The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-20
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Interesting Notes from Galena-Another
Embryo Black Hills Metropolis.
The Mail swindlers-Galena's Glittering Pros
pects-fhe Quartz Mines-Packing--
Trials Of Bachelors, Etc.
From an occasional correspondent
GALENA, Feb. II, 1877.

In asking space IN tine columns OF your
paper, it is not so much to give your
readers something new, as to properly
place before them facts, to me of great
moment, and to elicit the cooperation
of all interested in the development and
progress Of the great west, in our en-
deavor to put a stop to an imposition
practiced upon us by a Sidney ring who
are using the postal agents of the U.
P. and the postmaster at that point as
mental instruments in a mail swindling
business carried on by them. When
aver the agents of the railway mail
service or the Sidney postmaster state
that they have complied with the order
of Captain Vandervoort of Sept. 18th,
1876, they state that which is false,
and 1 am prepared to prove it by hun
dreds Of men who are receiving their
mail by Sidney stage when it is plainly
directed via Cheyenne. If these men
think to lie us out of facts so patent
to every one in the Hills, they have
simply mistaken us, and undertaken to
plumber the wrong community, for if
government is powerless to protect us
it is not u far-fetched possibility that
suggesti ms of a vigilance committee
might merge into the substance of a
reality, to measure out the need of
rope merited by all implicated in the
dastardly steal. l can think of but one
living creature so mean and lost to all
human or noble principle, and that is
the maybe. This bird of beautiful
plumage has the contemplate habit of
wheeling down upon the sore back of
the worn out p~ack-horse, to torture
him with its sharp beak in places where
it cannot be reached by the sufferer.
But 1 presume the railway magpies are
hungry, and II. T. Clark keeps the best
of whisky, in addition to the ten cent
'divy."
GALENA,
perhaps, is too well known abroad to
need any mention as the future "Moses"
Of the Hills, and there are possibly
people now over in the little town of
Deadwood who would be as incredulous
as would have been the Egyptians had
some one told that the ''baby in the
bullrushes" would grow up to cabbage
their jewelry, but he did, and the
Scriptures say that he got away with
the baggage. The cradle of our Moses
at present rests on the banks of Bare
Butte creek, in the mining district of
that name which was struck in July
last by some hunters, and being galena,
was supposed by them to be of little
value. Now, however, there are per-
haps one hundred claims located and
recorded, with a town of perhaps two
hundred houses or cabins, having a
population of one or two hundred men,
in the district. Many locations are
being worked with results exceeding
the most sanguine expectations of the
owners. The ores principally are the
different varieties Of
sILvER-DEARING LEAD,
such as galena, carbonate, oxydes and
sulphurets of silver, ETC., with an aver
age grade considerably above that of
Utah, Nevada or Colorado, and in some
instances running up into the thou
sands. AS yet but little development
has been made and little depth attained,
as we have worked under disadvan-
tages, appreciated only by men of ex-
p~erience in opening mines, such as
working hard cap-rock with Giant
powder at $50 per pound, or Sl5 per
keg for black powder-steel, sledges,
etc., in proportion-as well as acting
in the double role of miner and freight
er. For the benefit of inquiring ''tendel
feet" I will explain
THE FREIGHTINe BUSINESS,
us some of them may wish to engage in
it. 1t is not a paying business partic'
larly, but more of n charity to ones
self, and is not one in which an outlay
: for stock is necessary, for whenever the
, wolf bowls at ones door, he getteth NJ
and s~traightway ~converteth himself
| into a man train of one, and Journeys
off to Deadwood, that he may be fully
posted in this branch of the business
l would further say, in regard to the
best and most suitable cargo for a man
that Giant powder gives more elasticity
to the step, and more ~vivacity to the i'm
agination than hardware, which is no
the best of freight in a thunder storm
: while -four is apt to mix up consider
/. ably with dry limbs and rough-barket
f trees. My impression is that those VIII
; do the least man freighting do the leas
: swearing. But with all these draw
backs, enough has been shown to wal
S rant authorizations of a
RICH AND PERMANENT CAMP.
There are already some fine ore bodie
exposed, and we feel safe in inviting
the attention of capital and experienced
n men in smelling, as we need a marke
for orac a1readv on the dump. to enabl