Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-20
A GllDED PICTURE.
The Black Hills SkGtChed in Strong
ColorS and Framed in
Printers Ink.
Its Cities, Towns, Mines and People
Freely Outlined on a shadowy
Background.

III INV ahAAA W
district of country about one hundred
GOO) miles in length by sixty in width,
living in Lat. 40 and 46 North. Long,
109. They derive their name from the
Indians and we're socalled from their dark
appearance when viewed from a distance.
On a bright day the traveller, coming to-
ward the Hills and seventy-five or eighty
miles distant will see what appears to be
an indistinctly colored and imperfectly
outlined cloud hanging near the horizon.
Upon approaching nearer, the cloud
seems to grow darker and the outlines
more distinct until he arrives within thirty
or forty miles of them, when the noun
tain peaks dispel the cloud illusion and
he learns that what he has beer regarding
as a black cloud is the Black Hills.
The seenrry of thess mountainsare both
varied and beautiful.
All around them and in among them
are beautiful valleys and park S. There
are also beautiful streams of clear, cool
water flowing from golden mountains
down into the valleys below inviting the
tiller of the soil to stick in his spade and
reap a thousand fold.
The Indians ~favorite hunding ground
was among and around those hills. No
wonder then that he fought so desperately
to keep the white man away, for here he
found the bear among the rocks, the wild
deers mid the parks and forest, the ante
lope lived among the foothills and the
buffalo grazed in the valleys and upon
the plain, and upon the mountain streams
the beaver had built his house.
The Indians say they kney there was
gold here long before the white man
came, but they do not know where it was
first discovered. They frequently took
specimens of gold into the trading posts.
may properly be regarded as the metrop.
oils of the Hills. It has an active popu-
lation of 1000.
Being the county seat of Lawrence
county, the United States district an!
county courts are held here, and pre-
sided over by the able %jurist, Judge
Church.
There are in Deadwood churches,
schools, a number of wholesale and re-
tail business houses, two banks, and is
Incorporated; also two daily papers The
Times and The Pioneer.
Z CITY
is situated about three miles southwest
of Deadwood, and is noted not only for
its mines but for it great quartz mills. II
has a population of about 1000, and mum.
beers about sixty business houses, also
having schools, churches and a bank.
One paper is published here-The Lead
City Tribune.
T%BRRAvILLE.
This thriving camp derives its import
ance from the fact that the Deadwood
Terra and Caledonia mines and mills ART
located here. The camp has a popula
ton of from 800 to 1000 souls, with tn,
usual public schools, which are well at
tended.
II CITY
is west of Deadwood about three miles
and is also noted for its mines and mills,
public schools, churches, a bank, and q
large number of business houses; popula.
ton about 1000.
bfEAhrlSh.
The Queen City of the Valleys, located
fifteen miles northwest of Deadwood up.
on Spearfish creek, a stream that for vol.
ume and purity has no rival. Agricul.
ture and stock raising the principa
business, has a population of over two
thousand. North of Spearfish is Iror
creek, Sand creek, Niger Hill, and Pc.
tato creek, all placer diggings. Ono pa,
per published here, the Register.
A p~rettier location for a settlement
cannot be found in the hills, just out
side of the main range, upon the larges
and purest stream that assists in drain
ing the mountains, at the head of q beau
tiful valley. "Also known as the CAT
City of the Black Hills" Stock raisin.
and agriculture the main pursuits. TIT
Black Hills Journal printed here. Pop
ulation ], 300. Has schools and churche
and the county seat of Pennington
county.
CUSTER CITY,
County seat of Custer county, is one O
the most prosperous cities of the souther
hills. 1t is located on French creek fol
ty miles from Buffalo Gap, northwest
Has schools and churches, the principe
industries carried on here is mining i
quarts and mica, one of the most promii
ing of the Black Hills. TIL
Chronicle published weekly by Clark an
Kubler.
sTURGIs,
located fourteen miles from Deadwood
east on the main stage roads to Pierr
and Sidney, occupies a beautiful site IN,
contains about 6 inhabitants.
FORT MEADE
This fine military post was establishe
under the name of Camp Ruhlen,
August ~, 1873, Major Henry Larells
First Infantry, commanding, at the time
1t is in fact one of the finest militar
posts in the far west.
RAcKERvILLE,
the second largest town in Peningto
county, twelve miles southwest of Rapi
and thirty-fve miles from Custer, has
population of six hundred. 1t was locate
in 1877 and attained its large growth an
prosperity in 1870. 1t is surrounde
with gulches rich in places from whic
large quantities of gold dust have bee
taken. 0
BALD MOUNTAIN, HARVEY,
Hayward, Rockford, Sheridan, Pactoli
Hill City, Tigerville and Others Al
strictly mining camps, and naturally vel
busy at this time of the year.
MINERAL RESOURCES.