The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-04-12
There is Gold in the Black Hills.

The constantly increasing hue and
cry of newspapers east and west, the
frequent letters from ~impeeunious
bummers who, because they do not
find huge nuggets kicking about the
streets of Cheyenne. write letters to
their home papers filled with denun-
Citations of our city and its people, the
Infamous ISLANDERS which are constant
ly appearing in mereenary newspapers
which seem to direct their most ven-
omou malice against the Magic City
these things are causing the utmost
wonder and bewilderment in the
minds of the hundreds Of men who
are constantly arriving here, and who
cannot for the life of them see the
slightest cause for the PRONUNCIATION of
such utterly base falsehoods as are
daily published in the outside press.
Fol our part, We a only attempt an
explanation of the causes which pro-
duce such results. 1t is entirely be-
yond our faculties of perception to
fathom the minds of the creatures who
are engaged in this systematic and
wholly uncalled-for war upon our
selves. 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 a 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
condolences confidence engendered
and strengthened by years of acquaint-
ance and intimacy. aud 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 ms to the exist
ence of gold in paying quantities in
the Hills, merchants having han
died nearly S10,0 600 I'm nuggets and
dust, taken out of the rich beds of
French, Castle aud other creeks in the
new Ellorado. AT the east, among
the class of people who should go TO
the Hills, the reality and richness of
the deposits is taken for granted, and
the only question is as to the best time
for starting. This interest, while very
generally felt, is most intense at Bos-
ton, 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 e~xhorbitant prices for goods.
The fact is hat our merchants are
daily duplicating Chicago bills on min
ing outfits, even underselling Omaha.
The men who have QUILTED here and
gore to the Hills have naught but
good to say of our business men and
our city, and their testimony is prefer
able to that of fellows who date lying
letters at Cheyenne and write down n
place which they have never seen.
Cheyenne fears no rival Quitting
point, and in reality has none, for
while the weekly departures from this
city for the Hills are numbered by
hundreds. those from other points can
be easily counted on tie fingers.
We still advise idle men with small
means to go to the Hills, and to come
to Cheyenne and outfit. A little more
than one week will suffice to trans
poit them from homes of enforced
idleness and undeserved want to fresh
fields for enterprise, not only in min
ing, but in nearly every industrial
pursuit. The tide will engulph these
Black Hills of the Cheyenne and flow
far towards the inviting regions of the
Big Horn mountains ere the present
season closes.