labors has justified this fore
sight, and converted glittering fable into
| a glittering fact. The hints and surmises of
geology have been tested and proved by the
pick, pan. and scales. AS we left the
| He lnga-Y s-Ksrs and entered Floral Valley,
we left the iurassic age with its flaming red
walls. and came suddenly upon a
calcareous chapter of the carboniferous
age, in tables of stone which had been
| broken into fragments, the fractured slabs
left living on the older beds beneath. Be-
| tween these two beds, thinks the professor
the one of broken carboniferous lime
stone, the other limestone of the upper
silurian-a volume has been left out of the
geological record. The whole devonian
period, with its coral, fern, and ganoid
chronicles, is missing. The history of a
great age has in some way dropped out
more likely it was not stitched in at
the bindery. leave the solution to the ge-
/ ologists. Below this neither limestone
which, by the way, would make very good
auicklime and fine building stone-was a
4 Of ri &c
we proceeded up the valley and reached
higher attitudes, the geological forma-
ton persistently became older. The
| discovery of some Linglua flags iden-
titled the Potsdam sandstone-the Linguls
being the name of small shell peculiar to
| this formation. Stratified rocks with their
| included fossils then gave place to metamor-
phic rocks, which, if less communicative to
our biologists, were more communicative &c
our miners. Huge masses of micaschisl