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PS ,«- -s r,- v. IS! [CONTINUED FBOM FIBST PAGH.] doming to Sturgis and going eastward to the reservation these vacant Meade county lands can be traversed and thor oughly studied, thus giving the home seeker abundant-opportunity to locate ill an already organized county, where taxes are light and the advantages, gained o&ly by being in a thoroughly organized community, can be enjoyed. By locating thus the settler becomes at Once a citizen and knows thoroughly what to expect and what is required of him. Another advantage gained by so doing is that he has the benefit of a home market already established and as a consequence he is not compelled to wait the growth of one. Should the home-seeker not desire to stop and locate with us he may go on, knowing that the distance he has to travel in order to reach the reservation is much shorter than if he had gone to other cities or started on his home seek ing journey from other points. The citizens of Sturgis are not afraid to have their location from any geograph ical standpoint nor their resources and surroundings scanned by any means whatsoever. They have unbounded con fidence in their town and the country surrounding it. The land of Meade county speaks for itself. Remember, there are two sides to the great reserva tion just thrown open for settlement. Thousands are of the opinion that the only way to enter this promised land is from the east. Consequently the eastern side of that territory is crowded with locators. To reach the western, or the Hills side of the reservation from the Missouri, entails a tedious drive.over an unsettled country for nearly 200 miles. To reach this side of the reservation from the Black Hills means a pleasant ride on a first-class railroad train to within a score of miles of its western boundary, where, after laying in the nec essary supplies at Sturgis, the home seeker can soon reach without trouble or tedious delay the best lands in the whole of the great "new country." While thousands are crowding on the eastern side, take time by the forelock and head them off by entering from the west. The nearer a farmer settles to the Black Hills, the more rainfall he will have during the spring and summer. The oldest settle ments and civilization in all western Dakota is in the Black Hills. These Hills were settled long before white civ ilization had reached the Missouri be tween Fort Randall and Bismarck. Therefore, while assisting in settling up a country which, agriculturally may be considered new, yet, at the same time, the locator has the benefits of churches, schools, and their natural adjuncts, which for many years have been in full maturity in these Black Hills. Taking everything into consideration, can a bet ter country in the world be found for a man, a family, or a colony to settle in than this part of the state of South Da kota, in the county of Meade, and near —or in—Sturgis, the Key City of the Hills? The present city officers are: Mayor— John Monheim. Aldermen—First ward Fay Cowdin, H. A. Acherbach Second ward—William Grams, M. T. Brandt Third ward—J. C. McMillan, B. P. Hough. Auditor—Peter Mulheims. Treasurer— H. E. Perkins. City justice—B. F. Rol lins. Chief of police—J. E. Coflev. FORT MEADE. A Suburb of Sturgis and the Heavi Ifffe Market of the Hills. IMPORTANT MILITARY POST. |The Quantity of Supplies Required by the Thousand Men and Their Horses Something Enormous. ITria well known military post is-aitu Uted one and one-half miles east of Stur bis, the county seat of Meade county, pnd was located by Lt.-General Sheri [lan, in August, 1876. The first military camp was located liear Bare Butte, two or three miles north the present fort, and was called "Camp Sturgis," in honor of Lieutenant "Jack" Sturgis, killed at the Custer massacre. Port Meade receives its name from Gen eral George C. Meade, the celebrated Tnion general who died at Philadelphia, the year 1872, at an advanced age. a most magnificent one, both from a snic and strategic standpoint. On one ^de rises the foothills of the Black Hills vered with their dark pines, while on le other hand stretches away, toward he east,'flie beautiful roiilkg sare Butte, just north of the post, rises freight from the level prairie to a sight of 1,200 feet, and stands, like some rim and silent sentinel upon a lonely jil, watching over the destiny of soldier citizen alike. [The buildings comprising the post are ^w and elegant, and, from the lips of leers who have seen the majority of ke military posts of this country, we We learned that Fort Meade is one of motjl desirable locations in the en re war department. Fort Meade is a -r I -5\ 1 Fort Meade is the regimental head quarters of the Eighth cavalry, and, as a consequence, has the elegant band of the regiment, a musical organization having no superior in the employ of the govern ment barring, perhaps, the Marine band of Washington. Fort, Meade is one of the most important posts in the Union and will always be occupied as long as the government desires to distribute troops throughout the