Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-07-04

We learn from good authority that
the Greenwood property will soon be
put in operation again.
Work on the Tin Mountain is being
pushed and so far has resulted in show
ing up a fine body of high grade ore
over 300 feet vest Of the original dis
covery. This location is undoubtedly,
for the amount Of work done, one of the
best locations yet made in the Black
Hills and Cornwall experts tell us it
beats anything that was shown up in
that country to start with.
We were informed yesterday that the
Bismarck fin mine adjoining the Pea
cock, in the vicinity Of Bismarck's
ranch, was purchased this week by Mr..
Stephens for the company owning the
Peacock. The locators of the Bismarck
were Franklin, John Higgins and Pat
Smith, We have not learned the con-
sideration received ty the boys for the
property. journal.
Mclaughlin and sons this week made
a new tin discovery. which o gives
Custer q tin strike within twenty min
utes walk no matter which point Of the
compass you wish to follow. The dis
covery is on the ridge Of rocks at the
forks Of the Deadwood roads northwest
Of town. A sample of the ore ;ested by
Prof. Bailey gave good returns in metal
ic tin and and the owners will com.
The work Of developing at once
Prof. Dickerman passed through town
on Thursday on his way to the Uncle
Sam. mine and in a short conversation
with our reporter gave him the follow
ing:
Eighty men are now engaged on the
property in the different branches and
the Esmeralda mill left its old site a
Central for the new one on the above
mine last Monday, and when in opera,
ton ought to make a reputation for thai
part of the country. The mine is situat
ed about 5000 feet below the crossing O
Elk creek by the old Custer trail and il
one Of the few mines i'm this or an,
other country that has paid its way
Starting with Observation-Disclosures
next came a two-stamp mill till at this
date a 60-stamper is being erected anC
the expense incurred has not only al
been pounded out of the ore, but en-
ough more gold has been taken out t,
make rich mon of the locators.
In speaking Of the placer mines Of tn,
Hills the Deadwood Times saws: Tn,
diggings OF Whitewood have furnishe,
nearly $4,000 per month since they hav,
been commenced to be opened thi
year, and the banks ship about $500
every month, that are take out i'm tn
neighborhood of Deadwood. This, O
course, is nothing compared with wha
was shipped in 1875 and 1877. but
shows that the placer mines are still
furnishing ample returns for the worI
placed upon them, and the day-by-da
way they are work. With more ex
%tensive works for getting large yield
placed upon the mines We could Loo
for immense returns. Spring, Castl
and French creeks this year furnisI
much more dust for shipment than il
previous years, there being many NOR
men at work in the diggings. Some G
the parties at work have struck larg
pockets on the rims. which is about a
they are working, and the banks a
Rapid receive as large an amount @
gold dust as the Deadwood banks. Il
they take every of securing tn
gold from that country. Then at Gus
ter there is a large amount of dus
bought which is secured from tin
smaller gulches in that neighborhood
There are several buyers at that poin,
who take in considerable dust daily
Niger Hill furnishes q lot of fine nue.
gets that are purchased at the bank d
Spearfish. Taking them altogether
there is no doubt but the averag
amount Of dust bought per month i
| about as follows:
Deadwood banks ........................Ss.OG
Rapid City banks..."......-..-...... 500
800
Spearfish OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 100
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