The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-02-14
broad ranches, and the ramlfying in
~terests OF the cattle business.
Black Hills Wealth.

terests OF the CATTLE business.
Black Hills Wealth.
But it is the Black Hills that have
been most anxious for a large appro-
priation FOR the fair. Since the July
day in 1874, when Chief Scout Ross Of
General Clusters army discovered gold
in the Hills, gold to'the value of $780,
900, 900 has been taken from the 5000
square miles in this peculiar range.
that rises unwarranted and uneN-
planned from the plains of South Da-
kota. And today 3,262 men are m
ployed III the fifty-mines and mills
surrounding Deadwood and Lead.
The remarkable mineral formation
of the Hills will prove a rich field for
the exhibitor. Ten of the geologic ages
are represented in the rock formation
Of this wonderful region, and the scien-
fists say that but two of the universal
elements are lacking here, n that this
condition does not exist anywhere else
in the world. The ores found in the
bosom OF the miniature mountains Of
the Hills include gold, silver, copper,
iron, lead, Manganese, nickel, tin, graph
lite, mica n antimony. Tin ore has
been found which runs as high as IA
and rs per cent, which is exceptionally
high, the best of the famous Cornish
mines going only 72 per cent. Twelve
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largest veins of iron ore known to exist
In the world. The vein is from 1000 to
1000 feet In width and "a be traced on
h surface for a distance of several
miles, While the depth is unknown. The
value of the silver mining industry Is
indicated by the fact that neal Dead
wood is located the Iron Hill mine,
which has been awarded the medal Of
the world for the richest silver ore, and
which was exhibited at the Worlds
Fair at Chicago.
Bones Of Mammoths.
Visitors to the st. Louis fair will be
surprised to find how important a con-
tributor South Dakota will be, 10 the
archaeological department. And these
prehistoric animals will be set up from
bones gathered from no other place
than the bleak, barren, desolate Bad
Lands; that strange tract of childless
acres. bearing mute testimony to the
working Of natures giant forces in
days when time was not yet reckoned.
Scientist; agree that the whitened,
lorn land, threaded with jagged ravines,
filled with slender pinnacles, cathedral
wise, capped with stack-like buttes, the
whole vast tract threaded with but one
pass for a wagon road, was once the
bed of a great lake. The %landslides of
great masses Of clay, unbared quanti-
ties of bones of prehistoric animals, and
from these animals a strange colony
Will find its way to st. Louis. Thers
will be the small horse, with three toes
on each foot; the oredon, somtimes de-
cribed as the animal combining the
characteristics of the deer, hog and
sheep, not exceeding the last in size;
hyena-lile animals; those resembling
the hyrax, or cony, and some species
of edentates, the family of ant-eaters
and sloths: then the titanotherium, or,
as some of its forms have been called,
the br~onotherium, which resembles the
tapir in general habit and structure,
although it's size approaches the hip
popotamus; species of rhinocerous and
forms nearly identical with the opos-
sum-; and lastly, strange rodents and a
few lemur-like animals.
So, within The terreted, pinnacled,
corn-sheathed palace On South Dakota's
lot, will be found a commingling of ex-
hibits, which the people of South Da-
kota will challenge n other state in
the union to duplicate.