north and south west, or keep close watch over the In dians on the various reservations. RESIDENCE OF EX-MAYOR J. T. POTTER. THE FUTURE. From the Harney Peak Mining News we clip the following concluding para graph from a long write-up of the South ern Hills: "Who oan predict the future of this great and favored region? This little inland empire, so long isolated, no longer stands alone and aloof from the busy world of traffic and trade. Railroads, the great thoroughfare of travel and pre cursors of development, stretch around it on every side and are penetrating its inmost centers. The Sioux reserva tion, for years an almost impassable barrier between the Hills and the enst, has at last been thrown open to settle ment and will soon be traced with lines of iron that will furnish connection in the proper channels and right direction. Here are the greatest variety of re sources ever compressed in equal area. Here lies the land of all lands that will give pleasure to people of all classes, trades and professions. Here is scenery to stir the soul of the greatest artist legends for the most gifted poet a land of delights to the pleasure seeker a treas ure house for the capitalist a boundless museum for the scientist a health resjjEt for the invalid. It invites with r^mes of wealth the treasure seeker with homes the agriculturist with Matchless opportunities of many- -kinds the manu facturer. To each and all the portals of the Hills are open and many are already hastening to enter. Who can tell what the end wJil be? A major portion of the business insti tutions of Sturgis will be found repre sented in the oolumus of the ADVEBTISBB, though there are a large number of the smaller establishments that carry a fine line of goods in their respective pursuits that our "rustler" was unable, to "see," owing to the short time taken to get up this edition of the pajjer j. ', 8" 4* 'A. ft jl* t? NjTThn *'V- v 'i v Vr~ oL h? i kV A k '/iW ^1 I 5? v mi i.yJ'J&wt''' ten-company post, and at present Jm oc cupied by the Third infantry and Eighth cavalry. Colonel Elmer Otis, one of the oldest and best known officers in the regular army, is in command. It is ex pected that within the next two years there will be added to Fort Meade a school of instruction for officers and also a thoroughly equipped cavalry school. The establishment of the former will greatly relieve Fort Leavenworth, the present school of instruction for the entire West, and both the schools to gether will greatly increase the number of men stationed here. Fort Meade offers the greatest market in the entire Hills country. This post means much to the settlers of Meade county. The quantity of supplies re quired by the thousand men and their horses at Fort Meade is something enor mous. All of these supplies are fur nished by the farmers living in the country contagious. An idea of the amount of material used can be gathered by scrutinizing the following figures taken from the contracts for 1889: Hay, 2,500 tons corn, 900,000 pounds oats, 2,000,000 pounds wood, 7,000 cords, and other supplies in proportion. When it is remembered that Uncle Sam is a lib eral buyer and willing to pay good, round prices for good weight and quality, and that he is a sure paymaster, it can read ily be seen that the farmers of Meade county have grand opportunities open to them, opportunities which they are not slow to avail themselves of. iiwr .-.-v. -"////A/*, V, $3^ -a & S i i V i i v 1A t. MILLIONS IN ITS MINES The Black Hills Country Wealth of Rich Ores. It was purchased in the latter days of 1877 by Higgins, Tevis & Hearst, of California. George Hearst, now United States senator from California, gave the property a personal and thorough exam ination before the purchase. They in corporated and erected an eighty stamp mill and commenced dropping its stamps on -July 12,1878. The results of the mill was so flattering, albeit the expense of its construction was enormous, the machinery being manufactured in San 4 Francisco and shipped from there via Cheyenne to Lead City by freight teams, that it was followed by another, the Golden Star 120 stamp mill, the follow ing year. Others have been added to their properties and they are now drop ing at this writing 620 stamps with ore enough in sight to last for years. A mining camp that has in sight seemingly inexhaustible bodies of ore continuously furnishing this number of stamps to one compauy alone must have some merit, Thero are plenty of other properties ad joining the Homestake group and in close proximity thereto, that have been lying idle for years for want of oapital to de velop and make them producers, and why they have not attracted capital in in the past seems, to say the least, sur prising. The Caledonia, owned by an other California company on the same belt of ore, while laboring under the ba$' management op former superintendents until the_ivppointment of General T. L. Skinner, its present efficient manager, is now on the list of dividend paying mines and has paid up to date $146,000. That he deserves credit foe bringing the propr erty out of