. The Pacific tourist . ined to a re-gion of territorylying betweenthe forks of theCheyenne addition tothe gulch andplacer diggings,already discov-ered, there havebeen a few dis-coveries of whatappears to berich quartz lodesof gold and veinsof silver. Thisregion is aboutone hundredmiles long andeighty mileswide. FrenchCreek, SpringCreek, RapidCivk. Creekand others headin these Hills,and flow mainlyin an eastern direction, emptying into the southfork of the Cheyenne. The north fork seems tohug the hills pretty closely with small creeksand streams, yet unexplored, h
. The Pacific tourist . ined to a re-gion of territorylying betweenthe forks of theCheyenne addition tothe gulch andplacer diggings,already discov-ered, there havebeen a few dis-coveries of whatappears to berich quartz lodesof gold and veinsof silver. Thisregion is aboutone hundredmiles long andeighty mileswide. FrenchCreek, SpringCreek, RapidCivk. Creekand others headin these Hills,and flow mainlyin an eastern direction, emptying into the southfork of the Cheyenne. The north fork seems tohug the hills pretty closely with small creeksand streams, yet unexplored, heading in themountains and flowing into it. The north forkheads in Pumpkin Butte, a mountain a littlenorth-west of Fort Fetterman, on the NorthPlatte river. West of the northern portion ofthe Black Hills, there are several ranges of moun-tains and several streams which flow north intothe Yellowstone River. All accounts of this re-gion of country, as far west as the Big HornMountains, unite in the report of its rich min-. AGNES eral character, and we believe the richest min-eral discoveries ever known on this continentwill be made here in the next few to f/et to the Black Hills Within the past years of 1876 to 1S79, there have beenopened three distinct routes to the Black Hills, andit is now easy of access. The principal routesare via the Union Pacific Railroad, and stageline from either Sidney or Cheyenne. A longerroute is occasionally used by steamers up theMissouri River to Sioux City, Yankton and PortPierre, and thence by wagon across the plains and bad lands of Dakota. This route is long and circuitous, withnot as goodwood, water orgrazing, as theSouthern Cheyennethere is a goodn a t u r a 1 road,which runs toFort Laramie, adistance of whichthe U. S. mailshave been car-ried for manyyears. It passesthrough a coun-try with goodranches, at con-venient dis-tances Fort Lar-amie to Custerand DeadwoodCity, there is agood wagonroa
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