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Show Tho Bltu-k Hilly. RoboT I T ito, an old I W write, wiilra to James K u.rf, of Duiivor, from t'uflei pity, Black Hills, under ditto ot Jiuiu.uy oth, us follows : Thin is llio country, alter all. Yisterday I tmw half a pan full ol dot (v.mlied, aud lSi cents wtw tho result Tim woalhor ia charming, and people hero jo about in their shirt alonves. No enow has fallen hero or on tht road loading hilhor this winter. 1 find everyone busy, preparing" for operations in tho spring. Toll all the boys this is tho country to emirato to. Some mon aro oven now "roek-in" "roek-in" out Iroin $." to $7 in the warm 1 psH of tho day. There- aro almut inM men in hero at proscut, and inoro arriving daily. Many aro going out uftor stipplit. Wo aro located on Kreneh crtrk, aUtut tnlit mi low from Harney's Peak. Tell all tho boys who urn ,u,r niftliinv morn than til) nor tiny to come to tho Hlack Hills. ANOTIIKlt ITOHY. G, C. Williams, a woll-known, roliablo prospector, write from Custer, Cus-ter, under date of January 0;h: We arrivod hero yesterday all right and will leave tomorrow tor Spring errvk, ft noon milee northweet, where ! thero is plenty of water. 1 think this ; gulch (French crook) is rich, but j thtre is very little water, no full, and the ground is very deep. Tlioro is no one doini; any mining hero yet; they are locating town property and building build-ing hour's; but 1 don't want any town property in Cnoter city. I like the appearance of tho country very much and think it will provo a rich mining district. Thero are small parks ot tine timber all through tho inuuotams and the weather ia- pleasant. Three days from Kurt Ltraiuie wo gil entirely en-tirely out of the snow and tho rood was dmty from thero in, Kil l g't grass. There are alioiit ISO men on l'rein-li creek at tins lime, the same number , on Spring erot k, ami a mny more in the mountains on different rtreamn ; and giilchi's; probahly people i ailogether in the Black Hills. More are turning every day. I I will not go wet uf the mountains until spring, as it is loo cold aud tho. snow four inches deep. I |