The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-08-30
Notes From Dick.

Odcll, Aug. 26, 1889.
10 THE SrAE:-Ihis has been a great
and eventful week in Spring Greek
Canyon. We have had no great rush of
visitors. still some n has come almost
every day. On Friday the 23d, MIR.
Peter Fowler of Anslev, Neb., came
over from the Springs with Mr.. Odell:
Mr.. L. was very much pleased with the
| white rock quarry. Sunday Mr.. III. j..
Austin and wife of Nermillion, South
Dakota, drove over from the Springs.
Mr.. \. il. government surveyor. Dur
ing the middle OF the week MIR. #. A..
Korsmeyer and sons stopped over one
day to look the Spring Creek Canyon
over. Mr.. korsmeyer is one of the
heavy merchants of Lincoln and he is
also the treasurer of the Black Hills
Varigated Rock Quarry and Milling
Company. MIR. II. was ON his way to
the Springs. Probably the happiest
man within the town of Odell, is Mana
ger Fox. for during the week his wife
and daughter came from Lincoln. Miss
Fox is Just recovering from a severe
tit of sickness, "A short stay here and at
the Springs will without doubt be of
great benefit to her.
The busiest man, animal or machine
i'm the whole canyon is the clanneler.
1t never gets tired. of course like all
machinery it has its spells of kicking
by the way most of mankind are troub-
led more or less i'll that way too, a
look at last week county papers will
show you that something was heard to
drop at the Oelrichs convention. But
the kicks of this channeler arc few and
far between and of short duration, then
away she goes again thump, humping
all day long. and when she does thulnp
she means business every time, for it
is no baby taps she gives. You see Mr..
Editor a six hundred pound blow,
would if administered as a tap to a
child douche the giimmer of almost any
kid in the land. This Machine will drill
a hole or cut a channel and DO it up in
the neatest, slickest and quickest way
imaginable. Every visitor at Spring
Creek canyon, is surprised at the vast
amount of rock in sigllt-cspecially
white rock. for as stated in last weeks
issue. the channeler now stands about
$50 feet up the mountain side. Now
then kind reader please not misunder-
stand me. this is not on top of this
quarry, for You would have to go $50
feet farther before you could say you
were on top of this vast pile of rock.
But $50 feet was as high as manager
Fox thought it advisable to 80 on the
start. The reader can use the eyes OF
the correspondent of the Norfolk New:
for a moment and see the %quarries a:
they appeared to a stranger. He says
1T had been my intention to give
you - detailed description of u " frs
. visit to the quarries but as you noticed
my last report was broken off just Il
, it was about to reach that point; ane
now that we have been a second tim,
here | find it too great an undertaken!
I to give minute details, and should | at
$ tempt to describe the hills. canyons
o stone deposits and quarries in genera
terms, language would fail me, as
: have not sufficient command of that al
9 ticle to convey a proper idea of tn
magnitude. the formation, the scener
the grandeurand sublimitv Of the case
as 60 uueSllOu OIL fOck, OF tllc dlilouil
! Of rock at this place, which many Nor
$ folk people have asked about, the an
c swer may be that there is plenty to las
as long as any Of the present intereste
parties will care whether there is an
. Stone or not, and as far as obtainin
d dimension stone or stone of large siz
e is concerned, | will just say that this j
but the seventh day that the stone cut
: ting machine has been OH the work
= and there lay a beautiful piece of whit
rock completely detached four fec
high. six feet wide and twenty fou
a feet long. and cut off at both ends be
cause they did not care to make it an
longer. If that stone is not larg
enough for the demands of the trade
n they can be cut larger on special OF
ders.' The above ought to satisfy an
is one that this is a stone quarry, anv on
.e who doubts it can come and see fo
himself. i.
g Our Sunday school is in a flourish
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