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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-02
Custer Precinct.

The people of Custer have spent con-
siderable time since election in figuring
out the per cent Of the increase of popu-
latiOn since 1886. Now they--and es.
pecially the democrats among them
are enraptured over the advent, on the
18th, of a baby of the voting sex at
Frank Rutkowski's. And now the fig
ures are beig revised and the Rutkowski
family are getting along all right
Buffalo Gap News.
Custer claimed her marked increase
of population over that of any other
precinct in the county upon the basis OF
votes cast, and not upon the number OF
babies born, but in accordance with a
we'll established custom, the CHRoNICLT
has in the past, and in the future viii
continue to publish Custer births al
they may occur. If the paragraph
quoted contains an obscure point which
we have failed to catch, we would bt
pleased to have the News man point i
out.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-02
Professor EmmOnS.

Prof. s. II. Emmons, who will be re-
membered by our local readers as the
the gentleman who secured bonds upon
valuable gold and tin properties in this
locality last spring, and " hose attention
was subsequently so wholly absorbed in
the introduction of his new explosive
(Emmensite) as to prevent a compliance
upon his part with the terms of said
bonds, is now engaged in building a
large factory at Pittsburgh, Penn. Ed
win Booth and Lawrence Barrett, the
we'll known actors, are said to be ex-
tensive stockholders. The building will
cost $4,000 An eastern exchange says:
The company was formed for aCquir-
ing and dealing with all the inventions
of DR.. ). II. tmmons in connection
with explosives, arms, and ammunition.
The company now has a small factory at
Harrison. y. y. The directors and exc
cutive officers are: A. B. Chase, Edwin
Booth, Lawrence Barrett, III. Henry, S
II. Emmons, and III. Edgell.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-02
Encourage Home Enterprise.

The Rapid Democrat devotes consider
able space in late issue to a custom pre-
vailing TO some extent in that place OF
sending east for groceries, and other
necessary articles, which, at tritling
additional cost, could be procured at
home. The article abounds in appropri-
ate and sensible suggestions. and closes
as follows:
When you buy in the east you take
what you get and there are no goods
taken back, no wait, no Accommodations
The firm who takes your good cash has
no interest in your town or country,
They don't pay a cent of taxes, nor
make improvements. They employ
none of your labor, nor purchase any Of
your produce. The newspaper people
have long suffered from this system of
going abroad with patronage, and while
we regret that other lines Of business
are suffering from the same cause, we
cannot refrain from remarking that
some Of our business people in the city
have been doing, in that respect, just
what they now complain of their
patrons. But again we say the system
is wrong. People should patronize
home industries, which should, ut all
times be so conducted as to deserve
patronage. In this way only can we
improve
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-02
A New Store Wanted.

A new store here would fill long felt
want-one that would carry everything
! III stock from steam-enginet to clothes
pin a store that would buy everything
a farmer wants to sell at three times the
price in Chicago, and sell to the farmer
goods at less than Chicago prices, and on
one to three years time. fla man wants
a little credit for fifty or hundred dol
lars it is no reason why he should be
insulted by questions as TO his ability to
pay or the time he expects to pay. And
if a man patronizes home merchants. to
the extent of standing them eff for
sugar, coffee and bacon, they have no
right to kick because he buys his dry
goods for cash in Chicago. The right
kind of a store here would do big busi-
ness, and would receive a big patronage
from those who have exhausted their
credit with existing firms.-Butialo Gap
News.
A store conducted upon the principle
proposed by the News would doubtless
do Il land Office business, but we are not
disposed to take issue with that paper
upon the question of the Gap offering
special inducements for the establish
ment of a store patterned after the News
model.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-02
What White Says,

The following, taken from Tom
Whites letter to the New York Mining
Record is given to our readers for what
it is worth
1t is reported that Harney Peak Tin
Company of New York have abandoned
the idea of selling their property in En-
gland, but have increase their capital
stock to So 100000, and are now going
to try and raise Sl,50O,000 in England
for working purposes. To raise this
sum present stockholders will subscribe
a part of their shares to be sold in Lon.
don, the London purchasers having the
right to appoint an advisory board to
see that their money is properly ap-
piled.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-02

