Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-08-08
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| EIoIh ocNcIdi pdTtlcs, IeoiusHtS VI Tie
Horsehead country, who have been in
the city this week we learn that the
grading contract to the TAN ranch calls
for its completion the 10Th OF thi,
month, one week from to-day and tina,
it will be ironed to that point by the
middle of September. Sub-contractors
were only allowed to take q mile each
to the above point, from there north to
the Cheyenne river and further they
have till next July to complete. This
would indicate town on Horsehead
and that it will be the terminus of the
Black Hills branch for the next year
| n. Atchison in a conversation with a
leading contractor learned that it was
the opinion of a majority Of the graders
that the road would not be ironed
further than the TAN ranch until some
other road shows signs Of encroaching
on the Black Hills territory, and in the
opinion Of the editor that will not occur
until the Sioux Reservation is opened
He also learned that Mr.. Treat had
taken the contract for 100 miles Of grad
ing on the main line, but just where the
main line will run he was not prepared
| to state.
Parties in from Lame Johnny creek
report surveyors cross-sectioning for the
graders at that point.
A correspondent under the nom de
plume Of Linconnu writing from Dead
wood to the st. Paul Pioneer Press un-
der date Of the 26th ult. says: "The
cars rolled into Chadron, on the banks
of White river, last Thursday, and on
the lst Of August the road will be open
for traffic to that point. The distance
from Chadron to Deadwood, by the way
of Buffalo Gap and Custer, is estimated
at l25 miles, and by the way of Sturgis,
Fort Meade and Rapid 145 miles. A
pretty fair stage ride, l will admit; still,
az Pierre, the other nearest railroad
point to the Hills, is 2l0 miles from
Deadwood, you will see that a material
reduction is made. Cbadror is the
point of intersection Of the main line, as
surveyed directly west to Fort Fetter-
| man and the Black Hills branch. The
latter is surveyed to point on White
| wood about fourteen miles northeast of
Deadwood, and, doubtless the survey
will be extended next year to the coal
fields on Hay creek, thirty miles further
on. Work is now in progress on the
grade from Chadron to and across the
| Cheyenne river, which stream the road
will cross at the mouth Of Beaver creek
| This portion Of the road will be com
| pleted by the first of November, the
terminus to be about eighty miles from
Dead dNood, or short days stage ride
And then, where2 Every.
body is morally certain that the Hills
will Ultimately contain large railroad
town; second Denver; a commercial
| financial and industrial centre, and just
where that point is, or rather just where
that magnificent metropolis will be, is 8
puzzler to one and all. The people
wont admit the fact, nor preserve good
relations with the straggler who does
Ask Rapid man for his opinion, ant
he promptly replies, Rapid, of course.
The Sturgis citizen, with equal alacrity
responds, "Sturgis, you bet" The Dead
woodite looks at you with astonishmen
and pity, as he replies, "Deadwood yo,
goose;" and yet it occurs to me tha
each and all will realize bitter disap
pointment if, perchance, they are SINGER,
in their protestations-which l doubt
Railroad corporations, as l understand
them, are not created for charitable pur
poses; neither do they embark upon al
undertaking for else than the dollar,
and cents they may see or fancy they
see in the scheme; hence it is no
reasonable to suppose that the Siou,
City & Pacific, which is no exception tC
the rule, will run into any established
town in the Hills just because the peo
pie desire it. There is no money in il
for the company, however much there
may be for town lot owners and there
is much money in the company locatin.
it's own townsite. and realizing from the
sale Of lots, etc.