Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-04-08
Mining Items.

j. y. Wright Of this city has a grouI
of four promising claims in close proxi
nifty to the great Keystone mine. Mr
Wright says be has far better prospect
than the original owners of the Key.
stone did when they commenced ia
develop it, and he is confident that he
will find the same ledge which made
that mine a bonanza.
c. w. Hitchcock, agent for the Par
sons Dry Separator, has ordered one of
the machines, and as soon as it is re-
| ceiyed it will be tested with some Of the
dry placer in the vicinity of Custer.
The machine has reputation for saving
almost every particle Of gold from the
dry dirt which carries it, and at a nomi.
nal expense.
Mayor Dickover has gone TO Minneap-
| oils to fully arrange for the develop
ment Of the mica mines. an interest of
which he lately sold 10 the American
Consolidated Mica Co., whose head
quarters will hereafter be Minneapolis.
Mr.. Dickover will be absent for about
two weeks. The mica business of the
southern Hills promises yet to be one
of the most extensive industries in tn,
section OF country.-Star.
The specimens of ore takeH rom the
different mines owned ~ the Home
stake company, wh'-Iare TO be shipped
to the worlds ft1, were yesterday pack
ed and-=.1 be sent out about the first
= april. They are seven in number
and are cut to represent pyramid, and
weigh about 1000 pounds. The largest
was taken from the 600 foot leyel of the
Homestake, the second from the 500
foot, the third from the 40O-f5ot level of
the Caledonia, the fourth from the 800
foot level of the Highland, the fifth
from the 200-foot level of the Terra tI,e
sIAtl. {. O.-se.ss-~@aoo-toot level OF the
Homestake, and the seventh or smallest
rock was taken from the open cut The
blocks are dressed on two sides and the
ends left rough, and when in position
they present a beautiful picture. -
Times.
Chas. Robertson, Of Spokane precinct,
this county, was in Custer Monday and
Tuesday, and in the presence of a
CHRoSIcLE reporter exhibited some
specimens of rich looking ore taken
from one of his claims just north of the
Pennington county line and near the
keystone camp. Mr. Robertson has a
twenty five foot shaft on the property
and has uncovered large body of ore.
OF six ASSAYS which he has had made
the lowest returned Sl3 and the highest
$l5. Mr. Robertson reports the camp
unusually lively. The Keystone is
dropping twenty stamps right along and
twenty more will be added just as soon
as the necessary machinery can be
shipped in. The owners of the Bullion
are highly elated over their prospects.
Their ore is proving as rich as that Of
the Keystone, and the quantity is ap.
parently inexhaustible.
Fl. G.. Butterfeld and Chas Harbach,
the gentlemen who shipped quantity
of ore to California for treatment by the
Moffatt process have received notice Of
its arrival at its destination, but at the
time Of writing it had not been tested.
The San Joaquin valley had been visit
ed by destructive food and the mill
to which the ore was sent had then five
feet of water on its lower floors. 1t was
thought however that everything would
be in working order in few days and
the tests were to be made Immediately
after. The results are awaited rather
impatiently, as there are many reasons
for believing that the process is the one
which the mine owners of the southern
Hills have long sought for. Mr.. Har-
bach informs us that il the returns are
satisfactory he viii have plant equip
ped with the Moffatt process on his
property Just as soon as labor and capital
can put il there.