Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-05-31

D. T., WEDNESDAY, \ 81. a y !,
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John Owens of Bon Homme, County
Dakota, writes to Joe Cartrand, Of Yank
ton, under date Of Crook City, Black
Hills, May 4, as follows: '.Deadwood
City IS the centre Of the best minin
region in the Hills. There is plenty q
money here, and the miners are taking
out plenty Some men here have taken
out'one hundred. and City dollars = day
ana watch Indians half the time. TITS
certainly a.fich country, and + you wish
me to build you q house, let ME know
Immediately. I intend to build 40
Deadwood and shall then come home
after my folks. :, u. s*s.T 8
"This country suits ne. I.see plenty
5ofgofd and plenty more coming out oi
the ground. Gold is plenty and no way
to spend ii. Grub issscarse. II Yester.
day a man offered 800 iD dust for 9
sack of -four, and did not get it,
The Yankton Press and Dakotian pro-
nounces this information reliable.
-. A Columbus, Neb., letter to the Omaha
Herald dated May 18th, says: 5s'..'' ,r
!"News lately, received from t:the Col
unnbus party ii the Black Hills are very
encouraging. The boy are I'll now in
the vicinity of the Deadwood mines,
and Capt. al. Arnold, who is an old ex-
perienced miner, writes, this is the rich
est gold bearing country he ever saw, :,
but that al the claims are taken up so
far. as has been discovered. Thos. D.
Delong, another soneef the party and an
old Californian, writes that parties who
have their claims open in proper shape
are making 800 per day 70 the man,
and that he thinks it will take years to
work out the mines. Both of these men
are very reliable, and there is no longer
any doubt in the minds Of people in this
vicinity of the existence ofgold in pay.
ing quantities. .z
Mike McMaden of Brainerd, Minn.,
writing to his brother at Brainerd advis.
es his brother to come and says:
"A German named Weller, my partner
lastswinter, sold two ounces ofgold yes
terday for $4,000, the result Of two days
sluicing, seven miles from here up the
creek. The Indians are very trouble
some, and q great many tender feet are
leaving the Hills on that accolnt. There
ara mon killed here most every day by
the Indians, but it is to great extent
their own fault-being too 6ull.headed.
The Indians are ali we'll armed-ss we'll
or better than the whites, and will fight
even handed, and hare the advantage.
A great many whites are taken in by
being too brave and venturesome. Flour
is worth $4,000 a sack at Deadwood, ,
and 800 sacks could be sold there at
that. Things will be cheaper after a
little. Rapid City is going to be the
Denver of the Hills. There are about
Is houses here now and building right
along. When you come, come here and
1 will have house for you when you ar
rive. There is!gold IN the Hills every
where, but owing to the Indians, men
have to 90 in large parties, and the
country is not half tested. Some peo'
pie come here and look around little,
and because they cannot find gold by
the bushel, damn the country, and 60
back. Such is the case in all countries
Bring all the provisions with you you
can. Do not delay, but come as soon as
you can. Lumber is $50 per thousand;
wages SIS to $6 per day, and teames are
worth SS per day. While l have been
writing, one fellow has sold $1,000 in
dust here. The stories you hear about
there being no gold in the Hills, are false
Heed the not. This is reliable. Come.
L. G. Palmer, Of Springfield, Dakota
reports a s32 nugget and many smaller
ones RAINING from 81 to $1S each.
A Fert Laramie dispatch. of the 20tt
announces the abandonment of Dear't
train on the Sidney route to the Blacl
Hills every hoof Of stock having bees
captured by the Indians.
The Yankton Press and Dakotian O
recent date says: "'.
"Charles Holland brought into Yank
ton $1,000 worth of Black Hills gole
night before last. F. D. Wyman S40i
worth, and George Smith $3.50 worth
1t is Of the Finest quality and is mostly
coarse" ,.- ..... ...... =. ..
"There Philip, the baby'l
awake.'' remarked Mrs Sheridan