St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-20
The TIN TO Be MINED.
Capitalists Visiting the Hills
With a View to Working
the Mines.
Can Put Two Million Dollars
Into the Enterprise at
Once.
Rapid City Will Be the Head
quarters, With New
Railroads.
Sentiment Said to Be Favor
able to Pierre for the !
Capital.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
RAPID CITY, S. D., April 19-James
Wilson, of New York city; E. Barring
Gould and Prof. NJ C. Vincent, of Lon
don, England; E. Ramsey, of Niles
City,, Mont, and Richard Day Atkins
OF Victoria, 3. c., arrived in the city.
Saturday. The purpose of their visit is
to lay out the work necessary to be done
in Thoroughly developing the tin mines of
the Hraney Peak Tin Mining and Mill
ing company. located about eighteen
miles west of Rapid City. James Wilson,
is one of the largest stock holders of the.
company, and has been chiefly promi-
nent i'll the negotiations for English
capital to work the Black Hills mines
+. Baring-Gould is we'll known in fnan-
cial circles as member of one of
the largest banking firms i'm the world
and it is understood that he has put up
a large portion of the money, of which.
$1,000 900 will be at once expended for
the working of the cOmpany'S mines
Prof. Vincent is a mining expert of.
worldwide reputation, who will SUPER
intend the preliminary work of prepar-
ing the mines for production. The
other two gentlemen are Skillful mining
men, one of whom, it is reported, wifi
be the permanent local Superintendent
at the mines. 1t is understood that the
company proposes to have its central ::
OFFICES AT RAPID CITY
and to transact the business of the
mines at this point. This is to be done
because OF the superior banking facili-
ties afforded by the city and the proba-
bic establishment of furnaces for smelt-
ing the tin at this point in the near fut-
ure. It's also generally reported that
the Harvey company will cause to be-
constructed from Rapid City into the
Hills system of narroW-gauge roads to.
connect with their principal properties,
The arrangements for the cOnsumma-'
ton of these gigantic projects are ex-
pected to be perfected by the 1st of
May. There are some things, however,
which are certain in regard to the pro-
posed operations of the Harvey COM
pany. The men who are now interested
have -----..
UNLIMITED CAPITAL
The mines which they propose to-
operate yield a higher percentage of
metallic tin than any mines in the
known world. The work of producing
tin from them will begin at once. Sixtyi
men are already employed by the COM
pany getting out ore. and the company
is hiring all it can get. 1t begins to-
look as if the condition would be favor
able for laborers for a long time to
come.
1t is generally thought in this section
that Pierre has the favor of the Black:
Hills i'll the capital fight. At the cleo
ton which occurred four years ago the
only two candidates in the field which
appear to have been considered by the
people of Western Dakota were Pierre.
and Cbomhnr1ain ha tot I ,-o+1f
cast by Black Hills counties at that
time Chamberlain, got perhaps one
third. 1t is probably true that people
here are not better disposed toward
Pierre than Chamberlain, except from,
motives of policy. 1t has been urged
that as Pierre has better chance than
Chamberlain the Black Hills counties
should unite and cast their total vote
for that city in order to insure the locaSs
ton of the capital on the river. The
present
VOTE OF TIE BLACK HILLS
is about three times as large as that cast
for the Sioux Falls CONSTITUTIONAL 1885,
amounting to about 5000 votes. The
Sioux Falls constitution has been gain
ing in favor, of late, in this section. 1t
is known to be the design of prOhibiI"
tionistS to have prohibitory clause in
the new constitution if they have power
enough. This causes many moderate
men to hesitate about defeating the
Sioux Falls constitute on, however much
they dislike it.
They fear new constitution, with a
prohibltOry clause, would meet with de-
feat, and statehood would thereby be
deferred. AS for the prohibitionists,
they seem to fear defeat for their pet
theory if the Sioux Falls constitution is
rejected, and in consequence they an
nounce their intention to support the
latter