Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-05
BEAR PAW.

manga to the Northeastern Stage Company
Reports OF Gtslch Discoveries Yielding
From SEQ to 5000 Per Dnv.
Especial Correspondence of the Globe.]
DEADwooD, d. T., July 24.-"Bear Paw
is all the rage. Nothing else is talked of,
and nothing else seems to concern the peo-
pie of the Hills. Every mail from the north
brings many letters, and the wire is daily
employed in transmitting developments as
made, all of which increases the ferment.
unsettles business, decreases population and
casts gloom upon the many unfortunates
who would get away if they could. The
exodus thus far has been very heavy, and
ST ould favorable reports continue to arrive
and old ones be VERIFIED these many over
crowded camps and gulches will soon b.
stripped of their surplus population. About
the only person or corporation in this Sec
ton in the least benented, is the Bismarck
Stage company, who, with daily extras, are
unable to meet the demand made upop
them. Seats are engaged three and foul
days in advance, and even deck-lo loads are
made up long prior to departure. The stage
| company are taking out an average of thir-
teen Bear PAYERS per day, and as the
fare ($25 to Bismarck) is large one, profits
may be easily computed. In addition to
this mode of travel, many, and, in fact,
! majority depart overland with their own out
| fits. or seek cheap conveyance per freight
train. One freighter has, since the beginning
of the excitement, sent out 700 stampeders,
and has at least hundred booked for the
last of the week. Tho comforts and luxury
of three hundred miles ride over desolate
prairie, in a 'dead-ax' wagon, drawn by
string of mules, or longer array OF print
lively styled "buils,'' are not very apprecia-
BILE, still, they would have some measure of
fullness, if fellow could only ride. AS it is
the poor dupes engage passage to Bismarck;
pay their little seven or ten dollars (as q rush
may be great or smalD lay around the car
a day or two, and finally, when the wagon
boss sees tit to "pull out - trudge along on
foot. At night, he join his camp ng,,ons du
voyage in o laborious effort to cook little
grub. They are all very weary, foot sore,
dusty, out of humor and ready to
damn anything or anybody that, in the
least, discords with their whinns, and as re-
suit, the bacon is burnt, biscuit all dough,
coffee boils over, wood is green, smoke dense
and variable in ascent, and the entire bust
ness out of gear. This experience is repeat
ed for ten or dozen days-or until the
river is reached, where they embark upon a
steamer for ten days monotonous ride to
Cow Island, the coal banks, or other point
of debarkation. The distance from Dead
Z wood to the new mines, by the river route,
is fully 400 miles; across the country, via
Miles City, $50 miles. The expense by the
former, including one months provisions
, cannot be reduced to less than $3.50, and BY
the latter, including pack animal and sad
? die horse, 5000.
: --latest news from above is decidedly en-
I couraging, and comes in the shape of letter.
from J.. j. Healy, to Sheriff Manning O
this county. They report discoveries upo1
! eight or ten gulches of an average length O
seven miles-or q total of, say, sixty
i three miles, which, at the uniform rati,
9 of 1711a claims per mile, gives 1,1041 claims
) all of which are said to yield from to p
cents per pan, or at the rate of from 500 t,
$500 per day to the man. These report
: must, however, be accepted with great dea
: of allowance, as mining gossip invariabl
: contravenes the old saw that tsbad news trav
: els fast;'' it is the good and rosy hued It'd
ings that speeds with the wind. There i
: little doubt, however, that the boys h We YER
g good ground, and that much wealth vii
=, thereby be added to the Golfers of the com
Y munity. From such intelligence as hay
/ been able to gather, l infer the diegings ar
shallow-not to exceed nine feet-that al
: abundance of water is available the yea
g through, and that plenty and excellent Tim
d Der for all purposes ahounds. Positive in
# telligence is anxiously awaited by the entir
Hills populace, and will undoubtedly arriv
2 in very few days, when it will be prompt
: Forwarded to the GLOBE. IS,