Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-08-26
Mining Items.

Mining Items.
The men who are doing work for w.
w. Olds, Of Custer, on the Hudson
group of mines in the northern Hills
are reported to have struck a vertical
ledge of very fair ore, 2! feet in thick
ness.
The Homestake company has an
nounced that on the 2Sth inst. the Gale
donia mine will be shut down indefi-
nitely. The mine has not paid mining
expenses for two years, and $50 men
will be thrown out of employment by
the cessation of operations.
The keystone mill is running on full
time, but operating ten to fifteen stamps
only owing to the insufficient supply Of
water. There is no night shift at the
mine, IA the day force gets out all the
ore the mill can handle. The supply
Of water has begun to increase and in
a snort time will enable the manage
ment to run the mill and mine at full
capacity Times.
The men employed at the B. & NJ.
mica mine are at present engaged iii
sinking the main shaft to a greater
depth, with the hope of encountering a
heavier ledge of mica. superintendent
Sinclair is looking for some of the Mem
bers of the company about September
LIST, and he states that if the money
stringency mas been at all relieved by
that time work will Immediately there
after be commenced on other properties
in this vicinity.
THE AKTEA MINI
In last weeks issue We gave an &C.
count of this mine and stated that a
sample would be taken by the owners
and sent to the school Of mines for as
say. Five pounds of rock was sent and
the return was $S06 in gold to the ton.
The boys are very elated over it and
have refused the offer that was made to
them by parties here for an interest.
From DR.. Carpenter of the ID. & ID.
smelter they have received word to send
-saaApisg,7 anaeY n everything should turn
out satisfactory DIR. Carpenter, we un-
derstand. has made the offer either to
treat the ore or buy it at the Addie
switch Mining News.
THE J. r.
Very rich ore has been encountered
on the hundred and twenty foot level
Of the j. r. mine. The mine is prov
ing daily to ~prospectors that prospect
ing in a hurry doesn't pay. The early
finders Of the claim, who sunk the
twenty foot level IN it and then left it in
disgust because the rock at the bottom
did not prospect as the top, have lost a
fortune through their negligence in not
prospecting their workings thoroughly.
Many examples might be cited where
p~rospectors have done the same thing
and it ought to learn a lesson to a
prospectors never to leave their work,
ings until they have thoroughly investi.
gated them so as to be sure they will
leave nothing Misunderstanding News.
II LOST CABIN NINE.
The latest discovery of this mythical
mine is reported to have been made by
j. G. Carter, an old prospecter of Casper
Wyoming, who has thrown that town
into a fever of excitement BY the state
; ment that he has found the Lost Cabin
mine. He claims that he got 5000 out
of two pans of dirt. A party is being
5 raised in Casper to accompany him back
to the spot. He found the lost cabin il,
, the Wind River mountains, and says
!, there is a partially worked placer field
near there. The report of the old pros.
pector has set all Natrona county wild
in the desire to get some of that gold.
He says the cabin is demolished to a
great extent and was built of logs NTH
out the use of an axe, and was about
eleven feet square.-Times.
I'll UNION HILL MINES.
Last week the Journal made mention
Of the finding of rich ore in the Union
Hill mines oar Tigerville. Yesterday
w. A. Logan, the superintendent Of the
COMPANY: was in the CITY. and from him
it was learned that the specimens
brought to the city we're taken from
cross. cuts in the old shaf. The com
rany at present is employing six men,
and they are kept at work driving the
tunnel, which is in 275 feet under cover.
They have now in the face of the tun-
mel n vein twenty feet wide. and it is
expected that the main ore body will be
reached about fifty to seventy.five fur
ther in. In the ledge the company is
now working . large number of free
gold specimens are taken out, and the
superintendent states that the ore is
improving as the tunnel is being extend
ed. The ore is refractory, but with the
free gold throughout. good prospects
are always obtained with pan and NOR
tar. Mr. Logan is 8 nguine that within
a short time he will be able to show as
good a piece of mining property as is
found in the Black Hills.-Journal.
HOW TO PROSPECT.
Prot. Walter p. Jenny, in writing up
the zinc and lead deposits Of the Missis.
sippi valley, gives four rules for pros
pectins, which he says may be applied
with profit TO the Black Hills a. we'll.
They are a. follows:
l.. The old rule ITO follow the ore"
holds good in these a in other mining
regions.
2. In all underground prospecting
the general rule may be given, to follow
the more prominent vertical assures in
the search for ore; for these have been
the channels through which the solu-
lions have entered the rocks and formed