Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-03-30
THIS MEANS BUSINESS.
Extensive Tin Operations IN the Black
Hills Now Assured.

|
borative evidence of the validity of the
Untermeyer cablegram from London
| published in the CHRONICLE few weeks
since, appeared in Il recent issue of the
| London Mining Journal. Read and re-
joice:
CHIEF TIN DRfsSERs FOR DAKOTA, UNITED
| STATES or AMERICA
Wanted, capable men, good assayers,
! TO Superlntend the concentrating works
| about 10 be erected by the Harney Peak
Tin Milling and Manufacturing com
pany. Apply. giving references and
| stating wages required. to the manager
of the company, 5, Lothbury, London
+. &.
This is rnquestionably the most i'm
portant item Of news to the residents O
| the Black Hills we have had the pleas
ure Of chronicing for many long day
and we cannot forbear extending oui
congratulations to the prOspectorS In
this vicinity, and the people OF the
Black Hills at large, upon the fattering
| assurances, now apparent, of the early
perity. This welcome intelligence should
set at rest all doubts as to the early in
auguration of tin operations by the
HarEey Peak company, and should be
waited on the wings of the wind to the
doubling Thomas Of the northern Hills.
who SO persistently endeavored to con
vince English capitalists Of the false
theory, that tin in paying quantities
did not exist in the Black Hills.
CONFIRMATION COMPLETE
The New York Herald Of the 24th
inst, under the caption Of Tin in
America" contains the following which
may be safely accepted as complete con-
hrmation of the glorious tin news cabled
from London few weeks since, the
validity of which can no longer be held
in doubt After somewhat lengthy
historical sketch pertaining TO the dis.
covery in the Black Hills, Of what is
stated to he "the richest tin mines in
the world" The Herald says;
a
that the United states possesses one of
the finest tin mines, or rather series of
mines, the world has ever known Up
TO the present, tin mining has been al
most unknown in this country But at
last the capital has been found, com
pany has been formed to open up the
| tin mines, and the "details of the enter
prise learned yesterday from Mr.. Isaac
| e 4 In ~ 4
heimer Il Uutermeyer.
ORGANIZES OF TIE COMPANY.
"The llurney Peak Tin Mining and
Milling company" said MIR, Untermeyer,
has Just been organized by Willis
Remsen, Mr.. Appleton, of the publish
ing lirm James Flanagan, Henry Ciau-
sen, Lewis May, George Ehret and
Samuel Untermeyer who is president
/ The company is capitalized at l5,OO0,OO0
If vigorously handled it will yield a
! large return.
There are two well known tin di,
| tricts in the Black Hills. One occupies
| a belt about four miles wide, lying
around the northern and western fanks
of llarney's Peak. 1t extends south
ward to point six miles south of Custer
| City. 1t is found entirely encircling the
granite area of the Hills. The other
| section is located sixteen miles south
west Of Speartish, where small archGan
area has been laid bare by denudation
This is the first tin discovered in this
country. The United States uses one
third of the whole OF the tin product OF
the world. The only two places it is
produced in considerable quantities are
at Cornwall, in England. where they are
now $500 feet under ground, and al
Singapore, in the Straits Settlements
This company has property about for
| ty miles square near Custer City, com
prising 100 distinct mines. containing
the greatest wealth Of ore discovered in
this country.
| "The richness Of the deposit was re-
Gently tested by three assays had in
| London, which exhibited a result OF
about tfty-three per cent greater than
that which the owners supposed it
would yield. The trials were made by
reputable assayers, one Of whom is in
the Bank of England. We expect next
month to put over two thousand men at
work reducing the ore, under charge OF
Professor Vincent. one of the most cele-
brated scientists in Europe. The in.
dustry will be carried on on very large
scale and will be the means of develop
ing Southern Dakota rapidly. The com
pany will build a railroad in the middle
of the property, connecting with the
Northern Pacific branch The presen
owners have done some tunneiing
making trials. No tin has been pro
duced for actual use, but it will be al
most Immediately.
| SOME ENGLISH MONEY.
"My brother, Mr.. Samuel Untermeyer
is in London, where he has just secured
1000, 900 TO be put into the treasury t.
work the property. After the produc
ing powers of the mines have been de
monstrated we hope the property will
be reasonably productive, so that Nortl
and South America may acquire thei
tin here without going to Europe or t,
the Straits Settlements for it. There ar,
few tin mines on the outskirts of thi
property, but they do not amount t
} much. The ore at Harney's Peak
enormously rich. You can almost picl
up the ore on the surface. This will b
recognized as one of the greatest instr
tuIions in the world"
, The st. Paul Pioneer Press gang ar
again in the Hills soliciting subscriI
tions, presumably on the strength {
another write up. Considering that tn