Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-06-14
The Tin City.

The Sioux City Journals Custer City
correspondent contributes the following
interesting description ofthe '"Tin City"
and her future gilt edged, prospects,
which we reproduce for the edifcation
Of fCHRcsrcLE readers residing in local.
it's remote from the future tin en-
| pJciun OF the Black Hiiis;
In one ofthe most delightful of noun
tain valleys. surrounded by pine cover
ed hills and enchanting little parks, is
situated the tin city Of the Black Hills.
MeanderiDg through this veritable
garden spot Of the world is the clear,
pure water of French creek, along the
course Of which was placered out the
frst gold OF any amount in the Black
Hills.
A mile square ofthis beautiful valley
Is surveyed out into blocks and lots
with wide, roomy streets, making one
, of the most picturesque and pleasant
pi.ces conceivable in which TO live.
This is the site of Custer City, which
has a population of about 500, and
which is the county seat Of Custer
county, s. d., this county being in the
western tier of counties of that justly
famous new state. The town is also
close to the geological center Of the
Black Hills formation.
The public buildings Of Custer City
are well up with the advancement of
the place. The courthouse is a sub
stantial, neat and tinely-fnished brick
structure, of which the people of the
county are proud. 1t cost upwards of
$4,000, and will answer the purpose
for which it was built for many years
TO come. The Independent school dis
trict of Custer City is possessed of a
handsome and conyiently built school
costing about $4,000, and the efficient
graded system of this school ranks high
with the public schools of the nor.h-
west.
Two large, well-conducted hotels cater
to the wants of the travelling public,
which are pronounced by competent
judges to rank as No. with the hotels
of other towns oftwice the size of Custer
City. The other business houses OF the
place are fully in keeping with these
improvements, and the Indebtedness
Of the town and county is very small.
Surrounded by the mining camps of
Four Mile, Tin Mountain, Tin Reef,
Tenderfoot, Niggerville. Hill City, Eta,
Willow Creek and numerous other
camps, all being naturally tributary 10
and feeders Of Custer City. makes il the
head quarters of several rich gold and
silver mines, and will doubtless be the
permanent headquarters and business
center of the great Harvey Peak tin dis
I. trict, which is justly becoming SO cele-
brated throughout the entire world.
| Through Custer City is now being
built the Grand Island and Wyoming
Central railroad, which belongs to the
! Burlington and Missouri system. A
large force Of men is at work grading
the road from here south to Dudley, at
the junction of the Wyoming branch,
about forty five miles from Custer, and
the iron will probably be laid 10 the tin
city by the lst Of September. Two
other roads are surveyed to Custer and
the town is naturally situated for the
railroad center of this part Of the Hills
country.
The rich valleys and fertile parks
| throughout the southern Hills
makes this country Its own producer of
all kinds OF farm products and live
| stock of the most prolific and finest
| quality, and surrounding the entire
Black Hills is beautiful rolling prairie
country which has always been famous
since first explored by white men as
one Of the finest stock raising countries
| on this continent. Horses, cattle and
sheep are raised in large numbers, and
this will doubtless be one of the leading
| stock countries of the west.
Being surrounded by all these rich
and varied resources and soon to have
railrosa connection with the outside
world, Custer City is undoubtedly CON-
ing to the front financially as well as
socially, and if the anticipations of the
people here are realized the advantages
Of railroad connection and the advertise
ment the railroad will give the town,
| with the great mining industries which
are coming to the front, there will be a
large increase in the business and popu-
lation Of Custer this year and for years
! to come.