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Title: The hand-book of Wyoming and guide to the Black Hills and Big Horn regions
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Strahorn, Robert E. (Robert Edmund), 1852-1944
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Publisher: Cheyenne, (Chicago, Knight & Leonard, printers)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e county. It was laid out in the earlypart of July, 1875, and called Stonewall. But little was done inthe way of building until August, when it was reorganized, andthe name changed to Custer City. A plat of the town was thenmade on birch bark, there being no paper in the camp. The latter part of August, pursuant to an order of the gen-eral government, the citizens were removed by troops to FortLaramie, leaving six of their company, by permission, at thestockade to guard their interests. Late in the fall some of thesettlers returned, and other parties coming in, the town com-menced growing rapidly, and the 1st of May following it con-sisted of about eight hundred buildings, many of them beingbuilt of lumber. At this time the town contained over twothousand inhabitants, and all kinds of business enterprises wererepresented. However, the rich discoveries reported from Dead-wood and Whitewood gulches caused a stampede that nearlydepopulated the town, and from which it has never recovered.
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THE BLACK HILLS. 237 Its beautiful location and the large extent of mining country mustin time bring in a large permanent population, and the fine graz-ing and agricultural lands insure its wealth and future prosperity. S. M. Booth, proprietor of the leading hotel, and doing alarge mercantile business, estimates the amount of gold takenout of the gulches near Custer at $30,000 per month, and increas-ing very rapidly. The whole population is at present about fivehundred. The city boasts a printing office and thirty businesshouses, all doing a good business. Galena.—Galena is the principal town of the Bare Buttesilver mining region. It has a population of about 300, with 150buildings. There are two assay offices, four stores, two saw-mills,and a smelter in course of erection. A large number of discover-ies of silver mines have been made in the vicinity. There arefine areas of timber for fuel adjacent, and should the silver de-posits prove as rich as they are now believed to be, Galena

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