Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-03-28
Mining Items.

North America.-Times.
Mining items.
gold brick, representing last clean.
up at the Golden Reward chlorination
works, and valued at IS, 700, was express
ed east yesterday. The plant has been
working more satisfactorily lately than
at any previous time. In the last three |
DAYS 10 tons of ore have been treated, |
while the average heretofore has been
only "a tons per day. The new barrel.
which according to contract should have
been shipped last month, and which
was reported shipped on the 18th ofthis,
according to President Franklin has not |
yet left Chicago. Directors are unable |
to account for the delay Times, 20.
From Tim Coleman, who came over
from the Bull Dog rauch yesterday, it is
learned that extensive improvements
are going to be made at Gregory. Re-
cent developments in the vicinity Of
Silver City have disclosed an immense
vertical ledge of refractory ore, crop
pings of which can be traced along big |
Rapid creek for distance Of ten miles.
The charcter Of the ore is similar to |
that at Ruby Basin and Bald Mountain,
and runs from $40 to 500 in gold and sill
yer. Small seams OF lead are found, but
the general orebody is dry. The average
to the vein for width of twenty feet, is
said to be $50 in gold and silver. G. G.
Smith, who was formerly general man.
ager of the Montana mine, Is at present
in the east perfecting arrangements for
the buildin of a 100 ton smelter at the
Montana mill, at which the ores Of the
Silver City district will be reduced.
The smelter will be of the dry process
similar to the matte system now in
vogue at Deadwood. There is abund-
ance of iron pyrites in the vicinity to
furnish the smelter with fux. 1t is also
stated that arrangements are now per-
fected. whereby the B. & M. will build
from Mystic to Silver City, and thus con-
meet the mines and smelter by rail-
Surveyors are now ut work locating the
line, and are engaged in crosssectioning
back to Mystic. This will add one
more more to the already long list Of
producing districts in the Hills
Pioneer.
THE LATEST FROM THE GLENDALE.
The other day Sam Scott heard a
rumor that the Glendale Mining Co. had
shut down their mine for good. Mr..
Scott at once wrote them, that If this
was the case, he supposed they would
wish to dispose Of their machinery, and
he was prepared to make them an offer.
He received the following reply this
morning from Geo. w. Cope, treasurer
of the Glendale company:
Dear sir: Your favor OF 18th inst has
been received in Mr.. Gardner's absence.
In reply l have to say that you were
misinformed. The Glendale has not
been closed down for all time. On the
contrary we are actively making arrange
ments to push work more vigorously
than eyer.-Rapid Republican.
SQUAW CREEK SILVER.
Mrs. William Franklin, of Eta Mine
who came in Sunday evening brought
news of rich find Of silver and lead on
Squaw creek about five miles south east
of the Eta Mine. The find which has
been kept quiet until recently was made
by Wes. Judd, upon his ranch in the dis
trict named. A shaft forty feet in
depth has been sunk and two tons of
ore very rich in lead and silver has been
taken therefrom. County Commission
er Fred Cross who is something Of an
assayer himself has made q test of the
ore and Is SO well pleased with the re-
suit tn at has secured an interest and
will do active development work during
the summer. Louis Everly of Harney
City is said to have offered Judd 81 600
for half interest in the mine, which he
declined. This lead is said to be the
| first found in the Southern Hills and
carrying silver as it does may prove
valuable for somethlng.-Rapid Repub-
lican.
THE KEYSTONE.
Ifhalf the reports of the richness of
the strike in the Keystone lode, near the
Eta, be correct, Q second and richer
Homestake has been discovered. The
ore is white quartz, which at the pre-
sent depth is much disintegrated and
decomposed. The tunel which has been
run into the hill about eighty feet, Is in
the ledge for about thirty feet of the dis
tance. The foot wall is the only one
which has been found. The vein has
been cross-cut for ten feet without de-
termining the width, The ore is free
milling and no tests have az yet shown
less than $50 in gold per ton.--Pioneer.
| GOLD IN THE BAD LANDS.
The Omaha Bee of the 18th inst.
contains the following late Pierre
special: "Last summer Tom Phillips
Joe Wandall and q companion name d
Zear went into the bad lands in the
western part of the reservation on q
hunting expedition. They returned
with evidence Of having found gold
This is not q new report from the bad
lands, many men having declared that
gold and silver could Be found there.
But none have yet developed it in pay.
ing quantities. These parties think
they have, and have imbued Others
with their faith to the extent OF organ.
ixing q mining district and laying ont q
town. The district is called Wandel
and the town Logan.
| Sage creek Is tributary to the Bad
river which crosses the bad lands and
along 1t the aurferous placers are alleg
ed to exist. Great preparations have
been made by the proprietors to visi
the md this spring and resume tn,