The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-04-26
MONDAY. APRIL 26, 1873.

One Captain c. {. Carpenter is
gathering a clan Of fifteen hundred
steady -nerved fellows, at Kansas
City, who propose TO move on the
Black HHis, via Cheyenne, early
next month. He recently visited st.
Louis to make satisfactory arrange
ments with the Kansas Pacific rail
road officials, ard to inter view Gen.
sherman. He made satisfactory ar
rangemcnts with the railroad men,
but owing to General Shermnn's
absence from st. Louis, failed to in
terview him. As the next best thing
hat could happen vas to be inter-
viewed himself. \ Globe reporter
put him through that process, and
gives rather a florid and Munchnusen
description Of it.
The Black Hills are located in the
Wind River country, about 2G0 miles
from Cheyenne, in a northeast direc-
ton from Nevada, according to this
account, in one place, and they are
ngain described, in another place, as
the "Wind River Hills, the northern
extremity Of the Black range, and
distant from Cheyenne about 2G0
miles in a northwesterly direction"
A saw mill, for this party, has al
ready been sent out Of Cheyenne,
according to this statement, and we
are not foolhardy enough to give this
last statement II fiat contradiction, or
disposed to cast any doubt upon its
trnthfulness at all, in view of the
following announcement in the
Globe:
ma sYARMED AND EQUIPPED.
The Captain describes his men "a
thoroughly armed and equipped,
some with Spencer, some with Hen
ry, some with Shapes, some with
Winchester rifles, SOME with shot
guns, some with huge navy reVOl-
Vers. lie speaks of them as "A lot Of
plucky, determined fellows, who
will fight all day and suffer from
depression when night'intcrferes with
the fun"
Like Marco Palo, Captain Car
penter has travelled, The Globe
says:
Years ago he travelled through
those mountains, then comparatively
unknown, II range of hills to which
then were strangers the football Of
the white man, and whose shadows
had never protected the pale-fuCe
from the heat of the summer sun.
In those days Of wild excitement
over the vast discoveries of Nevada,
New Mexico and Colorado, little
faith would have been placed in hiIn
who whispered of the low range of
dark hills, within whose reCeSSes and
hooks there shone as pure metal, in
quantities beyond the rosiest dreams
of the most sanguIne men who sweat
their lives away in the little claims
of the West. But Carpeater believed
it, though he never dug a spoonful of
earth I. ON above the rich treasury
that echoed back the ring of his
horses hoofs. His impression came,
he says, from the formation of the
surface, the appearance of the rocks,
the aspect Of the gulches and rayines.
To his mind there was everything 10
indicate the existence of gold, and
went back to his work and locked
his secret up, waiting for the day
when he should be enabled to reveal
that secret and make it useful. Back,
then, to the Nevada mines, hunting
down to bedrock for the minute
particles of yellow dust, knowing all
the time that Off in the northeast
there lay miles OF layers that one day
he should strike his pick into. with
results that should pay him for all
the waste and anxiety of his life.
Years after, in Arkansas, he pur-
chased from some Cherokees
NUGGETS OF GOLD,
and they told him whence it came !;
told him Of the Black Hills, and de
scribed his old ride and the country
and then begged him TO search for
the metal. q
For years Captain Carpenter has
been a frOntiersmap, Il trapper, Il hun
ter, a miner, and has labOred to an
immense extent along those avenues
to wealth which expand the chest,
open the lungs, and make a man self
reliant, If they don't fiji his pockets
with refined dust. ! From the most
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