Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-22
rae BLACK MILLS.
Custer has 9 band Of lu.e amateurs.

Custer has 9 band of fute amateurs.
Cream Is worth twenty five rents per
quart in Custer.
Two thousand pounds Of freight are un-
loaded in Lead City per day.
About eight hundred mines are now
being worked in Custer county.
Dan Scott, Of the Deadwood Press, is
sick In bed with the rheumatism.
jim Banding, formerly of Yankton, is
building q large hotel at Sheridan.
The most expensive kind of mining ma.
chinery is being shipped into the Hills.
Cus;er Is rapidly gaining in population
and OF the most desirable class Of people.
A new postofice has recently been es
tablished In Pennington county called the
Altamine.
The new Sunday mill on Strawberry gulch
will be completed and running inside Of
thirty days.
Deadwood boasts of the youngest news.boy
in the world. He wears short dresses and
can't talk plain.
The Groshong mine, Galena, shows four
feet of ore that runs nearly one thousand
ounces to the ton.
Several burglaries have been committed
10 the neighb0rhood of Ingleside during
the past few weeks.
DeadwOod Press: Alvah Hand, which
is postmaster at. Crook City, called at the
Press office this morning.
One miuer on Friday gulch, near Queen
Bee city, Is making sixteen dollars per day,
and several others are doing nearly as we'll.
Twenty-Five sacks Of ore from the Ben
gal Tiger mine. ranging in value from one
hundred to three hundred dollars each, were
stolenfrom Hill City, a short time ago.
j. W. Taylor. formerly of Yankton but
latterly of Deadwood, and more recently of
Custer, has been appointed one Of the CEN
sus takers of that district.
The Knights of Cyrus at Deadwood are
preparing to finish up their new hall. and
that society will have one of the hand.
soonest and best fitted up lodge rooms in
the territory.
Desdwood Pioneer: Hon. George H.
Hand. the secretary Of Dakota, is nov and
has been for some time past, acting COVER.
nor. He will probably be appointed to fill
the vacancy.
The pay roll of the Homestake company
for the month of March, not including the
clerks and bosses, nor the men employed in
the Bobtail mines and mills, numbers five
hundred and ninety-seven.
Flowing 10 the foothills and valleys of
the hills is going on at q lively rate. A
large acreage will be sown to small grain
this season, and no doubt will produce q
good crop, the soil being very brittle.
People in Deadwood enjoyed the novelty
of picking flowers April 18th, on one side
of a mountain, while ten feet away on the
other side, q number of children were en-.
ioying an animated snow ball discussion.
Leadville Chronicle: A Black Hills ed.
itor thus bids farewell to his readers, his
paper having expired: "Good.bye-Toll
the bell gently-This is our last kick
Handle US with care-We die a natural
death-The wolf is at our door-Bury us
under a rose bush-Listen to the hooking
bird"
The number of children In Central, Gold.
en-, Gayville and Terravi1le under eighteen
years of age is four hundred and twenty
two, divided as follows: Anchor forty
nine; Golden, ninety; Central, one hun.
dred and twenty.nine; Terraville, sixty.
one. OF these q hundred and fourteen
are four years of age or under.
Deadwood Times: The government tel
egraph builders, between Rapid City and
the Missouri river, are waiting for D. T.
Bramble to distribute the poles, which are
now lying at the Cheyenne river crossing,
along the line. AZ soon as the transports.
ton arrives the line will be constructed. The
work of completing the job will require only
about two weeks.
Heavy timber fires were raging in the
vicinity of Hill City April 10th, and several
hundred cords Of wood were destroyed BY
the fire. near the head of the Rockerville
fume. while quite q number of ranches and
cabins were also consumed. The entire
country appeared to be a sea of flames and
fire, carrying death and destruction before
it and leaving desolstion and ruin In its
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