Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-04-09
MINING Items.

hnotner ricn stflke OF carbonate ore,
which assays several hundred dollars to
the ton, is reported TO have been made
at Hayward, last Saturday.
Some time ago II. G.. Butterfeld of
this city, one of the most experienced
prospectors of the Hills, gave to d. T.
Drake, right-ofway man for the B. &
NJ, number of samples of ore from the
Bonanza lode, one Of group OF mines
located fiys miles west Of Custer, and
owned by Mr.. Butterfeld. Mr.. Drake
had the ore assaycd by reliable Lin
| coin man. and this week notified Mr.. b.
of the result which was as reported by
the assaysr $240 in gold to the ton. Mr..
Drake says that the test can be relied
upon as o. X. As stated before the
Bonanza is one of a number owned by
Mr.. Butterfield, and considerable work
has already been done upon 1t. The
main development is twenty-five foot
shaft which shows a FIVE foot ledge,
from which the ore assayed was taken.
THETIN MILL.
BY the 18th of this month Mr.. Kline
expects to have his labors completed on
the tin mill and will leave for the east.
The mill rights work is done, and Mr..
Labran, frst-class machinist in the
employ of Frazer and Chalmers, will
have charge of the mill from that time
on till it is accepted by the Harvey Peak
Tin company. Mr. Labran will regulate
the machinery, make trial runs, If de-
manded, and see that everything works
as il should and that all the tin is saved.
A certain time is given to Frazer &
Chalmers to do all this and when every
thing is in frst-class shape as per con-
tract, then the Harney Peak Tin COM
pany will be asked to accept the mill.
A reporter of the News this week visited
the mill and was kindly shown through
| it by Mr.. Kline, who explained the
process to him. The ore is crushed with
water in a rock crusher and from there
conducted through wooden boxes to a
screen and thence taken to the Cornish
steel rolls. The coarser pieces of the
ore which will not pass through the
screens are crushed over in second
crusher, then passed through a screen
and taken in chutes to the steel rolls
where all the rock is pulverized finer.
By elevators the ore is then raised up
and put through screens again with finer
meshes; from those the fine stuff is
carried through wooden sluice boxes to
! jigs, where a considerable part of the
tin is saved at the bottom Of these. The
rock which is not fine enough to be jig
ged is carried to the Huntington mills
where it is pulverized finer and then
taken back to the Jigs. What tin can
not be saved in jigs passes through
sluice boxes to the settling pans where
most Of the heavy stuff will be caught.
The very finest tin which will not settle
at the bottom of the pans will be
syphoned up into sluice boxes and car
ried TO the Frue Vanner tables, where it
is expected that the very smallest par
ticles Of tin stone will be sayed.-Min-
ing News.
THE SPOKANE NINE.
The Journal yesterday learned from
John +. Shafer, one of the owners fthe
| Spokane mine on Squaw creek, that
there were at the present time eight
men engaged at work on the property.
| and that the owners would at once COM
mence shipping ore to Omaha for treat
ment. The work shows the extent Of
ore body and the ore to be shipped will
mostly be taken from second level At
present the shaft is down one hundred
and ten feet There is a ninety foot
cross-cut on the sixty foot level. and a
| forty foot cross. cut on the one hundred
foot level. On the lower level the char
scter Of the ore is much better than on
the other levels and the ore averages on
the different levels about two hundred
ounces to the ton. Mr.. Shafer said that
no sale of the property had as vet been
made, although he was of the opinion
that deal with some Omaha parties
would be closed within in few days,
when the first payment would be made
on the property. He stated that now as
all matters in dispute concerning the
ownership of the mine had been settled
satisfactorily TO all parties interested,
there was no reason for keeping the
value Of ore or the extent of the ore
body secret, and the mine is at any
! time open for inspection to parties who
might visit it and wished to study the
character of the ore or the formation of
the ledge.-Rapid Journal.
BIG MISSOURI SHIPMENTS sToPPEp.
Ore shipments of the Big Missouri
company from the mines in this city to
the mills at Perry is at an 'end, for the
present time at least. The spur of the
p. II. & Fl. p. which extend to the bins
at the mine has been long considered
unsafe as the cave along which the spur
extends has of late been crumblimg
away and fears have been entertained
that If it was allowed to GO unnoticed