Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-12-09
Mining Items.

Mining Items.
The Homestake Co.'S so stamp mill at
Lead City has been shut down Temporal
rily The shaft broke down Tuesday
evening, and about two weeks time will
be required to make the necessary re-
pairs.
! J. 5. Child's cyanide plant at Dead
wood will probably be in operation some
time next week. The machinery is all
in place and works smoothly, and test
run will first be made on ore from Mr..
Child's Blacktail properties. 1t is ex-
pected that the mill will treat at profit
the lower grade refractory ores, and the
trial runs will be watched with great
interest.
The Harvey PeaS Company is letting
the contracts for the yearly assessment
work on number of its claims in this,
and other portions of the tin district. A
few Thousand dollars Of the company's
I money will thus find it's way into the
pockets Of those who need them, and it
doesn't look as if the big concern, organ
lied for the purpose OF mining and mill
ing tin ore, had gone out of the business
entirely.
While doing this years assessment
work on the White Spar mica lode,
located a short distance west Of Custer
City, fine body of mica has been un-
covered. The mica bearing ledge is
said to be an immense one, and our in
formant says that for size and quality
the mica is unexcelled by the product
of any Custer county mine. The prop
erty is owned by w. w Olds Of this
city, and Minneapolis parties
The J. K. company have been having
some bad luck The cam shaft broke
square in two last week, stopping ten
stamps for several days. A new shaft
was put in and the stamps started again
last Monday then the bail broke off the
skip when it was at the top Of the shaft
at the mine and the skip went tearing
down the shaft, jumped the track and
smashed it out of sight. 4 new skip has
been ordered and arrived yesterday and
the work was suspended until il came -
Tin Miner.
A. Ericsson, while prospecting near
where McCulloch & Stevens one-stamp
mill stands on Spring creek, found some
float, which he followed for a distance
until il led him to small hole made
by fallen tree. Here he commenced
digging and uncovered a ledge Of white
quartz rock about four feet wide The
ore prospects good, going about so per
ton. The new discovery is about one
miles southwest of the ]. K. mine and
may be destined to become a rival to
that valuable gold producer News.
Mr.. VIM Deering, the head of the
VIM. Deering Mfg Co., has large inter
est in the Glendale mill and mining
property. On last Friday Nr. Buggy, a
representative of Mr.. Deering arrived at
Hermosa, and in company with NJ. j..
Scanlan drove up to the Glendale prop
erty. The object of Mr.. Buggy's visit
was to inspect the plant, and if possible
devise some scheme by which it could
I be put upon a p ying basis. The most
feasible plan seemed to be to remodel
the mill and arrange it for treating gold
ores Of which there is an abundance in
the immediate vicinity of the mill and
upon the company's property.-Pilot.
Fred G.. Mayer, engineer at the Gold
Star mill, informs us that he expects TO
put up small stamp mill, in the near
future. with which to treat the ore from
q group Of promising claims which he
owns in the Penobscot country. The
claims in question are the Drum Lum-
mond, Lodes, Nos l, 2 and 3, and have
all been fairly developed with encour-
aging results. In 50 foot shaft on the
Drum Lummond No. |, Mr.. Mayer tells
us he has a strata of pyritic ore varying
in width from to Is inches. A test re
Gently made on one hundred pounds of
this ore proved that il carried S25 to the
ton in free gold, while the concentrates
asssyed $500 to the ton of raw ore, a
total of S4309 in gold to the ton of ore.
The owner considers this test fair and
reliable one, and believes that he has an
extensive body of the ore He very
sensibly holds TO the opinion that a
small stamp mill, and not large one, is
what the property needs at present, and
as previously stated he expects to erect
a five or ten stamp plant in the imme-
diate vicinity Of his claims. between
now and next spring. If his ore holds
out in quantity and grade. and he sue
ceeds in executing the plans unfolded to
a CHRONICLE reporter, Mr.. Mayors prop.
erty will soon be lively rival of the J.
K.
The ID & ID. smeltsr at Deadwood will
shut down for the winter, so the Daily
Times says: "Dr. Carpenter. manager
Of the ID. & D. company's smelter and
properties. informs the Times that he
will close down the smelter and mines
before the close of this month for the
winter. He has ordered the shipments
of coke from Newcastle stopped. The
reason he assigns for this is that he can.
not run at profit during the winter
months, when the transportation of ores
is very costly. He says further that the
smelter never will be made a paying
proposition until we have railroad facili-
ties for bringing in fuxing ores, when
Deadwood has many advantages over
other places and will be great smelling
point. The Two Bears mill was shut
down Friday night, and the slopes and
entrances of the mine are being bulk
headed and securely Jagged to prevent
caving. He will continue to take out
pyritic ore for few days yet, by which
time the workings will be well timbered
and q CON, plafe shut down ha nafe