Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-06-26


He has about completed a shoemen's
union in which, expect, he will be-
come chief officer.
1t is an evident fact there are good
many people who have great confidence
in the prosperity and permanency OF
this camp, for a good many brick build
ings are now nearly completed and ii
is said that there are permits granted
for buildings costing not less than
SSOO,OO0. A contract now being drawn
is as follows: A party gives 500 per
month for ground rent for building
for five years; building to be worth
$4,000 and at end of five years to be do.
mated to the owner of the land. Now,
figure. To owner of land, S4,SOO for
rental; building. $1,000 makes $1,000 for
use of land for five years. The tenant
contracts with renter to pay s4OO per
month for use of building for five years
That is, the renter and builder paws
s9,SOO to the owner and gets back in
rent for the five years s24 600; and there
are many such contracts.
Upon all sides of Cripple Creek YOU
can see little mounds of earth, looking
III the distance like prairie dog holes.
These are prospect holes and was in
formed that not one in twenty-five of
these discoveries are being developed;
which means that the men who have
located them are not able to work
them. The gold in these camps lays
between rock of different formation
and the vein is narrow and expensive
to work. The result will be that syn.
dicates will eventually own all these
mines and the paying ones will be
worked and the balance lay idle.
Now the crevice being SO narrow, few
men will be required to work in future
mines, and when all the buildings are
completed and this vast army of la
borers gone to other fields, where will
Cripple Creek get it's support? Will
there be miners enough to support it?
Some say there will and others say that
inside of two years property will go
begging. Let mo say to you that there
are now more laborers and mechanics
leaving here every day than are COM
ing in. No, you can not get any thing
to do here, Trades are all overdone.
1t does not make any dlnerence vhat
your occupation is, there is no opening
for you here.
This city is about $500 feet above the
sea level and you might be able to live
here and you might not. If you have
good heart action and good lungs you
might be able to stand this climate.
When you first come here the air
tastes in your throat just as though it
was filled with dust and you find your
self trying to cough it up, or you may
have tickling in your throat. A good
many of the older citizens have passed
through siege of pneumonia and in
many cases persons have died in two
or three hours. tits said that one firm
of undertakers made s5,O5O last winter
and that 40 persons were buried in one
day. Yet there are good many here
who are perfectly healthy.
AS to society here, it is simply check
cred. just take walk at anytime
after lamp light along some of the
streets of this city and gaze into the
saloons, gambling bells, ETC., you will
be convinced that if Cripple Creek and
hell are not next door neighbors, they
are not more than three miles apart.
Yet, with all its faults, it is we'll gov
erned city, very few drunkardsare seen
upon its streets and the best natured
fellows you ever saw. She is hum
mer and don't you forget it.
VIC. and w. E. Wall, of Wyoming,
Ills, are late arrivals at the Minnelusa.
A dime social will be given by the
Royal Neighbors at Odd Fellows hall,
Monday evening, June %. Short liter
ary program. Ice cream and cake will
be served. Everybody invited.
Hon. Miles Moe, president of the
Security bank of Sioux Rapids, Iowa,
and a leading business man and capital
ist of northwestern Iowa, is among the
recent arrivals at the Springs. He
is suffering from an obstinate at
tack of rheumatism in his left side. arm
and shoulder, the result of three
weeks siege of the grippe. Mr.. Moe
is business man of many years. ex-
perience and by thrift and strct at
tention to business has accumulated a
competence. He is pleased with the
result of the recent republican national
convention and says that with republi-
can success and a bountiful crop, which
are now all but assured, will come the
return of prosperous times throughout
the country. There is plenty of money
in the country, he says, and a good
harvest and the return of the republi.
can party to power, will start it in cir
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