Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1878-06-21

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cuts several veins oi this character The tunnel 10
owned by n. Sergeant. formerly Of Chiesgo.
The Rald mountain ores carry silver In almost
.n1dmitea auanti,e: the Msil u storm from go
associates, who have interests IN come sixty odd
gold .nd silver Lends. some Of them among the
Crown, Mons 9 I, Hailstorm. Dacorsh and one.
ward Bound afc among the best Bald Mountain
leads. These leads all carry free milling and
are certain to prove to be worth millions at ve
visited the Hailstorm to-day. Awcll defined
lead is traced some fifteen hundred feet. AT tho
apex II IL Dut few inches wide. A tunnel has
been runtfnto it about one hundred feet and .
shaft sunk thirty feet. At this point the Lead
sixty 70 four hundred ounces nee Of silver. aud about
dftccn dollars gold to the ton. and Prof Sanders
reports as high as one hundred aud sixty ounces
The Monster. owned BY the same parties. shows
lead forty odd feet wide. and an assay from the
Dass, resulted T ss.is M gold, and sioiS silver per
Cu.ley. resulted $3.50 gold aud 10 silver. OH.
:r assays showed from twelve TO fifteen dollars
gold and an increased amount Of silver, and, nc.
cording to Prof Sanders, large percentage Of
platinum;
| the writer, the first Black Hills quartz In Febru-
| ary, 1876 which showed six dollars silver and
tho 5
prospecting" The Com.tock, It is said, did not
| prospect as well. Behold how much better pros
poets the Bald Mountain ores chow.
All wS kh9T ,o Rss goad and arc
that they are the fichest in ,6c world. but The
Black Hills silver mines secm to be even moro
promising though they are scarcely prospectcd,
and none are being worked properly.
To give an idea Of the permanency and proba-
bic wealth Of the mines quote from Fnllcrs
treatise on silver mines. He says: wherever
Vt 1rS1 hAN.a hnn,,
worked. they arc worked now. unless from war,
invasion Of Indians. etc, We know Of no silver
Mexican ines worked Ike ' By the I Az,ecs before the the
| conquest by Cortcz sill worked US proitably
us ever; the old Spanish mines opened long be-
nous profits: the South American mines have
constantly .fcldcd their wealth for more than.
| three hundred years. and arc as productive as.
ever: mines in Hungary that were worked by the.
Romans before the Savior's time. still yield
abundance OF ore: the silver mines Of Freiburg..
tinually ever since, yield their steady increase.
So III Norway. Sweden and Russia, and indeed
wherever silver mines have been opened. we be-
licvc without exception, they continue to be
worked at the present day. and generally are
more productive ikan at any time In their past
history
AS the Black Hill. mines arc more valuable
than any that have ever been discovered. Nd they
differ from any that have ever been discovered
ers would have broken the rock in the Black Hills
expecting to find gold in it, In other countries
they have small veins of gold or silver bearing
quartz. Here vast deposits of cement. rlutc and
quartz. Here it is OH the hillside. there forming
bedrock in the gulch. Here the deposit is br,i-
KEN There 1t appears like stratn of gold or sill
some convulsion OF nature. Again the mineral
takes the form of vein. All OF the leads, de-
posits. or whatever they may be. are c"vcred with
gravel which generally pays TO mill or wash. In
decd washed one pan of gravel from the Golden
Age which yielded twenty-five cent?. and in adj
the shape free gold.
The Fnthcr Dcsmet is mountain Of gold bear
ing orc but 1t also has the a.ppcnrancc Of bcinga
sey. in the immediate vicinity, seems to be de-
post of rich gold bcnrng rock which may have
been thrown up and brolcn from the Father De
Smet vein. The Reno. which Is one Of the big
gcst things in the Hills. IL also IdcIosit. The
Fairvcw. also. but In these cases. and the xnn,u
is true of hundreds ofotlers, the deposit may lead
to vein.
