Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-06-29

tue p VI opening up anu OpeTat-
ing extensive tin mines in the Black
Hills. The company to be formed will
not be organized on the basis Of ordi-
nary mining operations, but will be ON
a business basis and composed almost
entirely Of manufacturing men who
want to produce their own tin, and in
addition to producing their own tin
plate substitute for other articles now in
nse, such for instance as plating pipes
insters Of galyanizing. The prelimi-
ANN aooIS charge Of Messrs. A. II.
-7rhis city, and Robert Flor
Id Frank Eaton. of Rapid City.
Dakota. The latter has been in the city
for some time, while Mr.. Harris has lust
returned from an inspection of the tin
districts of the Black Hills. Mr.. Flor
mann is expected to arrive within a few
days, when definite steps will be taken
in the direction of arranging for the
actual work.
Mr.. Harris, having just returned from
an inspection Of the mines, and who,
having been an old Comstocker, has
had a great deal of experience, says he
never saw SO much acti city as is being
displayed in opening up the mines and
getting ready to put the tin upon the
market. The roads, he said, were COM
pletely lined with OK teams hauling
machinery into the Hills, and he thought
the value of the machinery EN- route
must be fully $780, 600. The English
and New York consolidated syndicate,
in which several Of the New York
brewers are interested, have about 500
claims, prospects and mines, and have a
working capital of$3, 000, 900. They now
have a mill of 100 tons capacity per day
at Eta, and have machinery on route
for one of 500 tolls capacity, to be ready
for operation in October, when they ex-
pect TO make a daily output of fay to
seventy five tons Of pig tin per day.
The small mill is now being run on lots
of twenty and twenty-five tons, for the
purpose Of testing the ore from the
different mines. So far all Of the tests
have been satisfactory and the company
-contemplates increasing the mill to 1000
tons capacity. also to erect a mill al
Custer City. Another New York syndi.
cate has bought a lot of property on
Niger Hill, and is opening up the most
important claims as rapidly as possible,
and purchasing more A Chicago syn
dictate, with the Consolidated Steel com
pany ut it's head, has made large pur.
chases on Tin Mountain, and is adding
other claims and opening up those
already acquired. The head of the syn.
dictate is President Potter Of the Conso.
lidated Steel company. His intention
is to produce tin to supply large works
at Chicago, and a large milling plan,
will also be erected on Tin Mountain
The product of the English syndicate
Hill City mills will also probably all &C
to the Consolidated Steel company unit.
the Chicago people get their propert,
opened up and their proposed plant in
operation. The English company viii
make only pig tin, however, and after
that time its product will seek a genera
market"
From a later issue Of the same paper
We clip the following: "The prospects
for the early closing up Of the organiza
ton of a company to prosecute the tin
mining in the Black Hills, in Dakota, as
reported in the Post Dispatch a few days
ago, assumed more definite shape to-day
and Robert Fiormann of Rapid City,
who is at the head Of the enterprise,
leaves tomorrow for Chicago to perfect
SONS Of the details. After this is done,
which will be about the middle of next
week, a meeting will be held here be-
tween the st. Louis manufacturers who
are going into the company and the
representatives of the Chicago CONSOLE
dated Steel Co. 1t was at first intended
to organize two different companies or
syndicates, one in st. Louis and the
other in Chicago, but after a more thor
Ough discussion Of the matter it has
been decided to organize n company,
embracing both the st. Louis and Chica-
60 interests, and to erect a reduction
plant that will handle 1000 tons Of ore
per day. This will be the largest mill
in the Hills. The New York English
syndicate now has a 200-ton plant in
operation, and has purchased machin-
cry for n of 800 tons capacity. 1t also
contemplates the erection Of one of 500
tons capacity. 1t also contemplates the
erection ofa 2,O00-ton plant at another
point, but it is said that the St Louis
Chicago syndicate, being organized, will
have as great an increase by the time it
is completed as the property which is to
be the basis Of the organization is now
opened up 80 as to yield over 1000 tons
of ore a day and within a short time
a be put on a 10000 ton basis. The
machinery will be of the class found
necessary by the English s~yndicate's
experiments, and will leave ont the
cyclone pulverizers found 20 work to
poor effect In tin ores"