Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-12-08
Mining Items.

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ide plant are among the probable early
acquisitions at the Keystone camp.
McShane Bros, owners of the cele
brated Alma mine, Of Yellow creek,
have discontinued operations on their
valuable property for the winter, and
gone east for a visit with relatives and
friends.
c. w. Robbins and James Demereau
this week completed the .SsSessment
work on their mining clait me mile
and half southeast of this 4 They
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cent developments. ~
The Deadwood IndependehtIlays the
recent shipment of forty four tons ofore
from the Alma mine on Yellow creek to
the Deadwood smelter netted the Nc,
Shane Brothers, the owners, $4,000. The
returns from four assays made from ore
taken from the face Of the drifts, give
sos, SLY, 1920 and Sl34 per ton.
VIM. Dority came up from Rockford
yesterday. He says the Standby COM
pany is still working a small force of
men on the flume being put in for water
power. The flume is over two miles
long, but they hope to have it finished
by spring, when the works will again be
started up, this time with all sixty
stamps. There are no men being work
ed in the mine at present.-Times.
The reports which come to us from
the Holy Terror mine in the keystone
camp, prove that mine to contain fabul-
Gus wealth. Thos Cannon, road master
of the b. d NJ, learned at Hill City yes
terday that the mill was stopped and a
number Of men were put to reducing
ore in common mortars, and that the
output is Immense. One man pounded
ont SIS in coarse gold from one mortar
of ore on Saturday, about six or seven
pounds.-Times.
The mill at Four Nile was started up
on Monday for the purpose of testing
certain methods of ore treatment, the
most desireble of which is to be EN-
ployed in the reduction of the ores of
the Old Charlie.mine. Bowers improved
c%oncentrators and the Sutherland pro-
cess will be thoroughly tested, in which
two hundred ton of ore will be reduced.
1t is the intention of Messrs, Lewis 4
Odds, owners of the property, to remove
the mill to the mine after the tests
which are now being made haye been
completed. Considerable time will be
required to make tho tests on account OF
the scarcity Of water at the mill, there
being barely enough to run five stamps
ten hours in twenty-four. The water
supply at the mine Is much greater,
being sufficient to warrant the operation
of the mill continuously at its full capa-
city. Thus far the appearance Of the
plates indicate a successful run.
THE HOLY TERROR.
The further operation of the mill on
the Holy Terror mine has had the effect
of increasing, rather than diminishing
the degree of confidence as 10 the value
of this remarkable mine. A run made re.
Gently is said to have resulted in q clean
up of $500 in ten hours. which when
the fact of the small number of sta mps
five employed is considered, is indeed
phenomenal, surprising as it does the
product of the celebrated Homestake for
a corresponding period. with its 900
stamps employed. The output, when
figured, is shown to be nearly six dol
lars per minute. which Is probably the
largest yield from a mill of similar
capacity known in the history OF gold
mining in this country. Further devel-
opment of the mine serves to strengthen
the belief of the existence of q much
larger quantity Of this valuable ore than
was at first supposed, and it is now con
| ceded that there is a suficient quantity
exposed in the workings TO make the
four owners Independently rich, and
place them far beyond the fear Of want
during the hsiance OF their mortal
career. The CaRoxlcLE earnestly hopes
the mine may prove q permanent bon