The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-05-13
The Black Hills Country---A Re-
turned Miners Statement.

Charley Corlerio. who left here last
September Tor the Black Hills, one of
the original sixtecn who first entered
there as prospcctors, returned TO his
gives glowing account of the country,
and confirms the wealth of that region
in gold and silver ores, by specimens
of each brought with him, and now at
our Office. Mr. Cerderio, who has
mined in California, Idaho agd Mon
,ana, declares the quartz lodges of the
Black Hills country 10 be better de-
fined, richer in quality and greater in
number than any of the a.orc mcn-
toned mining countries. His party
prospected for fifteen miles up and
down the gulch, finding pay dirt that
washed from two cents 10 twenty-five
cents per pan. The specimens of gold
left with us are of a superior quality
and fine color. The amount is 81. so
washed from eight pans. Gulch dirt
two feet deep and from fifty to one
hundred feet wide. His burnt quartz
specimen is pronounced by assayers
to contain from s75 TO 800 per ton.
4 fine specimen of rotten quartz bios
som, that sure indicator of gold, is
also before US.
The silver ore specimen will assay
Sl20 10 the ton, the gold $50 TO the
ounce of scale gold. The specimen of
silver was Clipped off a solid lump of
quartz that would weigh one thousand
pounds.
The confidence of Mr.. Corderio as
To the prospects of the Black Hills is
fully established in the announcement
that he viii return there on the Ist of
June, with thirty teams and all the
necessary outfit for mining. Eight or
ten teams are now ready to start He
thinks the number viii reach thirty by
June LIST. He purposes taking this ex-
petition new and more direct route,
via. Sidney, Nebraska, avoiding mill
tary roads and by easy stages approach
ing the region so as 10 be within access
by the time the Government opens the
region to settlement. Among the add
vantages he reaps as being one Of the
original sixteen, is that his party or
ganized by adopting the California
mining rules aud have etaked claims
that even the Government cannot take,
when the Indian title is eXpunged.
These rules deiinc the boundaries, 200
feet up and down the gulch from rim
rock to rim rock; quartz claims or
leades, 200 feet to each man, and POO
feet each for right of discovery, in ac-
cogtlance with mining laws no COM
paay however can exceed sixteen hun
bred feet on the lead. The hardy adj
vcnturers, among whom were our
Wichita boys, have likewise some little
favoritism shown them by the Goven-
ment as exhibited in the declaration of
the Indian Commissioners who ex-
pressed themselves as all willing to
insert a special clause in their report
asking Government TO permit this
original party full access to the Hills.
Mr. Corderio says the climate of the
locality is both healthy and agreeable,
the valleys are watered with clear,
cold streams, Astounding in trout,
while the soil is of the most product
i've character. He is of the opinion
that a city of some magnitude VIII
spring up in this valley, while in few
years the incessant roll of the quartz
mill will yibrate among the Hills to
the tune of millions more of bullion,
ground out for national defense if need
be. We are convinced of one thing,
that just now Wichita has the Black
Hills bad.