The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-09-11
MINERAL WEALTH
OF The BLACK HILLS
Some Facts and Figures Cons
corning the Wonderful
Resources.
CALAMITY JAMES CAREER
Some Ancient Fabtea About a Noted
Frontier Character Explodeds-WiiA
Bill and His Romaitib Life
3 and Experiences.


next week, distinguished body, bring-
Ing with 1t many natahle1 men. The
people or the Hills are proud 81 tie
recognition which has been extended
somewhat tardilf, tt3 this section Of
;soath Dakota. and they are bfepa FIG
70 give royal welcome to their visit
prs. Possessing the greatest gold mine
In the world, and other mines of mar
Telous productive capacity, all equipped
win the most up to-datez machinery
and conducted with the most scientific
methods known TO the mining world.
the Black Hills region has much ia
snow and much to teach to ti6se wh0
will come. seeking Information: yhe
casual visitor Gut for a few daSs II
slsnt seeing and recreation will find
mere country of beauty and grandeur,
ciear sky and baimy air which will at
some time give it fame as health re-
sort-greater than it's present fame as
a modern Ophir The Homestake,
since 1877, has taken out about $75, 600
JV0 Of gold and has paid nearly SIS
!uV,900 In dividends. 1t has millions of
1ollars in permanent improvements,
aas constructed waterwerlss and built
railroad, and has lilOte thah 100 miss
81 underground workings in addition to
US I'VE main Shafts extending dowii
500, 500; 800, HOO and l,eO0 feet; re-
spectively: 1t has in sight enough ore
10 Keep all of its mills running. night
ana day and 5000 men employed for the
next thirty years without opening q
lew vein. The next largest producing
mines are the Golden Reward, which
has to it's credit more than SIT 900 900;
the Horseshoe, which has produced
100000 during the past eight years,
am n q ,i-l,
auced s1,aoo;0e6 in ten years. There
are now about twenty mines which
produce more than $5O,eo a year: The
Total gold produced so far in the Hills
aggregates about SIPS 900, 600: and the
value of other metal productions Is
estimated al, s1O.OoO,0o0.
Some Well Known Owners
Most of the mining stock is owned by
nonresidents,.. and the people of the
Hills yet have to depend upon outsiders
tor meneytito develop tassesW i p5ro;peEtaes.
Gold mining is costly and the CON
Struction of stamp mills; smelters and
cyanide plans cost sums entirely be-
yond the modest means of the resi-
aents OF this state. Thus the Home-
stake is owned almost entirely by Mrs,
Phoebe Hearst Of California and + Il.
Haggin of New York. The Golden. RE-
ward Is owned largely by E. H. Harri-
man, August Belmont, Stuyvesant Fish
and r. W.. Goele1. The Horseshoe is
owned by well known capitalists If
New York, Montreal and Milwaukee
and D. o. Mills and the Roswell Flower
estate of New York are the largest
holders of Holy Terror stock. There are
quite 9 nsrtfbef OF local men who own
good sized blocks Of valuable stock
the largest holder. beyond doubt. being
Harris Franklin, who is credited with
being the wealthiest man in South Da-
kota and one of the rich men of the
west. But most of the dividends go TO
people who live In New York or Cali
a Land of Rom anee.
Way up on the side of the mountain.
toward the white rocks and the sky,
Is "Meant M6fiah" cemetery, and rest.
ing near together are this bodies Of
Rev. FL: ". Smith, the first preacher:
70 come to the Hills, wild Bill,8(yVil-
liam HieaoGli ana Calamity Jane
(Jane Burke); Calamity by her own
request, being buried beside the grave
OF Wild BILL whom she outliveo
about twenty-seven years. The preach
fr and WILD BIZ were. murdered on
the same day, August 2, 1875; the Rev.
Mr.. Smith by band of hostile In
~sS~AAS =" az "elS iSlAd anu 5Sllol Iiul TV}le
he was on his way to Crook, City
to preach, and '.ild Bill by Jack Nc
Call while gambling in barroom
known q No. 10" in the lower
district III Deadwosd. Around this
murder and the SUBSCRIBERS capture and
trials of Mccall there is much Of I'M
certainty and contradiction, not the
least of which is the part Calamity
Jane" may have played in the drama.
I have heard the circumstances as re-
lated BY the late Judge Shannon of
Canton, Wfi6 Presided at the final trial
of Mccall at Yanktori as told by
Calamity Jane" who was in Deadweod
and claimed to have arrested Mccall,
and as told by several pioneers who
were In DeadWood on the day Of the
tragedy. None of these stories agree
with another In I'll points "Calamity
Jane told me her version Of the story
When I saw her first in Deadwood in
1890: She said she was in dance hall
whefi q Shot was heard and shout
was raised that Wild BIZ was killed !;
Ing up the street fourtshtng six
shooter with which he was holding his
pursuers in check Calamity" claimed
that she broke through the crowd and
made q rush for McC Call, and that he
TURNED and ran into a Butcher shop
and that Bha rushed in after him,
catching up 4 Butchers cleaVers and
telling him that she would split his
head if he did not drop LIS gun. He
dropped his revolver and surrend cred :
on examination 1t was found Ii, be
empty. Mccall having had but one shot
In 1t when he murdered wild BILL,
There are others who say that McCaI
was arrested Ky a United States depu-
ty marshal and that 6 Calamity, was
not present. "A court was convened IN
the law and order league and w. Il,
Kuykendall was chosen to preside
Colonel May was selected for prosecut-
Ing attorney and a. lawyer by the name
OF Miller conducted the defense. il1r,
was tmpaneled asd Mccall was the sole
witness examined, he testifyiug fha1
wild Bill, had killed brother Of Nc.
Calls in Kansas, and that he had killed
@Hickok in retaliation. The jury evi
IDENTIFY proceeded under the Mosaic Law
allowing that when there had been
( homicide the slayer might be slain b;
the next Of kin, and thus Mccall wa,
acquitted. But there was strong tail
Of lynching, and the talk might hay
maferialiZed into ID meek tie party
/ had not asnew turn been given to az
4 fairs by the arrival Of a Mexican wIi
came galloping into the town with tn
s head 5f mn Indian strapped TO his sad
die bow indians we're Giving lalic
I trouble and Sd rev, Of 81 100 had slSee
offered for each scalp, much as cattle
{ men on the range are willing to pa