FAIRBURN. Oak Jan. 2i

FMRBURN, Oak, Jan. -, 1889.
EDITOR CHRONICLE The Custer Coun-
ty Farmers Alliance met in the Hudson
school house here on the l4th inst, and
after disposing Of the business on hand
the following officers were elected fol
the ensuing year
President, A. l.. Sprague.
Vice President, c. l.. Scott
Secretary, John L. Scofeld.
Treasurer, George Hawley.
A sale of the effects Of the late w. w
Grubb was to have taken place on tn,
same day, but owing to no purchaser
appearing on the scene Of action it was
declared off for the present
We are experiencing very milo
winter. Stock is in excellent condi.
ton, and so far have not required to be
fed, which is great boon to the ranch.
ers. Hay is plentiful, but unfortunately
for those who have it to dispose of pur
chasers are scarce.
James NJ. Daniels has invested in ar
excellent hay press, and has pressed {
large quantity Of hay for himself, anC
also for Mr.. Palmetsr, our popular
merchant.
Our Literary society holds it's meet
ings regularly. They are largely at
tended, and the course so far has beer
the most successful ever held in thi
locality.
{. l.. Scott has located a quarry som,
distance west Of here, the stone obtaine,
from which has been declared by ex
perts who have examined it to be tn,
best quality of building stone yet founC
in the Hills.
The saloon in our town has closed it
doors for an indefinite period. Cause
want of patronage.
Our popular postmaster, Mr.. Geo. o
Sanderson, is preparing to erect large
building, 25x60, two stories, the lowe
flat to be used for mercantile purposes
and the upper fiat for public hall. This
will fill long felt want.
Yours &c.
| ALPHA,
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-02
Delinquent Tax Bill.

Following is copy of the delinquent
tax bill recently passed by the Dakota
legislature, and approved by the govern
or on Monday, the 2Sth ult:
BE it enacted by the legislative assem-
bly, of the territory of Dakota:
Section !. That all unpaid taxes for
the year 1888 shall become delinquent
on the first Monday of February, 1899,
and shall draw interest at the rate of
per cent per month from the date Of
such delinquency until the first day Of
June, 1889, at which latter date there
shall be added as a penalty ) per cent
upon the amount SO remaing unpaid,
and | per cent per month thereafter
until paid, to be added on the first day
of each succeeding month.
Sec. .. The county treasures of the
various counties in the territory shall
not proceed to collect by distress and
sale any of the taxes hereinafter ~e-
terred to, until after the first day of
June, 1889.
Provided, That in case any person
having only personal property assessed
and upon which the taxes are unpaid,
shall, when the treasurer has good rea
son to believe that he is about to move
out of the county or dispose of such
property, it shall be the duty of such
treasurer to collect such taxes at any
time after the tax duplicate has been
placed in his hands as provided by law.
Sec s. All acts and parts Of acts in
conflict with this act are hereby re-
peaDed.
Sac t. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage
and approval.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-02
Pyritic Gold Ores.

