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Show ilLAUK HllilS. How n S;inp M;ui Talks uf TIumu. A ri-liiih.,i iiiiuer, who lias spent soiuu tinui i.i i:ie U!ai k Hills, ml who is well known in this city, wi'ilrn from Oluyenno lo a friend her. , from wliieh letter nv extrai t: Ol eourse mir ttouble with "imblc ruls" will undoubtedly wui k a baek-srl baek-srl on na f.ir tho timo hfing, ;ind peihipa lor the seSvm. Hnl when iiiels, tmb.sLinlhil as thfi aliipineul o! gold dust and tlie ehihiliun uf quartz bi-iiiiug Iieo gold plentifohy, hit nuidit knuwn to wrstfrn men, Iliev UKt will M'i'k homes and loi tunen I hero, it i id when tlu-y east oil thr uiantlti ol exeitoinent in tliink en Jlv of tlie Hfoessihility ul ihe country uud its available resources, they cannot but hoe lor it a speedy devi lop iunt and a great future. With a railroad from Yantkon or Sioux eily, pissing pis-sing tli rough thy vaheys - A tiu-Bolio tiu-Bolio Fourehe and Spier Fish, tltiMly stretching onward to the Big Horn country we may safely look tor an early settlement ot tho v.illoys and development of the mineral ami lumber lum-ber resources, the latter of which will be not inconsiderable, as we hare undoubtedly un-doubtedly the best aviUbltt limber net ween the pineries of .Minnesota and the Siorr.i Nevadas, uud we h:vt a market a I mom unlimited in Dakota and Nebnt-ska. W ith shipping facilities, faci-lities, we have a business assured asidt horn tht ol mining or agriculture. We certainly have for stock raising that which none can complete willi in any northern country, and if the interests of tho common country do not demand an openintr ui of some outlet to labor and capital ai ' tho present moment, then let nie ask, When did it ? or when will it ? It is a fact that we have several 1 culehes in which good prospects have been tound and where c'oJ pay is being taken out. Some chums on Dead and Whitrwood are paying pay-ing as high as $30 per day to tho man, 1 am toid by miners from there, and that they have gold dust is a fact, for I bought and slopped out a few pounds ot ii, which was mostly sent to Omaha. I aUo Knight out rock showing free go d largely, whin was found north of Dead wood district, dis-trict, and taken to Colorado by Cap tain West, who discovered it wlul-t escaping from the "nublo red man," of wnicu fools write. I may say that there ha been comparatively no prospectini do'ie for quartz in the Hills as et, tunl that a large ecopo of couniry is yi;' unpro-spected for placers. V:n: ii may turn out remains to bo bccu, but facts are simply these: pr.'Speeluu: must ceaso until the Indian trouble: are setlleil, or they draw out their j forces to stand on the delensf 1 against tlie troops now orAu- j :ziug to run into their country, i I intend starting baeil some time this week and shall probably proba-bly lay up at Fort Laramis um:i a sufficient party gathers up to ensn.-o safety before starling. Provisions' were scarce when I ieit and could ho had only in small quantities at big figures, but trains are on tiie road and betcre this I hope they are out uf danger from that source. Wnat we want most is western men used to mining and figniing Indians; men prepared to stay with the country and prospect it, and who know what to look for both in the present and future of a new country, and for the government to remove the Indians and open up the doors to new sources of revenue and homes for the homeless. |