Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-30
Custer Comment.

Mack, the popular travelling CORE
spondent af the Sioux City Journal, IN
letter to that enterprising and flourish
ing paper, dated Oct. Goth, makes public
his impressions of Custer City and her
prospects. We quote:
Custer is good business town, with
quite number Of general stores, which
DO good business. The town is reach
ed only by overland travel, and there
is certainly enough to justify the stage
proprietor to put on good rigs and thus
make the journey less Of a burden.
Il found Custer quite busy. Crops
were better than at any other point in
the Hills. Prices are good and times
correspondingly the same. Many new
buildings have gone mp in Custer daring
! The season, and there is general air Of
prosperity not visible earlier in the
year. All that Custer lacks is the de-
velopment Of her mines, which only
need development to yield large returns.
The tin mines are an assured fact. But
capital is lacking 10 work them. In the
Hills nearly everything runs on big
scale. Small adventurers find success
rather hard road to travel In the
gold diggings a large concentration Of
wealth and the consequent monopolies
that follow freeze out men with small
means. 1t will be SO with the tin in
dnstry around Custer. The day will
come when concentration of capital mt
Custer will open up its vast tin deposits
and then there will be boom. Custer
is sure to get back its old time activity.
Affairs are slowly shaping themselves
for it. Eastern money has, during the
past year, bought up quite number Of
tin mines, and probably next year ma
chinery will arrive to work tin ore. The
people Of Custer have plenty of hope
for the future. They know that only
development Of their mineral resources
is needed to build their city, and they
are right.
Custer City is a beautiful place Ma
ture has graded and decorated for the
city the prettiest townsite in the west
Picture large level area surrounded
with wooded hillside and towering
peaks in the background and with beau
tiful streams of water winding their
courses across this level plateau, and
YOU have Custer City. A prettier loca-
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pure that every man, woman and child
looks fresh and active. OF course the
town has seen lively times. 1t was the
scene Of the original settlement IN the
Black Hills, and for n few months bad
probably the most diversified popula-
ton ever known in the west. In its
palmy days it trembled under lawless-
ness, but law and order soon came to
the surface. To-day its society is pure
and honorable. Schools, churches and
order are recognized everywhere. |
like Custer and its people. Any man
who visits the town will have the same
feelings.
a railroad is being surveyed from
Rapid City to Custer, called the Rapid
City and Southwestern. 1t is intended
to be a narrow gauge, The route is said
TO be easy. | wish Custer wonld get a
road or kick vigorously for better stages
from here. The trouble in this section
is that poor man is obliged to take
stages, let them be what they may, for
the reason that liverymen are in the
attic on prices, 1t seems TO disinter-
ested observer that if they would bring
their prices down within reason they
would make more money than they do
now. But this will all be regulated in
time. Railways are great moderators
! find the Black Hills generally quite
prosperous. Mining interests are pick
ing up. Next years will evidently wit
ness some railroad building in this sec
ton"