Excerpt from Mines and Mining in the Black Hills South Dakota as a state presents some striking features. In the matter of altitude there are wide divergencies.

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Rising out of the prairie, the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming had long been rumored to have promising quantities of gold. Sacred to the Lakota, the Bla