The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-06-28

Deadwood u Paradise for Dead Beats
Corporations at Wars-Mines and
Farms.

cluded that your readers had roba ply
sufficiently recovered from the las dose
to warrant giving them another. Times
are much better in this part of the
Hills than they have been for year
and half and the faces of the business
men have shortened up so much that
some Of them can not recognize their
own photographs taken last Winter.
just now the town is convulsed by the
struggle between the
TWO GIGANTIC CORPORATIONS
That control the countryside Home
stake and De Smet mining companies.
Both are California companies, and they
law and jaw each other on every posi-
BILE point after the most approved
Nevada fashion. They are having
aboat mining claims, millsites and
water rights, and tomorrow the ci5i-
zens are to decide by ballot which shall
furnish the town with water. Which
ever side wins will have to gouge the
citizens fearfully to get its money back.
All the idle men around have been
hired by one or the other company, and
not a beat in the place has drawn a
sober breath for the last two days.
There is not much feeling amongst the
property holders, who do not care much
which company gets it, so the one that
has the best workers Will probably
get away with its rival tomorrow.
Considerable betting is INDUCED in, the
Homestake being the favorite in the
pools. That company has a brass band
parading the streets this evening and
serenading the dear citizens. There
are posters out for an Indignation meet
ing to be held, but nobody seems to
know who called it or what they are
indignant about. Perhaps they do not
think Sl5 apiece enough for votes and
are insulted accordingly J. P. Jones
said that millions may be spent and
no man corrupted" which may be the
case in Nevada, but the ''mighty
dollar" is much larger and more potent
here.
THE MINES
Around here are looking we'll and the
companies are putting up lots of big
mills, some of them having l20 stamps
each. The silver mines at Bear Butte.
10 nfaes from here, are looming up, and
a mill and some small smelling furnaces
are being erected there. 1t has rained
good deal here this Spring and Sum-
mer, and the honest grangers will have.
big crops again this year. The only
trouble is there will be about twice as
much produce, raised as there is mar
ket for There is some very good land
on the Belle Fourche and Cheyenne and
their tributaries, but there is good
deal too much of it, and when we have
plenty of rain the market will always
be overstocked. A good deal of the
land cannot be irrigated for want of
water and the crops are liable to fail
every dry season. There will be
enough grain of all kinds to supply the
demand and next year wheat enough
will be raised to supply all our -four.
TILE WATER EXCITEMENT INCREASES.
Ehe town is posted all over with the
plaeards OF the opposing companies,
and the De Smet has one offering s., 900
reward for the arrest of the parties who
attempted to break the Boulder ditch
last night. 1t is. good day for team
sters; span of horses and wagon brings
S25. Money was plentiful last night,
and men, who had not had dollar
since the last election, smoked o-bit
cigars and swarmed around the forty
odd gambling tables to stack the checks
up to the limits. The Indignation
meeting did not come off, the callers
having probably been "seen" or got too
drunk to attend. GOLD SEEKER.
Senator Humans illness is not of a
serious nature, and he will probably be
able to resume his place in the Senate
to-day.