The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-11-08
D. DoINOs.
Extensive Building improvements Rich
Silver Lodes-Stampede to the Wolf
Mountains-Another Wall
About Nails.
pEApwoop,o oct. rs, '76.

DEADwooD, Oct. 2s, '76.
Arriving in Deadwood on the It'll inst.
found that an absence of one month
had wrought wonderful changes, and !
have spent a portion of the time since
in posting up, gathering items, ETC.,
that / might write you a newsy letter,
but have now postponed it so long that
perhaps my items have become stale,
consequently it will be a poor effort
after all, but somewhat like the old
lady's supper, ''plenty of it SUCH as it
is.
Building has been carried on on a
prodigious scale for the past two months.
Those who had houses to poke their
heads in have been hard at work strip
ping, lining and otherwise improving
them so rs to render them tolerable to
live in during the long dreary winter
that will soon be upon us, and those
who had none have been wrestling,
Jacob-like, for them until every avail
able spot of earth in the gulch, and on
the hillside and even over the bed of
the streams has been taken up and most
-ly built upon and sold or rented at big
prices, and still the good work goes on
and will doubtless continue until the
SHOWS of winter close in upon us, shut
ting us in from the outer world and its
communicating influences, and suspend
ing all sorts of manual labor. What a
nice lot of ducks we will be next May
to be sure, those Of us who survive the
coming winter, as we come forth from
our alternating dens with long hair and
tattered garments, to skin the tender
footed pilgrim who shall first venture
here in search of gold in the spring.
Just here l remember that the favorite
hobby of the average Custer City man
has been exploded. 1t is no longer be-
iieved that Deadwood will pick herself
up body and baggage and remove to
that desperately wicked city to bask in
the sunshine of her parks and valleys,
and spend her substance in dissipation
and riotous living during the coming
winter. Probably we might procure
cheap transportation enough to justify
us in the undertaking, but at the pres
emit high tariffs of bull-trains it can't
be thought of.
Last Saturday / gathered myself up
and went to
BARE BUTTE,
the famous silver mining district ,situa-
ted about twelve miles east of Dead
wood, and visited some of the most not
ed and promising silver lodes of that
district. l was informed that nearly
forty lodes had been discovered, located
and recorded there during the season.
The names of only the leading mes /
will give. First on the list is the Ruth
erford B. Hayes, then the Florence, the
Caribou, Ell Refugio, Cora, Buckeye
Tunnel, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and
many others which assay "way up''
some of them going into the thousands.
The Florence lode is the property of
Robert Florrmann, a Cheyenne man;
has been worked more than any other,
and at present is showing up the richest.
I have seen some beautiful specimens
Of horn silver from it, which assayed
four thousand dollars per ton. Mr.. F.,
/ am informed, holds his mine at one
hundred thousand dollars, which is a
very moderate consideration if it con-
tinues to show up as well as at present.
The Rutherford B. Hayes is the lode
/ was particularly struck after. 1t was
found on the west slope of a high hill
about three hundred feet from the base.
The lode trends north and south and
dips in the hill to the east. l would
/, call it a contact vein, about four feet
wide, situated between quartz and a
.conglomerate of porphyry and lime. 1t
shows some horn silver, but the assays
made of the average ore give three hun
bred and four ounces per ton, l re-
gard the Hayes as one of the finest lodes
1 have seen in the Hills, and believe it
will some day be as universally known
as the statesman for whom it was
named.
Mr.. A. G. McShane, of Sherman, and
Robert Reed, of Cheyenne, are the
principal owners of the Hayes. 1 would
like to say something of several other
lodes, for instance, the Caribou, which
shows a large per cent. Of galena, and
assays very high. 1t is owned in part
by II. B. Henderson, Of Cheyenne. The
Red Cloud, a lode similar to the Hayes,
is owned by G. B. Moulton, Of Salt
Lake, and others. A town has been
laid out at the camp In Bear Creek
gulch, and called Galena, which no
doubt next year will be a lively place.
THE QUARTZ MILL
ISent in by q Cheyenne company has
been put up at the town Of Gayvine,