Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-08-05

Mining Items.
The Penobscot mill is running ten
stamps on ore that averages over s. tc
the Ton.
1t is rnn,ored that the Lost Bonanzs
Mica Mining company will soon resume
operations.
The Gold Star Mining company, Four
Mile. put their hosting works in opera.
tion and on Wednesday started the mill
and run Of ten or sixteen days will be
made.
At the New York mica mine an open
cut, s feet wide, has been run into the
ledge giving face Of Is feet showing
plenty Of mica. A tramway is being put
in to connect the mine and cutting
house, which will probably be completed
this week.
| Mr.. Beimes, Of the Grand Junction
company, is expected to arrive from ST..
Louis next week, when work at the
mine and mill under an entirely new
management, will be started. The COM
pany have now invested over $1,000
the value of the property is thor
oughly established, and it is supposed
that work hereafter will be done on a
larger, more practicable and scientific
scale.
Ishpening, Mich, July 2s.-The
Ropes Gold and silver company have
struck veinof quartz on their property
north Of the city which assays 444 to the
ton. The vein as uncovered shows from
three to four feet in width, and the
length is not get ascertained. Work
will be prosecuted vigorously, aud lot
Of from five to ten tons shipped to Bos-
ton for pra ctical mill test. There is no
doubt as to the genuineness Of the find
Three shifts are now employed in the
King Solomon mine and work is prose
cutcd night and day. The pumps and
hosting works, put in early last spring,
are working splendidiy as are also the
air drills which are used exclusively, no
hand drilling being done at ALL The
mine is looking better AZ depth is at.
tanned, and altogether the prospects are
most fattering.
Ed. Smith ot nawhide, and part
owner Of the Michigan and Muskrat
mines in that camp, which have been
bonded by Col. Babbitt for $4,000 ar.
rived in town yesterday. Before he
let Parrish anu party had examined
the mines and left for the east to report.
lie Is confident that the ore taken By
Parrish as samples will average over 20
per cent copper, some running as high
as A. per cent The bond expires the
first Of next month and in the mean
time Col. Babbitt is spending about 5000
per week in developments and has also
deposited forfeit Of $4,000. If the
mines are taken by the company hold
ing the bond Rawhide will boom before
snow flies.
Cheyenne Sun, 23d: William A. Far.
rish. the mining expert upon whose re-
port the Father De Smet mine was pur-
chased by California company, and
who was afterward sent TO examine
Colorado mines, will arrive this after
noon from Chicago, and leave early to-
morrow morning for Hartvillc. The
party will consist of Col. A. T. Babbitt,
A. B. Converse, w. A. Parrish and all
assistant, and Mr.. Bartlitt, who IS a min
ing expert Of I.eadviile. Two valuable
mining claims have been bonded to a
company represented by Colonel Bah
bitt, and Mr.. Parrish has been employed
to examine the property. But he will
probably make more extended obser
vation, and the future of the camp will
very much depend upon the report that
he gives it. He has a reputation second
to no mining expert in the country, and
a favorable judgment from him would
bring any amount of money into the
copper mining district. The fact that
his services have been secured satisfies
the Sun that the company sending him
means business to any extent. The
visit is one of Importance.
A rain on the 2Sth ult. in Deadwood
gulch washed away $4,000 from the
sluce boxes of Messrs. Allen & Thomp-
son, placer miners. Later reports places
the loss at 5000.
The owners Of the Foote mine, at the
head of Spruce gulch, are putting up
mill on that property. The building is
already up, and the machinery is being
placed.
The Minnesota mine and mil! is now
employing twenty-five men. The mill
is crushing forty tons Of ore per day. and
the plates indicate fine clean up, better
than ever before. The breast Of ore is
now twenty-five feet wide, and there is
ore enough in sight to keep q twenty