Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-07-11
Mining Items

Mining Items
Four men are working on the Old
Mike and are showing up large quanti-
ties of mica.
Nessrs. Blevins & Conner have put in
a bedrock drain on Lightning creek and
expected to tegin sluicing this week.
Cook and Rogers at the Grizzly Bear
will be ready to drop stamps next
week.
Work on the drift on the 100 foot level
at the Golden'Summit is all that is being
done at that place at present. The mill
will not start up until after the arrival
Of some of the company from Cedar
Rapids.
Six men are ut work at Four Mile and
the new manager, a practical and ex-
perienced mill man and miner is getting
things in shape to make a test run when
work will be ~inaugurated on a more ex-
tended scale.
Times, 10th: Prof. Stevens, a metal
lurgist from England. arrived from Gus
ter county last evening, and to-day will
proceed to Niger Hill to examine the
tin interests of that district. We un-
derstand that he represents an English
syndicate, and that much capital will be
invested in the Hills provided he sub
mits a favorable rpport
The Uncle Sam shaft is down about
100 feet, and will shortly be at greater
depth than heretofore reached by other
workings. The work of removing the
Esmeralda mill continues without in.
terruption. Every part of the building,
as well as all machinery. will be taken
over. The Sam is the only mine in the
Hills using the Diamond drill.
Several new locations showing tin
have been made at the new district dis.
covered last week and the work O
development is being pushed on the
location of Mr.. Mclaughlin and sons
with gratifying results. This district il
near the Webbfoot property the mine
which founded the first organized com
pany in the Hills, in rs, and it was
thought the ore was rich in silver, as.
says showing as high as several thou.
sand ounces, but the probabilities are
that that the white metal then thought
to be silver, was in fact tin.
The new machinery of the Iron Hill
company will consist of complete hoist.
ing works and a ten-stamp mill, wet
crusher, manufactured by Fraser K
Chalmers. Part Of the works is on the
road and the remainder will be shipped
at an early date. The mill will have a
capacity of thirty tons a day and will
run on the chlorides and other high
grade ore, of which there is, by careful
estimate. $1,000 in sight. The estimat.
ed expense per ton of mining and re.
ducing to bullion by the proposed
process will not exceed IS. The ONLY
work now progress at the mine consists
of enlarging the old shaft from the o0(
level to the surface to conform to the ex
tension to the 800 level.
1t would seem from the followin.
which We take from the Times Of tn,
4th that our pointer on the Greenwood
was straight: Il. B. Hammond is i'm re
ceipt of letter from Matthew Latin
directing him to surrender all ~propert,
of the Greenwood Gold Mining ant
Milling company, upon order from J
Taylor. From other sources we lear,
that all differences between Messrs
Latin and Taylor have been settled al
legal proceedings stopped a new com
pany from abroad organized that Lafir
no longer retains interest in the prop
erty, and that operations Will shortly b.
resumed at Greenwood. Joe Tracy re
Gently visited the property for the pur
pose of taking an inventory. An agen
Of the new company is daily expected
from Chicago.