Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-03-04
A Prosperous Outlook.

| lne OUTLOOK Tor the Diack HIS CouH-
try was never so bright as it is to-day.
Throughout the entire country there
seems to be a renewed activity which
will certainly result in great develop
ment Of our interests. The prospect of
the Eta sale being early consummated
has stimulated the tin industry. Loca-
tors are busy making developments on
their old locations, while the prospector
is daily stalking out new discoveries.
| The discovery Of coal at Red Canyon
and oil at Jenny's stockade has given
new hope to the southern Hills. The
b. & NJ. r. II. surveyors have been at
work in the lower counties all winter
and how the f., T.. & NJ. V. II. r. has a
corps in the field running "a line from
Buffalo Gap and will shortly run a line
from Oelrichs towards Red canyon with
u view of heading Oft the Is. x Nj. people.
All these indicate lively times for our
friends in the southern Hills.
The northern Hills have full rs much
reason to rejoice and be full of hope.
The Bald Mountain and Ruby Basin
country gives promise of becoming one
of the greatest bullion producing dis
tricts in the world. The developments
already made establish beyond doubt
for the ore is in sight-that the mines
of those districts will keep reduction
works going night and day for ten years
to come. Professor Clark has solved
the question of the treatment, and has
already sent the plans for the reduction
works which will be built at Deadwood.
a syndicate has been formed and quietly
secured the control Of some eight or ten
mines in that district. The North Star
is under bond to eastern parties, and il
is reported that propositions have been
made to bond the Ross-IIannibal that
an expert came out quietly and sampled
the dump and made a report to eastern
parties. 1t is said the expert reported
100000 tons of orc in the Ross Hannibal
and Mikado mines and the samples
from the dump Of the Ross-IIannibal
averaged over soto the ton. The Ruby
Bell, Carthage, Golden Reward, Tor
nado, Retriever and lsadorah and many
others in the immediate vicinity are
opening up and ready to furnish ore to
the reduction works. A careful estimate
made by a competent and conservative
expert gives 200 tons rs the daily
amount Of ore that the mines above
named can produce at the present time,
and he further SAYS that within sixty
days, if required, by running additional
headers and making new slopes they
can produce 800 tons daily Of the assay
value of $50 and upwards. Alloaing
SO per ton for mining and reduction
and at the rate of 800 ions per day, that
district alone would produce a net return
Of $4,000 per day. There are no doubt
people in the Hills who will sheer at
these figures and eXclaim, "A lie" We
know, however, the truth of what We
say and the miners who have visited
the above district will bear evidence Of
what we say. When the miners Of
Ruby basin became convinced that Prof
Clark could treat their ores and that
Deadwood would build reduction works
for such treatment, they went vigorously
TO work upon their claims. The result
old-timers. People who hold aloofani
doubtingly wait. will miss the oppor-
nifty of their lives. To those who hold
stock in the Ruby Basin, we say hold Oh
to it. Within a year stock that is now
worth only five cents per share, cannot
be bought for many dollars. Those
who are fortunate enough to hold good
Ruby Basin stocks will make fortunes.
We predict that the Deadwood Reduc-
ton company will be compelled TO en-
large their works before they have been
in operation one year. The Times has
no desire to start a boom. Booms are
injurious TO a mining country. 1t is the
steady output of bullion that makes the
mining camp and insures the invest
ment OF capital in the development of
mines. The Times is aware that eastern
parties have sent experts To the Ruby
district TO make secret examinations Of
the mines, and IL sounds this note of
warning to Il Owl people. 70 those
who W stock we say hold on to them,
and to those who have none, we say get
ONE 1t has been rumored that the
H"nestake people have been looking
the district over quietly, and It is known
to a few persons IN this city that some