Press And Daily Dakotaian

THE BLACK HILLS.

Deadwood is very dull just now.
Rapid City needs a fire department.
The hay crop in the Belle Vale valley is a failure.
The Deadwood Pioneer advertises for first class printers.
About $3,000 worth a week of placer dirt is sold in Custer.
Accidents in the Homestake mine are becoming numerous.
Two church sociables will occur in Deadwood this week.
E. J. Scott's new residence at Lead is called the finest in the town.
The last old log cabin in Rapid City was torn down a couple of weeks ago.
A great rise in the value of the Strawberry gulch mines is anticipated soon.
Quite a number of capitalists are buying and locating claims at Rockerville.
The Trojan mine at Bald mountain is reported to have been sold for $60,000.
A charming little leap year hop occurred in Deadwood one evening last week.
A small and easily quelled fire aroused the Deadwoodites one evening last week.
Rapid City is more on an upward tendency than it has been before this year.
The Portland mill, in Bald Mountain, will be running by the first of September.
The Lexington mine at Spruce gulch will add twenty stamps more to their mill.
The ladies of the Deadwood Methodist society recently held a raspberry festival.
The Deadwood Press is having its usual trouble in regard to telegraphic reports.
A Deadwood base ball club plays matched games with the Central nine on Sunday.
Rapid valley is one of the finest stock raising as well as farming sections in the territory.
Another carbonate mine has been discovered not a great many miles from Central.
J. M. McPherson, formerly a banker at Deadwood is now tending bar at Roaring Forks.
Buildings of nearly every description are fast approaching completion in Deadwood.
An extensive forest fire was raging for a number of hours south of Cleveland a few days ago.
Judge Kingsley is said to be the best dressed member of the legal profession in Deadwood.
Twenty dollars per ton is the average market price for hay in Deadwood at the present writing.
During the past six months three of the gold mines of Dakota have paid a dividend of $510,000.
The Deadwood and Golden Terra mills are to have twenty more stamps, and a rock breaker for each.
The thermometer ranges from ninety to one hundred and ten in the shade in some parts of the Hills.
Fine specimens of carbonate from the Black mountains, are on exhibition at Lead, which are very rich.
The Deadwood mining company is the first in the Hills to give the miners a day of rest on the Lord's day.
A six yoke ox team attached to an immense freight train ran away in Elizabethtown the other day.
Rochford is fast getting to be a way up camp. The Stand-by mine at that place is improving every day.
At a late Congregational church festival in Deadwood, something over two hundred dollars was taken in.
Countless myriads of buffalo have been seen in the Cave Hill region about one hundred miles north of Deadwood.
A carpenter employed at the Homestake mine drove an adze into his foot not long ago, inflicting a terrible wound.
Rapid has two lines of daily stages from Deadwood and Sidney, and Pierre, with soon another line for the latter place.
The ladies of the Episcopal persuasion at Deadwood are untiring in their efforts to raise funds sufficient to erect a nice church.
Tom Toohey of Central was so unfortunate a short time ago, as to have a load of wood tip over on him and break his leg.
A townsite is being laid out near the Portland mine in Bald Mountain, and a number of substantial buildings have already been erected.
The Wastle mine, on Nevada gulch, is one of the prominent mines of the Bald Mountain district and lies half a mile above the Snow Storm.
Governor Ordway and party made the quickest time from Deadwood to Bismarck on record. They were only thirty-six hours making the trip.
Sheriff Manning left Deadwood Sunday with nine prisoners destined for the Detroit house of correction. Martin L. Cook was one of the number.
The Atlantic, Grand Junction and Old Bill mines, near Custer, are all magnificent properties, showing up large quantities of high grade milling ore.
The Salmon mine near Custer produces ore that runs $18,000 to the ton. There is thought to be a fourteen inch vein of this surprisingly rich ore.
The Homestake company contemplate the erection of a 200-stamp mill at Lead, which will be the most complete of the many built under their direction.
Improvements of all kinds are going on at Rapid. Residences, hotels, stores livery stables are all receiving attention from knights of the hammer and saw.
All but three or four miles of the Rockerville flume is completed. The entire work will be finished and handed over to the company inside of a month.
The Rochford Miner seems to opine that the Custer Chronicle's suspension is mainly due to mismanagement and poor judgment and not to a lack of patronage.
A great deal of activity is noticeable throughout the Rockerville camp on the Sabbath day, which reminds the old settlers of Deadwood three or four years ago.
Along the whole of Nevada gulch up to the head of Squaw creek, in Bald Mountain, everything is on the boom and there is no vacant ground to be had.
The foundry at the Homestake works is now in successful running order. Hereafter this company will not have to depend on eastern shops for their castings.
Black Hills Journal: The Stand-by gold mine at Rochford with a sixty stamp mill, made a nineteen day's clean up August 1st, and shipped an $8,000 brick east.
Capt. Raymond is declared by some of the Hills journals to be the most graceful candidate on the delegate track. It must be his fine carriage that so wins their admiration.
The Badger mine near Central City is down about one hundred feet, showing a fine body of ore over a hundred feet in width. Badger is said to be another name for bonanza.
Twenty men and masons are at work on the foundation for the Giant and Old Abe pump works at Lead City, and have contracted to do the work for $10,000 and furnish everything.
Boyles' mill, at Boulder Park, was entirely consumed by fire a week or two ago. Only the strenuous efforts of everybody present prevented it from spreading and burning the entire camp.
A wide awake male cow finding the door of Mrs. Dunning's residence at Boulder Park open, not long ago, walked in to get away from the flies probably, and took possession, causing all the inmates to vacate in a hurry.
Central Herald: In the Black Hills there are forty stamp mills (including two silver mills) with a total of 1,350 stamps. Two have 120 stamps each; two have 80 stamps each; three have 60 stamps each, and the balance are smaller.
A large number of men are at work taking out and shipping mica to the railroad from the mines at Pennington. Each man clears from ten to fifteen dollars per day. The quality is as inexhaustible as the ore in the Homestake mine.
Deadwood Pioneer: The census shows 587 candidates for congress, 3,650 for legislature and 19,756 for sheriff and county treasurer, in our highly favored territory. We proudly challenge any full fledged state to beat us in this line of products.
Deadwood Press: The friends of General Dawson will be sorry to learn that he has been taken down with a fever, which promises to keep him in bed for some time. No sooner had Mrs. Dawson in a measure recovered from her recent indisposition than the general took his turn.
Deadwood Pioneer: John Gaston has received two boxes of rich ore specimens from the Homestake, Terra and other prominent mines of "the belt," to be forwarded to Gov. Ordway in compliance with his request. The ore will be arranged in cabinets and placed on exhibition at the principal fairs and expositions throughout the country this fall.
The Central Herald tells of a family numbering twenty-two, down in South Bend who are having rather more than their share of sickness and trouble, after this fashion: "One of the boys had a leg broken a short time ago, one of the girls has the dropsy, the father enjoys poor health just at present, another one of the boys has the cholera morbus, the twins are both afflicted with the measles, the youngest girl has sprained her wrist, the oldest boy went on a spree and got into the cooler, the second pair of twins have always been sickly and the oldest daughter has a beau."