The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-07-30
Ell DORADO
From BLACK HiIIs Pioneer, Jul! IL

fIOll laEh iAlIlh OAS' SHi- d"
Calamity Jane; has arrived.
There are 40 mosquitoes Ia the Black
Hills.
There are already almost enough lit
tie ones in the guleh TO organize a small
school,
Huckeberries viii soon he ripe, and
there n plenty Of them. We are
promised an abundant crop of native
grapes and plums this year.
Some good hill diggings have been
struck e a Elizabethtown. The dis
covers are making fair wages, bringing
the dirt down to rock it out in the gulch
below.
Last Monday, while our
was on claim No. "a, Cape Horn dis
trict, owned by Messrs. Kimball, he saw
1884 washed from a pan of dirt taken
from a crevice in the bar of that claim.
Four men arrived in Crook City last
Wednesday with a band of sixty Indian
ponies, which they are offering at low
prices. They do not deny that they
were captured from the Indians, but
are very silent about particulars.
A number who started out with the
Big Horn expedition have returned,
having concluded that it was doubtful
about a richer mining country being
developed in that direction than we
now have here.
Some specimens of new potatoes have
been left with us, which were raised on
Sheldon & Wards rancho, a short dis
lance below Crook City. The largest is
not as big As the big nugget found in
Potato gulch; but Potato gulch will do
well If it can produce nuggets larger
than the potatoes Sheldon & Ward will
have in "A few weeks. Potatoes will
undoubtedly do well in this country.
The work of opening the claims above
No. 4 OH Upper Deadwood is being
pushed ahead with great vigor. 1t is
believed bedrock will be reached the
coming week on Nos. 8 and 10, and
soon thereafter all the ground above
Gayville, or nearly all, will be yielding
the precious dust in abundance. The
gold yield is constantly increasing, and
will continue to increase for a long
while to come.
Most of the Deadwood claims which
are fully opened continue to yield enor-
mously, the figures being from S25 to
$3.50 a day to the hand. New claims
are continually being got into good
working condition, and never fail to
meet, and often far exceed, the expecta.
tons of their owners. Large gold ship.
ments would be the order from this on
had we good responsible express facil-
tiles.
The most terrible thunder storm we
ever experienced occurred in Deadwood
last Thursday afternoon. For a quar-
ter of an hour the atmosphere appeared
to be in one continuous blaze with elec-
trio discharges, fierce bolts of lightning
descending on all sides, while the con
cussions which followed in rapid sue
cession fairly shook the mountains to
their foundations. No wonder the
Indians have a superstitious dread of
the electric phenomena of the Black
Hills.
Work Of development on the Clara
lode, owned by McMaster, Traynor &
Co., is progressing with encouraging
results. The further the main shaft i,
sunk down the richer the quartz seems
to be. 1t gives every indication o.
being a permanent, well-defined vein.
There are few, if any, more promis-
ing lodes yet discovered in the Hills.
The unfortunate John Hinch was an
owner in the Clara mines. v
An expedition composed of about 60
men started for the Big Horn country
a week ago last Friday. A. NJ. Quivey,
long connected with the Indian depart-