Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-10-28

men formerly acquainted with "deel
or had disposed Of ''hole with millions
III it, TO some one from that regloI
which the tenderfoot loves to cal
"home,' who was anxious TO dispose o.
the shekels Of his pater families in order
that he might have this mundane sphere
by that portion of the anatomy to which
the word anterior would not apply
Here also could be daily seen the festive
! Ute and lady, in store clothes and with
ont giving exhibitions peculiar to the
untutored children Of the mountain and
plain. Though they were considered d
great feature TO those from beyond the
Big Muddy, when on their cayuses, OIL
clad with a PLAGUE IA new mining
phrase picked up here, as they came
10 the front in their war-dances, | Noulo
gamble my bottom ounce on any Of oul
bucks of the Chcyennes or Sioux agains;
them on a hair lifting picnic
ARIZONA.
Inside on the main floor, to the right
as You enter, Arizona's display. the Sill
yer King exhibit, bids you halt. Here
you doH your hat To Mammon as he ap.
pears before quickened in the mint. As
the name indicates, the Silver King, is a
sovereign Of the royal blood of Arizona
with record of an output Of S3,00O00C
since 1877. The display consists Of a
ton Of such ore AS many dream of but
richness of the Silver Kings blood,
will state that it runs as high as $2S,000
10 the ton at depth of rs feet.
A fitting consort for this Silver King il
the Copper Queen, which has magniti-
cent display of treasure from her veins,
averaging ST per cent. in copper, and
plenty of IT, Other mines, less noted,
but equally rich, OF Arizona are here ex-
hibited, but AS | am not inscribing IN
epitaph for Tombstone, | will seek the
Territory Of
UTAH,
Which is here represented better
through the efforts of the Union Pacific
road officials than by those who are too
much uxorified to be Of any earthly use
in a fast community. The display OF
minerals and cereals is evidence suffi
cient Of the wealth and resources Of that
country to justify migrating from any
state where prohibition prohibits, for in
Mormondom it don't | have no refer
cnce to temperance. The Ontario mine
had the most complete and richest ex.
hibit Of ore Of any in the building.
NEW MEXICO.
The land of the greaser, horned frog
cactus, and other curiosities Of nature
takes the fapjack for float. One speci
men-sulphidc OF s;lver-which would
measure foot square if in cube form
has a value OF Sl,SO0. This piece OF
solid truck is nearly pure, and was
found near the base Of mountain in
the southern part of New Mexico, Lake
Valley district. A Colorado mossback
named Tabor has the chunk staked and
recorded. in connection with another
impecunious cuss, but your travelling
correspondent is going to prospect for the
lead proper before he returns to his
egrie for astronomical observations OF
the Aurora Borealis.
The Black Range is well represented
by rich silver and copper ores, a Black
Hitler Of Deadwood, named Kean st
Charles, being one Of the owners Of q
rich exhibit from this range. kean was
here purchasing machinery about six
weeks ago. Lake Valley and White
Oaks districts had some rich gold ore
in the vast collection. This territory
has hundred Of years the start o
Uncle Sans other attachments to hi:
dominions of national suffrage, and wa.
thus enabled to show up mines ant
mi neral from primitive standpoint, in
Guiding matte and bullion produced by
one-horse methods. Pottery from th'
Pueblos. Of rather crude but suggestive
fashion, Indian curios, and everything
in fact, might here be seen in TIT
elaborate and wealth-suggestive displa,
Of that soon-to-be-stampeded, cactu:
growing country, where water is scarce
than aquadicute, and the fandango -four
isheth after nightfall In order 20 give
some of the boys round Harney's peal
an excuse for saddling somebody
bronchos, with the ostcnsible purpose o
going after deer meat or "slOw elk"
will cite the capacity of only one min
in New Mexico, and then return by wa.
of Wyoming to Montana over the Bi
Horn range, namely the Lake Vale.
mine, which has ore enough on exhibi
ton to Justify the blowing in of a smelt
er. With eight men, in eight hours
enough ore was mined and taken out t
yield $l30,00O. A specimen exhibited
weighing GAO pounds, is valued at 81 ,0O(
value per ton, $22, 2,625.
WYOMING.