Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-08
[OTA TERRITORY. SATURDAY EVENING,
THE BLACK HILLS.

H'pdICity wss visited with a heavy fall +
enow Oct Both,
The Incorporation fever il again breaking
out In Rapid City.
tie North Star mine Is being actively
WORKED at Lead City.
Another big bigll.krade ore strike has
been made at Castleton.
Custer City has thirty.six families, where
year ago it had only six.
Extensive repairs and alterations are 70.
log ON At tho DE 6met office.
The quotations of the Caledonia mine In
one day was l25 shares at $l.75.
There are number of csses Of mouu.ai
fever st Central and Golden Gate
Sturgis City rs getting the reputation of
being the hardest camp 10 the Hills.
Major McNamara has accepted the local
editorship Of the Deadwood Evening News.
A regular stage line will soon be put into
operation between Deadwoo and Custer
City ''
The Hills are ready to di. ide honors with
Montana for producing the best beef in the
country.
Tho Atlantic mine near Custer City. was
sold Oct 30th to New York company for
$4,000.
There were four births inside of twenty
four hOurs. within a radius of half a mile in
Dead wood.
Corn raised in the foot hills is now selling
at four cente per pound at retail, cob and
all, in Deadwood.
1t is so cold 10 Dead wood that olss,erers
and bricklayers have to use hot water to
mix their mortar.
Central and Golden are advancing faster
10 point OF population, than any other two
towns In the Hiils.
Custer has population of about two
hundred people, and floating population of
nearly as many more.
The Pioneer claims to have the largest
circulation in the Hills. although they lost
everything during the fire.
The building of the Rapid City, Fort
Mead and Fort Pierre telegraph line is be.
ing rapidly pushed ahead.
A solid. white as snow, and perfectly
round turnip, weighing Is! pounds, was
raised in Hill city this season.
"The Deadwood Associated Press" is the
name Of a new paper, to he started 10 Dead.
wood soon by r. j. Hammer
The Tocsin is the name of a new paper,
soon 10 be published in Custer City. edited
and managed by DR.. r. S. Law.
The famous Reno mine that has mil!ed
higher grade ore than any other mine ia
the Hills. Is temporarily closed.
The new Deadwood Evening Press will
be in full blast in another fortnight. The
machinery will be run by water power
nooH-No1 kaoh h,<3 c.n
followed by the first really cold snap of the
season. The thermometer fell to zero
Sand. cement and lmes,ose, native pro-
ducti0ns Of the Hills, are being turned to
good account by the builders in Dead
wood.
Some of the handsomest specimens of
wire gold that have ever been exhibited in
the Hills, have just been taken from the
keystone mine in Strawberry gulch.
N. B and s. w. Kent, left Deadwood
for their home in Elk Point, D. T, Oct.
3lst. bv way of Pierre. They will return to
the Hills in the spring and bring their
families.
When the new Touring mill, at Spearfsh,
started up, Oct. 30lh, the residents of the
Black Hills we're able to say, for the first
time in It e history of that country, that they
had grist mill in full running operation.
The Lead City Enterprise is informed
that 1t is the intention Of Mr.. Frank Per-
ktns to open really metropolitan theatre
shortly, and has already engaged first
class troupe from the east for the opening
The Evening News says a prominent
physician OF that place who has been 20.
ing for q brother pill peddler because be
had no diploma, is in trouble himself. His
rival got back at him by writing to the col.
lege he claimed to graduate from and found
out that be was never there. This turns
the tables neatly. 81
Times: We feel proud aud we don't
care who knows 1t. Our new outfit, or the
greater part Of II. came 10 last night, and
they came four days ahead of time. They
came BY the Bismarck route, and that &C.
counts for the rapid transit. The material
all came but the jobbers that are day be.
hind. The cylinder presS will be along in
week.
A stranger 10 Lead City. stepped into
store and requested to be shown some axes
After paving over the assortment about
half an hour he finally selected one, and
apologized to the patient clerk, who was
waiting on him, for being 80 long in select.
ing one. BY remarking that his wife was
mighty particular what kind of an axe she
used when she chopped wood
The magnitude and richness of the Cross
mine, at Harney's Peak; the erection of a
stamp mill on the King solomon mine, at
Tigerville; the development OF the Bengal
Tiger mine. on sNewtons Fork. BY the
Cslitornians, and the prosecution by the
Fort Meade Hydraulic Gold Mining Com.