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VOLUME 4. NUMBER 2 
SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1906. 
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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
FROM THE BLACK HILLS OF 
SOUTH DAKOTA. 
Interesting Letter from Rev. Wal- 
ter H. Ashley, a Former Man- 
chester Pastor. 
Manchester and North Shore 
friends of Rev. Walter H. Ashley 
and two daughters, Misses Kate 
and Gertrude, will be interested in 
reading the following letter sent to 
the Breeze. Mr. Ashley was pastor 
of the Congregational church in 
Manchester for a number of years, 
and left here about a year ago for 
the Black Hills of South Dakota. 
By W. H. Ashley. 
After a year in the Black Hills of 
South Dakota the writer is just be- 
ginning to learn something of the 
natural beauties that surround him. 
The first thought is of folks. The 
true man turns to his fellows and 
finds in them life’s chief interest. 
Then comes the thought of how 
they live. Whence the source of 
life’s material stream. In the Black 
Hills first of all is the gold supply 
and the great Home-stake mine be- 
comes the starting point of interest, 
but not alone. Then comes _ the 
stock—the great cattle range—and 
Belle Faurche surrounded by the 
grazing country and near the be- 
ginning of the great government 
irrigating dam and ditch, the cattle 
shipping point, takes the attention. 
Then come the valleys where all 
the products of the north temperate 
clime are produced and consumed 
without being taken far from 
home. Then the industries arising 
from all these. It is then that one 
has time to look about him and 
study conditions of nature. A year 
in a climate that knows little of 
summer heat and whose winter in 
point of severity is so short that it 
is soon forgotten; whose autumns, 
after the equinox of rain and hail 
and snow, often extend into the new 
year, causes one to wonder if an- 
other can be like it. 
hills whose beauty and grandeur 
will take years to explore, with their 
pine clad breasts and summits, deep 
gorges, rushing streams, towering 
rocks and gems of valleys. 
3ut of all the Black Hills we have 
lately visited a part that surpasses 
all others and I wonder if there is 
anywhere within the same compass 
anything like it. We took the Bur- 
lington route to Custer, sixty miles 
away (a sixty miles of winding 
among the hills, up and down, in 
and out like the trail of the Rio 
Grande), the R. R. point for the fa- 
mous Sylvan Lake. Entering from 
the north we preferred to wait for 
A year amid ° 
morning for the drive of six miles, 
that it might come by daylight 
rather than in the twilight of the 
long Dakota day. 
This drive was like that of west- 
ern Massachusetts, save that it 
lacked the centuries of civilization © 
and the rural home. Once on the 
way Harney’s Peak appeared stand- 
ing above all the peaks of the Black 
Hills, the sentinel of the Hills 8200 
feet above the level of the sea. Our 
way lay upward, but no mountain 
climbing impeded our progress. 
We had heard of Sylvan, we had 
seen the charming pictures, but we 
did not dream that such a place 
could be so near home, so near the 
wind-swept, heat-scorched plains of 
our, middle west. 
A deep gorge, filled with massive 
boulders, as though some — great 
giant of the under world had found 
his way obstructed, had lifted the 
hills upon his shoulders and had 
twisted them apart and then with 
strides like those*of the ancient Cy- 
clops had moved out into the 
plain. 
Where the walls stood a_ hun- 
dred feet apart and fifty high, a 
dam has been built and the tiny 
stream held back to form a lake, 
whose rippling waves dash upon 
rocks of varied forms and sizes and 
heights that produce a picture that 
with all the artist’s skill cannot be 
put on canvas, for he cannot catch 
the varying change of light and 
shade and color with changing sun 
and moving clouds. 
This charming spot has 
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