Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1875 — The Black Hills. [ARTICLE]

The Black Hills.

The Chicago Industrial Age , under date of March 20, contains the following sensible article on the Black Hill gold question: An enthusiastic promoter of expeditions has got himself interviewed by an Inter Ocean man, upon the Black Hills gold fever question. He Las it bad. Read e rs will do well to take all he says with many grains of allowance. The history of gold hunting, the world over, has been a continued series of disappointments, and this new chapter does not promise to be materially different from all others that have been written. About the hardest way to get gold is to dig it out of the ground in a new country. When mined by hydraulic power, as in California, at the present time, there is a certain degree of piofit in it, but to the green hand who goes out with high hopes upon any of these expeditions proposed, is almost certain to be disappointed. The successful gold hunters will probably be those who wait until tho country is opened up and made reasonably safe for white men. Those who know most about mining frequently are the least enthusiastic. Another important matter should not be over-looked. There can hardly bo a doubt but the Custer expedition, aud all the excitement which has grown out of it, has been fostered by people interested in the Northern Pacific Railroad. If a large mining population can be settled in the Black Hills, then the Northern Pacific Railroad can be Dushed forward, but if the coun f ry cannot be settled, the road is a dead loss to bond holders.