Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-08-30
BLACK Hills Notes.

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l.@ Il" BLACK Hills Notes.
From the Crook City Tribune Of Aug. 10.
Several packs Of wolves visited Cen
tennial prairie on Monday night and
gave the ranchmen benefit.
Centennial City is now deserted
village The only store in the place
was removed to this city on Tuesday.
The Indians set fire to several hay
stacks on Bear Butte creek on Tuesday.
Sixteen tons in all were destroyed.
Fires are raging in the woods between
this place and Rapid City. ana a large
amount of excellent timber is being de-
stroyed. .4. ...->..
A miner while digging prospect hole
in the bar north Of town, one day last
week, found hugo buffalo skull about
eight feet under ground.
Ward Bill, formerly engaged in the
mercantile business at Bismarck, has
opened dry goods store on the corner
Of Central street and Dakota avenue.
The machinery for quartz mill is
daily expected to arrive in the Hills
from Fort Pierre. Where the mill will
be located has not yet been determined.
Mckay & Smith, the enterprising
proprietors of the Park Rancho, have
fenced all the points of egress from the
Park, and are now confident that it will
be utterly impossible for Indians to run
off stock.
Bob Canon sold his claim on Dead
wood last Friday for $4,000. The claim
is one Of the best paying on the creek
and at present is about half worked.
One of the colored men at work in
African gulch has $500 worth Of mug
gets which vary in size from $1.5O to
$24. His colored brethren ere equally
blessed with the fruits 81 honest toll.
and are rapidly growing rich.
Within the past four days nine trans
fers of real estate in this city have been
recorded. The purchasers, with but
few exceptions, are business men from
the states, who intend to erect substan-
tial buildings for carrying on business
of various kinds.
A number of Deadwood gentlemen
have formed a company to construct a
ditch from the headwaters of the Red
water to Bear creek, in order to facili-
ia !e mining operations in the latter dis.
trict. The ditch will be about twelve
miles long and will carry five hundred
inches of water. The estimated COST Of
the work is 100000.
A train of sixty-eight wagons and
two hundred men arrived from Bismarck
on Saturday. Ed. Donahue's and Joe.
Pennels outfit were included in the
same; the former with large stock Of
goods for Donahue & Winston's store
at this place, and the latter with freight
for number of parties in the hills.
Ed. Morton, with "a splendid sporting
outfi, o. and G. Robards, with a stock of
hardware, tinware, &c., and Ward Bill
with dry goods and provisions, were
also with the train. In their various
pursuits in the hills we wish these gen.
tlemen the success and prosperity which
their enterprise so well merits.
On claim 81, above discovery, On
Whitewood, Mr.. Smith was engaged
a few days since cutting a bedrock
drain, when he found battle-axe firmly
imbedded in the rock, eight inches down
and, about six feet below the surface Of
the ground. In size and shape the in
strument much resembled the old style
of battle-axe presented to the northern
tribes Of Indians by the Hudson Bay
company's traders, many years ago. At
the same time it was found the axe was
thickly coated with cement, which also
filled the eye, and all of which showed
free gold. When and how this relic Of
other days became part Of the deposit
of Whitewood creek will probably for
ever remain a mystery, although expert
antiauarians may find in it q clue to
the existence of a race, who, in mechan-
icsl Workmanship, equalled the best ef-
forts Of the artists Of the nineteenth
century.