Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-03-01
Mining Notes.

More than two hundred tin locations
have been filed for record in the Office
of the register Of deeds in this place
since January lst.
The Harvey Peak Tin company is
said to have used 10000 pounds of Etna
powder, (dynamite) and 10000 pounds
of candies in the development of their
tin mines during the past six months.
Two thousand pounds of steel drills
were recently received at the Tender
foot tin mines, five miles northwest Of
this city.
Coking furnaces costing 100000 will,
it is said, be erected at the Newcastle
coal mines this year.
The Homestake paid dividend No. 1870
Of $12,500 on Tuesday, making a total
Of dividends paid this year of $4,000,
and $4,50G, $50 to date.
A Custer correspondent submits the
following items of mining news to the
Sioux City Journal under date Of the
oath ult: "The developments on the
mines of the Southern Hills continue
with undated vigor. The Glendale is
shipping cassiterite. or tin ore concen-
t%rates, and win probably enlarge the
capacity of the mill this year. The
Harvey Peak company are pushing the
works at the numerous mines of their
properties until prospect holes have be-
come long drifts, deep shafts, inclines
and tunnels. Preparations are being
made by II. ID. Moss, superintendent of
the Four Mile gold mines, who is at
present in New York, 10 erect another
mill Of forty stamps on the mines Of his
company early in the future. All these
arc indications of prosperity for the
Southern Hills for the coming year."
RICH ORE.
Capt. John Smith, an Old ~prospector,
left at Tom Sweeney's store to-day the
finest specimen of silver ore ever seen
in the Black Hills, that is said to have
recently been found on the reservation.
II is native silver in white quartz. The
rock is alive with it, A tN enty-stamp
mill would pay Off the national debt in
a generation with such ore to keep it
running at its full capacity.-Rapid Re-
publican.
DEADwooD REDUCTION WORKS.
Concerning the Deadwood Reduction
Works, now rapidly approaching com
p~letion, the Deadwood Times of the
23rd ult. has the following: "Under
the ch~aperonage Of Harris Franklin, q
Times reporter, on yesterday, visited
the new plant, and was surprised at the
extent and perfect equipment of the es-
adjustment which rapidly approaches
completion. To the casual observer the
plant appears a perfect duplication Of
the burned works, but closer examina-
ton discloses a smaller main building
and a less number Of teaching and pre-
cipitating tanks In other essential
features the equipment and arrange
ment are practically the same as when,
on March l last, the lurid element en-
veloped the building and accomplished
its destruction. One other feature also
strikes the close observer, to-wit /:
greater compactness OF grearing and
betting, rendered possible by experience
acquired in the original building. A
score or so Of mechanics and others are
at work, principally on the lower floor,
where are placed five precipitating
tanks. These ale receiving a second
lining OF an asphalt preparation to pro-
tect from the action of gas. On the
| second floor are found four more tanks
and a II ,000-lb steel barrel, all in position
and receiving finishing touches, includ.
ing lead burning-a slow and tedious
process. Mr.. Boutwell, superviles this
very important work. An elevator TO
convey the roasted and puivcrized ore
from the cooling floor 10 hopper of the
steel barrel is well under way. All
other portions ofthe building and equip
ment are complete. The five Bruckner
" 'aNSS RIPNHA vi
naces attached, ready for work. Tie
original design of a dust room in front
and over the brick dust chamber, has
been supplanted by an ingenious ar
rangement for collecting the floating
dust in the upper room of the crusher
house. The little engine for driving
the roasters. as well AS the large one,
appear as good as new, in fact the large
one presents a Landowner appearance
than ever. The rolls, crushers, dryer,
elevators, screens, fan, ore-bins. car
tracks, in short everything above the
cooling floor is ready for operation, and
very little rc!nains to be done below
that point. Chemicals, on the road in,
should arrive by March |, and immedia.
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