Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-08
A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK
For the Great Mining Industry
Throughout the Entire West.
SOME OF THE NEW DISCOVERIES.
Copper in Idaho and Montana and Iron Ore
in New Mexico.
THE PROFITS OF THE yCOMsT0CK LODE

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.i
NEW YORK, September THE follow
ing reports have been received from the
leading mining centers of the West:
DEADwooD-Never since the Homestake
mine and the other mines on the belt COM
prising the Homestake group commenced
operations has the mining outlook for the
Black Hills been so bright as it is at pres
ent. For the past ten years the Black Hills
have had no producers to speak of, except
the Homestake, but it begins to look as if be-
fore the year closes there will be half dozen
new producing mines added to the list The
COLONIZATION works, established in Dead
wood to experiment with the Bald Mountain
ores, are success beyond doubt, and one
method at least of treating those refractory
ores has been discovered. The Deadwood
COLONIZATION Works Company was reorgan-
lied after Mr.. r. D. Clark's plant burned
down, and the stock of the Golden Reward
Mining Company and the Chlorina-
ton Company were consolidated.
The company is now treating
its own ore at the rate of about % tons day.
About ID teams are constantly engaged
hauling Golden Reward ore to the plant.
Only one barrel is used in the plant at pres
ent, but three new ones are on the way, and
will be put in as soon as they arrive. The
company expects to be able to reduce IS
tons a day before long. 1t has been
demonstrated by new process that the re-
fractory ores of the hills can be treated
proftably at home, and that it is
profitable to work them for the gold alone.
But the pyritic smelling process now in op-
Grafton here claims to save both gold and
silver, thus greatly increasing the profit Of
the ores. There is no doubt that the pyritic
smelling process will be the one used in this
neighborhood, owing to its cheapness and
the fact that it saves all the precious metals.
The plant now in operation is soon to
be enlarged and there is talk that
others will soon be built. In view
of these facts and the further fact
that three different systems of narrow gauge
are rushing into the Ruby Basin
and Bald Mountain camps to haul the ore
to Deadwood, the assertion that the outlook
for the Hills is brighter thaa it has been at
any time since the Homestake mines COM
operation will not seem incredi-
BILE. A party of prospectors are at work in
the vicinity of Sundance developing some
silver and copper locations. The dis
coverv was made some time ago
and several assays of what might be
called surface or float rock, gave such salts
factory returns that development work was
determined upon. Prof W. |
B. Scott, of Princeton College, who has an
expedition of students and professors en-
gagged in studying the formation of the bed |
ands of South Dakota and Nebraska, re-
Gently made visit to this part of the Hills |
md spent few days looking over the coun-
ry, confning his inquiries chiefly to the
subject of tin, in which he expressed him.
'elf as being very much interested. He
leclined to express any opinion as to the
merits of the tin interests of the Black Hills
without fuller information than he now pos
esses.