Gold rush notes at Castle Creek district
Merchants take French Spring and Castle Creek gold at twenty dollars per ounce while Deadwood sits at sixteen. Claims in Lawrence district show wagon road work and bridged creek crossings. H C Smith & Co with two steam pumps sink toward bedrock on claim 50 hoping to hit pay streak soon. Stafford Sullivan from Colorado work a dry tributary to Castle taking five ounces in days by bed rock crevicing. Thompson of Nye Palmer vacuum pump makers oversees machinery installation at Castleton. Pay dirt from two feet depth yields eighty to sixty five cents per pan with crow bar to two feet in claim 82, bought by Ralston & McDonald for five thousand dollars. Phelan company foresees dividends after cleanups as machinery arrives. Castle Creek opens as Black Hills saw mill site for lumber for fluming and sluicing amid bonanza ore prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring
Castle Creek
Lawrence
H. C. Smith & Co
Stafford & Sullivan
Colorado
Castle
Mr. Thompson
Nye & Palmer
Chicago
Castleton
Ralston & McDonald
Phelan’ Company
Black Hills
Clark
Rancho
Chaffee and Co
Palmer’s Gulch
J. D. Huntington
Harlow & Burch
Anthony Young
B. H. Herald
Rich float silver finds and new smelter in Bear Butte district
Reports from the Black Hills Nugget s describe abundant float silver along Rapid Creek and a new three blast 60 ton furnace smelter rising in Bear Butte district with capital stock at 350000. Nearby discoveries include two feet deep silver spectacles and a human thigh bone near Bat tle creek after a recent stampede to rich dry diggings.
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Bear Butte
No. 14
Discovery
Battle Creek
Mining Boom Expands From Camp Crook to Deadwood Notes
Gold and silver prospecting expands across the region near Golden and Camp Crook. 1000+ men on site, with dozens more arriving. quartz lodes show free gold, and a 600 ft flume drains streams for work. Dry diggings yield $30 per day, while others report $4 to $60 daily per group. An Indian mill and hydrauic mining advance, with assays showing $266.95 coin value per ton in the Lucky Boy lode. Preparations underway for El Refugio mine in Galena City.
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Golden
Spring Creek
Box Elder
Highbridge
War Eagle
Camp Crook
Morrill, Johnson & Cole
Stillwell & Co
Elkhorn Bar
Camp Croek
D. B. Miller
John McKeever
Jenney Gulch
Nebraska
Elkhorn
Deadwood Times
Troy
Deadwood
Lyons & Moore
Whitewood
Elizabethtown
EFI Refugio Mining Company
Galena City
Lardner
Pat
Smith
el Refugio
Deadwood Dust and District Court Doings Description
Deadwood tales describe weather, mining news from Bear Creek tin discovery, lumber demand, and homebound soldiers. District Court notes include dismissal of Gardner v Freeman, venue change denied in Cory v Fillmore, testimonies in Chiniquy v OBrien, and UPRR garnishee response in Bowman v Gervais et al.
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District Court
Cnd
C. A. Gardner
David Freeman
U. S
BR. R. Cory
Luther Fillmore
Sweetwater County
Permelia Chiniquy
N. J. O’brien
J. R. Bowman
M. A. Gervais
W. H. Shields
Shields
Roth & Ballou
Shiland & Love
Edward Bain
Her
Court items recount juries and indictments in territorial case docket
The record details demurrer rulings, jury challenges, and grand jury actions in territorial and U.S. cases. It lists sworn grand jurors, arraignments for larceny, and trial dates through June. A separate note hints at corn market maneuvering between two local grain firms with price moves reported.
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Man Haas
D. C. Tracy
G. W. Snell
W. P. Carroll
W. R. Steele
Mr. Steele
W. H. Conley
Wm. Gutterman
J. M. Monash
D. D. Dare
R. B. Horrie
Geo. O’brien
J. BE. Schooler
A. Underwood
Geo. Cassels
R. H. Dawson
R. Durbin
W. R. Bryant
J. Ringolsky
W. D. Pease
P. McCormick
J. J. Lewis
A. Michaels
L. McGinn
Territory
Richard Lewey
Carbon County
B. Reno
Peter McDermott
John Nagin
James .Carmichael
Benjamin
W. Carson
Charles Stickney
Roth & Ballou
Shiland & Love
J. W. Dear
Tracy & Hoshier
United States
John Ackerman
W. BP. Carroll
J. J. McGinnis
M.angoria
C. N. Potter
Charles Mumaugh
Andrew Myers
E. W. Mann
Severa Baca
Narcisa D. Flares
J. R. Bowman
Gervais & Shields
U.S
Benj
Chas. Stickney
J. M. Irwin
Frank Moran
Chas, Thompson
Daniel Perry
Carroll & Mann
John Hall
James Hardy
Carroll
Jas. Leavy
Corn Prices Tumble as War Turmoil Cuts Supply
A chaotic market report notes corn prices dropping to $1 per 100 due to reductions by leading firms with No. 1 and No. 2 grades. One firm holds a large bank account while another owns a valuable Black Hills placer mine yielding dust. The public may gain from war if ample supplies are secured, as a drunken interviewee jokes about branding oxen with a horn and hoe.
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and. F. No
F. No
Black Hills
Auctioneers Seek Gold Dust Buyers and Collectors
A notice invites bids to buy and sell drafts in principal U.S. cities, pay top prices for gold dust, and ship for owners. It also offers collections nationwide with special emphasis on the Black Hills region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Black Hills
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Martin
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Magic
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Daniel F Beatry
Washington
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Ll. M
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J. K. Moore
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Deadwood City
Jas, H. Woods
the Black Hills
Dstaw&wom
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Nixteenth Street
Ferguson
Eddy
Cheyenne
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Jack Bowman
Cheyenne and
Custer City
Uri Gillett
LW. Luff
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J.T. Gilmer
M. T. Patrick
M. Salisbury
L. Voorhees
Green River
South Pass
Atlantic City
Red Canyon
Huntly & Co
A. E. Bradbury
Sup’t
Maylo
D&wtf
Brownell & Kielmeier Mfg. Co
Grand Central Hotel
Black Hide
C. H. Wagner
Prop
Walker House
Salt Lake City
Beda Gil
Talegraph
Readeae Pos
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