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APPENDIX.

MINING.

Nowhere could I find a more concise, clear and instructive history of this most important and lucrative industry, than in the lectures delivered at the School of Mines in Rapid, South Dakota, during the Academic year 18871888, by my esteemed friend, Hon. Judge Daniel McLaughlin of Deadwood, S. D.*

I give some of these lectures in toto and am more

* Daniel McLaughlin was born in Troy, New York, April 7th, 1831. Living with his parents in this place he attended the local school for a few years, till in 1841 the family removed to Wisconsin. From there he went to Carroll College, Waukeska, Wis., and began the study of law, in 1854, under A. W. and G. M. Randall, of the latter city. He also spent some time in the law office of James Grant at Davenport, Iowa, and was admitted to the bar at Dakota City, Nebraska, in 1860, where he practiced for a few years. In 1861 he was married at Omaha, Nebraska, to an accomplished lady, Miss Ellen McCune, a native of Ireland. He was elected in the same year a member of the Territorial Legislature from Dakota County. The next year he moved to Oregon and from that time till his arrival in Deadwood, April 27th, 1877, he spent his time in Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Cheyenne, Wy., everywhere being esteemed for his integrity, experience and prudence as a lawyer. To him, perhaps, more than any one else, was due the arrival of the first priest in the hills, and during the last twelve years he at all times seconded the efforts of the various priests in Deadwood to relieve poverty and distress wherever known. Foremost in every undertaking which could benefit his fellow-citizens he is esteemed by all inhabitants of the Black Hills. When the city of Deadwood was organized as a city government in 1881, Judge McLaughlin was its first mayor, and during the recent election for judges for the Supreme Court of the new State of South Dakota he was nominated to be one of them. The nomination was carried against his will and if he had exerted his influence in his behalf he would have been elected, though the nominee of the other party is his personal friend, the esteemed and learned Judge D. Carson.

Two sons are left of their children, William and Daniel, both graduates of Georgetown University, District of Columbia, who are the model of young men. The elder filled the office of District Attorney for two years to the greatest satisfaction of the whole of Lawrence County.

than convinced that the contents will be appreciated by the reader.

They are copied from the manuscript with the kind permission of the honorable gentleman and that of the Board of Directors of the School of Mines.

LECTURE NO. I.

A SHORT HISTORY OF MINING.

"There stood a hill not far, whose grisly top
Belched fire and rolling smoke; the rest entire
Shone with a glossy scurf, undoubted sign
That in his womb was hid metallic ore,

The work of sulphur. Thither, wing'd with speed,
A numerous brigade hasten'd; as when bands
Of pioneers, with spade and pickaxe arm'd,
Forerun the royal camp, to trench a field,
Or cast a rampart. Mammon led them on,
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell

From heav'n; for ev'n in heav'n his looks and thoughts
Were always downward bent, admiring more

The riches of heav'n's pavement, trodden gold,
Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd

In vision beatific. By him first

Men also, and by his suggestion taught,

Ransack'd the centre, and with impious hands
Rifled the bowels of their mother earth

For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew
Open'd into the hill a spacious wound,
And digg'd out ribs of gold."

[Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I.]

Despite the learned conceits of many eminent men regarding the origin, progress and development of the human race, as the centuries have rolled by, the world proceeds upon the assumption that the wants of man from the beginning, were supplied through his own efforts and the beneficence of the Creator. His knowledge was always commensurate with his needs. His appetites, taste and ambition are similar now to what they were fifty centuries

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