. The Pacific tourist . idth, in which gold was plainly visible. Iobtained some specimens, fabulously rich ; onepiece was sent to the Omaha smelting workswhich averaged $42,000 to the ton. At RapidCreek the prospects are still better than in SpringGulch. Castle Creek is the richest found in theBlack Hills. One claim has been woiked to thebed-rock, in the channel, which paid $ ofgold to one cubic foot of gravel. The best mines have proved by the latest dis-coveries to be on the west side of the Hills, from the value of the precious metal, thesuperb salubrity of the climate, and th
. The Pacific tourist . idth, in which gold was plainly visible. Iobtained some specimens, fabulously rich ; onepiece was sent to the Omaha smelting workswhich averaged $42,000 to the ton. At RapidCreek the prospects are still better than in SpringGulch. Castle Creek is the richest found in theBlack Hills. One claim has been woiked to thebed-rock, in the channel, which paid $ ofgold to one cubic foot of gravel. The best mines have proved by the latest dis-coveries to be on the west side of the Hills, from the value of the precious metal, thesuperb salubrity of the climate, and the naturalrichness of the soil, make it extraordinarily at-tractive. An explorer describes the country as the richest ever seen or heard of between theMissouri River and Central Oregon. Excellenttimber in the greatest abundance; as fine pas-turage as I ever saw; rich black loam soil;splendid water; showers every few days; nodisagreeable winds ; a delicious, bracing atmos-phere to either work or rest in; a splendid diver-. t^iGiFic ror/nsT. 71 sitv of hi!l and valley; prairie and timber forest;a laudscaiKi of which the eye never tirt«. During one week, 800 miners throughHill Citv. en route for the mines of ^^ hitew^oodand Deadwood. In most of the creeks the l>ed-rotk lies 15 to 20 and 40 feet below the the 1st of March, last year, there were esti-mated to lie over people in the Black HilL-*,and rapidly accuniulating at the rate of week, but since the rich Colorado discoveriesat , the excitement has decreased. A Terrible TJtiittder-Stortii.—The Bl&ckHills of Dakota are the fear of Indians, becauseof the frequent thunder-storms. Col. R. ;Te, United States Commander of Black HillsEx^i^dition, 1874, states that in this regionthunder-storms are quite frequent, terrific inforce and jwwer, and fearful in the neaniess of the lightning. Scarcely a day insummer that there is not a thunder-storm msome part of the hills.
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