The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-07-24
OUR DEADwooD LETTER.
The Boss Mail Route-The Mines-Wood
and Lumber-The Big Horn.
From Our Special oOrrespOndcnt.i

ton to the excellent postal arrange
ments from Cheyenne. Ihave heard it
remarked frequently that this route can
always be relied upon, and l have made
many tests in confirmation of the same.
L will take one case during last week.
Mail dated Chicago on Monday morn
ing reaches Cheyenne at LOO p. m. on
| Wednesday. Then the stage leaves at
2 of that day, and the mail can be had
at the postofice here on Friday even
ing about 4 O'Clock. This is the case
1 wish to note. The whole time from
Cheyenne to delivery here being exact
ly 49t hours. This dispatch is speedy
enough to satisfy the most cantankerous
and has become through its excellent
management the only reliable route
hither. 1t is the unanimous opinion
of all with whom [ have talked on this
matter, that nothing can exceed such
dispatch or equal its reliability, and
that the government should back up SO
great an enterprise by making only one
mail route to the Black Hills, and that
by Cheyenne. Additional military
protection, if needed, could thus be
easily afforded, and we could then cal
culate to within an hour the exact ar
rival of our mail. Why, the mere fact
of the attacks by the way, being made
upon the Cheyenne stage prove in
what plight the public regard this
! l.ntrfn ATail hu nf1ar T>n1lfQS 1lGtIa1lv
occupies from seven to ten days, and
cannot in any case be depended upon.
A Chicago letter dated July 9th has
just came to hand by way of Sydney on
the 18th. When Sidney is mentioned
as Il mail route merchants recall with
dread the experiences of last year,
when letters were thrown in heaps into
bull teams to come to hand three and
four weeks after dispatch. Once lost,
the confidence Of the public, is not
easy to regain; nor, on the other
hand, are the miners and others soon
likely to forget the sacrifice and ex-
pense the Cheyenne Stage Co. incurred
in their efforts to serve them before a
mail contract was obtained. How
ever, the Sidney route, l understand,
is soon to be abandoned as a mail
route.
Deadwood Gulch will Don play out,
say the croakers. Well, the best
placer diggings i'll all countries do play
out in the course of years, and so no
doubt with Deadwood. But on the
10Th of July we do not seem to have
reached that point of exhaustion. On
the contrary. we have surpassed any
thing yet known in these Hills. On
Mr.. Pierce's claim, on Friday and Sat
urday, with two shifts of eight men
each, the cleanup has been made with
the result of So, 200. On Monday, after
| one days run, the cleanup was $500.
This is beyond anything done on
| Wheeler's claim last year, and indeed
there are claims on Deadwood-22 be-
low and others-where, until this sea-
son, only the merest rim had been
touched. But the strength and glory
of the Black Hills will be in leads, and
ofthese there have been more discov-
cred within a given space of time than
in any other new mining country in the
world Mr. Pierce,s claim is No G
above, on Deadwood, at the upper end
of Gayvllle and opposite the mouths
of Blacktail and Bobtail. The Hidden
T,e,smre laura Mai Woollev,s two
,,@as 1.%oa"osmc .;oLnat ,no5,at
lodes ana otnefs OIL tne riches1 Proouc'
are in 1.-THE hill Immediately overlooking
this claim. I have for leads long ago
nailed NV colors 70 the section com
ns;-oS n,;.hin r,d;,s of n;Io From
priseo wlehin rauius VI ole ihie iiol.
this very spot, and have heard to-day OF
a discovery that I shall probably be able
to renort unon in nv next.
tIrooan,an s,..o +ho+ +roa :, I'M
~nooein"i 'p"ie 'n
magnificent timber is fast disappearing
from the hills overlooking Deadwood,
Gavville. Lead and Central. So great