EVENTS February 4 - Middle School Boys Basketball at Guernsey. February 5 & 6 - High School Speech/Debate at Natrona. February 5 - High School Girls & Boys Basketball, Lingle at Lusk. February 6 - High School Girls & Boys Basketball at Hot Springs; High School Wrestling, Southeast Duals. February 8 - Middle School Boys Basketball at Southeast. February 9 - High School Girls & Boys Basketball, Edgemont at Lusk. February 10 - Spelling Bee, LEMS, Cafeteria. February 11 - Middle School Boys Basketball at Lingle. February 12 & 13 - High School Wrestling, Carbon County Tourney; High School Speech/Debate at Wheatland. February 17 - Middle School Music Concert, LEMS. February 18 - Middle School Boys Basketball, SEWAC Tourney at Burns. February 19 & 20 - High School Wrestling, 2A Regional at Lingle-Ft. Laramie; High School Speech/Debate at Torrington. February 19 - High School Girls & Boys Basketball at Wright. February 20 - High School Girls & Boys Basketball, Guernsey at Lusk; Middle School SEWAC Tourney at Burns.

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Back by popular demand! Gold in the Black Hills! The Mystic Gates: Cheyenne editors, eager to keep the "Magic City of the Plains" in the limelight, stressed the fact that the route to the agencies was open the year around, "with the best of roads, plenty of wood, water and grass… and whisky in abundance… a line protected by military posts almost to the base of the Black Hills." Inquiries concerning the Hills poured into the officials at the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies on every mail, until in September, the postmaster general authorized the Cheyenne post office to increase mail service to the Spotted Tail agency from a weekly to a semi-weekly. George M. Brown, then the mail contractor, made arrangements accordingly. At the risk of losing their scalps, some prospectors sneaked into the hills late in that autumn of 1874, but as winter approached, they drifted back to civilization for supplies and shelter. Each, however, brought back actual proof of "finds" in dust and nuggets. In November, Cheyenne experienced her first real pangs of jealousy, when it was rumored that a mail contract would shortly be let to camp Sheridan, near the Spotted Tail agency, by way of Sidney, Nebraska, instead of through Cheyenne. The "Honorable Board of county Commissioners" of Cheyenne’s Laramie county, lost no time in authorizing the survey of a new road to the Red Cloud agency, with a view to shortening the distance then being traveled. J. Westlley Hammond of the surveyor general’s office immediately surveyed a new "lower road". It was 145 miles in length and was, in December, declared ready for use by the way of Reel’s Ranch, Pole Creek, Spring Creek, LaGrange’s Ranch, Horse Creek, Campbell’s Ranch, North Platte river, Spoon Butte Creek, Running Water, the crossing of the Fort Laramie Road, Spring Branch (tributary to White Earth river), to Red Cloud. A mail route soon was in operation over this road. While this new northeasterly road was being laid out from Cheyenne, there was slowly struggling toward the Black Hills, through Nebraska and Dakota, a small party of determined gold seekers, known later as the "Gordon Party." In this group, organized in Sioux City, Iowa in early October, were twenty-eight adventurers, including Mrs. Annie D. Tallent, her husband, and ten year old son. Scarcely had their wagon wheels rolled to a stop on French Creek, than word was carried to the outside by Indians and also whites, that a stockade was being built and that miners were at work. ..... (Continued next edition)

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