Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-05-05

ing Forts sully, Bennett, and Meade, i
Dakota.
THE BLACK HILLS.

THE BLACK HILLS.
Tho Homestske has paid q, $50, 500 in
dividends to dats.
Work has been resumed ON the copper
mines near Pactola. sc
Double daily coachee are run between
Deadwood and spearfsh.
Rapid City claims the only naturalized
Chinaman in the territory.
Rapid City claims more good looking
ladies than any other town in the terri
tory.
Water has never been more abundant
than at present since mfnihe.fir began
in the Hills. S y
One hundred and twenty couples at.
tended the Central City Odd Fellows'
ball, the 9th. n :.
The Sitting Bull smeiter turned ont
S63, 600 worth of base bullion during it,
last ten days. run. s;sssass 81 s..s-.. (
Last weeks snow storm in the Hills
extended all over the valleys and beyond
the Belle Fourche.
Samuel MoMaster superintendent Of
the Homestake mine has gone to Cali.
fornia for his health.
The Times predists that the Black
Hills will soon be known as the best
silver camp in the west.
A snow storm in Rapid City April 27d
was heavier than any that town had ex-
perienoed during the winter. rs~-a.--
The Times says the rush to the land
Offices in the eastern part Of the territory
has created like furore in Deadwood.
Considerable placer mining Is being
done In Deadwood gulch and its tribu-
tariss and with very satisfactory results.
Fifteen applications for homsteads,
pre-emptions and tree claims were filed
in the Deadwood land ollice one day last
week.
Miners are so scarce at Lead that some
Of the men employed there are working
. shift and half day in order to sup.
ply the mills with ore.
The Deadwood school board has ex-
tended vacation for the third time. They
decided to grant . small allowance to the
teachers during their enforced idleness.
Alarks BODY Of ruby and nativD silver
ore has been struck ID the Bnckstorm,
located in the Bald Mountain district,
which, it is claimed, will pay sl04 pes
ton.
In the amount of dividends declared
per month but two companies outranl
the Homestake. These are the -Conten.
tion, Arizona. and the Sierra Grande,
New Mexico.s
The Times says the Deadwood.T .Terrs
is dividend paying stock and issued BY
one of the best managed and most pros
porous mining companies on the Ameri
can Continent: E
A piecerof ore, weighing one pound
was taken from the Diamond mine, Two
Bit gulch, and when pounded up snt
amalgamated yielded at the rate o
$4,000 per ton.
Continuous wet weather has somevha
interfered with sowing seed in the Hills
The total acreage will be no larger thil
year than last. but, larger yield is ex
pected. The yield last year was 1000
bushels.
| Rapid City Index: -Four hotels i
toxn and every one crowded to its fullsa
capacity, and still people keep coming
The fame Of our country is gradual,
leaking ont and bringing fruit in th
shape of greatly increased immigratisz
Deadwood Times: 1t is not at al in
lprobable that before long the govern
ment telegraph lines in this part of th
country will be torn down and semove
further northwest into Montana and NJ
per Idaho. The thickly settled oonditio
of the country. no longer requires thi
rapid communication betwesn miiital
posts.
> The Dakota cattle company il an III
nois corporation, it having been. orgal
lied in Chicago with paid up capt.
Of SOC, 900. John b. Burns We
known man in the Hills, . former men
berof the Deadwood bar is its superb
tendent, and one Of the principal stoe
: holders. He is now in Rapid Cl
:, looking up range, and making prelil
e mary arrangements to be ready for Il
, cattle when they arrive, which will be
/ o short time. The range will be mort
= east of Rapid City.