Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-10-28
THE DENVER EXPOSITION
Viewed by a Black Hitler who can
Tell What He Sees.
A Description Of the Various Exhi-
bits Of Interest.

| DENVER, Col, October II, 1882.
Special Correspondence Of the Chronicle.
In accordance with promise made tC
| fur nish the many readers of the CHEoN
lcIE few wayside notes of my southern
trip and a chapter on the Mining Ex
position at Denver, l now avail myself
Of night shift and this is the first turn
Of the drill. Look at the drlllings and
hope YOU will find little pay at least
in the prospect.
My trip from the Hills across the
stretch ofsouthcrn country to the Union
Pacific line was devoid of any special in.
cidents, and as the country is familiar
to all Black Killers, ] will not bore YOU
with any aesthetic pen pictures of Chey-
cnne river, the famed Mime -Funga
Running Water or the Rawhide
At the Butte saw every evidence OF
a prosperous mining camp, with a big
output of copper ore in the near future
Immediately south ofRawhide, on the
North Platte, near Fort Laramie, | was
surprised to find another mining camp
in the range that claims Laramie Peak
for Il sentinel, which bids fair to rival
some of our copper properties in Custer
county.
The whole trip from Custer to Chey-
enne was as novel to me as if / had
t1n trs 1aI hAfa IL l.
every old landmark made memorable in
the early days of '76,-when the hardy
pilgrim hourly expected to hear the
whoop of the savage Sioux, seemed
familiar, could not help frequent ex-
c,aimation Of surprise and pleasure. The
then wild eypanse of country. with
mountain stream and valley, alive with
game, has undergone a magic change
The mountains are pierced by the pros
pector, the streams are bordered with
farms and ranches and in the valleys
feed vast herds OF cattle, all of which in
dicates a wealth born Of civilization
brought about by the hardihood and
push OF the old-;imers who first sought
the hidden treasures of the Black Hills
AS the Mining Exposition at Denver
was my objective point. will not allude
to the sensations experienced at Chey-
cnne on beho.d.lg again the vast trains
Of passenger and freight cars on the
Union Pacific, which links the two
oceans, nor TO the vast improvements
made in the Magic City of the Plains
After boarding one Of the cars of the
Colorado central and ENJOYING a luxuri-
Gus seat viewing the ever-changing pan
Drama of rocky mountain scenery
snow-capped peaks included, free of
CHARGE eoou found myself ut the fam
ed Denver-the metropolis Of the back
bone Of the continent. As | intend to
send or bring you some Photographic
views Of this wonderful city, I will not
attempt to paint it's western background
the range which divides it from the
Pacific slop, or speak at length of the
electric lights, the Union depot, the
opera house, the magnificent shade trees
or its immense business houses, or aliude
TO the 10000 inhabitants, beyond the
fact that they have the vim, the push
the enterprise of the concentrated 60
ahead d-activeness ofthe continent. Don't
let this escape your memory. This is
the mining hub of the world. Here you
find the metive power which tunnels the
earth wherever she humps her back in
North america, and from this point in
the near future her miners and specu
lators viii. furnish argentiferous pesos to
keep company with their auriferous
kindred Of the dark hued hills of Da.
ota
Although I arrived only in time tc
mingle in the busy hustle of the last
fortnight of the big show, managed tc
put in double time, and met with con
stant greetings from old-familiar faces
from your everlasting eminence in the
northern plains.
An hours walk through the exposi
ton building and grounds with me, ant
think the CHRONICLE comps will cry
thirty" on this effusion from one who
knows more about mica mine than h,
does of furnishing material for that bas,
metal which gives shape to living word
which cannot again be hidden in th'
womb from which they came.
The exposition grounds are abou
three miles from the business center o
this city, large, improved with shade
trees, fountains, etc, easy of access, bein,
reached by three railroads and fin
boulevard. The main building, with it,
galleries and towers is all that could b,
desired, surrounded as it is by extensiv,
annexes for additional displays Of agri
cultural machinery, stamp mills, smelt
ers, steam and hand-drills, cider presses
and anne.-es where one could obtail
stone-fence, mescal, and various brand
Of liquids said to have been discovere,
by Bacchus, Gambinus and other oil
fossils while ont prospecting for ha