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Show BLACK HILLS, (iold In Quart., and Out of It. Mr. tnvartout, a miner of ten years' experience, has m'enily readied Chicago Chi-cago from tho Black Hills, mid has been interviewed by tho lutti -Ocean. He talks as follows about Hie ijimrtz lodes ol that region : Mr. Swartnul i of the opinion, after ten years' experience ex-perience in womng quuitz minus, that tho region at Dead wuud, and further north, ia tho richosl quartz bearing country evor thrown open in tho Union. The quartz mines aro larger, heavier, and bettor dtdined than any either in Idaho or Colorado. Cue obstaclo to tbeir development is a lack of machinery. This will be oaaily obtained, howovor, after the Indian question is disposal of. It will then take about a year to open the mines and ascertain which ol 3 them it will pay to work. Then the machinery can be brought on and ' mining profitably conducted on a ' largo scale. Mr. Swarlout has located three Bilver lodes at Caatlo creek, thirty-five miles north of Custer, that ! are the best he ever saw. A quantity . of oro taken from them assayed ' to the ton, with some traows ol' gold atrJ copper. Thoro is a bell of silver iodes running through the country ol great richness. To the northward it i runs into gold. All this country is lertiie and well wooded and watered, and mining can be prosecuted with comparative ease. In fact he has never looked upon a finer country in tho course of his life. THE QULCHES HEAR CWlEi. "Captain Jack," writing to the Omaha Bee froiw Custer city says: Messrs. Cornell fc Williams, partner of Mr. W. H. Wood, are just in from Castle creek, and they are takiu out good wages on bar diggings there, but have not reached bedrock as yet. J. D. Trask &. Co. are digging a drain ditch, which they have been steadily working at since February, and will soon finish it, after which they will work oft' the bedrock. Mr. Wood has gone to Deadwood to see tho country prior to commencing work on his leads and placer diggings here ' ami on Castle. D. K. Linvely, one of the oldest residents of this place, and a practical miner, is just up from Stockiide, and says there are at least seventy-rive men working there and all doing well, making wagps. Water is scarce however, and they cannot make full time. At Duulap's ranch, a company of Montana boys are building a trestle work across the gulch to carry the Spring creek water to a dry gulch, where they found good prospects. They are expending over $1,1XI to bring this water to the diggings, aud , whether the mine will pay, remains to be seen. The trestle is about fifty feet above the creek, and about 150 yards lone This is about three miles above Allen's claim, which is still be-! i ing worked. i Hill city is entirely deserted not ( one solitary soul remains aud the cabins are being used now as shelters ( and comfortable quarters for freight- ( ers, miners, prospectors, and the traveling public of the mountains, j Every one has stampeded to the north; yet there is certainly from J to $S diggings on any claim on the creek, and as soon as the excitement i north has abated, huudreds will return j to their com fortable quarters. Custer city presents a gloomy ap- 1 pearance. The northern fever has t reduced its population from over i 1,000 to about 1200 souls. There are a but nine stores, four saloons and one . billiard hall still remaining, and many property holders have left their buildings without a representative. Yet, from my knowledge of the country, coun-try, I believe Custer will be the winter resort lor the majority of the people j who will remain in the Hills. There are many reasons for business men leaving Custer: In the first place, French creek has almost dried up, and for three miles below town the miners could not get a sluice head of water in tho creek. A young man who arrived from below to-day says he can make from $o to $8 as soon as he can get his sluices to work, and a company are now putting in a flume to wash out the bed of the creek. Dave Olslon, who has been with his partner one mile above town working his claims all winter, told us this morning that after damming water and running one hour yesterday, yester-day, he took out one ounce of gold. |