St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-06
THEY STRUCK IT RICH
And Will Secure the School
Section So Long Coveted
in Vain
Valued at Some 5000 an
Acre as Mineral
Lands.
More Excited Over the, Rich
Tin Than About Sta ties or
Reservations.
M. H. Day Making a Better
Thing Out Of This Than
Politics.
Special to the Globe.

section, the value of which is at least
$500 per acre. To the covetous i'll this
neighborhood, that section has for sew
eral years been an object of much
Scheming, and even the municipality
has sought to devise methods to acquire
it from the United States government.
All schemes have failed until lately,
when the ingenious nature of the Da-
kOta mind developed itself in two
schrewd young men of this city. who
seem likely to accomplish what so
many have hitherto failed to do. About
year ago, some good specimens of
coal groupings of the bituminOus char
acter, were found by prOspector i'll Che
immediate vicinity of the city, and con-
siderable excitement among the citizens
was the result. EVERYBODY commenced
hunting for coal. A shaft was sunk in
one of the gulches not far from the
school section IN question, and the
deeper the work done the better the
coal appeared. 1t was apparent that if
coal existed in that gulch, where
the stratum cropped out, it must also
exist in at least equal quantity under
the school section. Now the United
States mineral laws are such that not
even school sections are exempt from
the explorations of the privileged pros
pector, and while the presumption,
homestead and timber culture acts are
Intellectual to give title to such lands,
| they can be
TAKEN FOR MINERAL,
| as lodeS or placerS, or as coal lands.
| When the discovery of coal was made,
| therefore, the people of the city woke
up one fine morning and found, to the
| CONSERVATION of all schemers. that the
valuable school section had been quietly
| gobbled up by the aforementioned young
| men, and was like to'be a school section
no more. Protests were at once made
| to the local land officers and they re-
! fused to accept the filings of the schem-
! ers on the land under the United States
i coal land laws, for the reason that
| school sections could not be claimed in
| that manner. An appeal was taken to
| the land commissioner at Washington,
| and the local Office ordered to receive
the filings. As result the claimants
of the section for coal have only
to develop vein of coal on the same,
and by proving that they have done the
| assessment work required by law, and
| by paying $50 an acre they will be en-
titled to patent from the government.
In order to comply with the law they
| have secured a diamond drill and are
sinking on the land with every prospect
of success. Under the law 1t is not
/ necessary that they find
PAYING VEIN
of coal. They are only required to show
that the land is of the description of
coal lands and contains coal. Experts
say that without doubt a respectable
vein will be struck, and lawyers say
/ ic n !, OF tho IL,
question will secure title. The school
section comprises some of the best land
in Western South Dakota. and is as de-
4 sirable for building purposes as any i'll
the city. why" said a prominent clti-
4 zen the other day to the writer, ''if this
i section can be taken for coal, every
school section in Western South Dakota
can be taken the same way, for nearly
ali Western South Dakota is underlaid
| with stratum of coal" But such is
apparently the law, and one result will
doubtless be that so large reward as
4 this school section offers will expedite
i the development of South Dakotas coal
resources. The prospect of
PRODUCING TIN
Il this summer continues to be the all
engrossing subject of conversation in
i the hills. Indeed, even statehood and
politics excite small attention in CON-
parison. Whether the Sioux Falls con-
j stitutiOn will be adopted. who are to be
the delegates to the convention in July,
who will be the next governor or sena-
tor are matters of small moment in the
estimation of Black Hills people when
compared to the development and
Il production of the only tin in the West
ern hemisphere. Besides that. as the
/ work of developing the tin prospects
goes steadily on, new features of the in
, dustry are continually coming to light
During the past week all available men
; in the vicinity of the Hill City district
have been set to work on the Harvey
company's property and many more are
= expected from abroad who are
skilled in tin production. New
strikes are being made at greater
depths than have hitherto been attained
and during the past two weeks very
remarkable tin ore has been brought
down to this city and shown by miners
Il The Seymour. Cowboy, Coats. Julia nj.
and Gar No. 2 are tin mines from
| whose depths richer ore has been taker
| than from any locations heretofore
Indeed, the assays show the remarkable
i average of from
Il 5 TO PER CENT
4 caSSiterite to the ton of tin stone. As
the Cornwall and Banca tin mines
| WhiSil RiN hON tiiO Ohiy PAOhhSC1o II
| the world, show an average of little
| more than IL per cent of cassiterite, OF
black tin. to the ton of stuff, the value
| of Dakota'S mines can be readily appre
:! ciated. Two years ago DR.. Carpenter
, dean of the Dakota School of Mines
thought that the yield of cassiteritt
| would be about 2 per cent to the ton o.
stuff in the Black Hills. A year latel
the ores of this section, as tested il
England. displayed an average yield o
| 3 per cent, and low better returns still
4 are obtainad from some of the mines
1t has been given out to thu
FL worldthrough many Eastern Journals
q that the Harvey Peak Tin Mining com
j. pany owns all the tin property of an,
/ value in the hills, and the promoters o
that company's interests do not hesitate
{ T to confirm the opinion thus spread. |
, is not true, however, that the Harne.
/ company
$ HAS A MONOPOLY
| on the tin of the hills. 1t owns some 90
: claims, many of which are magniicen
! properties, but there are many NOR
5 properties as good in the hands of pri
: vate individuals and of American com
e panies which bid fair to become grea
: producers. The properties of the Glen
t dale company are stated to be very rich
t Those which are known as the Chicag
t Giant, and which are being develOpe
| nv NJ H. Day Of Rapid City are mex