Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-11-18
Mining Items.


A considerable amount of machinery
and other property of the Harvey Peak
Co. has been removed from Hill City to
Deadwood, and is now used in and
about the Cyanide plant.
IL is reported from Keystone that the
employees have been paid all the wages
due them the lst of November, and that
the clean ups are more than paying the
expenses Of running the mine aud mill
THE KEYSTONE.
John Munger, foreman Of the Key
stone mine. came up from that camp
Tuesday on flying visit. He reports
that sufficient clean no was made to
pay the men up to the first Of the month
Work has been begun in the lower level,
the ore from which being higher grade
will increase the average value. Twenty
two men are being employed in mine
and mill. Five stamps are hung up at
present owing to scarcity Of water, but
they hope to have them all dropping
again next week John is more than
ever confident that the mine will clear
itself from debt in a short time with
energetic trsatment.-Tin Miner.
THE GRAND VIEW SOLD.
The Grand View mica mine, near
Sylvan Lake, was sold this week to an
Ohio party represented by Theodore
Reder, of Rapid City. The owners of
the property, w. F. Hill, w. ]. Bowles
and Wilber Todd, were paid 500 in
cash to bind the deal, and are TO receive
S400 more to-day The balance of the
purchase price, which is $4,000. is to be
paid within thirty day from payment of
the $400. The Grand View has been
well deysl9RssaaJ saJ ig the theellastte llastte fey vpe8aihss
on extensive producer of mica. For
some time it has been under bond to
DR.. Lehnen, but the bond expired The
first Of the week. At that time the
doctor and his associates were not pre-
pared to close the deal, and they have
been negotiating for an extension of the
bond, but before they could secure it,
the other parties stepped in and bought
the mine on the terms mentioned above.
The tightness of the money market has
undoubtedly interferej with many OF
the deals for mica property which have
been pending this summer, but these
mines are in demand, and i. begins to
look as if they would find ready sale at
reasonable prices.
BLACK HILLS CEMENT ORES.
The gold cement mines of Central
City, two miles southwest of Deadwood
which years ago were supposed to be
worked out and abandoned by the ori
ginal owners, are again coming to the
front as profitable producers. Among
such may be mentioned the Hidden
Treasure, Esmeralda, Wooley Pecache
Fairview, Deadbroke, Gentle Annie and
! the Pactoa. The latter two are still
owned by the original locstors, wht
have kept hammering away for many
years in the search for pay ore, anC
only of late have they struck it. The
properties named produce daily owe
! 100 tons, or on an average 10 tons eacl
per day, which mills from 81 to 50 at tn
10 and 20-stamp mills in the vicinity o
Central City. the cost of treatment bein
SI.50 per ton, while that Of transporta
ton ranges from 45c to 75c per tor
With such results it is plain to be see
that the present owners are doing We
with these old mines, which in the earl
days Of the Black Hills were bonanza
of wealth to their owners. who mersl
extracted the high grade ore. runnin
from S25 up to the hundreds of dollar
per ton, throwing aside everything els
as worthless. Ten dollars per ton wa
the regular charge for treatment /
those days, with corresponding price
for labor and materials. The time wi
come when every pound of ore contain
ed in the entire cement belt will b
Itreated with profitable results.-Times
Low GRADE GOLD MINING.
| Perhaps the best example Of gres
low grade gold mine is furnished by th
Treadwell, in Alaska, where very care
e. accounts are Kept. Inthis case the.
are the Disadvantages of remoteness an
climate. otherwise the circumstances al
peculiarly favorable. Allusion has ofte
been made TO the low costs at this min
but it may be interesting to quote fu
ther details: The Trsadwell is practi
ally an open quarry The report Of II
Alaska Treadwell company for the yei
ending May 1. 1898, shows that th
quantity Of ore crushed was 237, ,23S ton
yielding an average Of 81. Is In free gol
There were 4,276 tons Of sulphure
saved by concentration and ASA toi
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