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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 880 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DEADWOOD , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Lawrence county, See also:South Dakota, U.S.A., about 18o m. W. of See also:Pierre. Pop. (1890) 2366; (1900) 3498, of whom 707 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905) 4364; (1910) 3653. It is served by the -See also:Chicago, See also:Burlington & See also:Quincy and the Chicago & See also:North-Western See also:railways. It lies on hilly ground in the See also:canyon of Whitewood See also:Creek at an See also:elevation of about 4530 ft. Deadwood is the commercial centre of the See also:Black Hills. About it are several See also:gold mines (including the well-known See also:Home-stake mine), characterized by the See also:low grade of their ores (which range from $2 to $8 per ton), by their vast quantity, and by the ease of See also:mining and of extracting the See also:metal. The ore contains See also:free gold, which is extracted by the See also:simple See also:process of stamping and amalgamation, and refractory values, extracted by the cyaniding process. Several See also:hundred tons of ore are treated thus in Deadwood and its environs daily,•and its See also:stamp See also:mills are exceeded in See also:size only by those of the Treadwell mine in S.E. See also:Alaska, and by those on the See also:Rand in South See also:Africa. The See also:discovery of gold here was made known in See also:June 1875, and in See also:February 1877 the See also:United States See also:government, after having See also:purchased the See also:land from the See also:Sioux See also:Indians, opened the See also:place for legal settleulent.

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