The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-04
John S. Collins ON the Black Hills.

Dir. John S. Collins, post trader
at Fort Laramie, andknewn through.
out the entire west as a. thoroughly
reliable and Conscientious man,
writes to the Omaha Herald as fol.
lows concerning the Black Hills and
the stampede for DeadWood.
"Ihe stampede for Deadwood, in
the Hills continues. Our informant
says that the number of inhabitants
in that vicinity will not fall short Of
5000. Bob Tail, Gold Run, Two
Bit, Sand Creek, Split Tail, and
Deadwood gulehes, are all tributary
to Whitewood gulch by actual claim
measure in hat region. Twenty-
four miles are being worked. =
On the l5thinst. a claim was sold
on Whitewood for $500, to be paid
for as o as the dust was taken out
of the ground. On the following
day six men took out upwards of six
hundred dollars.
A. M. Botsford, formerly clerk at
the headquarters in Omaha, has seven
men at work on a claim in Dead
wood, and cleans up twenty to thirty
ounce, per day. A MIR. Tools, on
Gold Run, is averaging with eight
men $50 per day, per man.
On Deadwood a party recently
sold twenty feet of his 800 foot or
claim for $4,000. Claims that four
weeks ago were offered for sale at
$500 to $500 each are now held at
from $4,000 TO $751; each. |
have reliable information that it is
honestly considered that there are
claims on Deadwood and Whitewood
that will yield 800, 900 to the claim
of 800 feet.
1t is variously estimated that from
$50, 000.to 500 in dust awaits
shipment from the Deadwood coun-
try. On Iron Creek, two companies
are working on what they clam is
'big pay" but say nothing of the
result of their work, except that their
ground is not for sale.Z rrraa4
On Sand Creek, nuggets, worth
$23, have been found"
DIR. Miller, editor of the Herald,
and one of. the best posted and
smartest editors in the country, en-
dorses Mr.. Collins statements in the
following style, his article rejecting
the sentiments of The LEADER to
the letter:
"In every word written by Mr..
John s. Collins We place the most
implicit confidence. All who know
the caution of the man, his high re-
gard for truth, and his large expert
ence in mining countries, will agree
with us that what he says is rigidly
within the line of truth. There is
not another man in the West who is
in a position to know so well what
the actual facts are about the Dead
wood gulch mines, or who is more in
capable of being misled or of telling
untruths about the gold develop
ments. What Mr.. Collins now SAYS
of Black Hills gold are simply facts
which he predicted as long as two
months ago, and he takes some pride
in the fact that, against all clamor
and opposing statements, he is on
the record in pronouncing these new
gold fields the richest in placer mines
that this country has ever known"
AND STILL ANoTHER.-Some "
ing scribbler telegraphs from Lin
coin, Nebraska, to Cincinnati, on
Thursday last, to the effect that a
large portion of Capt. Stones party
of Cincinnatians, now en- route to
the Black Hills, we're killed by In
dams while passing through the Sand
hills, some fifty miles from Red
Cloud agency. The subjoined tele-
grams prove the story to be false:
Fort LARAMIE, June 3.
Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan, Chicago:-
No information has been received
here of the massacre of the Cincin-
natti party and 1 have no doubt that
the story is a canard. Capt. Egan
saw the Cincinnati party on May
21st. % miles from Custer. They
were then all right. They had n
man who had been slightly wounded