Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1876-09-14

What He Rnows About She Couutry
-0esd Reasons for Leaviag-Ns
h Chancs hr Newcomer - ThS
same old stsry OF Hard Times
Essiiy Exhausted Geld Fields.
". p. Hill. an old prospcctor on the Pa,
oihc Coast and . man well known In Thu
locality. returned from tho Black Hill
country last evening. thoroughly satisfied
In his own mind that the whole thing 10
swindle and . iraud. He travelled over
tho entire distance from French Gulch "a
Boar Gulch. $50 miles. and which COM
prises the mining regions Of the Black
Hills. A NEWS reporter interviewed Mr.,
Hill this morning.
R,porter-whst do you think Of the now
diggings, Mr.. HIP
NJ. HILL think they are q blk from
n end 70 the other. that Is. NO far - q
mai without capital Ia concerned. I went
all through 'em and got enough Of IL.
Everything that IL worth havingis located.
The first place I struck was French Gulch.
That's where the gold country commences.
This gulch 10 about two miles long; per-
fectly fat. no fall and no water. The bars
have been made 10 pay from % dollar
and Q half 10 two dollars and . half. but
tho bedrock has never been reached In tho
gulch and never will be. on account OF
water coming In and stopping the miners.
Outside Of the bars no gold Is found In
tho gulch.
Rsporter-How about Custer City1
M. HH-There arc TOO houses In Custer
and s~ovsnty.nve people living there. II Ia
awful dull. Spring creek 10 two miles
and Q half north OF Custer. II Ia fiat and
there 10 no water. Hill City comes next.
II has $50 houses and only one man lives
in tho place. He ~ cutting hay, and has
two fine stacks already. Al Rabbit creek
there ID lots of water and the bars pay
tvoor three dollars TO the hAnd-just about
grub. Can't reach bedrock In this gulch
Tor the reason that there Is too much wa
Ter below the surface.
R.portsr--How far Ia II from Custer City
10 whitewoodi -.
Mr.. Hn-Eighty miles. whitewood Is
taken up In claims for twenty miles. A
few have reached bedrock and pay wages.
That's all. The rest are seemingly WORTH
less.
Rsportr-Did you visit Dcadwoodf
M. HML-Yes. Deadwood cmpties into
Whitewood. The .Deadwood region Ia d.
yided into four districts and twenty-five
claims, II was located by two or three old
"sausw-men," who know where the gold
was, and consequently had tho Z" dead
wood" ON their racket. They divided IL
up into four districts. 40 that they could
have two claims each In every district-A
bar claim but q gulch clAim-and by this
means managed to gobblc up the whole
business. They never struck spick In
their claims, but sold out 10 other parties
coming In. Not one Of the original locs-
tors 10 now TO be found In the country.
They pocketed their money and skedad.
died.
R,porfs,--How are the Deadwood claimsf
Mr.. HM-They arc very rich. Five OF
Thorn are paying big-al the way from
$40 10 500 TO the hand. Tho rest OF the
claims are paying wages and some few
making money. Mr.. Buckley. formerly
oi Gold Hill. and who was employed at
the Belcher before leaving here. owns
claim No. 10 on the Deadwood. Hc 10
doing we'll and has already cleaned up
Ss,40o-S0 . day 10 the hand being the
biggest work he has ever done. Buckley
Ia the only man from Nevada who has =
claim thai Is worth working. Claim No.
2 has ciesned up $l50,0O0, but II Ia nearly
worked out.
Rsportsr-Ars there any other diggings
In that neighborhoodf
NJ, HH-Forty miles north IL Niger
Gulch, then Sand Creek. and still further
north Bear Gulch. There il not q drop Of
water In either Of these places at this time
Of tho year. The mining country ends at
Bear Gulch. Sand Greek and Bear Gulch
don't amount TO much. hut Niger 0ulch
10 very rich. II has paid as high as 500
10 q common wagon-load of dirt. IL IL
narrow and shallow and will DO soon
worked out. There are only about two
months In the year that there IL enough
water 70 wash dirt. This gulch was dis
BY Q darky from Chicago. who
sent for all his friends, and now they have
the richest thing In tho mountains.
Rsporfsr-Are they troubled by Indians?
m, HU-Sometimes. The Sioux rubbed
ont ten Of 'em. together with five white
men. . few days before ! left Deadwood.
Reporter-How 10 business In Deadwood
m. Hu-Dull. Everything oyerdone.
You can buy provisions for less than tho
Men come In to buy their sup
plies with about 50 In their pockets. Pro-
perty has gone TO nothing. There are
savmills ut this place and plenty OF
People bought their lumber on
credit, hired their carpenters In the same
way, and now there Is scarcely q house In