Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-06
TIN TRIUMPHANT.
The Harvey Peak Company's Mines and
Their Enemies Discussed by The
London Times.

"A iate issue OF the LONDON Times con-
tains the following concerning the prop
erty of the Harvey Peak Tin Mining
Company:
Whatever may have been the effect
produced on the public mind by the un-
favorable comments which followed the
introduction to this country of the Har-
ney Peak tin mining enterprise, it is
useless any longer to deny the great
value of the Dakota tin deposits and
the quiet way in which the proprietors
have accepted certain hostile criticism
Is no doubt due TO the consciousness OF
their own honesty Of purpose and an
implicit belief in the vast extent and
great value of the mineral resources of
their property.
Referring to the report Of Captain
Gilbert. made upon the properties to
John Taylor d Sons of London. as being
highly satisfactory. that paper says:
Nor is this report surprising, consider
ing that the certificates Of assay of thir-
teen samples made in Cornwall show
the rock to contain from fifty-one to
1868 pounds Of metallic tin TO the ton,
and only four of the samples contained
less than ll2 pounds Of tin to the ton
and the block tin was SO near chemical
purity that 69.3l per cent. was the low
est, and 1874 per cent. the highest fgur-
es obtained, nine OF the thirteen samples
giving over seventy-four per cent. 1t
should be understood that about seven
ty-eight per cent represents chemical
purity.
The later report Of Professor Vincent
is thus referred to:
In 1887 it was decided to obtain an
other Independent report, and a COM
mission, of which Professor Vincent was
the head, was dispatched to Dakota TO
examine and ascertain the extent and
value Of the Harvey Peak company's
properties. Owing to the vast extent of
these properties and the necessity tor
careful and accurate investigation and
report, this commission has taken nearly
a year to make the results Of its mission
known. The elaborate report Of Profess
sor Vincent is most full and comprehen
slve, and bears evident marks of having
been written with the utmost care, after
patient and full personal investigation,
and we most strongly commend it to
the perusal ofall who are at all interest
ed III this important question Of the
Tin Deposits Of Dakota Around about
Harvey Peak" rs our contemporary, the
Mining Journal, headed its very excel
lent article on this subject in its issue of
August %. We would also adyise those
who are in the least interested in this
subject to visit and inspect, as we have
done, some forty tons of samples Of ore,
some of 1T in large masses, weighing up
wards Of two tons in a single mass,
shipped to this country by direction of
Professor Vincent, assays from which
have been made by Mr.. Fred Claudet,
assayer for the Bank of England, and
which are attached to Professor Vim
cents report.
CONSUL sApLER's REPORT.
We will conclude by quoting what
must be admitted by all to be unques-
tionable authority, and which brings us
down to the date of January of this
year. Consul Hayes Sadler, in his re-
port to Her Maiesty's government on
the trade of Chicago for 1887, writes /:
THE discovery Of tin in the Black Hills
must be regarded as of the highest inn
portance, rs there is now little doubt
that the mines are of enormous extent
and value"
The report of Prof. Carpenter is here
referred to, after which the article closes
as follows:
After reading Professor Vincent's
elaborate report and the convincing
evidence we have quoted above, it
seems no longer possible for any clear
headed business man to doubt the exis-
tence Of payable tin lodes on the Har-
ney Peak company's property.
The following extracts relating to the
same subject, appeared in a later issue
of the same paper:
The time has, beyond all question,
now arrived when the truth and details
relating to the tin deposits Of Iial ney
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 a
letter dated June 4, 1887, from one
Thomas III. White in which he states
that Harvey Peak is situated in Pen
nington and Custer county, and is, SO to
speak, a rugged granite cave, f1anked 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 a limited extent" After
referring to the mill and to the explora-