Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-05-26
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| The week has been conspicuous for
clouds; but Custer air has not been
more heavily burdened with clouds,
than rumors. The Harvey TIN deal was
a rumored reality; the organization of a
number Of tin, and gold syndicates in
the east and west, with view to earlf
and extensive operations in this locally,
has been given out as being we'd au-
thenticated facts the sale Of Salda5le
water right to a western coNnany for
$4,000; sundry tin transfes:, and rail
road racket which we are-'under pledge
not to print, which, if even half were
true would, in very brief period, place
Custer upon the torround of the ladder
Of northwestern metropolitan fame, are
but portion ofthe rumored assurances
Of Clusters Prospective progress, which
have come to the surface during the
week.
The week has not been marked by in.
cryased business activity, but on the
contrary, by reason Of frequent rain
showers, which had tendency to keep
miners and farmers away, has been
more quiet than usual.
The quiet which now prevails in this
place, which is also common to all the
towns Of the Hills, may reasonably be
regarded as being not unlike the quiet
that precedes the advent of the earth
quake, inasmuch as it is confidently
believed that it will bo followed by an
era OF progressive development, and
pronounced prosperity, such as rarely,
if ever, fell to the lot Of any mining
country. 1t cannot be consistently be-
lieved that the vast tin treasures which
now lie comparatively undisturbed in
natures adamantine vaults. can much
longer remain an impotent factor in the
advancement of Black Hills progress
or that the incalculable deposits of re-
fractory gold ores bordering upon the
limits of this place, which have now
been determined by the most careful
and scrupulous tests, to be of highly
valuable character, can much longer
escape utilization. The eye Of capital is
now turned in this direction, and it may
reasonably be expected that the present
year will be marked by the elimination
of the most important mining enter.
prises known to the history Of the
region. While it may be matter of
uncertainty as to the precise time when
the present period of comparative de-
preston shall merge into an epoch of
bustling activity, it is nevertheless GER
tain that it must come; and in the
interim, be it long or short, wisdom
would seem to dictate that we should
patiently and confidently await the
issue, which here promises a better
return than could be reasonably hoped
for in any other known locality. When
the fact is taken into consideration, that
Custer is fairly prosperous; that it is
gradually growing, and making more
rapid progress than any Of the towns of
the southern Hills without drawing to
any appreciable extent upon what must
eventually prove her crowning resources,
tin and gold, how plainly apparent the
fact becomes that when her tin treasure
houses, and golden vaults succumb to
the "open sesame" of capitals magic
wand, and she is thereby permitted to
draw upon her illimitable mineral re-
serves, she will rapidly rise to standard
Of commercial fame and exceptional
prosperity, that will place her In the
front rank of the leading mining en-
poriums of the world.