Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-02-24
A GOLD CUBE.
Two Cubic Feet OF Gold Worth
$7OO,OOOto Be Exhibited
at Chicago.
This Is What the Black Hills
Will Exhibit at the Worlds
Fair.

HIN IS Wn6C vnC ltl0Ck h1lIS
Will Exhibit at the Worlds
Fair.
Oneof the most remarkable exhibits
at the Worlds Fair will be the min
eral display from the Black Hills.
Those familiar with the resources of
this region know that it possesses Il
larger variety and richer quality of
mineral wealth than any other part
of the earth similar in size. Com
paratively few people know, but it is
Il fact nevertheless, that the greatest
gold mine in the world is located at
pcadwood. or that the only nickel
found on the American continent is
there. or that gold and silver and
iron and coal and copper and alum
lnum and tin and Il great variety of
other valuable minerals may be here
developed in endless amount and to
spread this knowledge before the peo-
pie of the earth, and bring the whole
world to realizing sense of the
enormous riches rcposing beneath
The rugged spurs of the Hills. the
people of that country are arranging
a most impressive and remarkable
exhibit.
Probably the most interesting sim
sic display on the entire grounds will
be the great block of gold shown by
the llomcstake Mining company.
This will take the form of three
months output of their mine. Their
immense stamps grind monthly about
s225o.0o0 worth of gold. For three
months therefore the yield would
reach fully 100000. This amount
will make Il cube containing two
Cubic feet and this solid block of the
most precious metal highly polished
and suitably mounted will make an
impression unegualled by any other
thing and reminding the spectator of
lie tales oriental wealth.
The llomcstakc is the richest mine
on earth. Not even the famous Com
stock lode in recent years has begun
to equal ii in yield. For fifteen
Years it has been grinding away and
every year finds tho ore i'm sight more
vast and tile deposit showing richer.
The deeper into lie earth they go
the wider grows the vein and the
higher the quality. 1t is now more
| than 200 feet i'm width. The great
company, which is composed of Hag-
gin and other California nabobs. OWNS
this and many adjoining claims and
works continually upwards OF 1000
men. This includes not only the
miners. of whom there are more than
1000. but also the employees i'm the
great reduction plants i'm Lead City
and Deadwood. and is the greatest
corporation in the state. but while
this company is more widely known
than any other it by no means mon.
opolizes the gold digging of the Hills
The newly discovered chlorination
processes have caused the organiza.
tion OF number of new companies
provided with ample capital, which
have done great amount of develop.
mcnt and are now turning out vast
quantities of metal. In the aggrc.
gate they produce more than theil
big ncighbors and the total monthly
output of the Hills will average fully
half a million dollars.
The Ilarney Peak Tin Mining com.
pany will also make display of lhc
greatest interest. 1t has applied fol
Il space ten by twenty in size and will
show there an exact reproduction %:
its mines. railroads and the big mill
at Hill City where the first American
tin was produced. The mill is now
running AT only part capacity but is
turning out 5000 pounds OF pure tin
per day. The mill itself cost over
half Il million and the mining claims
and other works at least as much
more. 1t has taken ten years for the
company to get its plant and posses
>ion> in readiness for work, butcvcry-
thing has been done i'm the most sub
stantial manner and those familiar
with the premises are confident OF
success.
Besides these individual exhibits
there will be an elaborate display OF
the other mineral resources of Ute
Hills. The people are exceedingly i'm
terested i'm the matter and are deter
mined that the world shall know
what they know-tllat they live in
the greatest wealth producing sec
ton of the country. The vast stock
interests will be shown ingood shape.
The annual output of fat steers is
fully 100000 head. representing a
value of from four to, five millions
and the business is growing Year by
year. The rich grasses of the ranges
about the Hills are acknowledged t.
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