The Rapid Journal recently published
an article on pyritic gold ores of the
Black Hills, the same having been CON
den.ed from the forthcoming report OF
the Dakota School of Mines upon the
mineral resources Of the Black Hills,
and from which we note the following
tests made under the direction Of f. Il.
Carpenter the dean of the institution
above named:
| PENNINGTON COUNTY.
No. l.-Pyrite traced for 5000 feet.
| Beds from thirty to 100 feet thick.
Average of ore as broken from the
mine, S6 l9 This yielded 22 3 per cent.
of concentrates, worth, per ton, $50 .46 ;
that is, 4.5l tons of rock yielded one ton
of concentrates, returning S20.i6.
| Per contra. Cost of mining. transpor-
tation to mill, taxes, etc, for 4.5i tons of
| rock at 1862 cents (same as cost at
Atlantic copper mines), S3.54! cost of
concentration Of 4.5l tons Of rock at
1896 cents per ton of rock, 81 .369 cost
of chlorination per ton Of concentrates,
81 90; incidentals. exchange, etc, 81 90 (;
total cost per ton Of concentrates,
$l2. .9l4.
Total profit OH one ton of concen-
trales, S7.546; or, total profit on one ton
of original rock. $l.67, or nearly eight
times the profit per ton of rock at the
Atlantic mine.
No. 2.-Deposit, mica schist, with py
rite; zone, fifty feet wide, adjoins a
granite tin vein. Rock yielded twenty
five per cent. concentrates, worth per
ton S43.40
CUSTER COUNTY.
No. Mica schist, with pyrite value
Of rock per ton, S24 S4 percentage of
concentrates, 94l; value per ton of
concentrates, Sl42.56.
No. Per cent. Of concentrates III
the rock, twenty-five value per ton of
concentrates $42.
No. 3.-Black micaceous schist, with
arsenOpyrte; zone, $50 feet wide value
of sample per ton, $40; percentage of
concentrates, 9.4 value of concentrates
per ton Sl756. This, with good concen-
tration should have been greater. 1t is
probably continuation of the same
belt" first mentioned under Penning
ton county, though distant some ten or
twelve miles.
LA W hfN' T. NOtNl1.
Our report treats at length OF the
value of the concentrates of the Belt |
mines after the free gold has been ex
tracted. | give my experiments upon |
one mine which has been unremittingly |
worked for number of years as a free
gold property, but is now closed down.
The free gold, equal to about two
dollars per ton, was nrst extracted. The |
ore was found to contain ten per cent. of
concentrates The average Of many |
samplings gave as the value Sl7 per ton.
From a careful survey and examination,
| estimated that the opening of another
level would produce 100000, one-half
of which should be clear profit.
But few Of these ores would pay to
ship. The ores should be treated by
chlorination. The cost of treatment of
"A ton of pyrite at the Halle mine is
Sl.S4 per ton. | have estimated s. as
the probable cost in the Black Hills,
but believe that it can be done for less
In conclusion, | give it as my opinion
that ultimately the working of these
ores will prove one ofthe greatest if not
the greatest industry of the Black Hills.
FRANKLIN X. CARPENTER.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-02

Last Tuesday two men arrived III
town, and remained until Thursday
who gave our citizens considerable
chance for speculation as to their busi-
ness here. They were railroad men,
having maps and profies of both the B.
& NJ. and f., f. 4 NJ. V. roads in this
county, but which company they repre-
sented could not be ascertained. They
learned all they could, but told nothing
They looked over the country adjacent
to the town for two days and then took
their departure as quietly as they came
We can only surmise their mission, and
will await further developments. We
have since learned that one Of the par
ties mentioned above was the chief en-
gineer of the b. & M.-Oelrichs Times
| 26th ult
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-02
Folsom Votes.
Folsom, OAK, Jan. 2S, 1885

FOLSOM, OAK, Jan. 2S, 1889.
EDITOR CHRONICLE On the 14th inst.
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Norman, near
Phinney postoffice, daughter. We
congratulate them.
Mr.. S. Reeves has lately purchased a
nice band OF horses.
Will Gilpin is among us again, he ex-
poets to remain this time.
The schools taught by Misses Myra
Thorp, and Mary Taylor, have closed.
The singing class will give concert
Saturday evening, Feb. 2nd. All are in
vited.
Owing to the mild weather, very little
hay has yet been fed to stock. Stock il
still doing well on grass
Very Respectfully,
NAIyErE
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-02

The Rapid Journal has the following
concerning present and prospective
operations at the Eta mine
There hasn't been much said about it
for various reasons, but for some six
weeks now there have been Ct number Of
changes IN progress at the Eta mill.
Nate Wilcox and Frank Beade have
been busy cleaning up the machinery
and getting things about the mill into
good order. The engine has been fixed
up and is in readiness to start. Ii is
said the company intends to put in jgs
instead of ConcentratorS and start the
mill to running early in the spring. OF
this intention nothing definite is known.
II, however the signs are to be read at
all, a most natural Interpretation of
them would be that the llarney Peak
company has reached that stage wher
tin production seems to be the proper
thing. This company has the claims,
many of them developed almost into
mines, and it has mill that has stood
idle for more than two years now. 1t
seems quite reasonable that this COM
pauy should want 70 commence securing
some return for the immense amount Of
money ii has laid out since the time the
Eta mill was shut down. 1T Is not to
be supposed, either, that the Eta plant
is to be the limit Of this compary'5 re-
ductiOn works As the Eta mill was
built to handle only the ores the group
Of tin claims Immediately surrounding
it, it viii fall far short of the demands
made by the vast interests the company
now controls. The reduction works will
bear about the same relative proportion
to the Eta mill as does the present
property Of the company to that owned
by it three years ago. 1t will not be a
bad day for the Black Hills, though,
when the Eta mill will be started again.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-02-02
Black Bills Antimony.

