Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1876-05-31

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DEADWOOD.
reliable Advfces from the Black
sz11ills..0,z1cS.Die9ihgS-that-FFe-
quently Yield One Hundxed TO
Three ~HpQdfea sDolIays, q DAY.
Tho Yarns. OF Dilgustea Ef1Erirns
PROVEN False BY d Cloud Of Cred.
liable Witnesses..Read the Tcs.
timony.
Letters from Belmont Clark, T. G..
dones, jas. Spasls. r Rssshall, Thos.
Madden and other Bismarck people now
80 th. Hills confirm fpllSthe statements
made IN the. folloEingssextracts from
Sioux city, Yankton and Omaha papers
in sslattyn totes rEhnsss;ef @ 81 the Dead
wood mines which are within two han-
.drsd piles of BisnarckSoyer; one of the
best prairie roads old teamsters say they
ever saw u III .c1Hnr>4
~ The Sioux City Journal of May 20
says; { { = >rxa4<y< } = i fsf5 !
.'Yesterday sCbas. Holland, formerly
proprietor Of the Christiana House in
this city, returned directly from the
northern Hills. He went out from here
with two teams of his own about the
middle Of March, taking several passen-
gers and their outfits. He arrived in
Custer City on the 4th ofA2ril, ,remsined
there one day, and then with party Of
abont thirty men proceeded to Spring
Creek. fifteen n1niles north of Custer.
After prospecting there two weeks with
no, very, good show of success, the party
went on still further north to Deadwood,
aighty.five miles north of Custer. In
the party who accompanied Mr.. Holland
[.ts Deadwood were Tom Phillips and
John Scollard, Of this city. Immediate
II upon, the arrival a9t the latter point
they scattered and commenced mining.
Mr.. Holland formed company composed
of himself, Con Green, Vincent p Kelse,
George Rowe, Mr.. Spencer and man
|ealleda Major They, thus formed q
cornpauy il order to better hold their
claims In case either Of the party desired
10 absent himself for q length of time.
Together they own three claims, all of
which are being worked. In and around
Deadwood bed rock is struck at q depth
Of from two to Eve feet, and the average
taking out to the man in the company's
mines is from 81 to $14, and the other
mines in that locality are paying equal
" as we'll. Mr.. Holland says he has
heard of as high as $500 being panned
outby one man in a single day, though
|>he did not see it done and therefore
would not vouch for the truthfulness of
the report. Mr.. Holland asserts that
the paying claims in the Deadwood re-.
gion, so far as already prospected, cover
an area of about twenty miles. and the
further the miners work northwest to-
ward the Big Horn the richer the claims
appearto be. s s.a ..,...3 -..,agg45 :
..'ttMr. Holland brought to this city
with him in the neighborhood of 5000
in gold dust, all Of which was taken
from the three claims belonging to his
party, and portion of which .he took
out with his own hands, He has not
come to stay, hut intends to return by
the first boat out from Yankton to Fort
Pierre, where he left his teams. He
came in after stock of provisions, three
other men accompanying him from the
Hills. Provisions in the Deadwood
section became so scarce that the miners
were compelled to take some steps look
ing to the replenishing of their stock or
leave the Hills. Mr.. Holland says there
would have been no necessity for this
step were it not for the discouraging
reports the 'pilgrims' have circulated
regarding the Hills, by which means
people were dissuaded from carrying or
sending in supplies, taking it for granted
that the miners were all disgusted and
leaving the hills as fast as possible. Mr..
Holland af6rms that large majority OF
these 'pilgrims,' as he styles them, re-
tut ned from that country without. ever
striking pick into the ground, taking
the word Of others for their. ilk tina,
there was no gold in the country. How.
ever, he has purchased part of his
stock of provisions already and will re
turn to the Hills to join his party as
soon as possible and continue to wash
out the shiny stuff, leaving those to
howl over and berate the country who
desire to. 4 81 .a5a.
.The gentlemen who came out Of the
Hills witk Mr.. Holland brought ever
more gold dust than be did. He says
there was altogether about 50 ,O0Oin the
a., - rh;ch n,.rhans thirtv miners