Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-03-18
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THE RLACRHILL.s.
Judge Moody ana family have reaahed
Dsadwood & .sj
The spearAah normal school will be l
opened in April,
Cpster City grows steadily and is q
beantiful place.
The population claimed for the Black
Hills now is 10000.
The net profit of the Do Smet mine
last year was $95.s2729.
The Black Hills are eighty.five miles
long BY sixty.seven miles vide.
b Falyagptl post, No. 45. G. A. r., was
instituted At Spearfhh. on the 7th.
st. Panl is,Srapidly supsrsediug Obi.
cago a. Aeadquartera,for the Black Hills
trade. ,eass "a
A daily stage aud express line will be
put on between Dickinson and Dead
wood. Fs7
The district court for Pennington
county will be held in June and not in
April.
The Lead City Tribune claims for
Lead that it is the commercial metropo-
lis Of the gold fields.
The famous Robert Emmett's anniver-
sary was observed at Lead on the 4th,
by an Irish-Amorican bail.
The cattle and dairy interests Of the
Black Hills section will be as valuable in
few years az its mineral industries.
1t reported that Benjamin F. Butler,
of Massachusetts, has purchased con.
trolling ,ntereat in the Gustin Belt niue
There seems to have been NO founda-
tion whatever, for the report which ore.
ated so much CONSERVATION in Deadwood,
that their United States land Office was
to be removed to Rapid.
The mines of the Black Hills, have, in
q few years, mined and milled l,512OS7
tons OF good ore, yielding $1O, 4,ll6. an
average Of only 1918 per ton, making
profit, and paying IN dividends s.. .142, 500.
A.soldier named Jones is under arrest
at Sturgis City for fatally shooting q
comrade named slaton on Tuesday night.
Both men are colored, and came from
Fort Meade The quarrelwas over q
game Of cards in saloon.
A committee of competent citizens
have been examining the Rapid City
school building for the purpose of de-
terminlng whether its reported unsafe
condition was justified by the character
of the structure. and have recommended
the building as every way safe.
The Deadwood Pioneer says: The
coal deposits in the vicinity of the Hills.
are known to be extensive, and of excel.
lent quality. and covering On area that
proclaims, them inexhanstlble. It is
known to extensively exist from point
twenty miles vest of the western limit
Of the bills, to point some eighty miles
north, covering segment some eighty
miles in length. ss
Deadwood Times: There is to o.day more
snow on the divide than there was ever
before known. It is so deep that it is al
most impossible to get through it with
empty wagons, and more coming. With
no desire to alarm any one. we will say,
that there is strong probability Of there
being considerable Of freshet when it
melts, and if the snow should 60 with q
warm rain, the late disasters on the Ohio
river may be enacted.
The new county Of Butte, north of
Lawrence. is attracting attention. It is
an agricultural section, we'll watered by
the Belle Fourche and q half dozen Of
it's tributaries. It is a popular grazing
section and fifty different herds OF cattle
feed upon its nutritious grasses. The
largest herd in the county numbers 2,
600 head. Minnesota, which has been
built on the Redwater, is the county seat
and the center OF very thriving trade
II Rapid City journal: Hon. Fred J
Cross came down from the Cross mine Il
Rapid City Tuesday, the first time il
more than year. Mr.. Cross has many
friends here who woald be glad to SCI
him more frequently. He is strong il
the faith that the Harney and Cross min.
district will in years to come b.
the scene Of great activity in the mining
and reduction of ores. His belief il
founded upon, years of personal investi
cation.
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