The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-03-29

New York, and 1t WAS there brought
to my recollection by n prominent
gentleman, who asked me where
Father De Smit was to he found, and
insisted that some one should be sent
at once to get from him the secret Of
the gold mountain which would pay
the national debt, etc. After l had
informed him that it WAS an old and
exploded story, hi, ardor cooled, aud
the excitement about the mountain of
gold again suLs:dod. 1t 50 happened,
however, that the Bla,.. Hilis country
was embraced in my command, am
two years ago it became apparent 10
me that military post, in the Black
Hills Of Cheyenne, would soon be-
come necessary for the proper proter-
tion Of the settlements in Nebraska
from the raids of the Sioux warriors.
who always, before they commenced
depredating on the frontier, secured a
safe place for their families and viii
lagos in the locality mentioned; and
believing that these Indians would
never max" war on our settlements so
lies and villages in this remote local
ity, and all that goes to make
Indian life comfortable. With this
purely military object in view, an
order was given for the Custar
reconnaissance, the discovery of par
ticles of gold, by alluvial washing,
near Harney's Peak on the east slope
of the Black Hills of the Cheyenne,
followed and brought to the surface
the Father De Smet story for the third
time. The Black Hills of the Chey-
enne, described hy Gen. Custar, are
situated between the north and south
forks of that river, one of which is
known as the Belle Fourche, the other
the South Fork, and, although l have
the utmost confidence in the statement
of Gen. Custar and Gen. Forsyth, of
my staff, that gold was found near
Harncy's Peak, may safely say there
has not been any fair test yet made to
determine its existence in large guam
titles. There is rot u territory in the
west where gold does not exist, but in
many of them the quantity is limited
to the color. which is as much as has
as vet been ohtairad pear uorns,,,s
Peok The gaoIooicol snaci,,o,,s
brought back by Custer's expedition,
are not favorable Indications of the
existence of gold in any great guam
tity, still it may be there, but us the
treaty OF 80 duIv ratified decd This
norton of the BIar5 Hills tn the Sioux
/ Indians. there i no alternative than
( to keen out trcspassers but to po hack
! to the Father DE Smetrs inrnrm,tion
/ there is not mucb douht Of LARGO o,,,p-
tiIips in the RI,cl, Hill. bnt r,u,I,
further west than the BLACK IIuIs Of
the CHEYENNE. Lnva soon nn,yat.
from the Biz, Horn and Tououa Rivers
and many spccimens from near Fort
Stambaugh. in the Upper Wind River
country, where mining failed from
want of water for alluvial washing.
and from hosGilities of Indians, and |
have good reason to believe, in fact,
quite certain, that gold exists in the
Owl Creek Mountains, in the Lower
WIND River and in the head waters
ot the Powder River and Rosebud, all
these locations being under the gen
erai meaning IN the Black Hills, and
ou'siue OF the sherman Augur and
Jerry treaty OF o. except SO lar AS the
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my i"'t.''i"ii ~ communicate thuch
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