Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-05-03
There is Gold i'm the Black Hills.

TIOul TIE cheyenne DdlIy Leader, April IL.
The constantly increasing hue and
cry of newspapers east and west, the
frequent letters from impecunious
bummers, who, because they do not
find huge nuggets kicking about the
streets of Cheyenne, write letters to
their home papers tiled with denun-
Citations Of our city and its people, the
Infamous SANDERS which are constantly
appearing in mercenary newspapers,
which seem to direct their most ven
omous malice against the Magic City
these things are causing the utmost
wonder and bewilderment in the minds
of the hundreds of men who are con-
stantly arriving here, and who cannot
for the life Of them see the slightest
cause for the PRONUNCIATION of such ut
terly base falsehoods as are daily pub
lished' in the outside press. For our
part, we can only attempt an explana-
ton Of the causes which produce such
results. It is entirely beyond our fac
,ulties of perception to fathom the
minds Of the creatures who are engaged
in this systematic and wholly uncalled-
for war upon ourselves. We are not
an over-sensitive community, but we
do object and feel hurt when the black
flag is hoisted by those whom we have
never given the slightest cause for
commencing war upon us.
We have published from time to
time, and at very frequent intervals,
reports of rich discoveries in the Black
Hills. These reports were brought in
by men in whom we have the utmost
confidence confidence engendered
and strengthened by years of acquaint-
ance and intimacy, and that they are
true there can be no doubt. The
Leader is charged with keeping up the
Black Hills Juror solely for the en-
richment of the town, and with the
full knowledge that there is no gold in
the Hills. Proof of the falsity of this
statement is easily made. Cheyenne
people have no doubt as to the exist
ence Of gold in paying quantities in
the Hills, our merchants having ham
died nearly $4,000 in nuggets and
dust, taken out of the rich beds of
French, Castle and other creeks in the
new Eldorado. At the east, among the
class Of people who should go to the
Hills, the reality and richness Of de-
posts is taken for granted, and the
only question is as to the best time for
starting. This interest, while very gen
orally felt, is most intense at Boston,
New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.
We often see the statement that our
people are robbing all who come here,
and that our merchants charge the most
exorbitant prices for goods. The fact
is that our merchants are daily dupli-
eating Chicago bills on mining outfits,
even underselling Omaha. The men
who have outftted here and gone to
the Hills have naught but good to say
of our business men and our city, and
their testimony is preferable to that of
fellows who date lying letters at Chey-
enne and write down place which
they never have seen. Cheyenne fears
no rival outftting point, and in reality
has none, for while the weekly depar-
lures from this city for the Hills are
numbered by hundreds, those from
other points can be easily counted on
the fingers.
We still advise idle men with small
means to go the Hills, and to come to
Cheyenne and outfit. A little more
than one week will suffice to transport
them from homes of enforced idleness
and undeseryed want to fresh fields for
enterprise, not only in mining, but in
nearly every Industrial pursuit. The
tide will engulph these Black Hills of
the Cheyenne and fiow far towrads the
inviting regions of the Big Horn noun
tains ere the present season closes.