Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-12-23
A Merited Tribute,

The Custer correspondent for the
Minneapolis Journal has recently writ
ten his paper very interesting and
glowing description Of the gold resources
OF the country tributary to Custer City.
The article is we'll written, and with one
or two exception, deals strictly in facts.
No returns from the test run of II. A.
Athens ore had at that time been made
public, and consequently the figures
quoted in that part Of the communica-
tion we're not authentic. The article
which We publish in full below, will be
of interest TO our readers, many of whom
can youch for its truthfuness in the
main:
CUSTER CRY, Dec. Is This district,
the richest gold section in the Black
lis, is little understood, even by the
nlos' of the miners and mining men OF
the Hills. 1t is well known that there
are great many veins which show fab
ulOusiy rich ore, some Of il assaying as
much as or more than $4,000 per ton,
Several attempts have been made during
the past 10 years 10 save the gold with
the ordinary stamp mill In every in
stance failure .as the result Recent
ly William Olds leased one of these
mills, which was erected some IL or IL
years ago on the Gold Star mine. He
repaired it and 10 it added 4 concentra.
tor A test run has just been completed
on 20 tons of ore from a mine belonging
to II. A. Albien. The ore assayed about
$40 TWn nF t.g
were sa:ed The concentrates assay
$685. per ton, showing that about all the
assay value of the ore was saved An
other run is now being made on 40 tons
Of ore from n mine owned By William
Nevin. The mill will be kept running
all winter, testing ore from the different
mines in this vicinity. The veins vary
in width from one foot up TO more than
30 feet, with general average Of per-
haps five feet. The character of the ore
is Of a yellowish white quartz occurring
in the states, with sometime wal Of
quartzite. Granite uplfts are common
all over the gold district, but as yet no
veins have been found in the granite
The gold occurs free in limited quanti-
ties, running from a small amount to s.
or So per tol. In some Of the mines no
free gold is found. Probably 30 per cent
Of the gold will be found in combination
with the mineral JCseite," a bismuth
telluride, heretofore rarely found, 1t
occurs in small quantities in Virginia,
North Carolina. Georgia, Arizona and in
the celebrated Red Cloud mine, at Gold
Hill, Boulder county, Colorado 1t is
here found extensively in nearly all the
gold mines from Hill City southwest,
distance of more than 20 miles where il
runs under the potsdsm sandstone in
Custer county. The belt is known 10
are known TO be more than 100 claims
that will average from wall to wall, from
s6 to more than 5000 per ton. When it
is known that any ore that will ASSAY So
per ton and can be saved by concentra
ton, can be worked at a profit, il re-
ouires no prophet TO foretell that this
will one day be one of the foremost gold
producing camps on earth. Situated as
it is, with the Burlington & Missouri
running directly through It, wi n an
abundance of good timber and water for
-. est0rs ss..I i,rospecgors wfir NOT 1rrve
10 undergo the hardships common to all
new mining camps. More than one
half the ground within the gold belt i
yet unprospected. All of the mines so
far are owned by poor men unable To
work or develop them. Investors will
find no trouble in getting good proper
ty at a reasonable price and on easy
terms. Or they can get plenty of claims
which propect we'll to develop for an in
terest.