Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-09-16

when running full capacity, treating our
silicious gold ores exclusively. The d.
& ID. pyritic smeter is another Dead
wood plant of four stacks, under the
management Of Franklin K. Carpenter,
who adapted the process to the treat
ment Of our dry ores containing gold
and silver with satisfactory results.
When all these mills and other works
are operated to full capacity it requires
nearly 5000 tons Of ore daily to supply
them Our free milling ores range in
value from g to 81 per ton, while those
OF silicious character range from SIS
to 500 These dry or silicious ores are
found in nearly every camp in the Black
Hills, but in the vicinity of Bald Noun
tain and Ruby Basin and that section
are more fully worked and developed
than elsewhere. With this showing,
the output of gold from the Black Hills
for the year '93 will be largely increased
and in a short time it Will head the
list.-Times.
DEAD Or SLEEPING.
Last Friday an order was received at
Harvey Peak headquarters to pull the
pumps out Of the Addie and Cowboy
mines and stop the annual assessment
work, and so far as the people Of Hill
City know this great corporation fred
its last gun on Tuesday by issuing an
order to fire the last son of gun in it's
employ. AT this writing it appears that
with the exception Of a few watchmen
at the mines and in the great wilderness
Of mill, that there is no Harvey Peak
mining company in the Black Hills.
What this singular and sudden apparent
death of an Institution that has for
years attracted world wide attention
means is a mystery. Common sense
would teach ordinary people that after
numberless practical tests had been
made all Of which had proved salts.
factory; after the building Of a man.
moth mill for treating their ores which
also was pronounced satisfactory after
the investmenC Of thousands Of dollars
in railroads and other facilities for
moving the ores, that the next thing on
the program was 10 60 to work and
produce tin. But this com pany quietly
quits and allows their property which
has cost them several million dollars
and in the face Of a growing market and
with high tariff for protection, to lie
idle for a year. Again, an ordinary
western outcast ofa mining man, when
he comes TO point in his operations
where he believes his mine is white
elephant, will boom it for all it is worth
ard sell out or divide the loss with the
gullible public. But Of course these
New York and London philanthropists
who have scattered their hard earned
wealth so recklessly in the past years
can not be expected to take advantage
of the innocent public. Oh no. But
what is the matter? 1t is no doub.
true that the stockholders have had a
jangle among themselves. but the public
has been informed that these troubles
were satisfactorily settled and they were
only waiting for the financial scare TO
pass, but this don't look like il, and the
only way it can be accounted for is that
old things have been done away and all
things shall become new. That clean
sweep has been made ofthe old manage
meut from top to bottom from Supt.
Childs to the Chinese cook in the hotel
and that some other outfit will try it a
twist. Time will ell-Tin Miner.
BLACK HILLS IRON.
The iron deposits of the Black Hills
are quite extensive and valuable. In
the vicinity of Rockford on the line of
the B. & VI K. r., two tracts of land,
one Of 40 and the other Of $50 acres in
extent, have been well developed by the
owners, Messrs. zimmerman and Sbepp
erd, by a series of cross and open cuts,
aggregating between 600 and 700 feet.
The ore is limonite. carrying from 40
To So per cent Of iron, 10 to / per cent
| silica. and no sulphur. II is similar in
composition 10 the big iron beds of Nor
way and Sweden. The ore in places
crops out on the surface, while generally
the removal of few fee. of surface dirt
| by stripping exposes the ore. At sever
al points drills have been driven into
the bed for twenty feet without going
through it. The thinnest part of the
bed is four feet thick. The section un-
derlaid by this ore is quite extensive. it
being found on all the tributaries of
Little Rapid creek. and requires but the
aid of capital to make il profitable prop
erty. The ore is very porous and high
ly crystalized, its water capitalization
being from IL to l6 per cent. There
are thousands Of tons Of it in sight and
hundreds Of thousands of tons in the
district.-Times.