Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-05-16
Mining Items.
gOTAw CREEK SILVER CAMp

sROaW thEfh siLNEh CAMf.
Messrs Judd, Shafer and Wright, the
owners ofthe celebrated Squaw Creek
silver mine, were in the city on Tues
day, purchasing supplies for their camp.
They brought in number Of samples OF
rich ore from the bottom of the shaft,
now about 80 feet deep, which is said
to represent value of ninety dollars a
ton. The vein has steadily widened
from the surface, where it was barely
two feet wide, until at the depth of 80
feet it has attained width of seven feet,
with perfect walls, good shipping ore,
and every indication of a permanent
paying property Two shifts are now
employed at the mine taking out ore.
of which there is at present about twelve
car loads on the dump awaiting ship
ment to Omaha for reduction. The
prospect for a lively camp at Squaw
Creek in the early future is daily be-
coming more flattering.
RUMoRED TIN SALE
A Hermosa special Of the 10Th inst.
to the Sioux City Journal ontains the
following: Information has just been
received, which is believed to be entire
ly reliable, TO the effect that the Harvey
Peak company has purchased the Mar
garet groop of mines Of Lewis Everly
for consideration of $500, Of
which $4,000 was cash, and the re-
niainder to be paid in sixty days. The
group consists OF about thirteen claims,
among which is rich nickle mine, but
the group consists principally of exceed
ingly rich tin locations. which Mr..
Every las had for the past several
years. This sale is said to be merely a
forerunner Of many extensive purchases
which the Harvey Peak company is con-
this spring"
JUDD's CAMP.
On Little Squaw creek, the locality of
which so much has recent. been sai1,
on account of the silver discoveries made,
is IL miles northeast of Custer. The
original location is known as the
Spokane Tin lode IN which an open cut
80 feet in length shows the ledge to be
s feet between two well defined walls.
Three feet of this is very good, assaying
60 per cent lead and 40 ounces silver and
this at depth Of IA feet. The general
formation of the district is granite and
and limestone a very distinct and extern
siye range Of the latter rGas in !, hssf
circle from present discovery on Little
squaw, across Big Squaw, French Creek,
Lame Johnny to Point Of Rocks. The
groupings of the vein follow closely the
trona. OF the iinae@tone for IN sis=sssuco or
20 miles. Numerous locations have
already been made aud every day new
ones are added. The exact location oi
the present camp is two and one hall
miles south of the Glendale property
and q half mile southeast of Cy Cole s
ranch Oh iron creek. The Spokane Tin
lode is owned by S. Judi, j. 4. Schaefer
and ]. n. Wright; all of whom are or
will be soon residents of Custer City
the natural supply point for the new dis.
strict, Judd, the discoyerer has been
ranching on the ground for some years
past, putting in his spare time prospect
ing, not being miner he contented
himself running trenches ard sinking
holes where no rock bothered him. In
this work he found plenty of lead car
Donates. About four weeks ago, within
a foot or two Of the surface, he uncover
ed the ledge, but was not aware of its
value. 1t was but short time, however
before he fully realized it. He sold l0O
feet of it a few days after discovery for
$500 and has since been offered Sl00(
for half his Observation-Disclosures Times,
l2.