Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-09-15

Dunn nugget, after its finder, weighs
800 ounces, is worth over $4,000. Ii
was taken from a reef. the whole face of
which glitters with gold. Tremendous
excitement prevails, and since the find
property has increased at the diggings
500 per cent. The miners have struck at
Cool Gardie and demand CA a week.
They have armed themselves with rifles
to prevent outsiders working in their
places. Bloodshed is feared. Fonr
thousand people are camped around
where Dunn found the nugget, and work
is progressing with the greatest danger
and difficulty. Two hundred special
police have been sworn in to protect
property.
LUCKY JIM.
Jim Wardner, formerly Of Deadwood,
and well known throughout the entire
west as a mining man Of surprising
luck in mining ventures, is still basking
in the sunny smiles of dame fortune,
as the following appearing in a Virginia
paper Of recent date very clearly indi-
Gates: AT Winnemuca there is great
excitement over the discovery of a rich
ore body in the Imperial. j. f. Warmer
bought the property three months ago
as n business investment, with Just a
bare margin for profit, and o is the
possessor ofa bonanza. A lead eight
feet in width has been uncovered that
averages 500 in gold. 10 ounces in silver
and 40 per cent lead. A concentrating
test Of ore from the north drift and the
bottom of the winzc gave concentrates
valued at 1907 a ton, Of which S45 was
lead, 500 silver and Sl62 gold, the lead
reaching - per cent. Concentrates of
this kind command a premium at any
smelter owing to the great demand for
f%iuxing material. The mine is regarded
as an immense concentrating property Of
sulphurets Of lead and it is claimed that
the red oxides and pyrites ofthe surface
are the iron cappings of vast bodies Of
lead carrying gold and silver, similar to
the Leadville mines"
r FRO THE Guilty sARK.
j. b. Dickover, e. "a of Hot
Springs, and who is heavily interested
in mining ground in the southern Hills.
is looking after mining business, and
reports favorably on the test run now
being made on the carload of ore ship.
ped from his Guilty Sark mine TO one of
the mills at { entral. The ore was taken
from the shaft now being sunk on the
property, and this run, if satisfactory,
will no doubt put in operation one Of
the largest mining enterprises in the
southern Hills. The shaft is now down
l2O feet in solid ore, the vein being Of
the vertical formation and from present
indications unlimited a drift has been
started from the bottom Of the shaft to
crosscut the vein. The ore is free mill
ing and refractory combined, and the
average assay is about S25. Everybody
will watch the development of this mine
with ~eagerness, as the progress met with.
has had a wonderful tendency TO en-
courage others to open up ground, and
will establish confidence in the mining
of that PARTON Of the Hills,
and the successful operation ofthe Guilty
sark will bring considerable new capital
to the Hills to be invested in prospect
ing. AT this time Mr.. Dickover is not
at liberty to say what his future plans
are, further than that he intends To con-
tinue developing the mine. The proba-
bili'ies are that the erection OF a mill
will he the next thing on the program.
Possibly it is his intention to continue
his shipments TO this part Of the Hills,
which we hope he will. Mr.. Dickover
reports everything quiet in mica mining
at present, but has unlimited faith i u
industry OF the southern Hills, and
he expects to resume operations on
his mica producing property some time
the coming winter. Pioneer.
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