Custer City Mine Convention and Pony Express Route
Report from a growing miner town in Custer Gulch noting a November convention with 250 miners to establish a pony express to Spotted Tail Agency. An express office opens with Mr. Dowe as agent and mail to Spotted Tail Agency will move promptly. The piece describes property disputes and local weather as winter plans unfold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miner's Town
Custer Gulch
Custer Trail
Spotted Tail Agency
Custer City
Dowes
Gold Rush Notes and Bull-Pens Report
A party crossed 125 miles to the Hills finding about fifty miners with gold from one to ten ounces each. A nugget valued at $22 was found and burgets of four to six dollars were common. Advice urges provisioning in Sidney and emigration to Custer City for two hundred miners. A harsh note condemns Captain Pollock of the 9th U.S. Infantry for bull-pen abuses likened to Andersonville. Signed Ow Pics.
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Cuatar City
Sidney
Custer City
Tvo
Teneenara
Blcrrier
Pollock
9Th
U.S. Infantry
Andersonville
Pony Express
Black Hills immigration promoter returns with hopeful outlook
Z Swaringen, veteran Black Hills pilgrim, arrived in Sioux City from Omaha after another visit to gauge government stance and guide new settlers. He reports growing mining activity at Custer City, hopes for peaceful travel, and notes the Hills offer placer digs for the poor while quartz mining needs capital. He cites routes via the Pacific and overland paths, and presents Bear Creek, Band Creek, and other leads as promising mining districts.
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Z. Swaringen
Black Hilla
Sioux City
Pacific Road
Omaha
Black Hill
Swaringen
Onitahe
Custer City
Sidney
Jie
Alogether
Black Hills
Swearingen
Pacific
Black Hille
Mays
I :Pacific
Ridney
Cheyenne
Ai Bear Creek
Band Creek
Creek
Ometer City
Belle Fouche
Gen
Boyer
Swariegen
Srems City
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Rere
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Peopie
Mideey
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Dawora Txrarrony
Pollack
U. S. Infantry
Camp Collina
the Pony Express
Spotted Tail
Lere
Stockade Party
Pollack Lef
Stockale Party
Cmt
Bume
Wretees
Bob
Kennon
ILLES
Irleaws
Seethills
Jehneys
Cam
Beaver Creek
Kris
Jackson
Jackson Mak
Ghia
Teeta
Ao Pons
Adley
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JMR
Ald
the Black Mills
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Weed Sewing-Machine CO
America
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VETS
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Aload
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Needham & Son
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Regn & Baxrox
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Japere Wa
Josepit B. Gossage
Sipney (Telegraph
Surveying and Engineering
Worley
Union Racific Railroad Company
Gniva Daelfe
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Ot Ge
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U.P
Oxiaha
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Hinman & Gantt, Attorneys At Law
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Joan Dilany
Drown, Jonn M. Thurston
Brown & Thurston
Attorneys At Law
Omaha, Neb
Geo. W. Heist
Nebraska
AXE & Co., Plasterers
Neb
New. P
L. Hobbs
Sidney, Neb
Adler & Heller
Wolesale Dealers
Fremont, Neb
N. Grant
Main Streets
Red Cloud
Uhlig
L. Jenkins
Pront Street
M. Urbach
Sidney Bakery
Otm Uzlig
Prop'r
sLao
Front Street
Sidney, Nebraske
Smith
Reioed Depot
Bidney, Nebraska
C. E. Borgquist
Wagon Maker
Juraieh
Sioney, Wee
Neuraska
Cosmopolitan
Cypresta Railroad Depot
WM. J. Harrison
G. Kungeh
Kane
Joan van der. Wielen
Jing
G. W.budley
Primrose
Missouri
Kentucky
Millers Paris Bittere
H. Williams & CO
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