The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-02-07
CLEANS OF GOLD.

THE BLACK HILLS BONANZA-PLENTY CT
GOLD AND SPLENDID COUNTRY.
The Omaha Bee of recent date says: This
morning Mr. Peter Mckay, formerly sta
tion agent at Cheyenne, arrived from the
Black Hills. He reports the creeks all
frozen solid, except Spring creek, and that
all mining operations have been suspended
until spring, excepting the Allen and Mon
tsna Mining companies, located on Spring
creek, where the volume of water Is so great
that they are able to keep at work wash
ing gold, and they are making as
high as $40 day to the hand; they average
fully $40 day to the man. He says that
all throughout the hills there are hundreds
of miles of creek banks, and more of them
but will yield from S. day and upwards.
he reports that so far but few very rich
diggiugs have been found, but all are pay
ing well. The discoveries on Whitewood
creek are such that s., 600 Is the price named
for claims of 800 feet. Desdwood creek Is
return at once to the hills, where he will
make permanent home. He says that the
country is the most beautiful he has ever
seen
A PERFECT GARDEN OF EDEN
and that nothing can be more lovely than
the pine-wslled parks and the grand beauty
of the forest-clad mountains, which tower
above the prsiries of the valley. He says
it would be magnificent agricultural coun-
try, and he will take with him large quantity
of seeds. VIM. G. Holling, Omshs's ex-
marshal is the big man of the hills, but
has sold out to the Northern Pacific, and is
advocating that route, although it is several
hundred miles further from the end of the
railroad to Custer City than via. Cheyenne
and the Union Pacific. He says the
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the Northern Pacific route. The best road
from Cheye Is By way of Old Woman's
Fork, instead of Pollock's Cutoff, which
has been generally used. He says that the
present route can be shortened at least fifty
miles; that the route via Bismarck will be
wholly impossible In the spring on account
ofthe sickness of the alkali lands, but that
the Cheyenne route is now in perfect order,
and is so the year round, with plenty OF
wood and water. good grass, and no OBJ
stacles of any kind. He has seen several
parties, who had to fight their way into the
bills, that came by the way of the northern
route, but
THERE Is NO DANGER WHATEVER
from the Indians of the Spotted Tail and
Red Cloud reservations. He met several
men going into the hills anaccompanied,
but he considers that travelling alone Is SIM
ply temptation for the Indians to makeht-
tacks. He counted one hundred and ffty.
one men, six women and a saw mill going
into the bills from Cheyenne. One mill is
now in operation at Custer City, where
buildings are going mp with great rapidity.
There is, he says, no danger from want OF
food, for the miners can dig enough
to buy what they want, and the coun-
tny is teeming with game. A man
can go one mile and half from Hills
City and kill deer in an hour at any time.
Provisions are now plenty. and the supply
Is lar In excess of the demand. Carpenters
are more needed than anything else. Per-
sons going in should have about $50 in
money or provisions, and supply OF coarse,
warm clothes, so as to be able to put up
their log hut and open their claim without
having TO spend too much time in tending
and making coats from deer hides. He says
$1,000 men can make five dollars a day
during the coming summer by working in
the diggings. He says that crime Is almost
unknown, the people now in the hills being 2
of a better class than he ever saw congre.
gated In a new country.