Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-10-11
BLACK HILLS TIN MINES AND THEIR ENE.
MITES.

BLACK HILLS TIN MINES AND THEIR ENE-
MITES.
Following are extracts from an article
published in the same paper of date Of
September 8.
The time has, beyond all question,
now arrived when the truth and details
relating to the tin deposits of Harvey
Peak must be known; and some excep-
tons having been taken to the remarks
in last weeks Sunday Times, we have in
justice to ourselves and the public, gone
still further into the investigation of this
subject, and now subjoin the facts: We
find in the Financial News letter dated
June 4, 1887, from one Thomas H. White
in which he states that Harney Peak is
situated in Pennington and Custer coun-
ties, and is, SO to speak, a rugged granite
cave, fanked on all sides by vertical clay
states. Near the juncture Of the states
and granite, numerous parallel granite
dykes follow the dip and the strike OF
the states. In these granite dykes tin
(cassiterite) has been found to limited
extent" After referring to the mill and
to the exploratory works which had been
carried on, he says: ssThere is not enough
tin in the rock to pay, even if the prop
erty were situated in Cornwall, where la
Dor is cheap and boys and girls do the
dressing, and whose wages are from Cd.
to 2s. per day. In the Black Hills the
company would have to pay 3s. for the
same work. Miners in Cornwall get
from 3s. 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 proper
ton" And in conclusion he asserts
that the "Harney Peak Tin Mining COM
pany cannot take out one shilling's worth
of tin for each twenty shillings expended
in taking it out" Thomas H. White de-
scribes himself as "Mining Engineer,
United States Deputy Mineral Surveyor,
Manager of the Black Hills Mining
Agency, Deadwood, Lawrence county,
Dakota Territory, United States Of Amer
lea. Formerly Of Pensilva, Cornwall,
England" &s
This and this alone was the foundation
for all the adverse statements which have
been published derogatory to the extent,
value and Importance of this great tin
discovery in Dakota. This expert of the
Financial News had, it was we'll 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 Deadwood- know that his
letter was gross fabrication and tissue
of Misrepresentation, that over fifty Of
them petitioned the surveyor general of
the territory for his immediate dismissal
from the official position he held for the
following reasons:
/. For aiding and abetting one Joseph
Taylor in scheme known as the Green
wood swindle.
2. For calling himself mining ex-
change and using his deputy official sig
nof,, 70 IN osror1 lore ~ will M, ,,.xyor,,
public to contribute to his support.
8. For wilfully and maliciously black
mailing legitimate mining industries,
the owners OF which have not or would
not employ him to write up their report.
This petition was, we may add, sup
ported by another from Rapid City,
signed by the leading citizens, who re-
quested his dismissal for the following,
among other reasons:
Because the said White as we are in
formed and believe, regularly and sys-
tematicaIly prostitutes his official posi-
tion to private interests, and does not
hesitate to blight the interests of large
tracts of country, valuable properties,
and hundreds Of honest miners and mine
owners, for no other reason than that
they have neglected to subsidize him,
and thereby secure his favorable report;
and because his said communication
hereto attached is a wholesale slander
upon the property referred to Harney
Peak) and is calculated and intended to
injure the material interests OF one of the
most valuable properties and one of the
most important interests on the Ameri-
can continent
This was the verdict and opinion Of
over 100 representative and business
men in the immediate vicinity, not one