. The Pacific tourist . width, 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 worked 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, andaside from the value of the precious metal, thesuperb salubrity of the climate, and th
. The Pacific tourist . width, 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 worked 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, andaside 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-. &emc 71 sity of hill and valley; prairie and timber forest;a landscape of which the eye never tires. During one week, 800 miners passed throughHill City, en route for the mines of Whitewoodand Ueadwood. In most of the creeks the bed-rock lies 15 to 20 and 40 feet below the the 1st of March, last year, there were esti-mated to be over 2n,000 people in the Black Hills,and rapidly accumulating at the rate of 1,000per week, but since the rich Colorado discoveriesat Leadville, the excitement has decreased. A Terrible Thunder-Storm The Black Hills of Dakota are the fear of Indians, becauseof the frequent thunder-storms. Col. R. , United States Commander of Black HillsExpedition, 1874, states tha1; in this region thunder-storms are quite frequent, terrific inforce and power, and fearful in the vividness,the nearness of the lightning. Scarcely a day insummer that there is not a thunder-storm insome part of the hills. One afternoon, from the t
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