Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-06-14
DENvER-DEADwooD ROAD.
Twenty Men at Work on Custer-Lake
Road. To be Completed in About
Ten Days.

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companied by Messrs. Willis, Garlock,
Lovett and lines, made q trip to Sylvan
Lake for the purpose of viewing the
road construction work which is now in
progress under the supervision of the
Forest Service in cooperation with Pen.
nington and Custer counties, and the
citizens of Custer and Hill City.
At the present time there is crew oi
twenty men with eight horses at work
on the hill this side of Sylvan Lake.
This crew is in camp at the foot of the
hill and is we'll supplied with road ma.
chinery such as rooters. plows, graders
steel, giant powder, picks, shoveis, etc.,
mountain road. The crew has been at
splendid showing. The entire right OF
way has been cleared of timber and
brush. All stumps have been blown
out with powder and the heaviest por-
tion of the rock work is completed. On
the upper end of the hill plows and road
graders are now putting the road in final
shape, and since the heaviest portion Of
the work all along has been completed
there only remains the plowing and
work with the road graders to be done.
1t ia estimated by Mr.. lines that the
steep hill between Custer and Sylvan
Lake will within the next ten days be q
thing of the past.
It should be remembered that this
road is being built upon carefully sur
veyed grade in accordance with the line
established by u. S. Deputy Mineral
Surveyor, Charles E. Smith, who was
employed by Custer county to survey
an appropriate grade for the entire road
between Custer and the north boundary
of Custer county via Sylvan Lake. This
grade has been established and we are
pleased to state that on the entire road
there is no grade to exceed seven per
cent, and this for only short distance.
AS soon as the work on the big hill this
side of the Lake is completed, it is plan
ned to put the road in first-class condi-
ton on into Custer and continue south
from Custer until the road to the north
boundary of Wind Cave is also in good
condition. 1t is understood that the
government intends to build q good
highway through Wind Cave, and since
there is at the present time good road
from Wind Cave to Hot Springs, before
the end of the season the portion of the
Deadwood-Denver highway thr oug b
Custer and Pennington counties via
Custer City, Sylvan Lake and Hill City
will be as good as any portion Of the en-
tire route.
There is considerable work to do on
the road which lies between Sylvan
Lake and Hill City, but this portion of
the road has been surveyed and grade
of not to exceed seven per cent estab-
lished. Forest Ranger Poe of Hill City
will establish camp on this portion of
the road on June 10Th with q crew of
about twenty men, teams, and COM
plete outfit Of road building machinery.
The work will be vigorously pushed un-
til completed, and it is thought that
August lst will see the road established
and in good shape for travel.
With our beautiful mountain scenery,
our splendid summer climate of warm
days and cool evenings, together with
the many opportunities for camping
parties who can enjoy the fishing, hunt
ing and berry-picking, it is thought that
a main highway through Custer and
ton will be one of our big assets. When
the road as now planned is completed,
anyone from the eastern part of the
state, or others desiring to enjoy trip
through the Black Hills, could not plan
a,more interesting or pleasant trip than
to come to Custer and go via auto to
Sylvan Lake for the purpose of spend.
ing a day or more at this attractive
point, and then returning to Custer pro-
ceed via auto over the main highway to
Wind Cave and thence into Hot Springs.
1t will be possible to take such trip,
We are confident, over thoroughly good
roads not later than August 1st.