Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-06-17
Mining Items.

French creek begins to assume the
appearance ofa placer gulch and puts the
old timers in mind Of '76 and ~. At
present some 300 or 800 inches Of water
is running and the prospects now are
that it will hold out during the summer,
which fact the miners are not slow to
take advantage of. r..
Messrs. Faust, Kennedy, Reeves and
Bear are opening up Sam S~hankland's
old claim situated at the foot of Fifth
street, with every prospect of a big
cleanup.
BARRIERS dry placer a~malgamator will
pc running by Monday on dirt from the
Dansby diggings.
Croford brothers are working ON their
Spring creek ditch and now have il COM
pleted to within four miles of the Grand
Junction.
Four men are at work on the New
York mica mine.
II. c. McMaken returned from his
eastern trip last Saturday, and on Mon
day a force Of eight men will be put at
work on the Custer mica mine north
west of town owned by himself, Often
bacher and Height.
Messrs. Sprague and Hebert have
taken the contract to get out about
$4,000 pounds Of mica from the Custer
mica mine.
The messengers, Scott Davis, Ross
Davis, VIM. Sample. AL. Beedle and
Capt. Willard, arrived with the tr.asere
coach on Tuesday last, from Deadwood,
1T, bringing with them nearly $780,
M41 worth OF precious ha!!;on. Sidney
Plaindealer, 10th.
From n table in the Engineering and
Mining Journal we take the following
exhibits of the amounts shipped for the
month of May, az well as the aggregate
shipments to such date, from the first of
january, 1882.
The shipments Of gold bullion are val
ued at $2O.67 per ounce troy.
Caledonia, since January LIST, $23,I1
Deadwood-Terra, ditto, $23+,626
Father DeSmet, ditto, $l54,S39.
Homestake, for the month of Nav.
$4,000; since Jan. l, $5l3,Sll. Total
for the year, S926,442. WURMU
The rumor has been current for a
week or more that important transac
tions were on the tapis, and that the
signs of the times pointed directly to the
building Of a mill on the Giant and Old
Abe mine of a much larger capacity
than any yet erected, in fact to contain
200 stamps. The site has been selected.
and the ground purchased on which 10
erect, and within a short time another
monster will be crushing the rich ore
from the above mine, which will add to
Lead City from two to four hundred adj
d~itional miners and laborers.
One of the most important inventions
Of the age, and one that will be of great
benefit to the Black Hills, is the inyen-
~oa . uiy Siuoiiiib stamp ulliI, when
has been perfected by a gentleman in
La Crosse, Wisconsin. Some time ago
j. I. Gilmore sent a quantity Of ore tax
en- from the Silver Greek and belt mines.
to La Crosse, and has received a letter
from the party to whom the ore was
sent stating that the mill was tested and
that it proved satisfactory in every par
ticular. After the ore had been run
through the mill, with good results, the
tailings were twice tested by the pan
process, and after that by acids, and not
a trace Of gold could be found in them.
About five hundred pounds of ore will
be forwarded to La Crosse in a few days,
with which to make still another and
final test.-Pioneer, llth.
The shutting down Of the Sitting Bull
smelter, was occasioned by the exhaus-
ton of fuxing ore, and the impossibility
OF securing % during the present
execrable condition Of the roads. The
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