Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-04-29
Mining Items.

that it is altogether probable that
number of sales will be made before the
: coming summer has passed.
The d. & D. Smelter Co. of Deadwood
contemplates the erection of 60 stamt
mill and smelter in Strawberry gulch
this summer. If the plant is put in a
branch Of the d. G. railroad will be ex
tended TO the Galena district.
Nine miners employed by the Butte
and Boston Company In their mines
near Butte. Mont, lost their lives in a
mine fire last week. The fire broke out
between the men and the only shaft
through which exit was possible, and
they were either burned or suffocated.
III The Hsrmosa Pilot reports that syl
rcster Judd. the original owned OF the
Spokane silver mine, has made another
valuable find on French creek, near Gate:
saw mill. This time ii is gold, and one
ton of concentrates from ten tons Of the
ore is said TO yield $500. The property
will be developed with all possible
rapi1ty.
The affairs Of the Homestake Com.
pany have just about settled back into
the old channels once more. The miners
are all al work and the stamps are drop
ping with their usual regularity in the
Star, Highland, Deadwood. Terra and
De Smet mills. The Eghty-stamp mill
which was given thorough overhaul
ing during the shut down will be started
up Monday next. The fire in the Ter.
ra stope is still smouldering and Tues
day night it was discoyered that the
gas was leaking through the bulkhead
into the Highland. However there was
not enough of it to seriously interfere
with tae miners.
We have nothing new for our readers
this week concerning the Harney Peak
Company or the prospects for. resump-
tion of operations in its mines and mill.
AS much as can be learned is that the
settlement of the differences between
the English and American stock holders.
which it was sincerely hoped would
have been effected before this, is still
hanging FIRE. When the members OF
the company come TO an understanding
and agreement the tin district will
again be a scene of activity. The order
to 60 to work again will probably come
as suddenly and Unexpectedly as did
the one to discontinue.
Mineral Expert Miller of the Burling
ton, arrived in the city yesterday from
the vicinity of Billings, Montana, wher,
he has been examining the mineral de
pests near by the proposed line Of tn,
bennington extension from Sheridan Il
Billings. Mr.. Miller is the pioneer ma
Z III the b. & NJ 1t is upon his report G
mining regions that the road extends il
lines. Mr.. Miller spent a year or NOR
examining this country before the Bur
lington built in here. 1t is said his re
port of this country was very fatterin
one The B. & NJ. company does no
: take the boom talk of railroad pros
pectors, but studies ITS route through
tried agents, of which Mr.. Miller is one
-Deadwood Times
Thos. OBrophy, man who for year
prospected and mined in this locality
but who is now employed in the Blacl
Hills Foundry at Deadwood, is the in
ventor of new process for the extrac
, ton of gold and silver from refractory
ores. Mr.. O'Brophy calls his process
the Pneumatic System and in {
lengthy interview with a Pioneer re
porter he describes it and states hi
reasons for believing that it will prov,
success where many others have fail
ed He promises to do away with tn,
difficulty in profitably treating medium
grade refractory ores, and thinks tina
those of Bald Mountain can be reduced
for at least 81 per ton. In some fntur,
issue when our space is not so limited
as it is this week we will publish tn,
gentleman's remarks just as they ap
pesred in the Pioneer.
= The erection of a fifty ton Cyanide re
duction plant at Deadwood by j.
Childs will very likely prove a matter
of great importance to the refractory
ore districts of the southern Hills, al
we'll as to the immediate locality il
which the plant is to be located. Botf
Mr.. Childs and that eminent authority
on all that pertains to mines and min
ing, Prof. Jenny, have stated that with
the Cyanide process they have success
fully treated refractory ores from every
district Of the Black Hills, and that they
are positive that it will extract the golt
from ninety per cent Of the ores Of the
region. Because Mr.. Childs has seen Fl
to erect his first reduction plant a
Dsadwood. in close proximity to tn,
properties which he recently purchased
it does not follow tina. he, as owner o
the process, will confine his operation
TO that part OF the Hills. the establish
ment Of this plant is but beginnin,
which is to give the Cyanide process
foothold in the Black Hills. III the en-
terprise proves success. and there il
every reason to believe that it viii. III,
nav company will naturally desire 4
extend its operations over the entir,
territory in which il controls the pro
cess. and the western portion of Custe
county, with its inexhaustible bodies o
high grade ores, will prove an attraction
which capital cannot resist.