Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-29
DEADwOOD DOISGS.
Correspondence Daily Globe,

| DEADwooD, u. L., June 19th.-The GLOBE
has doubtless received the particulars of
yesterdays stage robbery upon the Sidney
route; and its readers, together with the
public at large, are probably wondering over
| the possibility Of two men capturing AID
controlling coach load of five ordinarily
brave men. Well, it does seem funny, that's
a fact, yet the feat has ever been easily &C.
complished, and will be so long as there are
highwaymen to make the attempt. In the
| first place, the average traveller is content to
| pony up the few dollars which his pockets
contain If such an act will insure
safety and speedy liberation. Then,
too, as in yesterdays encounter,
not one passenger in five is, to use Western
phrase, "heeled' for the occasion; or if he
happens to be the possessor of a weapon,
the chances are that tits out of harms wav,
safely packed in some grip sack, and minus
cartridge at that. doubt that a more
comical sight could be presented to dis
interested bystander than that of fve-and
often seven or eight-great strong men
standing in line, their arms elevated to the
fullest extent, while a person in no particu-
lar their superior, passes from one to another,
closely examining and taking from pockets
everything of value.
"uoV ooIiOA lAo SsoSo Compduy Will lake
towards capturing the outlaws remains to be
seen; and whether or not the government
will passively submit to this cool and COM
plete destruction of much valuable mail
matter is another conundrum that no one
can at present answer.
S. G. Mansen, representing the Boston
One Price Clothing house. Minneapolis,
and w. p. Weaver, of the North Star boot
and shoe factory and also the cracker and
confectionery house of b. F. Lillibridge,
same place, departed this morning for home.
The former has been in tue hills several
months, during which time he has transact
ed more business, I venture to say,
than any clothing house in Dead
wood, and yet he has confined
himself to individual orders, in no instance
| wholesaling his goods. AS result dealers
here are terribly ''down" on Mansen. and
| have resorted to various exped,ents to drive
him out of the country, but he has proven
as good a slayer as be is a salesman, and
successfully deied them all.
Weaver is, to again speak in the vernacu-
lar, "a rustler,'' aud although he is almost
| too handsome q man to send into a country
of susceptible girls, like the Hills, vet his
business proclivities counterfeit the physical
defect (for which he certainly is not
responsibility. and I can therefore
chronicle for him great 50 cess I INST
him In a certain shoe store the other night
and incidentally mentioned the name Of q
rival house, and that their man was daily
expected in from the East He threw up
both hands, and with true methodistical
fervor exclaimed, "Great Heavens, where
and to whom can he sell goods.'' Then he
went on to tell me of the quantity of goods
| ho ho1 cola
he had completely stocked for the
freight he had on the road. in.
etc. All of which appeared so astonishing
that questioned his veracity until he pulled
the documents from his pocket, that full
substantiated every representation
st. Paul and Minneapolis are doing an
immense trade with the hills-a safe, and
rapidly increasing trade-but one that see
your dealers do not fully appreciate, else stir
greater exertions would be made to increase
it, Newell g. Harrison have man-Bald
permanently located here Howard g.
Dyer have established an agency, and coca
sionally some other house will send in q
drummer, who is generally recalled
before he can possibly become acquainted
with the people or customs of tho country.
Chicago and St. Louis merchants are much
| more thorough and therefore successful.
They do not consider so much the present
az the prospective trade of the Hills; they
look ahead two, three or five years to the
time when Deadwood will not be the Hills,
when Whitewood will not be the ONLY devel-
oped district, when the thousand present
| stamps shall have increased five fold al least,
extending from that supposititious locality
=" the belt TO Custer, sixty miles away,
when camp after camp shall dot this isolated
area as thickly almost as cabins
now stand, ard when the monthly
product of the mines shall increase from
| three hundred thousand to a million and
over. Then will trade have magnitude and
q value compared With which that of to-day
will sink into insignifcance. Approaching
this fact, dealers and manufacturers in cities
competing with st. Paul and her twin sister
are laying foundation for future welfare: are
estabishir1 themselves, Identifying them
selves s-Sll the country, determined to grow
and have their business expand with the
country, and eventually will reap the reward
for their sagacity and enterprise.
| / wish I could convey to your readers a
| correct idea OF the wealth of the Hills and
the opportunities here presented for judicial
Investment of capital: but If I had the
power and would correctly portray it all as
l know it to be, would lay myself open to
censure for prevarication. but reiterste
the prophecy of that well known mining ex-
pert and operator, George Hearst, when I
! say that three years from now, if the stamps
then to be IN operation in the Hills