Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-08-08
Mining Items

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ages 81. so to the wagon load.
At least a dozen miners are at work
on as many locations which they sup
pose to be nickel and the chances are
strongly in favor Of something valuable
being shown up.
Six men are at work developing the
Old Mike mica mine and enough of the
mineral is being taken out to pay for
the expense of developing.
Blevins and his partner are at work
sluicing at the mouth Of Lightning creek
and taking out good pay.
Pierre Press: One carload of ma
chinery for the Iron Hill mine, Carbon
ate Camp, near Deadwood, was taken
over the river this morning.
Two carloads Of gold bearing ore from
the Iron Hill mine arrived this morn
ing, and is being loaded for the Omaha
smelling works.
One carload of stamps for the Buxton
mine start for the Hills this afternoon.
McLaughlin's on their placer claim
above town with two men took out in
three days 32l pennyweights Of dust the
first Of this week which was purchased
by ii. A. Albien.
A seven foot shaft on the First Chance
tin mine located at the forks Of the
(FttCtnr and DaalvtAaI rnoI +rn .,tln.
from town shows the hanging wall with
8 feet Of good ore and the foot wall not
yet encountered.
Another claim. an extension of the
above, owned by Mclaughlin and But
terfield, shows in an 8 foot shaft 9 feet
of mineral and but one wall-the hang
ing.
McGuigan Bros. last week sold their
dry gulch claim, located two miles from
town for a valuable consideration, just
what the sum paid was we we're unable
to learn.
The three mines which constitute
what is known AS the Pierce Mining
company, were yesterday sold at sheriff
sale to Edgar Freeman, to satisfy a judg-
ment held by that gentleman. The
Badger mine sold for $4,000; "Pierce
mine, $4,000, and the Jenny" S $1,000
making a total Of $37, 900. The business
was transacted by T. l.. Skinner, attor-
ney for Freeman.
Professor ~Luckenbach in the Dead
wood Pioneer: If there are any doubts
whatever in the minds of the business
men of the Black Hills as to the exist
ence of tin ore on the surface to justify
this expenditure, let them appoint a
committee, called the investigating or
smelling committee, to visit the different
localities where tin ore has been found
already, and you may take my word for
it, that they will report favorably /
know they will if they come down into
Custer and Pennington counties. We
can show them veins or lodes Of spar
extend ~heavenward from twenty to forty
feet, and are from one to three miles in
length, that carries in the spar from
three to eight per cent tin. We can
show them large dykes, as we called
them in early days when they were
worked for mica alone, tina. are now
known to carry tin ore and tin crystals
that run from 8 per cent in tin in the
spar up to So and IS per cent in tin in
crystals, and in not only one but ir
many Of them. The latest discovery foi
instance at Warren's gulch, seven miles
from Custer, while it is not vet clearly
demonstrated that it is a true fssurt
vein, is, | believe, one of the largest, il
not the very largest, body oc tin ore
ever discovered on the face Of the earth
There are tons of crystals there that run
from 5 to 8 per cent. l will say in con.
~clusion that tin alone is not the only one
of the metals that we can boast of, as we
have gold quartz lodes in abundance
and of a fair percentage in gold, that
will pay handsomely for its reduction
We have mountains of gravel that wi
repay the capitalist to invest in it, for
mining by the hydraulic method, and
in most all cases these mines can be
reached by bitches from three to ten
miles in length, that would furnish
water enough TO work with and land to
work that will pay from forty cents to
Sl.5O per cubic yards of gravel. ! know
of place within three miles of Custer
where there are hundreds of acres of
land that If water was put on il q n.y.
drawlic diggings could be opened up
that believe would pay from 81 to 81
per day net over and above each miners
wages that are employed. In some
cases the water can be brought on at an
expense Of from $1,000 to $1,000, but in
most cases would cost more than that.
Tents. wagon covers. tarpaulins camp