In the First National bank may be
seen huge specimen Of the ore of an
timony, taken from mine near Pactola,
in this county, and some twelve miles
from Rapid City. The mine has never
been developed, but enough work has
been done TO make ii very probable that
The specimen, upon assay, showed over
IS per cent of pure antimony and $l2
per ton in gold and silver The mine
has been located for years, but has never
been developed. But the time is about
here when this and many other minerals
heretofore neglected will pay for work
ing and shipment ofthe product Much
antimony is imported into this country
from Germany. 1t is used extensively
as an alloy for making Babbit metal
and in the manufacture of type and GER
tain medical preparations.
1t is said that antimOny acquired its
name from the fact that certain monks
unacquainted with its properties, soor
after its discovery, partook largely OF
wine in which it had been mixed, anC
were killed 1t was then anti-monk
wine and has ever since been antimony
Rapid Republican.
We do not question the validity of the
Republicans statement as to the exist
ence and valuable character OF the mine
referred to- as we confess to being a
trihe over-credulous when it comes to
mine discoveries but the Republican
will pardon us if we take issue against
the mythical account of the origin Of the
name, which we hold to be rather far.
fetched If the mineral had been named
anti-monky, instead Of antimony, the
over draft upon our imagination might
have been less intense, but as it is, oui
imagination is not sufficiently vivid to
grab it,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06

eypoes general practice in all the courts. Also
agent for all the rstcass insurance companies. 224
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06
ANOTHER SILLY MOTH.

As a rule, OF all sublime and in
corrigible idiots, those least able
to be redeemed are the silly Ameri
can girls who are captured by men
of so-called noble blood. Of all
forms of stupid insanity the snob-
berry of Americans for foreign IT,
ties is the worst. Almost unlver-
sally the titled foreigner who weds
an American girl weds her for her
money alone. No matter how
beautiful, or how accomplished an
American girl may be she is never
sought by these broken down aris-
tocrats unless she also has great
wealth.
Almost as universally these til
tied bloods are miserable, broken
down, voluptuaries and utterly
unprincipled roaes entirely unfit
to associate with any decent man S
sister or daughter.
Notwithstanding all this, our
fashionably raised girls of wealth
are always ready to buy one OF
these titled idiots, give up father,
mother, country, and everything
else on the alter of a silly ambi-
ton.
Nine out of every ten of these
unnatural unions result in wretch
edness, misery, and broken down
health and utterly wrecked lives
Yet the victims are ready for the
sacrifice and the unholo traffic still
goes on.
The telegraphic columns an
nounce that Prince Francis of Hatz
feldt- w Waldenburg is about to marry
the daughter of G. 2. Huntington
He is notorious gambler, and hi
debts amount to several hundred
thousand dollars. There must be
something radically wrong in the
education and training of girls il
Republican America which cal
produce so many girls willing t.
sacrifice all womanhood and no
sell themselves but actually buy
the broken-do dissipated ant
utterly worthless fcions of foreign
nobility-as husbends.-S.J J. Mer
curry.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06
OUR WORLDS FAIR.

Chauncy M. Depew thinks it
necessary for the United States to
hold an international exhibition in
1892 to redeem its reputation
from the effect of the shabby rep
resentation of our industries at
Paris. The late commissioner OF
California is more despondent
than Chauncey. He is even more
emphatic in his opinions about the
American show at Paris, but he
fears that we shall be unable to
get up a satisfactory exhibition OF
cur own. -...
The experience of Philadelphia
should be enough to settle that
point. The Centennial was the
most complete, extensive and sue
cessful exhibition ever held in the
world up to that time. Paris has
had two finer ones since, but New
York could easily do better still il
she should seriously make up he1
mind to try. There is more wealth
in New York than in Paris and
more in the United States than in
France. There are more marve
lous mechanical devices in use in
this country than in all the rest OF
the world combined. If not an.
other nation should take part in
the exhibition America alone
could fill all the space and have
displays TO spare.
By all means let US have oul
show. The world does not begir
to realize what country this is
It has advanced more since 1S7t
than it did in the quarter of cen
tury before.-S. F. Examiner.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06
Gorballis 6a5ttte,
SMOKING IN LONDON.

