Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-04-13
Inconsistency.


The New York Financial and Mining
Record expresses dissatisfaction with
our answer to their inquiry concerning
the underground operations upon the
Harvey Peak Tin company's properties.
1t says:
If not an altogether frank answer to
our query, which was made in good
faith, nevertheless, we are obliged TO
the CHRONICLE for the opportunity to
couple with its manifest lack of any
satisfactory or explicit information con-
cerning what is being done in the way
Of exploitation of the Harvey Peak Tin
Company's property, our assertion that
the CHRONICLE itself would not be more
pleased than the Financial and Mining
Record, TO be able to announce that the
company in question have developed
and are successfully working the most
valuable tin mines in the world We
certainly would be as ready to give our
space TO ample details concerning the
successful underground operations Of
such an enterprise, as we have been, un-
questionablv, for years, with respect to
the Homestake and other properties in
the quarter of Deadwood We should
regard the demonstration Of the exist
ence of a large tin field in Dakota as an
event of incalcutable value and import
ance so the country at this time, and we
heartily hope such q result may be
| reached through the exploitation by
shaft and tunnels which the CHRONICLE
reports, upon hear-say, or general belief,
though unable to state even approx
| matelv whether az MANY even as ten
men are employed in underground
work, or give scintiIla of definite in
| formation as to the grade of the ore that
may have been already encountered.
The Record, if it be entitled to that
degree of intelligence for which We give
it credit, is by no means as ignorant
upon the subject in question as the
above comment would seem to indicate.
| It can scarcely be possible for that
journal, having been constantly in re-
ceipt of many, if not all Of the Black
| Hills papers, since the discovery Of tin
in this region, to be as ignorant Of the
character and extent Of the operations
of the Harvey Peak company as its de-
clarations would seem to imply. The
answer vouchsafed by us, was, to all in
tents and purposes, characterized by
frankness, and due regard for con
sistency Of detail. We did not, as is toe
frequently done, exceed the limit Of oul
knowledge in our reply to the question
submitted, but on the contrary, gave the
facts to the best of our knowledge an(
belief. We did not give the number o
men employed, for the reason that ",
were not informed as to the precs,
number; but we did know, and do no
now hesitate to say that more than fiv
times ten" are employed by the com
lpany, in the development of their mines
The Record is inconsistent in expectin
more of us than was asked, as indicate,
by their evident surprise at our failur
to enlighten them, unsolicited, upon tn
grade of ore already encountered,
which, after the repeated tests made i
London, at the Dakota School of Nine
and elsewhere had been SO widely pub
lished, we took it for granted that tn
Record had been fully informed. w
hope the Records professions Of friend
illness, in the direction indicated, M.
be more sincere than the persister
exclusion from its columns of eyer
= favorable item of news relating to thi
important enterprise would seem I
warrant.