The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-03

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Our fellow townsman, Hon. NJ. v.
Boughton, who left Cheyenne on
the 18th of April last for the Black
Hills, and has since been travelling
through that auriferous region, left
Custer City on the return trip May
22nd, and reached Fort Laramie on
the 18th, coming via Red Cloud
agency with Capt. Egan's company
and a party of seventy miners, all
of whom came put for supplies, and
will return Immediately.
AS is well known ~hereabouts, Mr.
Boughton has had long experience in
mines and mining, having crossed
the plains in SO, 1t the inception of
the stampede to Pixies Peak, and re-
sided in Colorado some ten or twelve
years. He is a cool-headed, self
possessed gentleman, not at all gwen
to making rose-colored statements,
or stretching the truth in the slight
est degree, aud therefore his opinion
of the country he has just returned
from is entitled to the fullest conf
dence. Mr.. Boughton has no inter-
est in any gulch mines in the
Hills, but has QUILTED several par
ties who prospected for quartz leads,
and therefore is slightly interested
in the lodes they have discovered.
This, with his part ownership of the
Boughton & Beary saw-mill, COM
poses all the interest he has in that
region.
Most of his time has been spent in
the northern mines, particularly
those on Deadwood and Whitewood.
The mines on these streams are pay
ing from So to 5000 per day per
man, for a distance of ten to if
teen miles below their sources. Mr..
Botsford, who was QUILTED by j..
D.. Wooley, and who is well known
here, is working six men ON Dead
wood, and cleans up over 500 per
day per man This Boughton saw
for himself, and he also saw a num-
Der of parties on the same stream
who are taking out from $40 to $50
per day per man. There are between
1000 and 5000 men working on
Deadwood and Whitewood, and all
are doing well, none of the claims
yielding less than So per day per
man. Men are working on Dead
wood as far down as 20 miles from
its head, at and even below Crook
City, which is a new town and build
ing up rapidly. Above it are the
principal towns of the northern mines,
Deadwood and Elizabeth Cities, both
OF which have attained metropolitan
proportions. They are described as
being the counterpart of Black Hawk,
Central City and Nevada, three Col
orado mining towns which are built
in Clear Greek Gulch and form a
continuous row of houses on either
side of the stream for a distance of
three OF four miles-it being difficult
to determine where the dividing lines
are.
Mr.. Boughton met a large num-
Der of old Montana miners in these
mines, and they all united in pro-
nouncing the Deadwood gulch fully
equal to the famous Alder Gulch,
from which, as is an established fact,
twenty-four million dollars in gold
was taken out.
At Rapid City, on Rapid Creek,
80 miles from Crook City, over 500
men are working, the claims there
yielding from 81 to $40 per day per
man. Rapid City is a very lively
mining town, and is building up rap
idly.
Mr.. Boughton brought with him
eight or ten specimens of splendid
gold ore, taken from lodges at the
head of Deadwood and Whitewood,
all being but a few miles apart,
and some from Bear Lodge creek
some distance from Deadwood. The
quartz shows free gold in abundance,
and in large particles. One Of the
lodes in which Boughton is interest
ed, located at the head of Deadwood,
has a shaft 80 feet deep, being the
best developed lode in that region.
The ore grows richer as the shaft
goes down, Boughton says.
With regard to Custer City, Mr..
Boughton states that when he left
there were not over 100 people there,
and that the town is a ssdead duck"
until the Indian question is settled.
Those who remain there, however,
are diligently working their claims,
and making from SIS to $40 per day.
Water is scarce, and he thinks that
the mines about Custer will not
amount to much until the entire
country is settled up ndthe Indians
removed. Hill City is entirely de-
serted. The saw-mill owned by
Boughton u Beary was removed