Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-06
\ BLACK H1lu.

I u BLACK MILLS.
Butter and eggs in great demand ia Dsa,
wood.
Deadwood has organized a fire buckle
brigade.
Lead City's hospital Is now ready for Q,
cupancy.
The silver mill at Galena takes out abou
$500 per day.
Hay sells in Deadwood for twenty-five
dollars psr ton.
There M4s good sleighing in Rapid City
Thankstoiyf6g day.
Large nnmbars of fruit trees ase~oriased
for the Rapid valley.
Deadwood Second National bank" was
Opened last Friday evening
Deadwoodst expSrisnailes ! great dea, Of
trouble with lie waterl works.
An average of 1ve buadsed head Of beel
are slaughtered In Deadwood per month.
Three hundred thousand pounds Of freight
we're unloaded in Deadwood last Saturday.
., Thanksgiving day was more religiously
observed In, Deadwosd than the Sabbath
10.
All OF the prisoners who escaped from the
Deadwood Jail have been captured but
one.
During the last year several new towns
have sprung into life In the southern
Hills.
Central City is striving to earn the repu-
tati0n of having the best water works In
the Hills.
At alate clean up of theEnos mill in
Rockford district, the ore averaged nine dol
lars to the ton.
The lower story Of Fred Evans court
house in Deadwood will be ready for occu-
pancy BY the Let Of January.
Lawrence county in about a month Ear
boast of being the only county in the terri
tory having two court houses.
Hill City is in q prosperous condition,
and glorles 10 such mines % the Bengal Ii
ger, Spotted Horse and others.
Custer City is growing rapidly, and brags
on such mines as the Atlantic, Old Bill. Ru-
BY Chief, and others of great value.
A discovery VA. made last week near the
mouth of Palmer galch that is pronounced
richer than the Royal Bengal Tiger.
The papers of Deadwood and Central
cities are quite out Of patience with the
slowness of transportation companies.
The famous Cross mine, near Hill. City.
is owned by Fred Cross 4 Co. The own
ers have recently refused 100000 in cash.
It il reported that a cabin owned by
james Craig in False Bottom has been burn
ed, and that the owner had persisted in the
flames.
Rev. James Williams. the presiding elder
of the Hills district Methodist churches,
preached the Thanksgiving sermon in the
Congregational church.
Little Tigerviile has s~ixty-one houses, and
. certain assurance of the prosperity of the
King Solomon. Annie Laurie, Evergreen
and several other mines.
Wire gold has never been found in the
southern hills until lately. Now its crops
out %abundantly in the new specimen seam
lode, between Sheridan and Hill City.
The people Of Terraville are bound to
have q postofice, and one should be granted
them, The town is on the most direct
route between Central and Lead cities.
There is talk of establishing a branch Of
the First National bank of Deadwood at
Rapid City, but that wont suit little Rapid,
they want an Independent banking house.
The Homestake company is experiment.
ing in a new kind of ore car, with a trap
door. in the centre for dumping. 1t is
mounted on double trucks, and will hold FIVE
tons.
There is a seventy-6ve dollar suit of clo-
thes wagered that within FIVE years there
will be a city of not less Than five thousand
inhabitants on the present town site of Rap
id City"
1t is confidentially asserted that with
proper water facilities, q million dollars per
year for five years, could easily be taken
from the gulches, fats and bars Of Rocker.
Vile district
Several generously inclined Dead weed Ia.
dies andFgentlemen are con sidering the feas
Utility of getting up q ball for the purpose Of
raising funds with which to complete the
new Sisters hospital. A very few hundred
dollars would enable the sisters to fix the
new place up comfortably for the winter
and remove the sufferers from their presen,
cold building.
Dr.. A. D. Stewart was chosen chairman
and j. NJ. Murphy, secretary. at the bar
meeting in Deadwood Nov. 25th. Resolu
ltions embodied in the following were adop,
ted |: One thousand feet in length and 5Ot
feet in width, should constitute a quart;
claim. Stakes five feet high and six inches
diameter must be erected around the claim
A monument of stone four feet high MAJ
be used also. Miners may follow the dip o
their vein outside their side lines. Wher
gu CHI dip exceeds Is degrees from the ape,
to side line Of claim, miners must RECORD
two locations within twenty days; must sinl
. shaft 10 feet or run a tunnel 10.feet, with