Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-14
More Slime.


make report upon certain mines III
that country, Tom White, the disreput-
able defamer of the tin interests of the
Southern Hills, takes occasion TO supple
ment his former reports upon the tin
property of the Harney Peak Tin com
pany with an additional write mp to the
London Financial News, in which he
discourses upon the merits, or rather
dement's Of Black Hills towns, other
than Deadwood, aside from the usual
slush dished up III defamation of the
tin interests of the Southern Hills. The
Rapid Journal reviews the outrageous
efiuson at length in the issue of the 7th
inst, from which we extract a portion
of the Shiny contents Of the letter re-
ferred to. Concerning Rapid City, he
says:
Rapid City, the birth place of the
mIne, is dependent for its prosperity on
the success of the scheme. Rapid has
been bnil, far beyond the needs of its
Inhabitants is
forty miles from the mines, ard the
people there think that it the liarncy
Peak were fairly launched a narrow
gauge line would he built from the mine
to the city and that the mills and re-
duction works would be built there. In
that event real estate which cost a good
deal Of money, but which is now un-
saleable, would have its value enhanced,
and the owners would be able to get out
a Il L., n
affairs.
One o the neatcst little lodges i'm
Rapid City is this: The Republican,
printed there, occasionally produces q
boom sheet, which is not circulated i'm
the Hills, because it contains SO much
tlapdoodle prepared for far distant
readers. This matter is carefully lifted
ont and its place supplied by other stuff
better suited for home consumption.
The Republican is the Ilarney Peak
Organ, controlled by those who are in
terested in the scheme.
Referring to the tin lodes he says:
What tin is i'm the lodes or dykes of
the Eta property is in small punches
which are few and far between, and the
prospect is such that would not advise
any of my friends to have anything to
do with it. Should the mines prove
rich after development the cost of labor
and material of production would be SO
high that they could not pay.
Speaking of LORI Thurlow's letter, he
saws:
The Deadwood Pioneer and Times
both printed it in full Yesterday and
gave it prominence. Notwithstanding
that, both papers, especially the Pio-
neer, are in sympathy with you and the
course YOU have taken. They will not
actively oppose Harvey Peak because
they have nothing to gain by SO doing.
but you will see by the general tone Of
their comments that they say nothing
that can recoil on them when the ex
posure Is complete.
Remembering certain doubtful com
pliments extended him by the CHRoN-
IcLE, he gives Custer the following
delightful send off:
There are about go people all told,
living in that place, and YOU would not
think it very thriving if you stayed
there a few days. You would wonder
how the people manage 10 live and YOU
would see that they certainly don't live
upon the tin mines.
1t is unnecessary TO even deny the
statements Of this man C?) White, which
have been SO thoroughly and completely
refutcd by careful investigation of the
tin properties referred to. We have no
space to throw away in the vain effort
toadd an additional shade to a reputation
already black to ebony blackness.