The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-08-28
BEAUTY OF HILLS COUNTRY
Mitchell Citizen Writes of the Seem
cry Production and Wealth
of the Black Hills.

OIL Inc Black Hills.
Editor Republican:-Tbis will not
be the first time the writer has been
constrained to write you of the wen
| ders and historic beauty OF the
"Black Hills.'' But each recurring
visit to this marvellous section OF
our state inspires the desire to por-
tray to my friends Of the prairie
section something Of the marvellous
"HillS'' that are d unique and dis
tinct setting, glorious in individual
ity and enhancing in grandeur, upon
our western border.
One can hardly realize that he is in
the land Of the "DacOtahs,' but
easily imagines he has been-while
acknowledgements" to Switzer-
! land and is bathing in the glorious
vista the Alps afford; or is up in the
Catksill mountains lolling in ''Sleepy
Hollow;
AagIn: while traversing the i'm
measurable n of Wind Cave,
hundreds of feet beneath the surface,
he really expects to be confronted by
some sable gnome, or other monster
reigning supreme amidst its laby-
Iinths.
If time permits he should visit
Sylvan Lake and Crystal Cave, where
nature has lavisheu its wealth Of
beauty and ornate creations And
then he has but began the round Of
magnificent scenes that here abound
in lavish splendor.
Speartish canon and Elk Creek can
on are the quintessence Of picturesque
beauty and adjectiveS galore fail to
describe their majestic beauty. Add
to all these-and many more-a peo-
pie that should be crowned as royal
entertainers, and to that add a
wealth of precious metal, marble.
tin, ali kinds Of building stone. min
eIal paints, mica, pine forests.
smelters, and other facilities for ex-
tracing values from the ores that
abound in rich p%rofusion, with coal
and wood in plenty to light the fires
that turn the wheels, and ever then
one gathers but a faint idea of all
the wonders of 1.-THE richest hundred
miles square, on earth.
In the heart Of this mighty propo-
sition and in a gulch-from whose
depth the eye almost climbs to the
zenith to reach beyond the towering
h!lls-sits Deadwood, one of the old
est and probably the richest city in
the Hills. Scarce three miles away,
and some eight hundred feet higher
is Lead, the home Of the great Home
stake mines-that in twenty years
has paid in dividends some ten mill
ions of dollars and that bids fair to
increase its output and still be turn
ing out the ''yellow boys. long after
the present generation has passed
away. Other gigantic mines add
daily to the wealth of these commun-
tiles, ana still there is room-and
gold-for others to gather.
Sept. 7 the great Mining Congress
of the country will gather IN these
two cities, and it is expected that
the attendance will far exceed in
numbers any that ever assembled
here. At that time all railroads
make very low rates, and many citi-
zens of the eastern portion of our
state should then visit this charm
ing country, and get themselves as
t%onished; for ''the half has never
been told"
At Belle --Fourche, about thirty
miles from Deadwood, over 100, 600
cattle we're shipped east last fall, and
over 10000 shipped in. There we
met our old townsman, Ed. G. Curry,
who is now a ''bloated bondholder,',
and vice president of the First Nat
ional bank. We crossed our legs un-
der his mahogany. and while break
ing bread with him and his charming
wife, took a backward view of Mitch
ell and traced her onward steps as she
moved forward to greatness and pow
err.
Ed. has a soft place in his heart fo1
Mitchell.
If space would permit 1 could ex-
tend TINS ad lib, but typesetting costs
money and other matter must have
room.
Tomorrow the plunge bath at Hot
Springs, then Custer, Rapid City,
and then adieu for a season to this
wonderland. Geo. A. Silsby,
Ala A. r. O:Kad,
Deadwood. Aug. %. 1903.
'ln.every fair bargain both parties
gain - Wlnn9Nn11 hl,u n IL n-l-.