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Show BLACK HILLS ITEMS The passenger traffic from here to Cheyenne, and starting places lor the Black Hills along the U. P. road, has greatly increased of late, and the prospects pro-spects are that within the next three months it will be greater than ever before in the history of the road. Several application! have already beon received by general passenger agent Kimball, asking the lowest rates of transportation for parties numbering from ten up to (our hundred. The communication asking a special rate for a party ol four hundred from the east was on file and seen by us yesterday. yester-day. tho same Bigns for future activity of freight are plainly evident, as a great many letters havo been received engaging en-gaging cars, and asking rates of freight within the last four weeks. These facts indicato beyond the possibility of a doubt that there will soon be a great rush of gold hunters through Omaha, and on to the hills over the Union Pacific. Omaha Ucrald, 2olh. T. C. Ryan, Eq., of this place, received re-ceived a letter, yesterday, from Terry Mahoney, now stationed at Laramie city, stating that parties from that place now in the hilts are writing back to their families to come lo tho hills for permanent location. These men at present are making from $10.00 to $12.00 per day, with aix inches of snow on the ground. Flour is wortli $'J2.00 per sack. Men are pouring in from all points. Mr. Mahoney as is well known to all of us hero, ia perfectly per-fectly reliable and would not write of these things unless they were true. Columbus, (Neb.) Era. The Cheyenne Leader says that Frank Yates aLd M. H. Brown intend in-tend to put on adailyfituge line from that city to the Black Hills, na Fort .Laramio and Red Cloud agency, having already purchased the right to carry the mails. A party of one hundred men from Ellsworth, Kansas, are coming this way en route for the Black Hills. The Leader aaya that Fort Pease on the Yellowstone, upon which rfittiuE Bull recently made a raid, lilting lilt-ing several Bcalps, is not a government govern-ment pOBt, but waa established by a party of Montana miners, who organized organ-ized an expedition to explore and proapect the Yellowstone country i over a year ago, and the post was named after the leader of the parly, Peaso. It ia fullv two hundred milua from tho very nearest point of ina Black Hills, and more than three hundred miles from tho rich gold mines of that region. It is Capt. James Cumminga, of Philadelphia, who is WSJ a party of 1,000 for the Black Hills, who recently told his experience m the Hills last season He said it would coat $100 a man to got to tho Hills, with nilo, ammunition ai id provisions. pro-visions. Every man will be h.s own banker, and the only purpose of going go-ing in a body ia for mutual Protection. After predicting that before next July H (KK) moo would be m the Black Hills, ho proceeded to exhibit a variety vari-ety of gold and ailvcr quartz, mica phimfrtKO. etc., which he had brought 1 from that region. |