Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-03-21
MINING MELANGE.
Iron Hill payday the 25th.

Considerable placer mining is being
done near Rockford.
The Greenback company have their
shaft down over fifty feet.
The mill on the Lookout property is
soon to be given test run.
Collingwood is showing up well. A
Quantity Of rich ore is in sight
Hermosa expects to reap great bene-
fits from the tin Industries in tho South
ern Hills.
Three wagon-loads of ore were ship
ped to Iron Hill smcltcr on Friday morn
ing, from Galena.
AS soon a@ the snow leaves sufficiently
large force will commence work on the
Two-bit mines.
1t is expected that work will soon COM
mence on the Trojan or Portland group
of mines, on the belt.
A Chicag@expert has been examining
the Hayes mine at Galena, in the inter
ests Of eastern capitalists.
Everyone is anxiously awaiting the
commencement of actual work on the
reduction works plant at Deadwood.
Snow is leaving Bald mountain very
rapidly and soon operations will he be-
gun on properties lying in that district.
The Green point and Silver Shower
lodes, at Bald mountain, have been sur
veyed preparatory to applying foea pat
emit.
Mineral patents were received Friday
for the Ferguson tin lode; Ferguson
placer; Golden Wedge fraction, and the
Ella.
The Pocahontas has called in all out
standing stock, and will issue new, on ac-
count of a former secretary destroying
the cancelled stocS he had in his possess
sion.
The Wall Street mountain mining
company have let contract to McKibs
ben & Compton for the sinking of 100
foot shaft on their property. This is
adjoining the Monarch.
A transfer of $50 acres of decided land
took place at Buffalo Gap last week.
The land is undef1ait with valuable mar
BILE and the company purchasing intend
to commence development work at once.
The corporation, although stock con-
Germ, will sell no stock, as they have all
the wealth necessary to- properly prose-
cute their labors
In the Chicago Inter Ocean of the 18th
inst. appears a long interview with A. j.
Simmons. The interview is mainly de-
voted to the tin mines of the Black Hills,
subject on which Mr.. Simmons is well
qualified to speak and to speak inteli-
gently; and The readers of the Inter
Ocean are given number of facts about
American tin .thatthey have never had
the opportunity before Of reading in the
columns of that paper. Many OF these
facts have been published heretofore in
the Black Hills, but they are of the ex-
act kind to appeal to those who have the
money to venture in promising invest
ment. They set forth brief history of
the discovery and Identification Of tin in
the Black. Hills, ofthe great number of
claims since located and the excellent
prospects found; of the average yield in
black tin, and of the wonderful size of
the tin-bearing lodges. 1t may be said
that these things have often been told,
but by their, publication in the Inter
Ocean they are brought to the attention
of thousands who never before heard of
them, or, who: having heard, paid little
to them. Now they are set
forth in such manner as to fasten the
of all who read. Mr.. Simmons
is doing good work for Rapid City and
the entire Black Hills during his stay in
Chicago, and has accomplished as much
as any one man in, stimulating inquiry
about the tin, and in creating belief
among eastern people that it exists in
the Black Hills in large quantities. To
use Ills own Words he considers tin ''our
great stock in trade" and he is devoting
much time and energy to advertising it.
Rapid City Journal.
For general, all-around rustler and
hard worker, Mr.. Simmons stands at the
head