chaos and placing it on a dividend-paying basis goes without say ing. The ore body on the 675 foot level shows no sign of diminishing. Other properties in the same vicinity have been paying small dividends with a small number of stamps as compared with the Homestake or Caledonia. This is nota bly true of the Pluma (forty stamps) and Monitor (twenty stamps). Those, however, are only occasional, and cannot ,be classed as dividend-pacing mines. The secret of success on this low grade belt is fouud in the heavy production of tZjPr BEAVER'S SAW MILL. Its NEEDS THE TOUCH OF CAPITAL. Vast Resources Which Only Await the Application of Proper Machinery for Their Development. [Special Correspondence to the Omaha Bee.] It is singular, but nevertheless a fact, that a decade had passed before the merits of some of the best mining camps on this continent came into prominence, as instanced in the cases of Colorado, Montana and Idaho. While the people oE the Black Hills for the past fourteen years have always had unlimited confi dence in their vast resources, yet capital has been skeptical and loth to take hold, except in the case of the Homestake and Caledonia, until very recently. The former has been in operation for over eleven years, and the results show what a splendid property it is, having paid dividends to the stockholders to the amount of $£,530,750 up to March 25 last. A brief history of this magnificent property may not be uninteresting to the readers of this article. MMW/m The term refractory jp jjoonnection with these ores is a misnomer. They yield their precious contents readily to any sensible process. For those carry ing only gold any modification of Plan ner's chlorine process will answer. For the others either smelting with lead, or with copper or iron will answer. They can also bo treated by amalgamation, or by lixiviation. But all things considered Matte smelting as practiced for years in Germany, or at Argo, Colo., is the com ing process for these ores, The fluxes required are here in endless quantities, as is also lime, pyrites of iron, etc., for nature, when depositing the ore, gener ously supplied this region with all the appliances for its reductiqp., It is not the writer's desire, certainly not his intention, to boom any property or state anything in this correspond ence but plain facts about a country whose resources are as boundless as the ocean and as permanent as its rocked ribbed shore, and destined to be in the near future one of the foremost mining camps in the world. The figures given above in regard to the dividends paid to date oan easily be verified by reference to any responsible mining journals pub lished in the United States. Capitalists can easily see that the contracts recently let, and the pushing of two of the great' est trunk lines in the west to Deadwood, viz., the Chicago, Burlington A Quincy and the Chicago Sc Northwestern rail ways, which will be completed the com ing fall and early winter, show that these roads know very- *m?ll what they are about, and are perfectly familiar with the vast resources of Lawrence county The former line runs through the very center of the Black Hills, through a ser ies of parks, valleys and woodlands whose beauty is distinguished every where, and of a nature known in no other land, stretching to the hot springs A W?V.u#» Steiffe khesrv the Homestake and and is illustrated in the historyovery great mine in the world. The belt gold de posits are without a parallel in the his tory of the mining world. The Home stake company control only a limited amount of ground containing these de posits. The rocks containing these ores outcrop to the surface in many places south of Lead City, where the belt mines are situated. Their geological relations were carefully worked out by the state geological survey under Dean Carpenter of the school of mines a few years ago, and possibly through his report the offi cials of the Chicago, Burlirfgton & Quincy railroad were attracted, and concluded to build to Deadwood. However that may be, that line parallels this belt out crop its entire length through the Black Hills. But the most available ores around which public interest now.penters, and of which the outside world knows compara tively nothing, are the refractory ores of Ruby Basin, Bald Mountain, Blacktail and Terry's Peak, all in close proximity to this city. These bodies lie in hori zontal deposits and require no hoisting works, pumps, etc., and but few timbers and none of the expensive appliances 60 usual in mining. They are as it were upon the surface, and can be mined so so cheaply that the proceeds will not be swallowed up in expensive mining ma terial. These are the ones that are build ing the smelters and chlorination works whose known and explored extent is greater in area than any heretofore ever known to the mining world. They are almost inexhaustible, -y Xv Jm*.: SU w mt wm w at the southern extremity of the Hills, whose waters have been named by a distinguished writer "the Carlsbad of America," on account of the wonderful curative qualities of their waters. Har