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Show The railway situation becemes interesting. in-teresting. Two or three surveys have been made by difTerent routea. The fate of Deadwuod as the head centre of this reeion seems to tremble in the balance A abort lime ag'i there was a great turmoil over the location of the county seat, in thia county, at Crook city. So much noise wab made over it that the county commissioners bad another aittine, and the capital haB been temporarily located at South Doadwocd. But Crook city, an ambitious am-bitious rival, 14 miles away, hopea for great things, and if the Union Pacific railway build their proposed Black Hills line on the Sidney route, it will l. .1.. t TKara ia nlnn another bug-boar that troubles the lot-ownera and claim speculators; that is the possibility that the Cheyenne Chey-enne route will be adopted as tho railway line, and, in that case, it may not come ovor the Hills at all, but atop on tbe other side at Custer, reviving reviv-ing that suddenly "ptayrd-out" town, at the expense of Deadwood. Dead-wood Dead-wood correspondence. |