Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-07-26
BLACK HILLS.

BLACK HILLS.
Return Of Don. Stevenson, VIM.
McC0rry, VIM. B. Shaw anu
Freighfers.-OpiniO of Montana
and Colorado Miners and others
-.Deadwood.-Qu &c. 3
Don. Stevenson, VIM. 3. Shaw, d.
B. Greenly and others who left the
Black Hills on the 18th inst arrived q on !
the 23d. five days and q half out. An Al.
ox9traini which left a few days earlier
has also arrived since our last. In all
about forty teams have come IN princi-
.pally for supplies, The rernlaindaer' ere e.
returned freighters who will goa again
if the business demands their services.
J All Of the Bismarck boys except Billy.
,Breeken are well,r Billey IS down With.
a fever.6 The saw mill party have made
big money since they have beef1 innthei
hills and have, nov on hang hsixsy
thous and nd feetoof lumber for Which ready
sale ,ssfound atsgood prices.rsHEw :.
The Black Hills Tribune is published
regularly. and is a: lively paper, chuck
full of live local items: The boys do not
seem to have struck bonanza at first
sight, however. The editor has dropped
his lead pencil and taken to his transit
for which he receives twenty dollars a
day. He is engaged in surveying for a
ditch from Spear Fish to conduct water
into Whitewood gulch. The ditch will
be fourteen miles long and will cost
about one hundred thousaed dollars,
and when once constructed it will prove
a bonanza indeed to the owners of hill
side claim as we'll to the owners OF the
ditch.
The Black Hills Pioneer, established
one day after the Black Hills Tribune,
is rattling paper, 1t is larger than
the Tribune-same size as the BISMARCK
TRIBUNE printed on clean new type,
pure white paper, and It's make up and
editorial work shows that the men who
run it know what they are doing.
Deadwood at present is the town OF
the hills. The only trouble about it is
the fact that it can't grow any larger.
The gulch is narrow and the town has
but one street which is so crowded on
Sundays that team can scarcely pass
through it. The buildings average bet.
ter. Capt. Shaw says, than those of
Bismarck, and some of them would be a
credit to any city. It is estimated that
there are ten thousand people in and
about Deadwood, Elizabethtown, Mon
tana. Centennial and Crook Cities, all
within "a radius Of twelve miles. They
have no fears whatever Of Indians and
those in from the hills say that there is
no danger of Indians interfering with
immigrants so long as there are soldiers
in the field to fight. They can get away
with the latter to much better advan~
taee than they can with the citizens.
The boys anticipate trouble, however,
when the Indians return from their
scalp hunting excursion this fall. Crook
City will be good town this winter or
so soon as the mines about it are deyel-
oped, they are deeper but rich. Frank
Whetmore showed the writer about six.
ty cents in gold scales picked from the
surface one day while halting for dinner,
this from point about mile from
Crook. The mines pay well from the
surface down.
There is not only gold in the grass
roots, and on the bed rock, but in the
mountain tops, and in the hill sides, in
the low lands and in the uplands. Gold
everywhere with precious little water to
wash it, however. Capt. Morrill, OF
Dixon, ILL.,, mentions four negroes who
in one day,took out with rocker seven
teen.hundred dollars, carrying the dirt
from the top Of a hillto the stream, sew.
eral rods distant. The Wheeler Bros.
have taken out above all expenses near
" two hundred thousand dollars from
their Deadwood claim, and their claim
will last several months yet. Some
CLAIMS pay exceedingly well, many Of
them do not. A few men are already
rich. many are doing we'll, some are, al
most destitute. Hundreds are coming
in. many are leaving. Some are entire.
" satisfied and many return cursing the
sshogs," as they term them, who have
eobbled up all of the good claims. Capt
Morrill, spoke of one man who had tax
en- up hillside and gulch claim covering