Omaha daily bee., 1877-01-16
The Land Of Gold.
Preparations for Improved Stage
Lines to Custer City.
Numerous Claims Taken.
They are ZeaIously Guarded by
the Miners.
Valuable Hints 20 Purchasers Of
Firearms.
Henry HOman. of Omaha. Strikes
Bieh Ronanza-It il a Rich
Quartz Lead, and He
Now Has Twelve Men
To Work II.
Numerous Claims Taken.
They are ZeaIously Guarded by
the Miners.
Valuable Hints 20 Purchasers Of
Firearms.
Correspondence Of the Bee.

custer ClIy, DaRataJ January e.
The stage companies are waking up
to the important fact that this town
is 10 be of considerable Importance
in the near future. The Cheyenns
line will put a complete outfit on
The new toll road from this place to
Harvey, on North Battle creek, in
about two weeks. The line will be
gradually extended until it takes in
the town of Hayward and also the
lower town of Battle City. The up
per towns are growing rapidly and
bid fair to be permanent, thriving
cities in q short time.
About one mile from Hayward,
over to the southwest, a fiue gold
lode has been discovered, which
prospects extremely rich. 1t car
ries free gold In a white looking
rock, which resembles the Centen-
NAL ore from near Laramie. 1t is
somewhat harder, but would work
very well with the proper machine
~. The miners are rocking out
enough gold to live ON and guard
ing their claims very jealousy
indeed. Over twenty-eight miles Of
ground has been taken up, and the
men who came id too late are watch
ing for the slightest excuse to "jump"
the claims. Most of the cabins are
perfect arsenals, and 1 have counted
as high as ten guns in one camp.
The Springfield needle guns and the
heavy Sharp's rifles, with globe
sight forward, and the Creedmoor
peep sight screwed into the stock,
are the favorite guns. The Win.
chester repeater IL a good gun for
the timber, aud for hitting anything
within six hundred yards, but there
Is no. enough powder in the cart
ridge to hold the ball up for a greater
distance than that. To parties COM
ing up to the Hills, I would say, get
a good heavy Sharp's rifle, by all
means, for they are always i'm de-
mand, and can be sold, If we'll kept,
without much loss to the owner
The Indians down on the stage lines
fully appreciate the qualities of the
different guns, and govern them
selves accordingly. Speaking of
Indians reminds me of an incident
that occurred while we were over |
at Iron creek. The. readers of the |
BEE will doubtless remember the
OF four men who were
making hay about two miles south
of Custer last July. The party who
went out to bring the remains i'm
conld not find any traces of any In
.ians having been hurt, and
thought they must have escaped
being injured at all, but il seems
that such was not the case, for last
week, OF about ten days ago. a party
out prospecting south of Custer |
found the skeleton Of one of the |
that did the deed. The party |
could not hnd where he was hit, as
the Crows had been at work aud
the bones nearly clean. How .
the party came to leave one OF their !
comrades In that way is a mystery, !
but it was an Indian, and he was
there in a sadly demoralized
'onditiOn. The party did j.
not even vouchsafe to him a Chris. !
ian burial, but one of them who
happened to own an undivided
.hlrd of q saloon at Custer, carried |
III the skull for an ornament to the |
BAR, and there it stands grinning be.
.ween the bottles before the mirror.
At the cabin where the two men
we're killed, over between Red Cloud
Hat Greek, a desperate fight
occurred before the whites sue
'umbed, and it is currently reported
hat they killed six of the band.
Dillon lay on the ground after he
vas MORALLY wounded, and cheered
he others on, firing as long as he
vas able to rise up high enough to
ret an aim. The numbering was
lone by some Of the deserters from
he band that started out with Crook
md Mckenzie after the guns and
,onles taken away at Red
Cloud. All the trouble Is credited
o them and the half breeds who
lave been ordered to leave
he agencies and are thus thrown
lpon their own resources for q liv.
ng. 1t will not be very healthy
or any Of the freighters to catch
my of the noble red men providing
round very far from the agencies
or the next two or three months.
DIR. Meyer, of the Deadwood
has teen elected to repre-.
ent the northern part of the Hills
t Yankton and Washington this
He started for the east last
Wednesday.
Henry Holman has struck q good
hing In the way of quartz near one
( his ranches on the Red Cloud tell
Dad. BE has twelve men at work
u it at the date of writing. The
FEATHER is very mild here, and we
ad q beautiful rainbow in the east
I shutdown last evening. Think
1t, q RAINBOW On the thlrd of Jam