Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-10-21
Mining Items.


French Greek is dott ed with men who
are hauling place dirt to its banks. and
there washing out the gold This sum-
mer and fall have witnessed a general
revival ofactivity in this branch of the
mining industry, and the gold taken out
in the last few months would in the ag-
gregate amount to considerable sum.
An eastern man writes a citizen OF
Custer that he is anxious to secure an
interest in some Of our gold prospects,
and that in exchange he will put up lib
orally for development work. Parties
who are willing TO accept such propo-
sition are now corresponding with the
eastern man, and trade may be the
result This is only one Of numerous
evidences that monied men are looking
our way
In sinking well on the club house
property, in this city, D. f. Shope has
encountered blind ledge of pyritic ore
at distance of % feet from the surface.
The ledge dips downward and into the
hill and the deposit is apparently an
extensive one. Prospectors and miners
who have examined samples of the ore
are Of the opinion that there is some
thing in it worth looking after, and a
quantity of it has been sent 10 Assayer
Porter to be tested. Gold ore of high
! grade is just as liable to be found within
the city limits as outside Of them, and
it is not impossible that the strike
chronicled in this paragraph may prove
to be very important one.
The Deadwood papers report the con
summation of deal by which the prop
erty Of the Bald Mountain Mining and
| Milling company is transferred TO an
English syndicate which has been in
corporated with a capital of 100000
pounds sterling. The property purchas-
ed consists OF six claims on Bald Noun
tain, eight 1T Garden City and the Key.
stone chlorination works. Eight or nine
of the Interested Englishman landed a,
New York last Saturday and are expect
ed to reach Deadwood to-day. The de.
velopment of the mines will be COM
menced Immediately and 200 tor
chlorination plant Will be erected.
The Butterfield mining property. oI
which quite extended mention was
made in these columns some weeks ago
is located in one Of the richest and most
extensive gold pelts in the entire Black
Hills region, and about it center large
number of valuable claims in various
stages Of development. Adjoining this
property on the west is group Of eight
claims owned by A. I. Feay, Jas. Dem
ereau, T F. Mclaughlin and Jas. Nc
Shear, of Custer City, and one day this
week the CHRONICLE editor gladly &C
cepted an invitation to look the ground
over and note the development work
now in progress More or less work has
been done on each of the claims in tn,
group, and in every shaft lead Of pay
ore has been found at onlv q short dis
tance from the surface. At present Mr.
Demereau is engaged in sinking shat
on the Evening Star lode and is down
about eighteen feet. Following the sur
face groupings he uncovered fssurs
vein which dips almost vertically down
ward, and at the present depth tn,
ledge is not less than seven feet wide
The ore is OF the tellurium character
requiring concentration to save all the
gold. but free gold prospects are obtain
ed by crushing and panning. Much o1
the ore sparkles with bright yellow par,
ticles which are readily taken to be the
pure stuff by the initiated. Prof
Aughey has pronounced these particles
telluride Of gold. and about 40 per cent
pnre gold. The quartz bears also the
darker tellurides and iron pyrites. A
test of fair sample from the ore body
returned 5000, and there is no ques-
ton about the average being high
On the dump is seventy Eve or one hun
dred tons of ore from the ledge exposed
in this one shaft. and the owners are
contemplating making practical test al
the Gold Star mill. On the Deerhound
lode, which is one of this group OF
claims. shaft cuts six foot ledge o
. character and formation similar tc
that described above. Several leads oi
l