Queen City Mail from Spearfish, South Dakota • Page 5

Hi IX SK3, Cij SJ, Ft Historical group GHOSTS LINGER IN HILLS visits Redwatcr team and wagon, and after cutting and trimming the rocks had his dsughter lift them up to the side with a horse and tripod. In early days dances were held there and, occasionally, boxing matches. Nearby is the Ralph Bahn home, known as the McAleer place. It has an old moss-covered spring house, an ancient cabin and a big ash tree on of the biggest in the area that was said to have been a hanging tree for some unfortunate individual. There were several hangings in the Spearfish area for instance.

Bean, Keating and Tuttle but these men "stretched hemp" doeer to the town. The tour concluded at Cox' Lake, which early -day stage passenger, were told had no bottom. Several years ago divers explored the murky depths snd discovered that it waa about DO feet deep a giant spring. Some days a large whirlpool can be observed at the west end of the lake. In fact, in early days it wa noted as a large spring.

i WS Parents: Special Bind Instrument Trial Plan for Bsginnm! Your beginning band program is about to start so have your child ask the school band director which instrument he or she should play. Then come In and choose from our complete stock of famous brand name Instruments designed especially for students. is VERY LOW PRICES on used instruments (Completely overhauled) 01 10STLY REMINDER Today the wind howls through the empty shells of lonK deserted homes and businesses at Roubaix, one of the many towns hat kti-w up overnight in the Black Hills during the gold rushoflhe 1870s. AT A century age, thousands of fortune hunters were lured to the mysterious Black Kills by U. Cot.

George A. Custer's 1874 gold discovery along French Creek. When they got to the Black Hills the hordes of prospectors threw up lean-tos, cabins, shacks and jerry-buik towns while panning the streams and tunneling the mountains for gold. Today the crumbling, sun-bleached remains of many of the structures they erected can still be found scattered throughout the Hills. Each shack, cabin and gold camp beckons to whisper its own story of the rowdy, get-ridi quick days of 76.

rthe first gold-hungry group to arrive Wis the Gordon Party, which entered the Black Hills on Dec. 24. 1874. five months after Custer's historic discovery. Included in the party was Anna D.

Tallent, the first white woman to enter the Black Hills. The Cordon Party built a stockade not far from the sit of Custer' discovery. But in 1875 the U.S. Army kicked them out because they had illegally settled on land belonging to the Sioux by treaty. After their departure the stockade was destroyed by Indians.

By the height of the gold rush, some 600 towns had been founded in the Black Hills. Only a handful of them have survived to be working 20th century communities. In towns such as Deadwood and Rockerville, great pains have been taken to preserve and reconstruct those exciting days. In Deadwood, travelers can walk down Main Street and look up at blocks of storefronts dating from the 1880s. In Rockerville mock gunfights are held in front of buildings constructed when the town was a booming gold camp a century ago.

Many of the towns that didn't survive when the rush ended have nearly faded from the landscape, leaving only a few ajjroken foundations. There are, however, several townsiles with enough original buildings standing to give a glimmering idea of what life was like in those gold rush days. The town of Roubaix was founded south of Deadwood in 1878 when gold was discovered in the surrounding hillsides. The Uncle Sam Mine (later renamed Clover Leaf) was quite productive for nearly 30 years, yielding more than $900,000 worth of gold. As much as worth of gold was taken out in a single day and there was one three-week period in which the mine produced 29.000.

Then in 1905 heavy rains caused a cave in that closed the mine permanently. Today only a couple of worn houses and the dilapidated remains of the hospital building remain standing in this town which in 1899 was home for 500 people. The site is lorated just east U.S. 385, 10 miles south of iQDeadwood. Ml Twenty miles south of Rouhaix and several miles west of U.S.

385 sLands the town of Rorhford, a community founded in 1877 around several rich mining operations. By 1878 its population had reached 500. In its heyday Rorhford boasted 200 homes, a solid block of stores with wooden, canopied sidewalks, two doctors and a school. Less than 30 people call Rorhford home today, but many of the original houses and businesses csn still be found, including the Standby Mill. Though most of the mill structure is standing it is in dangerous condit ion snd should be viewed only from a safe distance.

