Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-12-13
The total amount produced to that
time was $4,000 pounds.

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The total amount produced to that
time was $4,000 pounds.
RICHARD JUSTICE DIGGINGs.
Situated on the Phelps range, shafts
are 90 feet deep, down to the clay
openings Length of drifts about sc
feet. The ore here occurs in sheet
about an inch thick. The diggings
were worked from June, 1872, tc
June, 1875, and produced about 49,.
600 pounds. Near these diggings
and about ten feet deeper, is an east
and west sheet dipping to the north,
carrying punches OF blende, which af.
fords quite handsome crystals.
MANwARING ARD MADISON RANGE.
This is an east aud west range, and
is sometimes known as the HincE
range, from the name of party who
formerly worked it, and by whom i,
was abandoned in 1858. Since the
level has been run, the water has
fallen about so feet in this ground
and in December, 1873, work was re.
sumed on it by Crawford, Mills q Co.
since which time it has produced 40,
900 pounds of lead ore. The shaft il
down about fifty-five feet, or within
six feet of the flint opening. Work
was suspended on it in June, 1875.
JOHN EDWARDS DIGGINGs.
Situated a short distance further
west on the same range. a fat sheet
of blende is found here in the second
opening, at depth of 80 feet below
the surface. The order Of deposition
here is: lst, pyrite; ed, galenite; Sd
blende. During the winter of 1875 g
the product was blende, 10 tons lead
ore, 1,400 pounds.
BULL PUMP RANGE.
This range was worked by Jackson
& Co. during the years 1873-4-5.
producing 10000 pounds. Work was
suspended here in the fall of 1875.
BININGER RANGE.
This range has been worked at in
tervals since May, 1874. 1t is now
worked by Stephens, Nankivel &
Rowe; four men are employed, work
ing horse pump in the second open.
ing. During the present year the
product has been 10000 pounds.
BIG PUMP RANGE.
This range has been worked since
October l, 1876, by Richard Eustice
& Co. A small amount of ore has
been produced from the first opening.
MCCOY wATER-wHEEL RANGE.
Work was recommended here about
August 1st, 1876, by Rowe 81 Son, in
the first opening.
OATES & JUSTICE.
This party has been working during
the last year and half on a range
200 feet north of the west branch oil
the level. The lead ore is found in a
fiat sheet in the second opening. The
opening is seven feet high and aver.
ages seven feet in width. The sheet
is about one foot thick. The product
to the present time has been 10000
pounds.
CLARK's DIGGINGs.
Two men have been working dur
ing the last year in the range next
north of the Mccoy Wheel
range, The ore is found as "chunk
mineral" in the second opening which
is here six feet wide. The product
has been 10000 pounds.
TREGANZA SON.
Work was commenced by this par
ty in the fall of 1874 on the Drybone
range, south of the Badger lot. The
works are in the second opening
which is here from 10 to II feet wide,
and contains a fiat sheet about five
inches thick, of which the upper part
consists of lead ore, and the lower of
zinc ores. The product has been,
zinc ores 90 tons; lead ore 10000
pounds. Very handsome specimens
of galenite coated with cerusite are
obtained here.
w. II. EUsTICE & BRO.
This party commenced work in the
fall of 1875 at Crawford's little pump
shaft. They worked in the second
opening during the winter of 1856
and suspended in the summer on ac-
count of water. The prospect is good
and they expect to resume work this
winter (1s76). Product l0, 900 pounds.
EDWARDS ESTATE.
On this land there are several old
ranges, now drained by the level of
Crowford, Mills 81 Co., in which the
following mining has been done:
PETER SKINNER,
in the winters of 1874-5 and 1856,
produced 100000 pounds.
MoFFAT co.
in the same seasons produced $4,000
pounds.
PIERCE & TREwATHER,
in the same seasons produced 10000.
Other parties in the same time in
small amounts, 100 900.
In addition to the parties already
mentioned, there are, in the winter
season usually about sixty miners at
work on the lands of the Hazel Green
Mining Company.