Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1881-02-05
SATURDAY FEBRUARY s, 1881.


~ Tic cATHcot C"OHSlucTdtlON VI tIiOSc
Iho at this time are bewailing the fact
hat they arc tied here.
The cry of almost every one is the
pring will see me of for Arizona and
fexico." There is a reason undoubtedly
br this desire to seek a new field. In
|rder to fully understand the position,
is only necessary to remember that
he Hills us a mining camp is essentially
Ow grade. However large may be our
bodies Of ore, it requires the most pom
ferrous machinery for its successful re-
auction. Our necessities hi THE direc-
ion are without doubt the chief cause
IF the slowness of the country. The
domestake company has been the only
bne 50 far who have brought into use
nc combined energy and capital to fully
predicate the enormous resources of
Ehe country. And, although We must
eoncede them this disposition for devel-
bpment, yet we can but deprecate the
Eact hat the measures of their success,
ChtAiSiy VNOh il'iC. ia
they have the most unbounded conf
dence in the %permancncy of the country,
s shown by the fact that they are still
purchasing property, and every feature
of their workings and machinery are of
the most substantial character, and il is
only by closing our eyes to the most
,oc;t;vo ay;Ja,oo that me- ,,o ,,obJo 30
grant the Central and Southern Hills as
brilliant a future as that enjoyed by
LEAD and Central. OF course the croak-
er will point out to you the Standby as
. standing monument Of their failure.
Yet, is it not a pertinent ~question-Do
they know that the Standby is a fall
lure? 1t is not more than probable tina.
|the main owner of Standby stock has
|his own particular ends to accomplish?
Without an absolute knowledge Of the
fact, l still have no hesitancy in as
Stunning that this same property within
four months will be worked with an
Infinitely better result than ever before.
We must not forget that the paying
mines on the belt required the expen-
diture of thousands Of dollars to deter
mine their value; without doubt nan Of
the properties in the Southern Hills
which to-day are designated as holes
in the ground" will become important
factors in the bullion product of the
cnr, Nr< thnoa rap,,lt, ~, I,N-l
the attainment Of your poor prospectors.
The only blame perhaps that can be at
tached to them, is their disposition to
confound a mine with a prospect, and
placing values entirely disproportionate
to the real worth of the ground. /
think, however from personal ol,serva-
ton, that the mistakes of the past in this
direction have brought wisdom. But
mining is not by any means our only
What portion of Gods foot.
stool will raise such crops of potatoes,
cabbage, and in fact vegetables of every
name and variety? What would our
Ohio farmers say to fifty bushels OF
NAlCdO w WIG CCtClbN-hNC uIlI
eighty bushels Of oats is not an unusual
crop in our valleys. In fact, the oats
and barley taken together with our rich
nnd nutricious grasses, would bring a
smile of pleasure to the face of one OF
Harfurd's thoroughbreds. For even
that far famed blue grass region does
not present finer grazing than can be
found upon all sides Of the Hills, and sc
well has this particular feature of the
country been established that a man
with even a moderate start, can, in 6
few years, vie with ~omnipotence in this
that the cattle on thousand hills are
his. There has been so much truthfully
said, however, upon this subject that il
would seem like repetition for me to say
more.
The most serious drawbacks that pre-
sent themselves to me are the want O.
quick transportation and the expensive
rates charged for money. There are
comparatively few business men in the
country who have sufficient capital of
their own to lay in the large stocks OF
goods in the fall necessary to carry them
through the winter and to the moving
Of freight in the spring. All who are
thus compelled 70 use borrowed capital
certainly find two and one half and
three per cent a month b~urdensome
Bot we all look forward to the time
when a railroad will solve these diff
culties. Yet fully believing hat the
future Of this country is indeed bright,
we sometimes feel that We desire a
change, and the expressed dissatisfac-
ton is no doubt more the result Of a
roaming disposition than fault Of the
country. WALLACE.
The above remarks by "Wallace."
who, we presume, is j. S. Wallace, is az
sensible q view of the present outlook
Of the whole Black Hills, as anything
that we have seen or read for a long
time. The cry Of "bound for Arizona" is