Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-07-24
HAYWARD CITY.
inc Rich silver Strike by Yankton Mcn--
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correspondence Press and Dakotaian.l
HAYWARD CITY, D. T., July 10, III.
1t has been some time since | wrote nv
last to you, but a copy of the Press happen
ing along III the mail last evening reminded
Inc that you were still alive, and l thought
| would send you a few lines. For irregu-
%larities, think the mail business for the
Hills gets away with anything. We have
letters from Ohio sometimes in eight days,
and from Yankton in a month. One thing
that causes these irregularities is, we have
no postofice here, and if we he'd, the post.
master general says, we must supply ser.
vice at our own expense. 1t costs us now
i've cents apiece to send a letter out, and
the same 10 get one in. Papers the same.
This seems a little strange, when we see
thousands Of dollars spent to make poor
10" fat and saucy. But thanks to Dame
Fortune" we are not objects of charity, for
we have the dust" to pay our own way,
and the stars and stripes foated on the
breeze just as proudly over US on the 4th
of July as they did over others in less
SIghtcQ parts OF the Union.
TIT attention of the miners now is d.
rected mostly to quartz, as the water is get
ting a little low for the placer mining,
though some are still doing we'll, especially
in the Harvey district, where a number are
taking out big pay. There has been quite
a stampede to the Hills tor the past week,
as it leaked out that a big silver lead had
been struck on Battle creek, above Harvey
from their hiding places, where they had
evidently been resting for some time, and
before the sun hid itself behind the hills,
the extensions were staked for miles. This
is believed to be the richest discovery in
the Hills. | saw the certificate OF an assay
made by Prof. DaYis, of Deadwood, that
showed SS1 ,29.74 Of silver per ton, Also
one from Chicago, of 10,143,23 per ton. |
have a piece of the ore. 1t is a white
quartz, but SO full Of silver that it looks
more as though the quartz was sticking to
the silver, than that the silver is IN the
quartz. The Sitting Bull lode, the Big Bo-
nanza of the immediate vicinity, is attract
ing considerable attention, and much &C.
tivity has been noticed in that vicinity for
the past few days. caused by prospectors
searching for the extension, That fire
, (Which, if here) you might see in the gulch
f above town, is not an Indian camp fire OF
signal light, but is a fire built by the ire
, pressible ID. S. Foster, the %prospector, tc
give him light to dig by, as there is a strife
between him and others to see who will
find the lode first. He will have a hole
there by morning that will be DANGEROUS tc
walk around in the night.
Here is the best kind of a chance fol
some person to put in a quartz mill. There
are four lodes SO closely located that q
stone could almost be thrown from one tc
, the others, and they are al said to be good
rich milling ore. Here is a chance fol
some company to secure what in a few
months will be out of the reach of men with
moderate means.
Highwaymen or route agents make it a
little lively for the Cheyenne and Sidney
stages occasionally. This week they have
: gone through the Sidney coaches twice.
Sheriff Ely has three boarders which
after the September term of court, will un.
doubtedly go to reinforce the working forces
{ of Fort Madison. Their ofense was burg
larry for the purpose Of getting arms, un.
doubleday for a gang. Two Of them dug
, out and were away a few days, but Ely go,
them again.
For men with money they wish to put in
quartz mills or get interests in quartz Jodes
there is no part of the Hills that offers the
advantages that this part of the country
does at present. Old miners of years of TX
p%erience pronounce the quartz as good as
they ever saw. The first mills will reap the
rich harvest without competition.
Yours, F. j. C.