Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-09-12
BUFFALO GAPS BOOM.
Seventeen business Houses Already on
the Ground.

the Ground.
From parties who returned from the
above place this week we learn that the
"R. X. boom" has struck her sure, and
that people from almost every camp in
TIE Hills and Northwestern Nebraska
are on the ground waiting for the lay
ing out of town when they will invest
in lots and business.
As near as we can learn L. B. Reno
left Tuesday for Chadron to fix up the
sale of a portion of his land to R. r.
townsite company and it is expected
that everything will be arranged by to-
day, Saturday. In the mean time Geo
Boland has laid off a portion Of his
farm into lots for the accommodation Of
those who want TO erect buildings at
once. Lumber is In great demand and
the following parties are only awaiting
its delivery before opening up:
Van Devort & Co. will put up build
ing 25x40 to be occupied with stock Of
hardware.
+. II. Flynn will erect building of
the same size to be used as retail and
wholesale liquor house.
Mccoy, formerly of the Chadron
House, Chadron, will put up large
building to be used as hotel.
Ditto Bros, late Of Chadron, are put
ting up building to be used for saloon
purposes
Anderson Bros, late Of Chadron. will
start general merchandise store i'm
mediately.
Pete Lowry, formerly of the firm of
Lowry K Monheim, Brownsville, will
also put in stock of general merchan
disc.
Brownridge, late of Chadron. will en-
gage in the drug business.
Jordan & Co., of the same place, will
open a restaurant.
Mr.. Dempsey will Immediately begin
the erection of a building to be used as
a barber shop and newsstand.
Contractor Treat has his supply store,
40x150, in which he will put an immense
stock of general merchandise, about
completed
Between Boland's and the last men
toned building, which is located on
Reno's land there are already five sa-
looms and restaurant in operation.
Besides the above, Mr. Enocks, who
commenced business early in the sprngt
il still on deck and doing coed busi-
ness 10 the li1uid rcfreshm.nt line and
Messrs. Merritt d QuiG'y are engaged
in the hotel and merchandise business
respectively.
Six miles below, at the crossing Of the
Cheyenne River by the railroad survey,
there are ten houses, seven of which are
saloons.
From the above it will he seer that
The boom" has assumed gigantic pro
portions for starter with seventeen
business houses already established,
and il is safe 10 predict that Buffalo Gap
will be he lar@e-t towu in the foot Hills
by the time the railroad reaches it,
which everybody expects will be by the
first November \ better location for
town can rot bc found on the line of
the K. K survey, and We see no reason
why she shodid not outstiip all her COM
petitors for metropolitan honors inside
of the next twelve months.
LATER
From T.. II. Flynn who came up from
the Gap last evening we learn that the
trip Of l.. B. Reno's to Chadron resulted
in his transferring to the townsite COM
pany 200 acres of land and a deed to
them for 40 is already on record in the
county clerks Office here. Reno and
representative of the company left for
Deadwood yesterday to transfer the re-
naming land purchased
The company have pledged them
selves to put their depot on the land ad-
joining Geo. Boland's on the east.
Ed. is of the opinion that the cars will
run into the Gap by the 9Th Of Novem-
ber.