The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-10
OUR BLACK HILLS LETTER.
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thrown into a narrow gulch through
whose crooked length flows Whitewood
creek, with its two thousand inches of
turbid, mtrky liquid, the channel being
of gravelly clay. The Cheyenne stage
road strikes the head of WhitewoOd
creek about fifteen miles from Dead
wood, and follows the stream down to
the city, entering what has been known
as South Deadwood, on Sherman street,
crossing the, stream oyer the Lee street
bridge, and running down the principal
business street lMain) of the city. Just
at present the south side is looming up.
owing to the establishment of the post
office on that side, and the consequent
drawing of business thereto, so that
real estate spectators are reaping a
rich harvest. The denizens of Main
street manifest much indignation, and
even go so far IS to abuse Postmaster
Adams for his action, but there seems
to be no occasion for this, as it was i'm
possible for him to secure a suitable
building on Main street, while the other
side offered every inducement for the
office, and besides, every man in Dead
wood must acknowledge that the north
side is full to overlooking, so that bust
ness must seek fresh fields.
The town is alive with carpenters, all
busy as bees, and yet the people are
complaining that it is impossible to get
anything done. Carpenters are paid
from four to six dollars per day, and
are cursed by their employers day and
night-not openly of course, but in Sc
cret, as it were.
Two and a half miles above Dead
wood, Oh Deadwood creek, is located
Gayville, a young and fiourishing town,
which will be permanently prosperous
owing to the fact that the largest and
richest quartz deposits yet found in the
Hills are in the adjacent hills, surround
ing the town like q crescent. The
stamp mills of the Pinney Bros, the
Hidden Treasure, and the arastras of
Nichols e Haven, are close by, while
two or three other stamp mills will be
erected here and in operation within
thirty days. At Gayville the carpen-
tiers complain that they cannot obtain
lumber, and therefore the force of men
employed is not so large as it would
otherwise be. Above Gayyille is q ham,
let which has been christened Golden
Gate, which is growing rapidly and
will be permanent, owing to the prox-
unity of quartz mines and the location
of quartz mills there.
Men are working in the gulch from
the head of Deadwood and White
wood to the far foot-hills-hun-
dreds of them-and the very
fact that they ''keep up their lick, on
many claims night and day, is sufficient
evidence that plenty of pay dirt is
found. Another, very convincing evil
dence is the fact that the four banking
houses doing business here, each buy
from one to ten thousand dollars
in gold dust per day, while
the arastras and stamp mills
are sending out from $780, 600 to
$780, 900 per week in beautiful bullion
bars and buttons. Then too there is a
vast amount of trade DUST in, circn-
lation Dust is the currency of the
country, and the. mar who buys a
thousand dollars worth of supplies, as
well as the man who orders n "bull-
doze cocktail" pulls out his buckskin
bag of gold and settles therefor with
all the nonchalance imaginable. The
news-bows, by dozens throng the streets
at eventide, carry the pocket gold scale,
and nine-tenths of their customers drop
a few grains into the scale, scarcely
looking at the weight, as they snatch
the paper and eagerly peruse the latest
news. No business place is considered
complete until q handsome pair of gold
scales has been put in place.
In addition to the amount men,
toned above, there is a constant stream
of men going out by the different
routes, who have made a ''genteel suffi-
ciency'' and are going home to enjoy it.
They carry out from n to twenty-five
thousand dollars apiece, and some of
them even more. We shall never know
how good Fortune has been to these
men. They go back to happy homes,
erect fine residences, buy large farms
and herds, or invest in business enter
prises, and the Black Hills know them
no more. Their neighbors see them re-
turn, observe their, prosperity, take it
for granted that there is gold in the
mines of the west, and ask few ques-
tions, while the lucky ones, knowing
the great uncertainties of life in the
mines, tell far more of the difficulties,
dangers and privations of the journey
than of the richness of the diggings.
Dakota having been j%udicially re-dis-
tricted, an associate Justice of her SUI
preme court has been assigned to the
district in which the Black Hills conn