Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-10-07

| lHc Couulfy 10 TcCoNeTiuS so'hC"Has
from the direful effects of the financial
panic Of the past summer; confidence il
being restored among the owners oi
boarded cash, and the result OF this
change for the better which is cause for
the greatest congratulation, is that
capital is once more carefully seeking
the fields of legitimate investment. 1t
is an i'll wind that blows for nobody Is
good, and it is becoming more apparent
day after day that the Black Hills coun-
try will profit by the general depression
Of all lines Of business in the east and in
most sections of the west. The rapidly
growing mining industry of this already
famous region holds irresistible attrsc-
tions for the capitalist who has recently
learned from the bitter experience Of
others that speculative ventures ere
terribly uncertain, and II Is a signifies
fact that while almost the entire conn
try has felt the effects Of wave upon
wave of financial disaster, the mining
business of the Hills, with perhaps one
or two exceptions, has received an i'm
petus. The year has not been an un-
prosperous one for the Hills by any
means. and the rapidly increasing de-
mand for promising mining properties
is a reliable indication that the indus
try will take mighty strides along the
highway Of progress during the next
twelve months. This is just as true of
the Southern ills as Of the Northern,
and as true of Custer county as Of any
other county in the Hills The claim
that the gold deposits of this mining
district were equal in extent and rich
ness to any in the world, is not a new
one, but the Acknowledgement Of the
validity of this claim, by the outside
world, is something new, and it augurs
well for the future. Properties in the
immediate vicinity of Custer City which
have been held year after year by the orig
inal locators have been developed until
the high quality oftheir ores is no longera
matter of doubt, and the uncertainty of
processes, nor the misrepresentation of
the past, can no longer interfere with
the successful operation of these mines.
If the operators OF the mill, whose drop
ping stamps will soon be heard in this
vicinity are fortunate enough to make
success of their undertaking, the pres
ent fall will be the dawn Of new era,
but if this enterprise fails as other have
In the past, then new ones must be in
augurated, for the gold is here, and
though the question of its extraction
may puzzle and perplex it cannot much
longer resist solution. While there are
the best of reasons for believing that
this mining district will eventually out
strip the famous camps of Creede and
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ton of the Hills. Custer county has
been so thoroughly prospected and SO
largely located, that while a sudden
change in the tide of our fortunes might
precipitate stampede in this direction,
the participants in it wonld soon dis
cover that the pioneers of rs, II, etc,
were here before them. 1t will be we'll,
however, for miners and prospectors
who have s,aid by their properties for
years, to see now that every TECHNICAL
ty OF the laws have been complied with,
and that their claim is good beyond all
doubt. For in reading the signs of the
times with an unprejudiced eye, We
firmly believe that the long period of
waiting is now disappearing in the past,
and that very soon our mines will have
the same value in the business world
which was long since placed upon the m
! by ourselves.