Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-17
THE BLACK mills.

Every lot IN kapid City ia now staked.
Rapid City wants an experienced cistern
maker. ~
a new drug store will 0 be opened in
Fountain City.
Flowers are blooming on the hillside
near Rapid City.
The RUBY gulch at Galena 10 . dry gulch,
. smsll gu,ch and Q rich gulch.
Pro~prctors continue to crowd into the
Newton's Fork and Orc Cache districts.
Several hundred cords OF wood were
burned By prsirie fire uea sturgis City
last Friday.
Work on the Qneen Bee mine. at Hill
City, il being prosecuted with the most Eat.
tering results.
Prairie and mountain fires are ragine or
all aides Of Rapid, making = grand and
beautiful sight.
William T~regoweth, a miner. vaa instant.
y killed in Lexington shaft, April l3th, by
= falling bucket.
Desdwood Press:a After, January lat
1880, the produc. Of the Hills will be at thl
rate of$l8, 000,00 per yaar.
Aspecimen Of quartz, taken from the Ca.
lamity jane lode, somewhere in the north
eruyHihs will assay nine hundred ounces il
silver.
The R.pid Valley mil! will probably b,
erected some distance below Rapid City, 10
ptesd rof right in that town, as at FRS
planned.
Doe. ct the noticeable fsasures,of Dead
wond 10 the number Of brick blocks tina
have been erected since the Ore, and nov
under course of erection.
The Ep scoIai aides Of Deadwood ar
happy to nnoucc that thu society rpce,v
ed a donation Of thlrty.ive dollars from
the Hon. Granville 9. Bennett.
The Custer City Chronicle prophetic
that five years from to-day will find Caste
aud Pennington counties ranking anon
the wealthiest of the entire west.
It Is rumored thst one night LAST weel
from. twenty to thirty mounted Indian
nade q raid on the Belle Frouche aud sue
ceeded 10 dr,v,ng off eight head of horse
from the rauchers.
Another quartz mine has been found Il
Pennington county which bids fair to be
come a grea, bonanza. 1t is situated seve,
miles east Of Rockford aud it is eaid to b
of vast extent and richness.
Dpadwood Times: We know now tbs
Tue Press lie not q De Smet organ, az it gay
a full account of the stolen record racke
aud it was go damaging to their house this
they never would have mentioned it if the
had been "eugared."
The area Of the Black Hills proper is 81
thousand pquare miles. running in a north
east and southwest direction q distance
about one hundred miles. and an averae
width of sixty miles, between the forks
the Cheyenne river.
Rapid City Journal: Arrangements al
making for a grand fishing picnic in II
lower valley on the first Of next month. tt
grown people will manipulate the rod ar
line, while the Young folks will have a re
nlar old fashioned May Day party.
The dam at the head of the Rockervil
Aume is 4 grand affair, and . masterpiece
mechanical ingenuity and en<ineerir
skill. A large force of men 10 employ
night and day OF this monster under'akin
while two steam, engines are constantly
work, one for boieting purposes and the OF
e, for pumping, the water already becomiI
quite troublesome. 81
The Caledonia big new mill ia said to
one az the hes. in the Hills. The Press q
WITH the Homeatake company turning a
. nv the 6r~t Of June $500. 200 per month, !
De Sruet COMPANY $500. 600, and the Calei
MIA $4,000 and the other companies
veil. il matters bnt liule-will swell I
srard. aggregate to ST. 900 per nison
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