The huge mine buildings, school-house, foundations and miner's sharks that still exist at Spokane make it a tffmust for ghost town hunters. The Spokane mill, built in 1890, produced lead, xine and silver as well as gold. The buildings that remain at the site are the best preserved of all the Black Hills ghost towns. Spokane is located about eight miles south of Mount Rushmore', east of the scenic Iron Mountain Road. U.S.

16A. Between 1677 and 1959 more than $2 million worth of gold and silver was taken from the mountainside surround ing the tiny town of Trojan. Today the town is nearly deserted, but numerous building still remain as reminders of more prosperous times. The complei of buildings deserted by the Bsld Mountain Mining a mill, and several office buildings are the main attraction at Trojan, but there are also many old houses and empty business places. Trojan can be found five miles west of Lead off U.S.

85. The drive between Lead and Trojan provides many bonuses for the history buff, since the area is full of mines and ok) railroad beds. The highway also passes through the remains of Terry, a community that once bad a population of more than a thousand. Elsewhere in the Hills hundreds of townsites. prospector's cabins and abandoned mines can be found tucked Jtmwsy between the pine-blanketed lis" I Si I'', i 1 .1 of I'luma.

offer a peek back into the rowdy days of South Dakota's gold rush. The results of the tests appear in the current issue of Sport Aviation, according to Rill Cummins, aviation enthusiast. They were reprinted from an issue of Aerial Age dated Jan. 5, 1920. Sixty years later with a rejuggling otj the alphabet, South Dakota is promoting gasohol.

it i i .1 a jorAern 3fill Jlhiaic Centre, 3nt, 1 40 WItT HUDION fHONI 608 648-1001 SPAeilH. SO 87783 Now, with a beadgate, the lake bathe, enlarged. Tour guide war Mehia Anderson, Ralph Bahn and Mr. asd 1 Mrs. Jo Schenk of Spearfish.

Coordinator wa Inna Klock, Ld. The next meeting of the society wQl be July SO at p.m. in the Deadwood Public Library. Person interested ta having their family histories published in the Lawrence County history book are Invited to attend. BHPL declares dividends Quarterly dividend were declared on all classes of stock by the Black KiUa Power and Llgnt Co.

July 22. Shareholder of common stock wfQ receive 49 cents per share, equrfalest to an annual rat of $1 .96. The company declared regular quarterly dividends on each series of tt cumulative preferred stock. Dividend will be payable Sept. 1 to share holders of record at the doe of business on Aug.

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The tour visited the plant on land now owned by Donald Kissaek and saw the pipeline that had 100-foot drop to the building and then returned water to the river. The diversion dam waa near the confluence of Crow Creek and Redwater. About a mile from the plant the canal entered a pipeline constructed of redwood staves banded together with steel rods, which carried water for many year. Then it started developing leaks, a section collapsed, and the plant waa forced to close. The four employee home were moved to Spearfish and the machinery dismantled.

Linfred Schutller of Spearfish, who has done research on the power projects, reported that rattlesnakes were a problem. They had a habit of Blithering in the open doorway and soaking up heat from the cement floor. They were often seen swimming In the canal and river with their head and rattles out of the water. The second stop on the tour was at Ihe Roland Bryan home on Chicken Creek, a handsome home built In 1911 iy Dr. Rettleheim who had been a ihysician for a railroad company in Nebraska.

The House has hardwood loom, a fireplace facing the main tntrance, beamed ceiling, a number of Mk colonnades on the fireplace, stairs ind dining room cupboards. Beautiful rounds surround the place with lovely flowers, green grass and an enormous willow tree planted about 1912. A bit further to the west a stop was made at the W.J. "Billy" WaU ranch. Wall came to Central City with hi parents in the esrly days, As a 14-year old, he helped his brother-in-law in the barbering business and hence learned the trade.

After the Walls moved on the ranch Billy did a barbering business in the family barn, before later moving to Spearfish. Wall frequently mentioned the cowboys that used the Miles City Trail that went past their place and the habit of the cowboys at taking potshots at their chimney. On the Iiusser place is a huge stone bsrn built st the turn of the century by a gisnl Irishman named Maurice Walsh many claim that he was the strongest man in the Black Hills. He got the stones for the barn from across Redwater by Queen's Vfeh Dry Professional Dry Cleaning 642-3132 SpMrfish Free Pickup at your Horn Monday or Thursdy with S5 00 goer Dr. TJi Proctor Optometrist Mori thru Fr).

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