Bismarck tri-weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1881, 1877-08-06
Black Hills News,

nearly $500 to the ton.
Crook City is improving very rapidly.
A large number of buildings are being
put up and rents are high.
Twenty-one saw mills are in operation
in the Black Hills and lumber is now sup
piled at SIS to $50 per thousand.
A Large number of quartz mills are be-
ing put up in the Black Hills and in eve
~ instance they are working with profit.
Water is becoming low in most of the.
creeks in the Black Hills but the August
rains will help the miners to good ex-
tent.
The Crook City Tribune reports the dis
covery Of quicksilver on Rapid Greek. It
is believed valuable lead will yet be
discovered.
Troops have been sent to the Black
Hills with view to the protection of
miners from the depred atoms of road
agents and Indians. go
The commissioners of the county in
which, Deadwood is situated offer a boun-
ty 6f $3.50 for the scalp of any Indian
caught in that county.
Dr.. Burleigh is putting in smelling
works on upper Rapid and Is also work
ing the deep diggings on Castle Creek
with gratifying success.
Three first-class hotels have gone out
of business at Deadwood within the past
few days. The Gen. Custer House has
been turned into sample and club room.
Charley Collins has retired from the
management of the Daily Champion and
now devotes his attention to the weekly,
which is one of the best papers in the
Hills.
The timber in the Black Hills is being
removed rapidly. It's cut for cabins,
worked into sluice boxes, built into piles
of cord wood and much of it wantonly
destroyed. =.
Military companies have been organ
lied at all of the principal points in the
Black Hills and the people of that aurif-
erous region are prepared to give the
redsa bloody welcome. -,
The streets of Deadwood are being
sluiced for blackmailing purposes. The
Industrious miner hopes to compel the
citizens to hire him to raise the block
ade Which Injuries business.
Though the Black Hills are over run
with idle and dead broke men ye true
laborsr who will accept the situation and
wrest.e at the tail end of a sluice box for
.neasonasle wages are scarce.
Chas. Wolf, formerly of Bismarck, has
forty acres of corn, oats, potatoes, cab
bage, ETC.. within the corporate limits of
Crook City. The oats were harvested
Aug. Isl. Though on new ground the
crops promise more than half crop.
The Bismarck TRIBUNE recently spoke
of Fred Penhler as member of the staff
of the Deadwood Champion. The Cham
pion repudiates and says Penhler left for
the East with an overcoat and rifle be-
longing to attaches of the Champion Of
flee.
The Deadwood Champion says the Fl.
Pierre stage company has 'tgone glira-
mering through the past like aschool
boys tale, the wonder Of an hour" In
other words it has petered out completely
and the stock has been disposed of at
sheriff sale.
The Deadwood Champion says: "The
Black Hills, the very district that the
government officials and the Indian ring
didn't want opened to white settlement,
pays twice as much internal revenue tax
as all the balance of Dakota Territory.
DR.. Jennings, the collector Of this district,
took in s, 900 for the month of May, ST.
600 for June, and $4,000 for July. All
this money found its way into the treas
ury. Not cent Of it was lost in dog
fight or at faro.
From The Champion.
We find the following items IN the
Daily Times:
Most of the claims on Deadwood and
Whitewood gulch are being worked day
and night.
There is good opening for quartz
nill IN the vicinity Of Battle Creek, in
the vicinity Of Harney city.
Chamber c. Davis made an essay of
ore from the new silver district on Battle
Greek that showed $8,12e.74 Of silver
per ton. = =
On Battle Creek the p-ospectors built
bon ires to prospect by, they are so
eager 10 discover the extension to the
big BONANZA.
The attention Of the miners generally,
is turned to the quartz mines, as the wa
ter during the past few weeks has been
scarce.
Some Of the silver quartz from Battle
Greek is very light colored and gives
the appearance of more silver than
quartz.
They are dong well in the Harvey
district near Hayward, On their placer
claims. and report comes in that they
are getting out big pay.
The silver district On Battle Creek has
been staked off for miles since the new
discoveries, and it is supposed to be the
richest discovery In fhe Hills