The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-05-24
DE4DWOOD.
Pictures of Life and Manners in tie
Black Hills Capital.

This city Is the iveliost town i'll the
United States to-day, and each hour adds
to the population, b'tsiness, hustle, con-
fusion and wealth. Eastern reading is
as fiction to the people of Deadwo0d,
who know nothing of hard times and dull
tTad6. Here the trader, miner and gam
bier are all coming money. No taxes to
pay, immense profits, aily-incteaaing
demand for goods, the richest mineral
country in America, easily worked; no
| wonder the merchants and miners are
| happy. AS for the gamblers and conf
| dence men, Deadwood Swarms with
| them.
The amount of money nightly squan-
dered here upon wine, women and gam
bling, is simply enormous. With drinks
and cigars at &c two bits - (25 cents) each,
wine very poor) at $s5 per pint, and cv-
erything else III proportion, it takes but
a very short time to run through big
| sum cf money. Gambling is the great
bane of the town. One can find but few
public houses where there are net enc or
more games in operation, while in many
saloons the tables are counted by the
| haif-doaen. Yet there are many excel
lent people here.
Deadwood apes the airs and dignity Of
the Oldest city on the continent. Postal
service has been secured, and to-day
Postmaster Adams, a carpet-bagger from
| ,Irt ci,
hat, opened regularly established office
and began the sale OF stamps. Hereto
| fore it has cost ten cents to send or re-
ceive a letter, except by the Cheyenne
1ihe. The latter has the contract until
the close of the fiscal year, and viii car
ry daily mail, as will also tie Fort
Pierre and Bismarck lines as soon as they
begin running, which will be in about
two weeks. The Sidney Stage Company
has sold out to the Cheyenne Company,
and hereafter daily stages will run over
| that route.
! The first daily paper in the hills, the
Times, made it's appearance here last
Saturday It is folio, five columns to
the page; has the Associated Press dis
patches, is well edited, and presents O
fine typographical appearance. Its ed
itors, Messrs Warner and Newhard, are
! old Denver printers, and are confident of
success. The Pioneer, the first Black
Hills Journal, will also soon appear
daily.
e -
city alone average 100 day, and, as the
! season advances, the influx becomes
greater Hotels can accommodate about
one in ten; the other nine sleep in sta
bies, tents, wagons, etc. You can safely
assume that four-fifths of the entire
nI,},er will soon be on their way back
to the ,,tatcs with empty pockets. All
the good mining ground has been taken
! UP.
| A number of farmers have arrived,
taken ranches i'll Red valley, and begun
tillage. [ counted thirty-six on their
way to the Belle Fourchc one day last
week. They Will make money, as the
soil is excellent for agricultural purposes,
| WlOIG The Market Will DC lllC bGSb Ill GIle
country next winter, unless the business
is overdone. Hay now sells at 500 per
ton, and it is very scarce at that figure.
It costs about So. so per ton to gather it.
Another very fortunate speculator is
our solitary ice man. Hs harvested sew
eral thousand tons last winter and, as he
intends charging five cents per pound,
his profits will be enormous.
Building goes on rapidly all over the
| city, keeping saw-mills and carpenters
busy night and day. Rents are out
rageously high, a small cabin of unpaint-
ed lumber bringing $25 to $35 per
month. Masonic and Odd Fellow lodges
have been established. Divine service
is held every Sunday. A largely attend
ed school has been opened.
Mines are being opened rapidly, but
the abundance of water prevents a thor
ough working of them. Merchants and
gamblers have decided to take and pay
out gold dust hereafter at the rate Of SIS
per ounce-a reduction of 81.
i Chinese who had been disappointed
in his marriage, and had previously suf-
fered through women in many other ways,
retired with his infant son to the peaks