The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-28
Ehe Black IHklIs Coun1ry...A
Returned Miners SsaaeGmeua.

Charlie Corderio, who left here
last September for the Black
Hills, one of the original sixteen
who first entered there as prospec-
tors, returned to his home last
week. He, as do the others, gives
q glowing account of the country,
aud confirms the wealth of that
region in gold and silver ores, by
specimens of each brought with
him, and now at our Office. Mr..
Corderio, whe has mined in Cal
iornia, Idaho and Montana, de-
clares the quartz lodges of the
Black Hills country to be better
defined, richer in quality and
greater in number than any of the
afore mentioned mining countries.
His party prospected for fifteen
miles up and down the gulch. find
ing pay dirt that washed from two
cents to twenty-five cents per pan.
The specimens of gold left with
rs are of . superior quality and
fine color. The amount is $3.50
washed from eight pans. Gulch
dirt two feet deep and from fifty
to one hundred feet wide. His
burnt quartz specimen is pro-
nounced by assayers to contain
from $75 to 500 per ton. A fine
specimen of rotten quartz bios
som, that sure indicator of gold, is
also before US.
The silver ore specimen will as
say $120 to the ton, the gold 500
to the ounce of scale gold. The
specimen Of silver was Clipped off
solid lump of quartz that would
weigh one thousand pounds.
The confidence of Mr.. Corderio
IS to the prospects of the Black
Hills is fully established in the
announcement thst he will return
there on the 1st of June, with thir-
ty teams and all the necessary
outfit for mining. Eight or ten
teams are now ready to start. He
thinks the number will reach thir-
ty by June 1st. He proposes tax
ing this expedition by a new and
more direct route, via Sidney,
Nebraska, avoiding military roads
and by easy stages approaching
the region SO as to be within &C
cess by the time the Government
opens the region to settlement.
Among the advantages he reaps as
being one of the original sixteen,
is that his party organized by ad-
opting the California mining rules
and have staked claims that even
the Government cannot take,
when the Indian title is expunged.
These rules define the boundaries,
200 feet up and down the gulch
from rim rock to rim rock; quartz
claims Or leads, 200 feet to each
man, and 200 feet each for right of
discovery, in accordance with min
ing laws company however can
not exceed sixteen hundred feet on
the lead. The hardy adventures,
among whom were our Wichita
boys, have likewise some little
favOritisln shown them by the
Government as exhibited in the
declaration of the Indian Commits
sioners who expressed themselves
as all willing to insert a special
clause in their report asking Gov
ernment to permit this original
party full access to the Hills. Mr..
Corderio says the climate of the
locality is both healthy and agree
able, the valleys are watered with
clear, cold streams, Astounding in
trout, while the soil is of the pro-
ductive character. He is of the
opinion that city of some mag
nitude will spring up in this val
ley, while in a few years the in
cessant roll of the quartz mill will
vibrate among the Hills to the
tune of millions more of bullion,
ground out for national defence if
need. be. We are convinced of
one thing, that just now Wichita
has the Black Hills bad.