Cigarette smoking is another
habit which is rapidly spreading
in Lobdon, though it has not yet
reached the telegraph boys and
become as much of a nuisance as
In New York. Ten years ago no
Englishman smoked cigarettes.
Now everyone who smokes carries
them, and at formal dinner they
are just as much matter OF
course as cigars. One of the singu-
lar things of London is that cigar
cites are sold by weight. Those
made of Turkish tobacco range in
price from IS to 81 cents per
ounce, and when of the ordinary
size this means about twenty-nine
cigarettes. They are sold in large
quantities by the box. Nearly a
third of the cigarettes consumed
here are of American make, the
best being Turkish, and either
made on the continent or in Lon
don. The American cigarette
made from Virginia's tobacco is
rapidly growing in favor among
Englishmen, and 100000 OF
2O,OOO,O0O are sold here every
week, and a factory is now being
erected in London by New York
firm to supply the local demand
Straight faced Englishmen of the
old school object to promiscuouE
smoking, as it is known in the
United States, and in every large
cub in London there is room sci
apart, generally on the top of the
h )use, where the habit may be i'll
dulged. 1t would be heinou'
offense to attempt to smoke in the
dining room or in one of the halls
This arrangement, however, doe'
not suit Englishmen of the
younger generation, and in several
of the West End clubs where some
of the old togies predominant, they
have organized determined
"movement' for the enlargement
of the club smoking facilities
Failing in this, one or two clubs
have been started where the mem
bers can smoke all over the house
except in one room. So genera
has the habit become in Lon
don that men now smoke upol
the fashionable promenades, evel
in Hyde park on Sunday morning
and at the door of every club ant
every fashionable shop a lamp i
kept burning that he smokers ma,
fire up upon emerging.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06
WINDMILL ELECTRIC LIGHTING.

In an interesting paper read be-
fore the Glasgow Philosophical So
ciety, Professor Blyth gives some
additional facts relating to the
experiment made by him in light
ing his summer cottage by dyna
mo driven by a windmill, and
charging storage battery. The
windmill in this case was OF the
old-fashioned construction, having
four arms at right angles to each
other, these being also thirteen
feet long respectively. There
was no especial regulating device
that is, the dynamo was belted
directly to the fywheel of the mill
and charged twelve cells of storage
battery, which supplied the in
candescent lamps in the cottage
and, though not more than ter
lamps were used at once, larger
number could have been employed
if desired; with a good breeze
enough electricity could be stored
in half day to supply light fol
four evenings of three Or, foul
hours each. The lamps used were
of eight-candle power; when
charging, the current passed
through a cut-out that would dis
connect them from the dynamo
when it ran below a certain speed
The windmill could thus be allow
ed to run all the time, charging
the battery when the wind hap
pened to be strong enough.-N. Y
Sun.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06

Fire Company No. 10 of Cincin-
natl owns dog which IS said to
have saved the lives of several
firemen. The animal is described
as handsome Newfoundland, and
is credited with being able to
climb a ladder three stories
high.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06

Prof. Thurston, of Cornell uni
vercity, in an article in the North
American Review, expresses the
opinion that the steam engine is
still capable of vast improvement;
that the next generation will see
the American continent spanned
by flying trains in two days. and
that ships of 10000 tons will be
propelled at the rate of 40 miles
an hour.
The first newspaper advertise
ment appeared in 1912, during the
civil war in Great Britain.
A diamond has been found in
the cape diamond field weighing
24O carats.
The s. B. remedies have been tested and
will not deceive yoc. ag23-m
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1889-09-06
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

Notice is hereby given that will be re-
sponsible for no debts or book accounts
whatever contracted by any body except
by myself or by my written orders. Mer-
chants take notice w. W.. DOW,
CORVALLIS, June %, 1855.