New-York tribune., 1879-08-30
able to attend to their practice. The climate i, re-

Clergymen will ind the Black Hills as vet little
| more than missionary field. Very few religious
societies have vet been organized and those are lar
| from wealthy. Dcadwood still maintains much OF
the Character of mining camp in the general nom
ob;'e, vance of the Sabbath and IN the lndinerence
of large proportion OF the people 10 rehgious
| services.
There are several mining and civil engineers and
assayists here. all of whom seem TO aye plenty OF
| employment. have no doubt that there VIII DO
/ room for few more. The best position Tor MN
| ing engineer is that of superin 5endent OF good
mine, but such places are Of course, e. % not plentiful
| a. Are crcantIle enterprises profitable, ana is
| trade ovordonei
| The merchants who came mere In 1875 and early
| In 1877, bringing with them stocks of goods. dis
posed of them at almost fabulous prices. One
| gentleman told me that goods which cost him
SO. .OUS m Cheyenne and which he brought here IN
| bis ow9 wagons, he sold here almost as fast as he
| could open them and received $4,000. Those
times le gone never TO return, but those engaged
in evc's kind OF trade here seem TO be dong we'll
While here Is excitement here, no rush OF for
| tuue-nnpters, the growth of Deadwood is steady
aud Substantial and the building Of the new mills
aud the increase IN the product OF the
mines must continue to have q stimulating
effect upon business. OF course. the merchants
already established here will have an advantage
newcomers. but there is still room for enter
prsing business men, 1t Is hardly necessary TO say
that one intending 10 open new store here VIII
como first and look over the ground for himself
merchant in the Black Hills will need larger capt.
| tai than would be required to do similar
business In a railroad town. Goods have
to be purchased year In advance IN OIOer 10 aNOlu
the ruinous freight rates that prevail in the Win
ter and Spring Real estate suitable for business
purposes is pretty high, although no such fabulous
prices are asked as in Leadvile. Banking has been
very profitable business here, but the firms al
ready established have all the best customers in
the Hills. and will probably retain them; r,,,,
Several of the out ylng camps OF the Black H1lls
now places of small importance, Will be supplied
with milling facilities within the next few mouths
If their mines prove good, important, towns Will
rapidly spring up, and merchants VINO settle III
them will certainly do well.
(5.) What inducements are there for those who
wish to engage in agricultural pursuits and IN the
The valleys of the Black Hills are among the most
fertile in the Western country. / have visited the
valleys of the Rapid, Redwater. Speartish and Lost
Bottom Creeks, and have never seen better crops
of wheat oats and potatoes. Some of the fields
were artfcially irrigated at small expense, and
others depended upon the natural moisture. ihe
land, like that in Colorado seems to be especially
favorable for the culture of potatoes, and the yield
both III quality and quantity. surpasses anything
have ever seen. As much as fifty bushels OF wheat
TO the acre has been produced on the sOd, that 49,
| the first year the new land has been poughed up,
and thirty forty bushels the usual crop In the
Redwater and Speartsh Valleys alone there are
seventy-twO farms having 2.6S3 acres under cuIt-
walton, as followsi Wheat, 671j oats, 1,4S3
barley, 142 beans, 62 potatoes, zoo; &c; con-, ha 00i
yet been surveyed, but when 1t is the farmers VIII
obtain their titles under the homestead and pre-
emption acts Only small portion of the desirable
farming lands has yet been taken up. There are
good markets for all the grain potato oes and other
vegetables that raised IN the Hills Oats sell IN
large quantities here for two cents apound, ana
potatoes for 2l2 cents pound. The Governme1t
has purchased 1906, 900 bushels Of Black Hills
oats to be delivered at Camp Meadow.
very wide breadth of country suitable tor graz
ing still remains unoccuped in the Black Hills and
the stOck-Taser will find no trouble IN securing
good ranges for his heads. Deadwood and the
other settlement the Hills use large qualities
of beef and the country between here and the Mis-
souri, River, the Union Pacific Railroad; Is very
favorable &or driving cattle over destined lor the
Eastern markets.
THE WAY PEOPLE LIVE.
(6l How do the people live in the Black Hills
Is there security of life and property; and would
an Eastern man find eongenlal society for himself
and family?
Deadwood is a remarkably quiet and orderly city.
Intelligent, respectable law-abidIng people have
come here from the East and from the West, BRING
ing their families and establishing here permanent
homes The wckedness and dissipation of the MIN
ing camp has pretty much disappeared. or at least
does not thrust itself upon the public attention.
People In DeadwOod live Es well as they
did In their Eastern homes-some OF them
better. They bave erected neat cottages,
furnished them handsomely and filed them with
books, pictures and musical instruments. On the
outside, lawns terraces and flower gardens have
been laid ont. The stranger who comes here will
find intelligent and refined society, into which he
will be welcomed There is less Of reserve and more
of free and generous hospitality here than III the
older towns of the East. . -, ,,.,, ,
In the newer mining camps OF the Black 1llIs, OF
course people live III very rude STYLE as they 40
under similar circumstances elsewhere, and yet
many of them make out TO get along very comfort
ablv The quantity of canned fruits, meats and
vegetables consumed by these people is very great
The trade in these goods in the country stores
which supply miners and prospectOrs is enormous
and heir general use enables the matron who pre-
sldes in one of these humble cabins to set be-
fore casual visitor, on very short notice, a
meal which, in the variety OF It's dlshes as
We as their excellence will surprise him. Ii Dy no
means follows that because a man comes out
to the Black Hills and in some remote camp engages
i'm prospecting or in developing OF managing mlne
he al once loses all his taste for books and music
and for other refining influences which add so mucn
10 the pleasure of life in the East. i took dinner
with the discOverer Of mine the other day. 1he
house was built of logs, and was by no means at
tractive in its outward appearance but In one cor
ner of the dining-rOOm stood an open StelnWay
piano, and in another corner was small but we'll
selected library, while upon the wall hung en-
cravings the selection of which showed real artistic
taste. ~ -, .. 4,
/ think have said in a previous letter that 1t Is
perfccfly safe for one to travel alone and unaTmed
all over the Black Hills that such thing as THEFT
or robbery is hardly known, and that murders are
now no more frequent here than IN the older settled
portions of the States When homicide does
occur il is almost invariably the result OF drunken
quarrel.
The Black Hills are a country of wonderful and
varied resources whose development, IN my opln-
ION, has only just begun. L. l. W.
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