Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-07-22

Mining Items.

The hosting works for the Gold Star
company, Four Mile, pulled through
town last Saturday and the work of put
ting them in place will M nex
week. The job will he done by the day.
Messrs. Faust and Kennedy the first
of this week discovered a dry gulch
near Dansby which goes So to the load
of dirt.
Three men are at work on the Belle
Of Custer mica mine, under the superin-
tendency Of Mr.. Ruggles. A shaft is be-
ing sunk which is now down twenty
five feet. This will tap the lead about
fifty feet deep and below the loose for
nation. The property is about four
miles below town on the Sidney road.
The Penobscot company have started
a new shaft neal the old mill which will
tap the lead ut a depth Of $50 or 200
feet.
The Ifomestakc product for June
amounted to 1923 ounces of gold, valued
at 8 3,449.
The Deadwool-Terr product for June
was 1906 ounces of gold, valued at So
428.
The managers Of the Portland and
Snow-storm companies have been busily
engaged I'm ascertaining what process of
reduction would produce the best results
in the treatment of their ores. They
have decided, such decision having been
based upon tests made by experts at
Denver, San Francisco, Hoboken and
New York. The stockholders in these
properties may well feel elated, as the
mines are among the best in this or any
other country, only needing proper APP
pliances for reduction. When these are
supplied the bullion output of these
properties will go far to secure the merit
ed boom for Bald Maintain district.
George Wilson, mining engineer, in a
correspondence to the Engineering and
Mining Journal, dwells at considerable
length on the inducements offered by
Mexico rs a field for prospectors or
skilled miners. AS native miners can
be secured at from 30 cents TO SI.50 pc,
day, but poor inducements are Offered
Cor American miners, the demand foi
whose services is limited to the foremeu
required by American companies. Bu;
small inducements are offered to stimuli
ate the p~rospector, as good, well-devel-
oped properties bring no more in the
market than do prospects in other min
ing camps.
In q correspondence to the Tombstone
Epitaph, dated June II, Harrisbough
Alaska, John Clunan speaks very de.
~sparagingly Of present or probable future
merit. At the time Of writing the
weather was intensely cold, the ground
being covered with several feet of snow,
and cold ram falling almost necessarily
he represents the country as being
much inferior in point Of placer and
quartz to any other mining camp he has
visited within our governments do
mains. The country IS fuli OF mel who
regret having made the trip and are an,
xious to get out ofthe country.
Pioneer, 10th: By all odds the hca vi
est shipment of bullion ever forwarded
from this city, was brought down or
Yesterday, consisting Of ten monster
gold bricks agercgating in value abou'
100000 the result Of one months rur
Of the six mills of the Homestake com
pany. They were deposited with thl
Northwestern Stage company which has
secured the contract to transport the
semi-monthly outputs from the bon,
anzas of "thc belt" The cargo was in.
deed good for diseased optics, and it,
discharge at the stage Office was beheld
by a large and fairly bewildered crowd
What an advertisement for the Hills
and their "low grade mines" the preci.
Gus load woGid be if displayed at the
Denver exposition.