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Show THE BLACK HILLS. The Omaha Herald gives a description descrip-tion of the Black Hills region, which has recently come into public notice by the reports of the expedition of Gen. Custar. ft says that the llamifig accounts of new discoveries mado by this expedition are totally without foundation. Nothing new has been reported beyond the information furnished fur-nished by Hayden, Dodge, Warren, Cole and Reynolds, the government explorers, the results of which are on file in the public archives. The bulk of the information in regard to this region was obtained by Gen. Dodge in 1865, and Gen. Cuatar's expedition has added nothing to it. From the Herald's synopsis of the various reports, wc give the following extracts: The Black Hills lie between 43 20' and io latitude, and 103a10' and 104 50' longitude. The range is clasped, us it were, by the North and South branches of tho Cheyenno River the North branch being known as the Belle Fourch. They occupy an area of about one hundred miles North and South and sixty miles E:ist and West, and their trend is about 20 West of Xnrih Thero are Borne twenty or twenty-five twenty-five Btrca-ns of running water that lind their source in these hills upon the Eat tern and Northern, slopes. Upon their Western slopes there are : no more than six. AU these streams flow water the year round, and furnish most of the watsr for the Cbeycnno j rivers. The Cheyenne rivers, although they -rise many miles West of the Black Hills, in dry seasons generally go dry until the water from the Black Hills tlows into them, The two branches of the Cheyenne River join about thirty miles East of the Black Hills, forming the Big Cheyenne, which flows into the Missouri about sixty miles above Fort i'eirre. Hayden, in his report upon their geology, Bays that at least one-third of their area,, or about 2,000 square miles, is covered with excellent pine timber, and suggests a method of making this timber available to sei tiers in Nebniska by floating it down the forks of the Cheyenne River to the Misoouri. The bad lands almost entirely surround sur-round the Black Hills. AlrinfT t.hr. bases of the Southern portion, lignite or coal bas been found. ' All that portion of the Black Hills lying from 2,500 to 3,500 feet above the level of the sea iB susceptible to cultivation where there is plenty of water. Nearly every stream arisirjg in the Black Hills has been thoroughly prospected, pros-pected, and the- color of gold can be ihi-Yiri in ii.ll oi them: manv a claim has been staked out upon them, but they have all been abandoned, either from fear of Indians or lack of pay dirt. - Silver and quartz leads here have been discovered, defined and claimed, and an organization known as the Black Hills Mining Company was formed at Fort Laramiosoou after the explorations by Ueu. Dodge. Claims were staked out, but no work of any account was ever done. |