Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-06

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is cheap and boys and girls do the
dressing, and whose wages are from Cd.
to IS. per day. In the Black Hills the
company would have to pay IS. for the
same work. Miners in Cornwall get
from IS. to As. per day in the Black
Hills the miners wages are $3.50 per
~day-about four times as much as in
Cornwall and everything else in pro-
portion" And in conclusion he asserts
that "the Harvey peak Tin Mining com
pany cannot take out one shilling's
| worth of tin for each twenty shillings
expended in taking it out" Thomas III.
White describes himself as mining En-
gineer, United States Deputy Mineral
Surveyor, Manager Of the Black Hills
Mining agency, Deadwood, Lawrence
County, Dakota Territory, United States
Of America. Formerly Of Pensilva, Corn
wall England"
This, and this alone was the founda-
ton for all the adverse statements which
have been published ~derogatory to the
extent, value and Importance Of this
great tin discovery in Dakota. This ex-
pert Of the Financial News had, it was
well known, never been within twenty
FIVE miles of the property when he
wrote. And SO well did the leading
citizens Of his place Of residence-Dead-
wood-know hat his letter was a gross
fabrication and tissue of misrepresenta-
tons, that over fifty Of them petitioned
the surveyor general Of the territory for
his Immediate dismissal from the ofici-
al position he held for the following
reasons:
The reasons, referred to, which May
of our readers are famlltac with as well
as the cancelling Of his commission as
deputy U. $. Mineral %Survevor, are her,
given, followed by the following com
ment:
These extracts speak for themselves /;
we therefore dismiss Mr.. White, and
leave the public TO judge whether he is
a reliable authority for any Journal 10
adopt, and whether it is reasonable TO
put forward, as worthy Of credit, state
ments made By him. Another authority
quoted by IL contemporary is Messrs.
Phelps, Dodge and Company, OF New
York, who have tried to hold a monop-
oily ofthe importation of Tin into the
United States for many years past. In
our opinion the less said as to the reli-
ability Of their statements the better,
for our contemporary, from the fact that
Messrs. Phelps Dodge and Companv's
declarations AZ to The value and extent
of the Harney Peak tin deposits may be
open to the same criticism as those
made in their dealings with the United
States custom house in New York some
years since.
These are the authorities in opposi-
ton to the development, and in denial
Of the extent and importance Of Ameri.
can native tin mining. We gave our
authorities in support OF the facts we
put forward in our issue of SUNDAY last
and we here repeat them, entertaining
no doubt that they will be accepted by
all as Of infinitely greater weight THAI
those Of our contemporary. FIRST we
have the United states government in
the official report of the mineral re.
sources OF the United States, for lSS3-84
announcing and certifying as to the fact
of the tin discovery and lis importance
to the United States. Secondly, we
have the investigation made in 1886 an.
der the direction Of Messrs. John TAYLOR
and Sons, Of, Queen Street Place, Lon
don, by their agent, Captain Gilbert, a
Cornishman of unquestionable integrity
and OF great experience in Cornish tiu
mining. Again, there is the elaborate
and carefully written report Of Profess
sor Vincent, the head of a commission
sent to Dakota by leading and reliable
London men i'll 1887. Still later, pub
lished in May Of this year, 1883, is the
report of the British Consul, HAYES
Sadler, al Chicago, only one days journ.
ely from the mines. This latter report
mors than confirms all the statements
we have quoted concerning this proper
ty. If there be any doubt or uncertain
ty as to the character and reliability of
Her Majesty's consul, we must refer our
contemporary to the British govern
ment, whom Consul Hayes Sadler rep
resents.
n n
Further evidence az &c The immense
extent and undoubted value of the Har-
ney Peak tin deposits, will not, we
think, be required, and when the nature
and the source OF TIE statements put
forth by the owners Of the Harvey Peak
property, and by the opponents of
American TIN mining are considered
and impartially compared, The sole con
clusion that can be arrived at is that it
is to the very richness of the Dakota
deposits that the opposition is due, and
it may be safely said that had such de-
posits been found in any of the old tin
producing countries (for it must be re-
membered that the assays of the whole
geological formation, as distinguished
from the lode stuff. Yields the hand