Orcoursc where rich quartz is found there must
be rich placer digginSs This is true Of Dead
also be true that where rich placer d..in;s are,
there will the quartz also be found. So rich quartz
claims have been located in RockcrviIle. Castle
Creek. Sand Greek, Bear gulch, and other dis
tricts.
In the Bear Butte region immense deposits of
gulcnn found. and several mines in that vicin-
ity have changed hands nj very high figures. The
Floor,nan. FL ltcilgio, Treasure and Yclluwjack-
ct are among the best Of these. Ed II. Collins
well known in Bismarck. located the latter.
Clark Stocking. bismarck man. is interested
in the New World which assays S79 to the ton:
the Chicago Board OF Trade. ussnying S96; the
Golden Crown, ussaying st': the Savannah. s1a:
the Happy Jack. SA.: and the Empress. Sask-
These are located in the Custer Creek region and
are very promising.
Fred Edgar. also Of Bismarck, and brother. own
the Lnell. Carrie now valued at rcvcnty-fve
thousand dollars; r. Jones is interested in
Custer is worth nj least thirty thousand dollars.
and the others are very valuable.
The writer owns 81 slight q i intsrect in the Mime,
located as the bisgett mine in the Hills. and is
only three hundred feet from Carpenter. Waite II
vcny wns hcd at one hun:c ID d
lar.. last summer. The MinnshHha is covered
with deposit OF cement precisely similar ia the.
While there is much more that wOuM like to-.
say in this letter in relation to the mines in the
Black Hills. must conclude.
will add how ever. that there il abundant
i'll tho Hills for men of means who not too
cowardly 10 invest il; the mines. particularly if
they have energy enough to improve the proper
ty after purchasing. For Il few hundred dollars
valuable interests may be acquired. For few
thousand property certain to become M valuable
ns the Comst0ck-ccrtan to be rated among the
millions inside OF two years, may be had \ COM
pany for ins!nncc. hnvin. capital Of fify thOu--
and dollars could get in ON one OF those Baltt'
Mountain lcuds-buying the mine and putting In
mill. The property would more than pay the
original cost in six months md would by that
time be so developed that its worth would be-
known and appreciated.
Just now there are laboring men cnouSf, j1 the.
Hills. There are thousands Of idle men at any
Eitc ana tncFc ~ no opening lOE money III any
mercantile pursuit. The Hills are crowded wirir
trndcsmen and are ovcr-st"ck kcd with goods But
money to purchase and dcvclOpc mines !. wantcd,
and money wisely invested in ttz.t direction will
yield return Uf many fold
Finally. have appropriated Information g7inc6.
from al sources without giving credit. but AM
uudcr special Obligntson to Col. Geo. Hearst anil
w. q. Tarrish. of the California companies. TOD.
B. Crooker, Gen. Cunningham. E. S. Collins. Capt.
McIIcnry, Mcssrs. Brown & Thum. l.. q. Will
liams. y. Sergeant. Mr. j. ". Forbes and his
good lady. and others. for information given and
courtcsies extended. In future letter shall re-
fer TO other matters OF interest In relation to the
Hills. The mines on Spruce gulch. which opens
into Whitcwood. Onchalf n mile below the city Of
Deadwood. when developed they will prove to be
exceedingly rich have specimen Of rock from
the Percy Lead owned by Capt. Spaids, which
will assay from $3.50 TO Sl1OO to the ton. The
specimen was taken from u crcvicc about Sour
for working. The Percy lies between the kcnnc-
gion is quite evenly charged with gold. and at
least scvcnty-fve per cent OF the gold may be
saved by the ordinary process. ns the rock IL not
refractory in the least. The gold is bright and en-
tircy free from rust. 1t is believed these ores
may be mined and miIcd nt two dollars and dfty
cents per ton. while the assays run from Hftecn
dollars upward. The Seek no Farther Is now on :.
the boards. The Muldoon f. no doabt .'solid
mon.' the Anna Owcgs. LolO. Americas. Florence,
Champion. Lexington. kcnncbcc. Percy. Dom
Pedro. Ora Cache. and Others. are good. The
snlch Is attracting much attention aud several
mills are now in course Of construction.
CAL.