ney, Custer, Terry, Bald mountain, the white cliffs of Deadwood and other less prominent peaks are seen plainly from this line, making it one of the most pic turesque routes in America. Custer the oldest town in the Black Hills, lo- i Ji V. -v. cated where the gallant cavalryman bivouaced in 1874, is situated on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. In Hill City also the H. P. T. M. Sc M. Co. is carrying on its gigantic operations. Millions of English capital is invested in tin. The magnitude of these proper ties need scarcely be mentioned in this article, as the world now is well satisfied of their existence. Albeit blackmailers at home and enemies abroad have tried to crush this magnificent industry, not withstanding the fact that it was exam ined and fully endorsed by the greatest mining experts in the world and by United States Senator Moody and Con gressman Amos J. Cummings of New York. Gregory is another brisk little town situated on this line and recently brought into existence by the erection of a sixty-stamp Huntington mill on Little Rapid creek to operate the ore from the Montana group of mines. The mill has just commenced operation and will soon add to the bullion product of the Hills. It is a close corporation. None of the stock is, or has been offered for sale. The owners are Governor I. Gregory Smith and George F. Smith of St. Albans, Vermont, and John V. Lewis of Boston. The Chicago & Northwestern railway runs along the eastern foot hills, through valleys, table lands and plat eaus. The challenging notes of the rival locomotives can faintly be heard for a distance of 90 miles until their ar rival in Deadwood. The towns situated along the line are Buffalo Gap, Hermosa, Rapid City, Blackhawk, Piedmont, Til ford, Sturgis and Whitewood. The latter is ten miles below this city, A tunnel 1,300 feet long is now under con struction. The name "Deadwood" originated from the superabundance of dead tim ber on the mountains and along the streams above the city, and was so called by the pioneers who first discovered gold in 1875. The city was laid out in the summer of 1876. It is the county seat of Lawrence, the richest in the Black Hills. It has had alternately its clouds and sunshine. The fire of 1879 swept RESIDENCE OF EDWARD GALVIJf, ^W^Ti•i?*r. "'s "r ^4^" it from existence, yet it was built up, and a great portion of the structures erected were swept away in the flood of 1882. The city is located at the junc tion of Whitewood and Deadwood creeks. The surroundings are grand and picturesque, The city is supplied with water works of extraordinary power and pressure by the Homestnke mining company, who aro bound by contraot to supply the city for a period of thirty years. The climate is delightful and rivals Colorado. The altitude is 4,600 feet. Over a million of New York, Bos ton and Philadelphia capital is invested here in re.'il estate, narjpw guage and street railways. Two of the hotels alone can accommodate 200 guests. Others are under construction to nccommodnte the increased travel incident to the build ing of the two trunk railroads. Six miles e.-.st of here is the mining camp of Ga lena, named so from the nature of its ores. Among the excellent properties of the camp is the SittiugBull, Washington Consolidated, General Merritt, Cora and Ontario. All of the ores necessary for Matte smelting are abundant in this camp. West of here a distance of seven miles lies the Carbonate camp that has numerous meritorious mines and a fifty ton smelter in cfcperation, and in close proximity thereto is one of the finest water powers in the Black Hills that ul timately may be utilized for motive pow ers for machinery in Deadwood or on the belt. Space will scarcely permit the mention of the Uncle Sam, Garden City, and other meritorious camps, adjacent to this city. The eastern and foreign read ers must recollect that fifteen years ago sb STURGIS! FLOURING MILL. this was a howling wilderness, peopled by the red men only. The progress that has been made is due to western pluck and energy. Such is a brief summary of part of the Black Hills of South Da kota, other camps, enterprises and in dustries will be described in a fntuie letter. ST. MARTIN'S ACADEMY. Leading Educational Institution the Black Hills. tere, to be used for the purpose of pur chasing the large block of ground ad joining the church building, on which to build the new St. Martin's academy. Other citizen^ owning the immense sand stone quarries near Sturgis, donated 'the stone necessary for the structure and work was commenced. The building was completed—with the exception of adding on a third story as was originally in tended by the architect—this last fall and is a beautiful edifbe. It is built of dressed native white sandstone, trimmed with elegant red standstone, found in such quantities here. It is, at present, two stories high and has a ground di mension of 56 by 56 feet. It stands in the center of a full block of ground in the henrt of the city, on a plateau over looking the corporation and the valley of the Bare Butte, in which the