Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-05-30
BEAUTIFUL SCENERY.
Custer City and Surroundings, Which the
Pioneers will Visit on Their
Excursion June 9th.

Custer City and Surroundings, Which the
Fioneers Will Visit on Their
Excursion June 9Th.
The committee of arrangements con-
sisting OF Gen. Dawson, Col. Thompson,
Jack Gray, Brad Woods and T. III. Rus
Isell, returned from Custer.City on Sun
day. They left on Saturday to confer
with the citizens Of Custer in regard to
The programme of the Pioneer excur-
sion to that city, on the coming sth OF
June. The b. Il M. railroad, after
teIegraphing TO Omaha, kindly furnish
ed the committee with halfra They
!. xere met at the depot at Custer City by
sfe mayor, and some Of the leading
citizens OF Custer, consisting of ii. A.
Albien, ID. Carrigan, Paul Kleemann,
Sam ShaDkland, Joe Kubler. T. V. Gar
lock and several others, and escorted to
the Kleemans house, where they were
entertained in right royal style suitable
to the occasion. A ,peeting had been
called for Monday, the 22nd inst, TO de-
wise ways and means to entertain the
Pioneers and excursionists on the Sth
Of June.
The committee was escorted 10 the
picnic grounds, due south of the city,
and within is limits, where the grand
stand is under erection, and the plat
form for the dancers is now being con-
structed amid beautiful grove Of pine
timber, overlooking the city, at an alti-
tude of $500 feet above the level of the
sea. No place in all the Black Hills
possesses such lovely and varied at
fractions. The writer being familiar in
early days with every crag, peak and
canyon Of the vicinity. it may not be
amiss to give a hurried and brief de-
scription of the surroundings for the
benefit Of the excursionists, who will
meet there on the Sth of June. In
plain and open view, eight miles to the
north standing 5000 feet above the
level of the sea, towering like Ararat or
high Olympus, Harney's Peak rises
aloft from amid the wreck of matter
along its range, in weird and solemn
grandeur. Amongst the stately peaks
in the vicinity and far surroundings, il
alone is chief. Boldly, defiantly, ma
jestically it stands, like mailed war
rior, undaunted and unhurt amid the
elemental wars of centuries and is the
distinguished feature of this great pam
oramic view. Pyrotecnic peak one
quarter Of a mile away, has the distinc-
tion of displaying from its adamantine
heights the first pyrotechnic display ever
seen in the Black Hills. on July 4th,
ffcru. SsKnno ssso'hsassss
distant, with its rocky towers and spires
lifting their granite heights far into the
lowering clouds. Buckhorn peak, two
miles to the north. with its pine clad
sides and rock crowned summit, afford a
most charming and enchanting feast to
the enraptured eye of the beholder.
Calamity Peak, to the northeast, three
miles away, is conceded to be the most
attractive feature of the rash hand oi
nature of any upheaval in the Black
Hills. 1t has its history: Calamity
| Jane, she who has been written Of in
song and story in most Of the periodi-
Gals of the west. and at one time a
familiar character of the streets of Dead
wood. was the first white woman to as
cend its summit-hence its name. Look.
out Mountain to the east, from whose
crest the veteran pioneers Of 1874 would
scan the horizon with their field glasses
looking for white covered wagons on the
far distant prarie that might bring then,
letters, that never came, from the loved
ones at home.
Dreamy French creek, that meander-
ed the eastern bastion of the impreg.
nable stockade, which took 26 men one
month TO erect, and which vandals after
destroyed, are pleasing features of this
wonderland. Ripling Laughing Water
which forms a junction with French
creek inside the city limits, is seen plain
ly from the picnic grounds. The whole
comprises one of the most delightful
panoramas of scenic beauty to be found
in the far west. Come all, come every
body, Pioneers and all, and see this
Switzerland of America, on the Sth oi
June.
Gen. Dawson, Col. Thompson, Jack
Gray and the balance of the committee
were paralyzed with the hospitality OF
the citiEens Of Custer, and especially ol
the Kleemann house, and il the re-
ception of the committee is an index to
| the excursion on the Sth Of June the
Pioneers and excursionists will not com
plain.--Deadwood Pioneer, 26.