Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-07-01
Mining Items.

The Lost Bonanza mica mine is still
idle.
The new shaft on The Salmon has
reached a depth of about 90 feet.
Placer miners are at work below Cus@
ter, near the graveyard, and are meeting
with good results.
Latest New York quotations: Gale
donia, b bid, 20 asked DeSmet, S. bid,
$3.50 asked; Great Eastern, .03 bid, .O4
asked; Homestake, $3.50 bid, SIS ask
ed.
The Deadwood-Terr Mining company
paid their nineteenth monthly dividend,
n of Is cents, on the goth instant,
~aggregating $4,000. Total of dividends
to that date, $4,000.
A reservoir will be built on the hill
at the Dsnsby ~diggings and the dry
amalgamator placed on the ground, and
thus do away with the hauling Of the
dirt. 1t is estimated that there Is ovei
a half million dollars in this ground
and Barber is the man that Will get il
out.
The Penobscot mill is dropping ter
stamps and the last cleanup was fal
ahead Of any heretofore made. The
managers have been running everything
in the mine for the past three or four
months and the developments made
warrant the erection of a forty-stamT
mill, which will be begun in a few
weeks.
The Uncle Sam mine, on Elk creek, is
steadily improving as depth is attained.
All the ore in the face of the drift is
being milled and with good results, as
the little one-stamp mill now averages
over sixty dollars a day. AS the mill
brushes about one ton a day this will
place the value of the ore at about $50,
or a trihe over that amount. Competent
judges claim it will mill over that
amount, as n stamp running alone will
n 1t crush one-fifth of the amount a bat.
terry Of five stamps will, as the splash OF
one stamp will not keep the pulp in tha'
constant motion that a full battery will
and consequently does not force il
through the meshes as rapidly.
Messrs. Davis and Beimis, represent
ing the st. Louis parties interested il
the Grand Junction arrived in Dead
wood last saturday and redeemed tn,
property from the First National Banl
ct. al. for about $4,000. But they claim
that the transfer is made to anothe
party other than the Grand junction
company. At a meeting of the Custe
creditors held Thursday afternoon
proposition for settlement was mad,
and Judge Davis left yesterday mornin,
for st. Louis to submit it to the member
of the company. A meeting Of tn,
directors will be called on his arriva
there, about the 4th, and a dispatch will
probably reach here on the 9th eithe
accepting the creditors proposition o
else ignoring their accounts. MI
Beimes remains at the property il
charge.
Pioneer, 9th: Manganese and alu
minum have been discovered nea
Galena. This last metal is the lightes
known. 1t is az light as IA Times editori
al or a reporters pocket book.
The Orc Elmo mill continues to wor1
night and day, while the mine is con
stantly improving. "This property,
says a man conversant with it, lis a
much of a fixture as the Homsstakt
only on a smaller scale"
Colonel Davey is in Idaho, prospect
ing. When last heard from he was o.
his way to the RamshOrn mine.
Thirty-siX men are at work in tn
Sitting Bull. The mine is yielding no
a little high grade ore.
Ed Collins is working eight men il
the Iron mine, taking out fluxing 70
the smelter.
The Sitting Bull smelter will not fir,
up for some time to come,
The Niger Hill Hydraulic Mimi,
company, will have from one hundred
to m hundred and fifty mel at worl
on the Cold Spring water ditch by mex
Monday.