St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
BLACK HILLS NUGGETS.
A Railroad Coming That Way From the
Wyoming Coal Mines.
MILLIONS IN THAT TIN ORE.
A Pleasant Surprise for Judge Bangs
in the Elee-
ton.

have commenced for Western South
Dakota. The reservation which the
Indians have ceded to the government,
and the Black Hills country, furnish
the great attractions. Eastern people
and capitalists are arriving daily, and a
large real estate business is being
transacted. 1t is a notable fact that
much of the city property recently sold
here has passed into the hands of Bos-
ton people and persons who are con-
nected with the B. Il NJ. railroad. From
this it is claimed that the road men
toned will build into this city from the
west and continue on across the res
ervation to Pierre. That such a move
ment will actually occur is apparent,
because the B. & NJ. surveyors are
at work surveying between Newcastle,
in the coal fields of Wyoming. the pres
ent terminus of the 3. q NJ. projection
into that territory, and this city. They
have already reached Hill City, where
the great tin mines are, and do not hes
| itate to announce their purpose to find
| the best route through the hills to this
| point. The Goals of Newcastle, WyO.,
are pronounced by experts to be of the
finest quality yet found in the West,
and it is established beyond doubt that
| the quantity is nearly ineXhaustible. 1t
is an open secret that the B. d NJ. Off
cials desire to find an outlet for their
new resources in the East, and for very
OStenSible reasons they design to enter
the mining regions of the Black Hills,
and also to cross the reservation and tap
the pOpulOus portions of this state east
of the Missouri. In the tin fields ada
cent to this city, the development work
| of the great
HARVEY PEAK TIN
Mining and Milling company being Wig
| OrOuSly prosecuted, Hill City is the
center of the most active operations at
present, and camp which contains 600
souls has sprung up in the last four
months. Like all new mining camps,
Hill City is busting, stirring place,
where the different forms of vice are to
be seen on every hand. New buildings
are being rapidly thrown up there, large
| stocks of goods are being shipped in,
and all indications show that the in
haDitantS have faith in the permanency
| oftheir new town. When it is considered
that an English syndicate has put up
| 5000, 600. all of which will be used in
the vicinity of Hill City to develop the tin
mines of the Harvey Peak Tin Mining
ana Milling company, the reason for the
! sudden growth of the TIN camp can be
| seen. That company now employs 400
men in the immediate neighbOrhOOd OF
! Hill City, ana the work of development
| in its mines will go on with undated
activity through the winter. New ma
| chinery, such as hosting works, steam
pumps, steam drills and saw mills are
! being continually added to the COM
&c nj nd hA ffii n
| the company have stated that before
| another year the force of men employed
| in getting out tin ore will be increased
| to 1000. a system of standard gauge
| railroads is being surveyed from Hill
| City to the other camps owned by
| the Harvey company, and Rapid City
| has voted bonds to the amount of
SO, 900 to assist in the construction of
| the railroad TO this point in the spring.
| 1T is understood that the principal Offices
| of the company will be located here. and
| the discovery of rich veins of cOking
| coal at Newcastle, on the west side of
| the hills, only sixty miles distant, has
| determined the company to locate its
| refining and smelling works here. OF
| the tin properties which promise to sup
| ply the American demand for metallic
| tin. the Excelsior, Goats and Cowboy at
|
| ton. The shafts i'll both of these prop
| critics are said to be down about 200 feet,
| and the veins exposed are the sO-called
true assures" with hanging and foot
| walls so well defined as to assure the
geOlogist that the stratum of
! TIN STONE Is INEXHAUSTIBLE.
In the Cowboy the vein is stated to be
| as wide as the bottom of the shaft, with
evidences of continued widening below.
| The ore which comes out of these mines
appears in the form of black crystals,
| which are the tin ore proper, and which
| the tin miner calls ''cassiterite."
The ore looks very rich, judging from
the samples which have been tested
! and which were found to run as high as
| 4 per cent of cassiterite to the ton of
stuff. AS the ore of Cornwall, Eng,
| which has furnished the worlds tin for
! several hundred years. only runs an ay-
| erage of little more than per cent to
the ton of stuff, it is easy to see why
| the practical tin miners and investors
! who have experience with the English
and Australian mines consider that
they have bonanza i'll America, and
are willing to invest many millions in
the Black Hills enterprise.
The opening of the reservation not
only gives a great advantage to the new
state of South Dakota, but has the effect
of placing all this wealth of tin and
other resources of the Black Hills and
Wyoming at the
FEET OF ST. PAUL
and Minneapolis. In the midst of her
wealth of natural resource, Rapid City
is looking for the assistance of the
great Twin Cities of the Northwest, and
promises them an unreasonable in.
IF ~ ltan i,,,t
stretch their strong commercial arms in
this direction.
Politically Pennington county, of
which Rapid City is the seat of govern
ment. has recently experienced a reyO-
luton. The candidacy of Judge q. c.
Moody for the [ nited States senator
ship for South Dakota was not favored
by some OF the influential Republicans.
and when the Republican convention of
the county fell INTO the hands of
Judge Moody's adherents the larger
and more powerful faction of
the party vowed vengeance and
bolted the ticket. The result was
slaughter for the Republican county
ticket on election day. Every Demo
crat on that ticket was elected, and
even James HALEY. who has always
been thought the most popular Repub-
Judge a. w. Bangs for the state senate,
although the latter was absent from the
county, was new and comparatively
unknown resident here, hardly knew of
his nomination Oh the Democratic
ticket, took no part in the campaign
and did not expect TO be elected. The
amusing feature of Judge Bangs eluc-
ton was the complete surprise which
it produced in the successful candidate
himself. As stated, he was away in
North Dakota at the time Of his nomi-
nation and election, and when the re-
suit was known the chairman Of the
Democratic committee wired the Judge
that he had been nominated and elected
to the state se3tOrship from Pennington
county. The judge wired back that he.
accepted the nomination and election,
and in due time took his seat accord
iugly.
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