The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-03-10
RO, FOR THE HILLS.


A Denver Mans Description of the Black
Hills Countrywide Appearance and
Character of the Mining Towns.
tFrom the Denver News.l
Jerry Lewis, who has resided here for
decade and half, except for short in
= tervfs of time, is late arrival from the
Black Hills, having left Custer City,
Saturday, the 10th, at noon, reached
Cheyenne Wednesday evening, and Den
YER night before last. The trip, there
fore. was made in quick time, and with
out hitch or accident
A Ne,os reporter interviewed Mr..
Lewis yesterday, aud found him very
communicative, and brimful of enthusi-
Nnfp over the newly-opened diggings.
gives more information, of kind
ght after just now, than has been OBJ
Fd, 30 far, from any returned pros
kr, and it is reliable. Mr.. Lewis
about month in roaming about
ills, visiting most of the camps.
City and Hill City are the only
/ in the country. The former is
hted in a small picturesque park,
hmed in by mountains, Harney's
FAX, rising on one side, and near by.
The town site covers $40 acres, and this
area embraces the whole of the park, so
that the size of the town must be practi-
cally limited. The entire site has been
laid off into lots, fifty by $50 feet in size,
and which command prices ranging from
$25 to $500 each, according to desira-
\ bility of location and the eagerness OF
bGvers. The principal street is named
after Gen. Crook. 1t is 200 feet wide.
The other streets have width Of $50
get, and the alleys are thirty feet wide,
Id all run at about the same angle as
streets of Denver. -Four hundred
dingss,kave been erected, and every
Mi NAwn site has the foundation
sort of structure laid on it.
~ are fonr angular saloons, where n
qualify Of Asky is retailed, and
49,, Us where voTA can buy groceries,
inc canned fruitNS, gum boots, or
LIZ 10 So far nobody Mas had the en-
;se or the temerity. tn open gam
Mouse. and as there are only two
90 decks of cards in the diggings,
playing is limited Amusement.
JrHnken rows, amounting to little
IAN boisterous hilarity, Nave oc-
Custer City , but nobody has
binent discoveries are pcated
Spring, Castle, Rabbit,l Iron,
,d and Deadwood Creeks The
named are seventy-fve miles
4 of Custer City. There had
stampede in that direction for
Tvs prior to Mr.. Lewis departure
liver.
nor Bulls band of redskins has
iding the northern camps, and
her some seventy or eighty head
ses have been. run off. A good
of the prospectors are, in conse-
trudging about the country on
pcking their tools and provisions
Otheir backs. One miner, j. S. Nc
Gail, from Montana, was killed and
scalped last week by this same band.
He was riding alone to Hill City for pro
visions. Charley Mace, a Denver boy,
belonging to a party encamped on Old
Woman's Fork, shot and killed an In
dian, who, with ten or a dozen others,
was stampeding their stock. This &C
Cured about ten days ago.
Mr. Lewis says that during n part of
the winter the weather was bitter cold
and the snow quite deep; but when he
left Custer City the air had the mildness
of spring about it, and men were build
ing, mining, and going about generally
in their shirt-sleeves. There we're no
ldlerS or loa1erS III the country. Livery
man had an important object to accom-
plish, and that was TO make his fortune,
and as quickly as possible. There are,
it is estimated, 1000 people in the Hills,
and the number is rapidly augmenting.
Mr.. Lewis thinks the country is one OF
incalculable riches. He desn't hesitate
to predict that the bars on French Greek
will equal the famous Alder gulch, in
1,,h,oh x-ialla1 ito poillinnC
He will return shortly.
AS Mr.. Lewis and his travelling COM
panions came ont to Cheyenne they
found the road lined with soldiers, pros
pectors and vehicles.