Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-28

a corps of B. 4 NJ. engineers finished last
week a survey from Hill City to the
Keystone mine.-Union
A LAW SUIT THREATENED.
A prominent mining expert who has
the privilege Of entering the under
ground workings of both the Home
stake and Big Missouri companies
ground, stated yesterday that the tun-
mel run by the former company into the
latter's ground was nothing but pros
peet drift, and showed disappoiHtingly
small amount of ore not only this, but il
has become known that the ground from
which a good portion of the Big Mis-
souai ore has been taken Is claimed by
the Highland, and IL surprises nobody il
in short time law suit is commenced
to prevent the Big Missouri from remov-
ing any more ore.-Pioneer.
THE KEYSTONE NINE.
JEFF McDermott and p. B. Nc Garth y
returned iaat- evening from visit to
Keystone mine. Mr.. McDermott, who ia
and old miner and one OF the best
posted men in the Black Hills, was met
last evening by Journal reporter and
on being asked what he thought of tue
property, said: II consider the Keystone
mine carries the largest and finest BODY
of concentrating ore that has so far been
discovered in the Hills; and you will see
one Of the best camps in the vicinity of
this mine before the close Of this year
that is in the Hills" Mr.. McDermott
states that Major Simmons is now work
ing twenty-eight men on night and day
shifts on the property, and when he
was there they had forty foot vein of
high grade gold ore. While there he
met two engineering parties of the
Burlington and Missouri railroad run
ming preliminary lines from Hill City
to the Eta mine, and he was Informed
that the company would build spur
this summer past the keystone mine.
The Bullion mine has force of men at
work in the same grade of ore as is
found in the keystone and miners in
the district are hard at work on their
locat;ons.-Journal..
HARVEY PEAK COMPANY.
The Harvey Peak company are doing
very little work at present, and that
consists principally of assessment work
on undeveloped claims. Everyone here
is at loss 10 know what TO do, whether
to stick ii out or move 10 some other
camp. As far as the tin ore is concern
ed, all who haye worked in the CON-
pany's mines are satisfied that there 10
plenty of Il, and carrying enough of the
metal to pay handsome profit for its
treatment. The action of the company
and its management is something that
is iDcomprehensible to outsiders. Super
intendent Childs is Of course acting
under the orders Of the board of di-
rectors. If he had exclusive control,
am satisfied that matters would run
differently. One theory TO explain the
action Of the management is that they
have about years supply of ore for
their big mill now on the dumps of the
various mines, which will be put through
as soon as the mill is completed. This
practical test will then fully dispose of
the mooted question; Is there tin in
| paying quantities in the Hsrney Peak
mines? Everything is very quiet at
present in our beautiful little mountain
city. Some say it is virtually dead, and
all it wants is decent burial dispute
both statements, and predict that within
the next year Hill City will be one OF
liveliest and most prosperous camps in
The Black Hills.-Deadwood Times Hill
City Correspondent.