The New York herald., 1876-11-15
LATEST FROM THE BLACK HILLS.
RICH Discoveries AT WOLF MOUNTAIN.

RJCH DISCOVERIES AT WOLF MOUNTAIN.
(From the Denver (CoL) Tribune, Nov. 81
One day received Two letters from Denver. One
came through In sevensdays via Sidney; the other
consumed nfteen days between Cheyenne and here.
The former missive forgotten bar bill that
brought pleasure with Is; the latter was In the
we'll known chrography Of my wife, and impaired the
pleasing intelligence that couple Of children had the
shckenpox. Since that time have received Denver
papers ve days old via the Cheyenne and Black Hills
stage and most cnecrfulIy withdraw the obnoxious
Sidney clause
Tho latest gold excitement is some recent discov-
cries reported in Wolf Mountain. nearly 200 miles
northwest Of Deadwood An enthusiastic party OF
M,dases report from 81 to $50 TO the pam which OF
course inaugurated a stampede at once.
women are docking the hills, bless sem, and
already the rough uncombed miner Of the spring and
summer begins 10 spruce up Paper collars are COM
mon, and ono occasionally meets broadcloth coat in
the highway. canary bird hanging out In the
morning yesterday drow almost as great crowd
MS the dog fight halt block or And when write
that have neither killed man nor seen one killed
for six weeks you will admit our growing civilization
We even expect Gansborough hats and cardinal rib
bons TO arrive with the bluebirds Of spring
Rents here something wonderful 10 contemplate.
rough story 20x30 building on Aaia street rents
At 500 per month. don't know an empty house In
Deadwood Ia rather have Goods block, II located
here than be president OF the Tiden Reform Club
There arc about 8, 900 odes or quartz mines staked
OF. and now ready TOR sale at prices varying from
81 Is to $3.50 000. Some Of the properly has shafts
sunk the depth Of two or three ieet few somewhat
deeper But, seriously, If some Of our miners would
laxe on their coats and develop their edgss they
would assonish the mineral world.
What we now want Is few scientific chaps, or rock
vharps TO tell Us about these hills We've got all tho
rold We wish but feel little delcacy about leaving
here without knowing something more about the sec
lion OF country to which we owe our boundlsss wealth
The little eRg-shapcd HANDFUL Of hills called the Black
Hills standing Isolate and desoate In the midst OF tho
American sahara, is MS yet mystery 10 iu inhabi
tanta The vegetation GEOLOGICAL formation and ati-
~.tl s,rov 1o n n
10 that forming the OF the Rocky Mountains
our two lotest peaks tKearney and Crow peaksl arc
both less 900 feet higher than the sea, and the
Grst glimpse the incoming traveller gets Of the hills
copyinces him that he Is looking downward rather
than uPyard rstna h9oasa
rarely sees blade Of grass and sun more. rarely secs
Z living bird or animal
Having no corner lots in Dcadwood lose nothing In
saving t6at Il is one OF the mos, unhealthy towns
within my ken Mountain fever seems TO DO tho
mos. nnS ~
ribularics believe, and itn commonly attributed
10 missmas, arising from dccayed vegetation that
sbounds hereabeutR Can be that gold bights every
thing Il TOUGHEST ON Spcarhsh. but few miles north,
iuxurant grass grapes, pums and nuts are found ana
ns creek .,ss sss in.'piy .psruus ,ssr
with heavy washed bowlders, arc found on
tho tops Of highest hills While many
ho greater majority OF the gold odes irregular
and Incomplete, amazingly rich for time Sometimes
sieilow knocks his bonanza higher than kite with ;
tfter some work in solid wall rock
on q gentle emincnco, ike your Capitol Hill, has
been found one OF the Queerest gold mines extant
rho locality Is about the last one would sink on for
,uartz Not particle Of float or blossom appears on
Inc surface A body OF quartz powders, ferrugnous
ray and Ordinary creek gravel very rich In gold, was
found. Tho powders and gravel ara rounded and
smoothed BY friction, ana the whole congomerato
mass seems have been plastic a. one time, but now
IL n harder than Pharaohs heart The gold toi which
ai5 SO mas been taken single pound OF rockl Is
Of q reddish color, differing In every respect from
other lode gold, and, while In form and
siso the particles resemble the gulch
sod. tt Is OF much better quality. The gulohes on
Soth SIDES OF this knoll a. we'll as the adjacent hills
have been thoroughly prospected without finding
there this dcposit comes from, and . chrsmo now
waits tho man who will nx this little matter up
where can the miner Of oldcn times have yonef
,ec no Starboites John 0akhursts hero, not
Grccn Russell John Gregory 70 orine the similc
ooWn 10 Colorado The miner OF to-day u bitter
S,ssnpoIut tment 10 Bret Harte's readers Common
matter isllsws; gsisvs 70 cay hal even back