New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-08-14
BEAR PAW.

~ stAstsisd BEAR PAW.
The Nev Mining age--Charncteristie
Sta,npstlSs tronss The Black Hills--A b &.
-Reports .et Gsslcz. Discoveries Yielding
From $50 to 5000 Per DAY.. MI
Especial Correspondence Of the Globe
DEADwooD, D. T., July "a. 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
bringstmany letters, and the. wire. is daily
employed in transmitting developments as
made, all Of which increases theasferment,
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
should favorable reports continue to arrive
and old ones be, verified, these many over
crowded camps and gulches will soon be.
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 upon.
them. Seats are engaged three and four
days in advance, and even deck 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 1895 to Bismarck) is a large one, profits
may be easily computed. In addition to
this mode of travel, many, land, in fact a,
majority depart overland with their own out2
fits, or seek cheap conveyance per freight
train. One freighter has, since the beginning
of the excitement, sent out 700 stampeders,
and has at4leasta hundred booked for the
last of the week. The comforts and luxury
of a three hundred miles ride over desolate
prairie, in .sdead-ax'' wagon, drawn by a.
string of mules, or a longer array Of print
lively styled sEbulls, 2 are not very apprecia4
BILE, still, theywould have some measure Of
fullness, if a fellow could only ride. AS it is
the poor dupes engage passage to Bismarck;
pay their little sevensor ten dollars Gas q rush
may be great or small lay around the car
day or two, and finally, when the wagon
boss sees tit to .'pull out, 2 trudge along on
foot. At night, he join his co,npagzsoaas del
DoY0ge in a laborious effort to cook a little
grub. They are all very weary, foot sore,S
dusty, out of humor and ready, to,
damn anything or anybody that, in the
least, discords with their whims, and as a res
suit, the bacon is burnt, biscuit all dough,
coffee boils over, wood is green, smoke dense
and variable in ascent, and the entire BUSH
ness out Of gear. This experience is repeat
ed for ten or a dozen days-or until the
river is reached, where they embark upon III
steamer for a ten days monotonous ride to-
Cow Island, the coal banks, or other point
of debarkation. ii The. distance from Dead
wood to the new mines, BY the river route,
is fully 1,4OO miles; across the country, via
Miles City, ;45O miles. The expense by the
former, including one months. provisions,
cannot be reduced to less than $l5 SO, and BY
the latter, including q pack animal and sad
die horse, 5000. ss=ss
Latest news from above is decidedly en-
couraging and comes in the shape of letters
from J. j. Healy, to Sheriff Manning, of
this county. They report discoveries upon
eight or ten gulches of an average length of
seven miles++-or a total of, say, sixty
three miles, which, at the uniform ratio
of 17115 claims per mile, gives 1,10415 claims,
all of which are said to yield from 5 to 25
cents per pan, OF at the rate Of from 800 to
5000 per day to- the. man. These reports
must, however, be accepted with a great deal
of allowance, as mining gossip invariably
contravenes the old saw that ''bad news trav
els fast;'2' it lis the. good and rosy bued It'd
ings that speeds with the wind. There is
little doubt, however, thatthe boyssh; We very
good ground, and that much wealth will
thereby be added to the Golfers of the COM
munity. From, such intelligence as have
been able to5gather, infer the diggings are
shallow-not to exceed nine feet-that an
abundance of water is available the year
through, and that plenty and excellent 'im-
Der for all purposes abounds. Positive in
telligence is anxiously awaited by the entire
Hills populace, and will undoubtedly arrive
in avery few days, when it will be promptly
forwarded to the GLOBE.
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