The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-10
DEADwooD.
An Interesting La tier From the Black
Hills COunsry.

East three years. Everything is metamor-
phosed, from the mines to the miners, FRI m
the cities to the citizsns Well remember
that hot, dusty September day Of rs when,
dirt begrimmed, ragged and played out
generally, | entered this remark bic gulch,
after a most exhaustive chase with Crook
and his badly demoralizsd comm and. Then
DOUBLE LINE OF LOG CABINS
from Montana, almost to the con-
auence of Dead~ood and wildwood
creeks, sheltering cosmopolitan populs-
ton, and emitting sounds of revelry by
day as we'll a. night. Irregulari,y chsrsc-
terized all things. Crooked str.ets; here
and there plank or two, for names sake
chri=tened sidewalk" business conducted
upon inflated if not crooked principles;
society jumbled mass Of humanity with
but one aubition-money-m and
with few if any scruples how it was Oh
tanned; morals viciously lax; law a MY h,
and government that of the revolver IN the
hands OF whomsoever felt aggrieyed. Then
everything repealed, with one exception
the gold that SO richly strati6ed the earth.
Now, after an absence Of two years, am
carried in
A COMFORTABLE COACH
upon an excellent road, up, over and down
the mountains 10 the self-same gulch, now
not only lined with business block, but
these backed By elegant residences, come OF
wood, Others of brick, 80 numerous that The
city-no MISUNDERSTANDING the bottom toe
narrow, creeps up the hillside, spreads over
the three cOufiuent gulches-Whitewood
Deadwood and City Creek-and, from the
cliffs above, presents a scene than which
one u.ore picturesque cannot be described
There Is society, TOO, not a mere com
mixion Of living beings whose most strik
ing feature is proof positive that they are
alienaied from those Influences that draw
out
A MANS BETEER TRAITS,
ard which existed in the old eastern homes
Influences that when grouped are bes
known as civilization; influences art
wrought by good women and pure, by
the pulpit and press, creating {
healthy public sentiment. A more orderly
quiet, law-abiding, Industrious and conse
qIenIly prosperous community than this oil
Any in the hills 'twould be difficult to find
A community of 5 900 souls, yet no munci
pal government, no police force nor nsc-ssi
~ for one, no debauchery, nor excessiv,
vice-fnd the parallel of Deadwood if yor
can,
Great as has been the change in particu
lars mentioned, still greater, ''transmog
Tihcation" il observable in
TIE MATERIAL INTERESTS
Of the country. The mineral belt ard pay
piacers that were supposed TO begin anC
end within an area OF dozen mile,
square, whose center was Deadwood, have
been followed to every point in the hills
from Bear Gulch on the northwest, to
French Creek on the southeast, distances
Of 20 miles. This gulch has rivals, ard the
famous wheeler claim" equals in almost
every guich, while dry" a:
bar and hill diggings are called, abound
every where. Heretofore a large proportion
If the latter have been valueless for t.e
reason OF lack Of water, or else worked Il
great disadvantage and at great expense
but this difficulty has en- obviated during
the p3st winter by the introduction 81
wster by me ans OF ditchea, up and over tbs
highest divide, in some instances the work,
beirg ten and twelve miles long, thus al
fording miners ample means for extracting
the precious metal with little labor, and
less e1pense Ey the hydraulic,
GgoUND sLUICING,
or ordinary sluicing process. Thee new
dictricts have given birth to settlements all
10. .st1l t,..lI 10,
laborers, merchants. trsdss-I eople, The
professions, &c. In quartz | notice aston
ishing result, and from the-e ] receive As
surances OF the permsuancy Of the bills "A s
mining section. What were considered
mere fl outs" or cement deposit., Tvs
years ago have developed into true
issure veins OF unparalleled masni
tud. ard remarkable richness. Cal
ifornis with yield Of millions
of dollars per year in gold, never displayed
a ledge Of over fifteen feet in width, ye
there is scarcely Il vein of
GOLD BEARING ROCK
in the hills, of less than twenty-five feet il
width, while many-notably the DE Smet
Homestske. Cheyenne, Caledonia, RoderiC
Dhu and others-are over one hundred fee
wide, every ounce Of the rock prospecting
we'll. When / left the hills, the only me
,hanical appliances in operation for the re-
lction Of gold ore, consisted Of ball pull
..rizsr, ''iigtle giant" stamp mill, and 8
lalf doz -astas, neither OF which segre
gated half Il the gold, nor saved a half Of
that separated from tie rock. Now | find
EIGHT HUSDRED AND FIFTY STAMPS,
in cons.snt motion. night and day, and
preparations made Tor the Introduction oil
five hundred more, large portion having
already arrived Each and every mill il
the most complete and improved" that
money could bur, while several of them
are the acne OF prechanicsl perfection, and
four-O.d Abe, De Smet, Deadwood a1d
Terra-are each larger by forty stamps than
ever before constr ucted in the world.
SOME OF THE HEAVY MEN.
/ find that Geo. Hearst, a representative
Californian has invested in mines and ma
chinery, over Two millions of dollar, and
is looking around for other mines TO pur-
chase. so find that ne irly one half of
his investment has been returned in profits
from the Homestske and leased mills !;
that the clean up of the Homestake for the
month of February amounted to the enor-
nous sum Of eighty thousand dollars.
! find. that Archie Borland, principal
owner of the De Smet, has invested nearly
three millions of dollars in mines alone,
and almost, # not quite, half million in
machinery, and he declares thst he would
not take fifty millions for the interests now
in bis possession.
find that Gashmiler, another Californi-
an, owner of the Caledonia and other
mines, has invested million dollars i'll
land and machinery; thar the Cheyenne
New Iork-compapy, the Lake Superior
company and many other corporations here
have been lavish in their expenditures, and
are watching developments to make other
purchases before the property shall pass
into the market, where it invariably COM
msnds large prices.
THE "CRoP."
find that the weekly shipments Of dust
snd bullion from this city alone average
S250, 600; that four banks and two express
are KEEP: constantly busy hand
ling the clesn.ups. From these snd many
other facts form a very fattering opinion
Of the country.
In Subsequent letters will 60 with your
readers TO the various camps, and review
heir se7eral interests in detail.
DEADwooD.
Ecnor at Home and Abroad.
Ellsworth Reporter,5I