Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-06
THE HILLS.
That Reward for Indian Scalps--hines
Yielding We'll.
Correspondence Omaha Bee.
$3.50 REWARD
$3.50 REWARD.


Our county commissioners, on the 9Th,
passed a resolution, offering $3.50 reward
for theb body of any Indian found in this,
Lawrence county, dead or alive. The offer
came just after the Indians had left-and
so did the troops. Make it scalps, Jedge,"
said the boys. every lawyer here, aud
every civil officer is a judge, and every man
with good clothes a colonell. " And then,
you see, it won't take so much packing,
cause, you see, some of them Injuns weigh
a 1870 pounds, an how can we get EN- in.
Us boys expect to get one a week apiece,
the way we shall work it, and 1T will take
more to pack EN- in than it will to get EN-.
You see we boys are all pards, and are GO
ing TO divide The catch. Make it scalps.n
They were told that a well developed scalp
would be considered an Indian, and so they
winked themselves out. And so they have
been going, in preparation for the next
run of Indians IN Lawrence county. II
is mere than an even chance that there will
be Two sides to this butchery business at
the next dash.
MINING AND BUSINESS.
The weather continues dry and pleasant,
and business very dull. The water ia low,
and many of the streams have run entirely
dry, but for all this, there is a good deal of
gold being taken out. The be stclaims, hav-
ing water, are yielding better results than
any time this season. The quartz mills are
all running and doing finely. Saw mills are
very slack, as there is but very little bui d.
ing going on. Real estate has gone down
below the cost Of Improvements in many in
stances and will go still lower. From now
on till next spring will be u good time to
buy all kinds Of property. The owners of
quartz claims are, in many cases, getting
starved out, and there is an excel ent chance
for intelligent men with small capital to buy.
1t is a very risky business, but a few hundred
dollars can be CHANGED in this way, to swell
into thousands or shrink into nothing,
Twenty doll ,rs 10 the ton in a four foot vein
is rich enough, Ten dollars to the ton for
getting it out and working it into bars is
about the average cost. You will hear OF
very much richer mines, but generally the
assays are made from selected rock. Each
stamp in a mill is capable Of crushing two
tons per day.
NEW DISCOVERIES.
There are the usual reports of new discov-
cries throughout the Hills, both in quartz
and placer, and there can be no doubt of The
permanence of the mineral yield here. They
nave just got IN a steam-pump on Castle
creek, and last Friday fifteen ounces OF gold
were taken out of one claim there. 1t is the
belief here that the heaviest deposits of pla.
Ger gold are in French, Castle, Sand and
Rapid creeks, all Of them deep diggings,
and must be worked with steam pumps to
keep the water eff from the bedrock.
II COUNTRY.
Speaking for myself 10 lie, l regard this
as the most delightful country on the globe.
There is that in the air and surroundings
that gives elasticity TO the body and content
ment to the mind. The nights are cool, in
vigorating and free from mosquitoes or other
troublesome insects. The fare is plain and
wholesome-water fine and plentiful;