The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-05-04
MINING IN the BLACK NILS.
One Company that IL Doing Fairly NJ orc
Gamblers than Miners in Custer City.

CUSTER CITY, Oak Ter, April l5.-IIav-
ing ueen idle all winter, owing 20 the closing Of
calleu New dorado. bought 1Tst-class ucAet
from Chicago to Custer city for SOL. ana found
i was to IKE me by the California train OF the
Chicago ana Northwestern Railroad that left
Cnirsg1 at half past ~ Ia the forenoon. aud by
which got TO Omaha the next morning al
O'Clock.
After waiting three bcurs at Omaha, we start
ed on the Union Pacific Railroad, and the next
dav at aDou noon GOT 10 cheyenne. took PAT
rick's stage line tthey called II stage, but
called 1t covered mud wagon, and 1t took US
bye dt,s more 10 get 10 thi. place. We came
over the most Internal road l ever saw. IL was
rough, muddy, full Of melting snow; rivers to
foid; no food to be had no ranches for shelter
desert, all The way. 1t ID fraud TO senu PEG pie
this way, an no one tut the Pacific road and
Cheyenne people Is to TO blamed for II. Tue
route Is all right up To Cheyenne; IN fact, could
not be better : out at Cheyenne the fraud begins,
aud does not END unil we reach here. lhe
route IL fu OF thieves, cuttnroats, Ind ians, aud
utterly desperate people, VINO have eauattt d
down ~ the desert for the express purpose OF
who comes from e IT Of the Missouri river /
should say the route the so-called stages take
must be about ~ miles long, as We travelled
day ana mat ioi hye Gays, and only stopped to
chHnf' teams at tbs nlseIdole dug outs they
cal ID stuiIns.
There T. no goa here. but 10 suffering exists
among az p'ople There l. gold IA the INNS.
nut no. aroGn TIN. city. On RApid Creek, near
htWd Cley, ihey are doing well. / saw them
taLo out IA one psn over 81 worth OF gold. on
That creek men are making about 81 per day,
ana VIII yet more rs soon as the frost {, out OF
the soil think there Is plenty OF gold to pay
any one that has means To Uuid sluites, out do
not DehcVe there Is enough 20 pay tor pan work.
ana now working for a fankton mining COM
PAM. hey pay me So per cay boss. have
cAai-e Of forty miners. We clean up every other
oaY, and SO lar have got above 800 per day for
the riy men. The men are paid 81 per day In
gold. Food here Is plenty ana cheap.
most Of rho people who are here now did not
cone t. dig gold. They are spectators and
ram lers iiOun Cheyenne, and come to rob tn G
new comeIs. After l have Teen here n little
Iuhgcr shall write you again. Until then,
woud say, do not come by Cheyenne, out, II
you can do go, FIX out pack-mules at Yankton.
and come inieDendent. Bring food, a rife, and
plenty OF liked ammunition. linen, when you
get here, You can 80 where you please, and, II
you viii woik, you can get rich Lut, II you 10
ia<5, ana tnink you can get gold without work
- aru mat very hard, YOU mad better starve In
Chr'io. 10. starYe you win II you come here.
cue thing ! nearly for9ot, and that Is, d 10 not
ION hhN plctenoed company that 1, being got
W ~ some stHnlp Who is only alter your money.
w one hlg party leave Chicago under a m n
VINO called himself MAJOR Something and who
CiNlmrd he H. ID been here with Mr. Jenney lie
Eot MS peprli about MY miles from Che enne
ana thcn thcy tound hs had meyer even haen
west OF Omaha. lie has "A partner ar tvxo In
chicago now, VINO, when | left there ware nv
lug 10 nveleIe others 10 co TO Jon this Nainr
was tod by some Of the party thai somn rail
tuad man was IA tner IN this Speculation mis-
mayor tod his men That he would take them
tninugh Des Moincs. where they would be
1nured ~ nfty more but, when they cot thel a.
theN ala not mud IN n. GEORGE l., CuTLLR