town of Sturgis is located. No handsomer nor more lovely site can be found in all of of AH ELEGANT STOKE SOTJOTUBE, At Present Liberally Patroniied by the People of the City and Contiguous Communities. This academy, although Mm of the youngest educational institutions in the state, is just making an enviable record for itself, and is pushing itself to the front rank among the best of this portion of South Dakota. About one year ago the idea of estab lishing a Catholic school in the city of Sturgis was first thought of. It was laid before the Right Reverend Martin Marty, O. S. B., bishop of this diocese, and he not only gave his consent to the under taking but assisted also with all the means in his power. He sent five Sis ters of the Order of St. Benedict to this city to take immediate supervision of tfye school, who arrived in Sturgis on the Sunday after Easter, 1889. A building was procured, the Sisters duly installed and a school was started. It met with immediate success, the attendance being very flattering considering the many disadvantages the Sisters were laboring under at that time. Shortly after the arrival of the Sisters and the opening of the preliminary school, the erection of an elegant stone structure, for the per manent home of the Sisters, and acad emy, was begun upon property adjoin ing the church edifice and overlooking the city. The inhabitants of Sturgis, mostly non-Catholics, donated between thirty and forty residence lots, lying in different portions of the city, to the Sis- Utr South Dakota for an educational in stitution than the one occupied by St. Martiu's academy. At the present time the school is liber ally patronized by the people of the city and contiguous communities. Many day scholars are in attendance and the number of boarders is gratifying and satisfactory and constantly increasing. large capital, the zeal and confidence of its citizens, impress the visitor with the wonderful possibilities of that country in material development in the near future. It is jalpasant to the eastern South Da kotan to refliiefe ihat ih»~ei6velopmmt*-r** there is a part of the development o! South Dakota as a state. Very soon the east and the west, the sheep farms and the minerul camps, of South Dakota will be connected, via the late Big Sioux reservation, by lines of rail. South Da kota will be made homeogenius, and a varied industry will be developed among its people that shall make the state one of the most independent and one of the richest in the union. It is pleasant to the old timers in South Dakota, the pioneers in the east and the pioneers in the west to witness this unfolding of a bright future and it was pleasant for many of them, on the recent occasion at Deadwood, to get together and shake hands over it. Over $300,000 a month is now being taken out in solid gold bricks from th* Homestake mine. The supply of bear ing quartz seems inexhaustible, and the deeper the drill sinks the more product ive appears to be the output. But ridl and promising as are the gold mines qf. the Black Hills, the tin mines are ex* pected by the people of that country to prove the most important. A systeil for the reduction of the tiu been worked out by the School of Mines, ftn£ large blocks of home and foreign capi tal are now being invested for a practi cal development of the rich tin deposit*. The extent of these deposits has not yet been measured, but enough is known establish that these deposits are tl£k. richest and most extensive in the worl^ It is therefore only a question of tin* until it will be demonstrated that Sou til Dakota can Bupply the United States and its tributary trade with tin cheap*f than England and Wales. Such a re sult is worthy the oo-operative effort el the general government. There is no reason why the example in steel rails should not work out as to tin. Deadwood will soon be a railroad oeli ter. The Burlington is pushing there, as the Northwestern is and as the Milwaukee is. These companies ana not building into the heart of the Hityft country for love. They are doing it for business. South Dakota has been growing rap idly, but in comparison with the pros pects before it in the next ten or fiftedit years its advancement hitherto has bectftk as a snail's pace.—Sioux City Journal. STURGIS SCHOOL BOABP. The board of edpcatiop pf the composed as follows Prpsidpftt Pr, 4? H. Bowman first ward, Jacob Keffeleit Charles A. King second ward, Charlei B. Far well, third ward, A. H. Bowman, P. E. Sparks treasurer, E. T. Marshall. Prof. B. A. Tyler, a$ experienced educator of many years ser vice iu various schools of the East, is principal of the city schools. In his labors he is assisted by efficient corjft of lady teacher*, v •-.• LIFE IK THE BLACK HILLS. it The returning pilgrims of eastern South Dakota to the Odd Fellows' grand lodge at Deadwood are full of enthusiasm over the Black Hill country. That coun try is marvelous in its mineral wealth, and this, with its agricultural resources, the building of railroads, the influx of 'ft \{fi .X* •I k 'y'ih SJJ .'I- 1 'r* V V 4 4 v. as A v4& •A vj V