The Grange advance., 1874-09-02

hyar Black Hills dat Custer fetched us
to. rs here'd bout desc ere hills long
fore Custer did. Now I'm talk'n'. Z.
When was in de Missouri-cooked on
first boat dat ever run up dat stream,
an hain't had no hard luck, neither,
now tells ye folks. But l wanted to
see desc Black Hills-an dey amt no
blacker dan 7 am, and I'm no African,
now YOU lust bet amt; I'm none of
yer common herd, I've got white blood
in me, 1 have, and I've got the money
to back it, now have, / tell you
AUNT sAL1.Y's DRRANs OF GOLD.
Aunt Sally expected to find the Black
Hills in some indefinite way or other
adapted to the colorcd race, and was
terribly disappointed; but the gold dis
coveries compensated for the lack of
any distinctive mark Of her race, and
she Joined in the developments with re-
ligious fervor. She talked necessarily
about them from morning to night, and
when she packed her mammoth body
into little wagon that was provided
for her and her straps" her dreams
were of gold mines, and "'ery thing dats
good on dis hyar earth, now low"
She went to the stream when the strike
was made, scratched grabble," and
staked out her claim, and she says she's
coming here as soon as anybody, ''now
you hyar me-
The miners traced up the creek some
distance finding color at every step, till
the lead ran under huge quartz noun
tain. Subsequent investigation proved
that there was
A BELT, THIRTY MILES WIDE,
as near as they could determine, run
ming from the southwest to the north
east, and embracing all these quartz
mountains which we have looked at
with so much admiration for their ex-
terror beauty. Gold must be under
them, the miners say, and the mineral
ogists add that it IS strange if there is
not,-but in such shape that We can
not reach it. No facilities for blasting
or mining are at hand. We have no
powder except what the little brass car
fridge shells hold, and the earth will
not unbosom itself to any other powder;
neither have we time to make the ap.
plication, for more than half our time
is gone and half our :rations
used and much of the country to ex-
plore yet. But the expedition has
solved the mystery OF the Black Hills,
and will carry back the news that there
is gold here, in quantities as rich as
were ever dreamed of. The method to
r Zach it is yet to be provided. It is in
the very heart of the Souix territory
in their choicest hunting ground-and
they hold the land with as holy rever-
ence as the savage heart can feel. No
one can come here with any safety, or
with any legal right as long as the
treaties that now exist hold good, and
the wealth that we have found must be
for several years yet under the ban.
THE FIRST MINERS MEETING IN THE BLACK
An attempt to solve the Indian ques-
tion was made around campfire the
other night, and conclave shook hands
together to look fate in the face.
1t was company of. rough
men; men-the most Of them-
who enjoy life on $l3 a month and
rations, but they feel that this expedi-
ton had in some dim wise open@d a
future for them, and they saw reflected
in the gloss Of that little gold dust
great possibilities, and great hopes grew
out Of them for better things. Some
who saw that meeting may laugh at ne
for this moralizing they saw moth.
ing but the brown and hard faces OF
adventures, and thought saw some.
thing more ambition; not mercenary
alone, but an ambition throbbing with
pulsations of hope-and I imagined
saw in some of these glimpse Of some.
thing far beyond to be reached by this
bridge of gold.
| All thought begins in feeling-w:de
| In the great mass its base is hid,
And narrowing up to thought stand glo-
A nerveless pyramid.
| Nor is he far astray who deems
That every hope that rises and grows
broad
In the worlds heart, b} ordered impulse
From the great heart Of God.
/ 1CSuAt VI I11lo u1cCI1uH n
camp fire among a cluster Of wagons
was the formation of
THE CUSTER PARK MINING COMPANY,
to be working organization from that
day forward, dividends to be paid an.
nually until further notice. The com.
pany was duly formed according to the
laws of the United States and the Ter
ritory of Dacotah, with authorized
officers and Board of Directors, and the
following notice was posted on the in
side of hard-tack box cover, out OF
the rain, and placed on the claim.
would like to give a fac-simile of the
"Notice," but in these columns can
only give it's words.
DISTRICT NO. l, CUSTER'S PARK
! MINING COMPANY.
CUSTER's GuLcH. BLACK HILLS, D. T.. J