Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-05-14
Mining Items.

A test run was madda at the Welcome
COLONIZATION plant at Rapid City, Tues
day, and the result was altogether salts
factory. The mill will soon be treating
five cars Of ore a day.
The following item clipped fiom tn
Deadwood Times of Thursday, the 18th,
is welcome news in the tin district I:
William Van Allen, one of Hill City's
wide awake merchants, who was in the
city yesterday, says hat active prepare
tons by the Harvey Peak tin company
have already commenced for q season of
active mining and development work
on their claims. The Gertie mine,
which has been shut down for several
months, was started up yesterday with
the former number of miners, and men
are being engaged for work on their
other properties. In fact, all mines and
works that have been shut down will be
started up IN or before Monday. The
mill will be in operation ere long. Hill
City this summer will be u very lively
camp"
THE SPOKANE.
Isaac NJ Humphrey returned yester-
day morning from the Spokane mine,
where he has at present time six men
at work. AS soon as the weather settles
and the snow disappears he will add to
his working force. The mine is troubled
with water on the lower level but it is
not thought that it will prove q
serious matter as the most of it seeps in
from the surface-Journal.
HARYEY PEAK TIN.
]. T. Chills, superintendent of the
Harvey Peak Mining company, accom-.
panied by Myron Willsie, chief mana.
ger Of the company, was in the city yes.
terday. Mr.. Childs is one of the mos,
experienced miners in the United States,
and holds his present position through
a recommendation from J. b. Ilaggin.
Mr.. Childs stated TO a reporter that the
reason for discharging the large number
Of men recently was because he had de-
termined not to take out such a large
quantity Of ore until the mill was ready
to start up in June. A sufficient guam
tity of ore is now on the dump to run
the mill for some time, and the mines
are in such a condition that the output
will supply the full capacity of the mill,
The mill is the best and most complete
that has ever been built in the Hills
1t is practically complete and will be
running rs soon as the railroad spurs
are completed to the mines. The gen,
eral outlook for the production of tin il
good. All the developments made by
Mr.. Childs tend TO show the permanen.
cy and improvement of the tin bearing
mines Pioneer.
RICH TRrKE IL LEAD MINES.
The Times publishes the following
concerning Lead mines "Ne are reli.
ably informed hat an extensive bod,
of high grade ore has recently been
struck on the 600-foot in the Homestake
uAiiC' AbC JIG 10 ItpOIltu W NC iii
richer than an, heretofore found. A
similar statement is made in regard &c
the Caledonia, the strike in this mine
being made on the 400 foot level. The
diamond drill, with which the Home.
stake has been prospecting the Monitor
and other claims in its vicinity, has Ell,
countered q valuable vein of ore. The
drill has been run 400 feet in one direc
ton. From these reports and indica
tons ii is presumed that the continue,
ton of the Caledonia vein has been
found and it extends across Deadwood
gulch and Sawpit. Up the latter gulch
the company have recently purchased
the Minerva mine, which was abandon.
ed years ago and reloca' ed by others. all
of whom failed to make it pay, not
having the necessary money to sink
shafts or drive tunnels where the ore
bodies were supposed TO be. The new
owners, however, have unlimited means
at their disposal, and the property will
in the near future be numbered amone
our producing and paying mines.
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