Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-06-25

this process, but has injured every
business man in Deadwood, as well, and
its patrons, If it has any, should take
them severely la task for their un-
righteous opposition. SO feeble an
as the Times cannot hope TO sue
cessfully cope with the growing favor
Cyanide.
in regard TO the tests made on Golden
Reward ore, VIC will say that we have
interviewed Messrs. Frank and Darling
and Mr.. Cuno, the expert chemist who
conducted the Golden Reward test, and
their statements arc substantially as
follows: 1--WE made an extraction on
Golden Reward ores of % per cent gold
and 81 per cent silver with a loss Of o
of one pound of cyanide per ton"
These determinations were made by Mr..
Bamberger, head chemist and superin-
tendent of the company and since the
Times has taken upon.itself to deny the
success Of these tests, we challenge it to
produce a statement from the officers Of
the Golden Reward company to sub
stantiate their assertion. That the
tanks used leaked and lost a small por-
ton Of the solution, the company will
not deny, and responsibility for .t rests
entirely with them" This challenge j.
a fair and square one and the Times can
do nothing but prove its assertions or
make the proper reparation for their
misstatements. Which will you do
gentlemen? The Times says that when
Messrs. Frank and Darling sail that
they have no doubt that chlorination
will be entirely superseded by the
cyanide process on Black Hills ores
within the next year." they just natur-
ally misrepresented the case, that is all.
This process Is no good and there is no
likelihood of its supplanting the chlori-
nation process, which proves very sue
cessful in every instance. In answer 10
this viliification we will quote from :
recent letter in the Journal from Mr.. A..
b. Paul of California, who says 81 have
no fight against COLONIZATION, it is a
good process, bnt the cyanide is going
to override it for the simple fact that for
about half the cost of chlorination, as
high n per cent Of gold can be had and
with the gold a given per cent Of silver
which c%hlorinalion will not save" The
editor of the Black Hills Times knows,
if he knows anything, that a large per
cent of the Black Hills ores are rcfrac-
tory silver bearing ores ana that in or
der to save the highest per cent possible,
they must and will he compelled to use
cyanide. Mr.. Paul is not a stupid idiot,
it was he who built the first mill on the
famous Comstock lode. In eighteen
months after he had commenced oper-
ating his mill forty mills were in sue
cessful operation. Mr.. Paul has aban
doned all other processes and has
adopted the Macarthur Forrest or cyan
ide process AZ the best process known
at the present time. We commend n
careful reading of Mr.. Paul's letter as il
appeared in this paper on yesterday 10
the editor of the Times and trust that
he will see what a stupid ass he has
made of himself by his antagonism OF
the cyanide process. In this connec,
Sclenr1c ~TTess OF HSan ~rfahcIsc9
the following paragraph "As com.
pared with chlorination, this Cyanide
process involves no roasting, and there.
fore no fuel and may be utilized in
regions where furnaces would be i'm.
practicable. 1t will also work ores
which cannot be touched with prof, hy
colonization; and much less chemicals
are necessary than in the latter pro.
cess. This Cyanide process also takes
out both gold and silver. Ii was a sur.
prise To many TO be told that the heayi.
est sulphureted ores could be treated
without roasting, and yet 95 per CEN OF
the assay value be realized. This is q
very important thing for this state,
where W have so much sulpheret ore,
1t costs from two to five dollars per ton
to work ore by this process and il is
not necessary to first concentrate the
sulphurets and then work them separ-
ately from the original ore. You can
extract the gold and 0 high per cent OF
the silver from any ore" This gives
one an idea of the reception the Cyan
ide process is receiving on the Pacific
coast where they have intelligent min
ing men and editors. The Macarthur
Forrest people do not attack any other
process, but do claim the right to de-
fend their W from the viliifying and
untruthful misstatements Of such malici-
u liars as the Deadwood Daily Times
and the Engineering and Mining
Journal. The cyanide process will lie
used in the Black Hills and no one can
operate il unless they make a special
contract with the Macarthur. Forrest
people of this city. without whose per-
mission it would be unwise to attempt
it. Miners everywhere welcome the
McArthur-Forres process and show
their progressive spirit by their willing
ness to imrariially test its merits on the
ores they wish to treat. Such a spirit is
commcndable and We are sorry that the
sditor. oftha RlaakIIilis Tirnea has see,i
tit to attack it, we do not believe tiat
the mining men and business oDm.
munity of Deadwood will uphold
him , in his unjust attack. II is
to their interest to have a better
process than that Of chlorination If
such a process can be found. The
cyanide people are making every en-
deavor possible to prove 10 them that
they have such a process. and it is ex-
tremely ungrateful to say the least 10
have some sap-head Of an editor aitact
then on q proposition he knova