Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-03-15
Mining Notes.

Iron Hill stock is reported in good
demand on the Deadwood market, at
fifty cents per share.
Encouraging reports are heard from
the Uncle Sam. The output for the last
half of February is said to have greatly
exceeded previous semi.monthly clean
ups, and was highly satisfactory to the
management.
The Iron Hill hosting works are now
nearly completed, The building is all
enclosed and the shingles will all be on
to-day. About all that now remains to
be done to the building proper is TO put
in doors and windows. Some little
time will be necessary to get the ma
chinery in running order.-Pioneer.
A correspondent Of tho Rapid Repub-
lican reports q very rich silver strike
in the Yellow Jacket lode, located near
Deacon Jones ranch, n half mile north
of Jim creek, in Lawrence county, near
the south line. and owned by NJ. IT,.
Day Il Co. The ore is classed MS steel
galena, and is said to assay hundreds OF
dollars to the ton.
Bare Butte mining district has Of late
become a Mecca for prospectors. Numer-
Gus locations have been made, and
active work commenced thereon. Since
the advent Of q. J.. Ravens in Galena
as superintendent and manager of the
Richmond mining property, with which
he has been 80 successful, the belief and
faith of all old timers are confirmed in
the final outcome of the district. Sever
al parties are now prospecting south.
easterly from the Richmond and Sitting
Bull mines, with every prospect of strik-
ing a rich BODY of ore when the contact
is reached. 1t is needless to add that
Deadwood capital is the fulcrum which
will keep the work going Outlines.
THE GLENDALE.
Louis EVERY came down from the
Glendale camp yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Everlv reports everything working
smoothly and with the best results at the
mine anu mill. The company has OF
late increased its working force to al
most double its former number. The
mill is turning out a large amount Of con-
centrates every week, and the miners are
working in very rich ore. The ore body
encountered a short time ago is a very
rich one, and of greater extent than ut
first supposed. Mr.. Everlv says the
mining property in the vicinity Of Hay
ward is all looking well and develop
ments are being continued, a~p5~thtukE
that the camp has the brightest Of pro-
spects for the futurc.-Journal.
PROM SOUTH AFRICA.
The Deadw God Pioneer has the follow
ing taken from a letter recently receiv-
ed by Mrs. Glib Stone. Of Deadwood from
her son Ed Coldwell who went TO South
Africa a few months ago. IL nm work
ing for the largest and one Of the rich
est mining and milling companies in
South Africa. 1t is known as the Jump
ers, aud the works are located about
four miles from Johannesburgl They
give employment to about Ave hundred
men, the greater number Of them being
kafirs or negroes. who receive only "a
q week. They are treated about the
same as slaves aud If a white man kills
one Of them lie is seldom arrested.
When / FIRST went to work for the com
pany l was employed as tramway boss,
and had about twenty kafirs under me.
l was Afterwards put in charge Of the
concentrators, with wages at 500 pei
month. As soon as there is an opening,
I I'm TO be put to work a. an amalganl-
ator. The Jumpers ct ock is now worth
els per share English money, which ID
about equal to S65 in United States
money. The mill, and in fact almost
all buildings here are built o~fcorrugated
iron, on account Of the scarcity Of
lumber. The mill Is illuminated with
electric lights, and it Is now producing
about $500 nee Of gold per month
worth nearly $4,000. which IL pretty
good for q l00-stamp mill. This Is ouz
summer, December, January. February
and March being intensely hot. though
quite cool working in the mill"