Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-04-19

The Bismarck men all seem to be well
pleased with the Hills.
Since wrote Ysu in JanusTJ two
months age, there has been e
BUT LITTLE MINING DOME.
Only Spencer & Co, and Allen y Co.,
on Spring Greek, have been ct work
with sluice boxes, and their claims are
paying about ss they were when l
wrote you before. Spencer y %. take
out from
$65 TO 1925
Der day with four men, and donot work
long hours for they are obliged to clean
up before sundown.
ALLEN & co.
are doing about the same and these are
the 1nly companies or persons that have
opened their claims.
The creek is frozen and q man can
do more in one day
.@s WHEN 1T THAws UUT -
than he can do now in four days. There
will be some rich mines struck in the
spring, believe, as soon as men can
get around and prospect; and the
SOONER YOU GET HERE
the better. ....s
Farming and market gardening is CO.
ing to pay we'll in this country for
few years at least, for no one seems to
be turning their attention to that
branch of business. All run to
MINES AND TowNs1TEs,
but my experience in the mines proves
that those who 60 to farming and stock
raising, are the most successful; but you
know it is hard for one who has follow
ed mining for eighteen years, as | have,
to engage in other business, when there
are rich mines to be had for the pros
pecting. IL
PAYING FREIGHT.
Oats would pay the bes: Of anything
you can bring to the Hills now as they
are worth Is cents apound in Custer
City and scarce at that.
... j. j. SUTHERLAND.
accompanying the party who brought
in tho Sutherland letter were thsJones
Brothers, who. in company with Mr..
Koeble, Ross, Mike Smith, Stone, Ken.
nedy, Capt. Jack and others, went to
the Black Hills IN December last, arriv-
ing at Rapid Greek on Christmas. The
party were all frontiersmen and most of
them practical miners. Koeble came
to Bismarck to go to the Hills immedi-
ately following the Custer expedition of
1874. Ross was Clusters chief of minels
and discovered the first gold in the Hills
at a point where Custer City now stands.
Nike Smith accompanied Clusters expe-
dition as wagon master, and his brother,
John w., as trader. The Jones broth
ers were raised in coal mines and had
been engaged in burning lime and brick
at Bismarck, and in coal mining at Ft.
Lincoln. Capt. Jack was an old Cali
fornian who went to the Hills from
Texas. Stone was ofSt. Charles, Minn.,
a farmer boy, and Kennedy a mason,
we believe. All practical, hard.working
men. Every one Of them are satisfied
With the situation in the Hills. Ross
and his party prospected their claim in
the fall and were satisfied it would yield
6fty thousand dollars. Dodge and 9TH
ers who prospected it in January were
of like opinion. They erected their
cabins, killed supply of game for the
spring and summer, cut ditch, built q
dam, &C., for carrying water to the
claim, and then sank a shaft to the bed
rock about ten feet, subsequently drift.
ing about one hundred feet, realizing,
though in mid winter, during the time
they were in this drift, ten dollars per
day per man, and they still think the
claim will yield fifty Thousand dollars in
gold. The Jones Brothers report that
few men in the Hills are at work; the
great mass of them are idle. Indeed,
there was little that could be dene du,
ring the winter while the country is
flooded with class Of people who know
nothing Of mining, many OF whom would
not work under any circumstances.
They believe in the Hills, however, and
that .nyone who will work can do well
there. and will return with California