Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-05
BEAcK HILLS NOTES.

Building at Rockford is on the increase.
a large malt house has been located in
Elizabethtown.
The Deadwood Pioneer has been cut
down to its former size.
Deadwood will soon have its iron pipes
for water works in place.
There seems to be great scarcity of water
in and about Deadwood.
Work is progressing rapidly on all the
prlnciprl mines in Elkhorn.
The Bingham mining company will put
In an eighty stamp mill soon.
There is plenty Of work and good pay
1or every mechanic in the Hills.
The shngle mill in south Deadwood has
been supplied with patent spark arrester.
The Golden Centre Christian is the name
OF a new religious paper published at Cen.
tral City.
Rapid City is experiencing a greater
amount of prosperity and tranquility than
ever before.
The ladies of Galena, get up mush and
milk festivals to help towards building
churches.
Hailstones as large as mans fist fell one
day last week, in the vicinity of Bear Lodge
mountains.
All the Sunday schools in the Hills will
hold mass Sabbath school convention in
SEearfish sometime this month.
A new nugget gulch has been discovered
near Deadwood. The world will be stagger-
ed with its richness one of these days.
The building of brick structures is yery
much less than usual in Deadwood this sum-
mer, because Of the scarcity of brick.
The Sunday mine, situated in Strawberry
gulch will have an immense mill erected
and be put in running order this fall.
The district court in Deadwood adjourned
on Aug I'd. and the United States district
court convened at Rapid City Aug. 9Th.
The quartz excitement is still unabated
in the vicinity of Custer City. Several new
strikes have been reported there recently.
Hayward City is coming to the front
again. A year ago that camp cast only tifty
votes, and now it contains over one hundred
and fifty.
1t is predicted by Deadwood papers that
inside of two years the expenses of living
will be less in the Hills than any state west
of Chicago.
The King Solomon mine, at Tigerville,
belonging to Chicago parties, will soon have
forty stamp mill in operation.
Spearfish Valleyites are preparing to
celebrate with an old fashioned barbecue
the turning of the first burr in the first grist
mill in the Hills.
The number Of people who ride hetn cen
Deadwood and the upper camps daily is
about three hundred The money paid out
each day for fare is over two hundred dol
lars.
Deadwood News: A man in one of the
saloons laid wager that he could drink
sixty glasses of beer within two hours time.
After draining 25 he lost consciousness
the money.
Central City Herald The legal depart
ment of the Milwaukee road ascertained
from Washington that they can locate theil
road through the Indian reservation to the
Black Hills without treaty.
Central City Herald A second loan Of
two million dollars for the North Pacific has
been taken by the bondholders of the road
This provides capital for extension to the
Yellowstone, 205 miles west of Bismarck
and for 200 miles on the Pacific end of the
line.
, Central City Herald Reports from Ft
, Ellice, Manitoba, say there are 400 Indiana
there Starving. and that the number is daily
. being increased. Three hundred are report
l ed within few days march, but unable te
proceed further from weakness
Black Hills Times: New potatoes ar
selling at 9 cents per pound cabbage 1211::
cesls; squash cents; tuInips cents
p onions 10 cents; tomS,oes rs cents; bean
/ 20 cents per gallon peas 20 cents per gal
! Ion green corn SO cents per dozen; cucuu'
). bers 90 TO 40 cents per dozen; cauliilowe
# 25 10 so cents per head.
/. The Sun Dance mountain region, abou
!. ft,y miles northwest OF Dcadwnod, is cor
o sidcrcd the finest section Of prairie land !
,c the west, Near the base OF the mountain
isa spr,oG eighteen 10 twenty feet in dian