Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-06-10
MINING ItArnA.

ously.
Messrs. Fortune, Sutherland and
Thompson, the latter gentleman a for
mer treasurer of Lawrence county, have
their coats off and are burning a coal pit
at the Penobscot.
The latest from tho Grand Junction is
that the mill Is idle, although work is
in progress at the mine.
II. G.. Butterfield, who has numerous
valuable locations in the vicinity OF
Custer, is doing his yearly assessment
work.
Uncle Blevin is developing his quartz
mine in Waren's gulch.
1t is expected that work will be re-
newed on the Lost Bonanza mica mine
next week.
Chicago Mining Review, 9th nit Mr.
Manville and Mr.. Milliken, Of Chicago,
are en- route TO the Hills, when work viii
be pushed forward rapidly on their mica
properties in the neighborhood of Gus
| ter, Dakota.
Mr.. John Bueter, the First Ward
merchant of Deadwood, arrived this
week and has begun extensive develop
ments on his valuable properties near
Four Mile,
The King Solomon company, Tiger
vile, with Professor A. l.. Dickcrman
superintendent, now have the main
shaft on their mine down l2O feet, and
it is one-of the finest ever sunk in the
Hills, having three compartments, each
four and n half feet square in the clear
all well timbered. The following de-
scription of their hosting works we
find in the Journal of the End 'Tlle
main building over this shaft contains
some of the finest hosting works i'm the
Black Hills country, and in fact az good
as can be procured, being of the Roch-
ester Manufacturing company's make.
Two magnificent 50-horse engines fur
nish the power for hosting, which is
done by means Of two large drums,
heavy wire cable, and q mamoth iron
bucket capable of holding at least a ton
OF rock. The drills in the shaft
are worked by compressed air, com
prcssors of the best pattern being used.
From the building a track is run to the
dump, where the bucket is emptied bv
means of a pulley. A wire running to
the bottom Of the shaft along the up-
right timbers connects with q battery in
the office, the charges are all exploded
by electricity, a better effect of the ex-
plosive material being obtained by
simultaneous firing Of six or eight holes.
Immediately after setting off blasts air
is pumped INTO the shaft which at once
drives ont the gas and smoke, and by
this means the men in the bottom are
supplied with pure oxygen. Day and
night shifts are now employed in the
shaft and we are informed by the super
intendent it is the intention of the COM
pany to push it down a distance of 900
feet. Additions have been made to the
main building, In n OF which is the
blacksmith shop, where the tools are
s%harpened, and repairs made. while in
another is a prospecting mill Of three
stamps, with which the ores Of the
Solomon and other mines owned by the
company are tested as development
progresses. The company has also a
short distance from here a saw mill,
with which the timbers and lumber
necessary for the buildings were sawed
out. Pipes u from the boilers to the
residence and Office Of the snper,ntend-
ent, aid the entire house is heated by
steam. In close proximity are also re-
sldences of the engineer and others en-
ployed upon the works"