Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-07-05
bl-AfsK, HILLS TIN MINES.
They are the Only Ones,n the Country and
Will Not Pay for Operating.

HILL CITY, S. D., July Al great
deal has been said and written recently
regarding tin in the Black Hills cota-
try. There are two regions in the
Black Hills in which tin is presumed to
abound; one is at Harney's Peak, in the
southern portion Of the Hills. and the
other is at Niger Hill, in the northern
portion of the hills. Neal Hill City, in
the southern hills, are located
the properties of the Harvey Peak Tin
Mining Company, company that
has a capital of several millions
of dollars. 1t has secured in the neigh
borhood of 1000 claims, and has done
more for the discovery of tin in the
black Hills and for the development
of the tin industry in America than any
and all other companies combined.
There are several smaller companies
and individuals with one or more
claims in the Harvey park district, but
they all want the capital with which to
develope their property; and are simply
doing the necessary assessment work
under the law and holding on to their
claims and waiting for something to
turn up.
In the Niger Hill district are located
the properties of the Cleveland Tin
Mining and Milling Company, Of the
Mansfield Tin Mining and Milling Com
pany, and numerous claims of individ-
uals. No development work has been
done or undertaken in this district as
yet, the work having been confined ex-
clusvely to assessment work and pros
pecting. 1t is given out, however, and
generally believed, that if there is tin
paying quantities In the Black Hills
country it is in the Niger Hill dis
trict.
The only efforts to develop the tin in
the Black Hillsare those that have been
made by the Harvey Peak Tin Mining
asd Milling Company, and the results OF
the efforts of this company are far from
encouraging as to the future OF the lin
industry in this country and in the Black
Hills in particular. The Harvey Peak
Company is composed of syndicates Of
New York and English capitalists. The
workings of the company are not at the
present time harmonious, and have not
been for some time past. The directors
of the New York syndicate want to bond
and sell, while the directors OF the Eng
lish syndicate want to work and develop
the property. The result is there has
been considerable conflict within the
management of late.
Thomas II. White an English mining
engineer, at present located at Dead
wood, s. D., carefully examined the
Harvey Peak district and reported that
there was no tin there, or If there was
any it did not exist in paying quantities.
He also wrote series Of ARTICLES for
London papers in which he.uiejntained
that tin did not exist in the Black Hills
In paying quantities.
1t is certain that tin has not yet been
found in paying quantities in the Black
Hills, either at Harvey Peak or Niger
Hill. The Harvey Peak Company have
but five claips that have at any time
shown uSHpromise of tin, and OF these
the AddIe was considered as by far the
most promising. 1t was claimed that
in this property they had vein OF tin
ore so feet wide that increased in rich
ness as it went downward. 1t is
now known that this supposed rich
vein in the Addie has been lost.
The workman are reported 70
be now more than 40 feet beyond where
the vein disappeared, or petered out,
and al efforts to find it have proved fu-
tile. 1t is thought that the vein, If
there was truly one, is WHAT is known
miners phrase as ''pinched out"
Barring Gould, brother OF Edwin
Gould. the great inancier Of the Bar
ings in London, who came to the Black
Hills TO look after the interests Of the
English syndicate, says that there is
not tin In paying quantities at Harvey
Peak. and that the company has no con-
siderable quantity OF tin ore on all their
dumps to-day.
Recently seven of the directors, in
cluding President Uttermeyer and
Messrs. Clauson and ]. Barring Gould,
of London, and Mr.. Thompson, the
company's attorney from New York,
were in Hill City inspecting the mines
and prospects. IL has been given out
that they were here for the purpose OF
selecting & location for the concentrat-
Ing plant. which has been tailed OF for
so long, and pending the erection OF
which all work on the Harvey Peak
Company's property has been practic-
ally suspended. There are now but 10
men in the company's employ, and
these are working but one shift, or
only half time
Mr.. Heldrig. an engineer from New
York. is-herc for the purpose OF super
intending the erection OF the proposed
concentrating plant, but he doesn't
know when the plant will be erected, II