Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-02-10

ing Of himself and associates-men Of
probability be consummated within the
next two weeks. DIR. Carpenter will
continue as superintendent and general
manager and expects to blow in one or
more stacks in few days; as a matter
OF fact, he looks for the order to do so
any day this week. The deal effectually
disposes of the option held by Harris
franklin and associates, which expired
some days ago. The starting up Of the
plant will Of course necessitate the re-
sumption Of work on the mines connect
ed with it, thus affording employment
TO a considerable number Of men ont of
the hundreds now idle in this section
Times, 6.
COARSE GOLD.
The following letter from J. ]. Snther
land, Of Dead wood, formerly connected
with the operations Of the PenCbscot
mine, to Messrs. Altafier & Rosenbaum,
owners of the Gold Hill group, from
which q test was made 40 the school of
Mines with such peculiar results, is self
explanatory, and may serve TO allay, to
some extent, the impression which has
obtained in some degree, that the coarse
gold obtained from the batteries was
not a product Of the ore tested
DEADwooD, Feb. 3, 1894.
NJ K R,.CNu
Custer City, ;. ID.
GENTLEMEN In reply TO your COM
munication Of the 2Sth ult, enquiring in
regard to the quality and character Of
gold recovered by us while working the
Penobscut mine near -oGr property,
would state that, as 10 the fineness |
cannot at this time tell for certain what
ii was, but il was between $50 and 900.
and in regard TO the kind or character
Of the gold, We found, in some Chutes Of
ore, that the gold was all coarse. found
pieces frequently in the batteries that
would weigh from 30 cents TO 81. Dur
ing the month of August, 1882, out Of
clean up of something near $1,000, with
five stamps at least one.third of that
was in the batteries in the form Of coarse
gold. The first clean up | made that
ilOulH Qullt HuTDTlHCu lllt liOlI TIE
quantity of small nuggets | found, and
set me to investigating TIE ore they
came from. AS soon as | done that, ii
was no trouble TO account for the pres
ence Of coarse gold in the batteries.
This ore chute we worked 10 the lOO
foot level, and then quit on account Of
water coming in faster than We could
handle it with our limited pumping
machinery. Very truly yours.
j. j. SUTHERLAND.
MINNESOTA CONSOLIDATED VI. & VI. CO.
Since this we'll known property fell
into the hands of the present owners,
developme Mt work has been steadily
prosecuted under the direction Of the
company s superintendent and manager,
G. II. Enos of Lead. The shafts, tunnels
drifts and crosscuts already run show a
large and continuous ore body, the vein,
a vertical one, varying from 40 to 80
feet wide between well defined walls.
There is now in sight in these workings
$4,000 tons Of ore worth from $500 to
50 80 gold per ton, as has been fully
demonstrated by numerous mill tests in
the company's Huntington mill located
in the vicinity of the mine. A new
tunnel on the 800 foot level is now being
run in a northerly direction to point
200 feet distant. Crosscuts will be made
every fifty feet and should the vein con-
tinue to the point mentioned the work
will expose at least 200, 900 tons more OF
ore. Everything extracted during the
progress Of the tunnel and c-osscuts will
be run through the mill which will be
kept in continuous operation. Next
spring the company will erect plant Of
200 or 80 tons daily capacity, and will
have many years sunpply ofore in sight
when 1t is ready for operation.--Times.
RECENT MINING DECISIONS.
The following decisions recently rend-
cred by the L. 5. supreme court, will be
Of interest to our local readers:
"The right to acquire by forfeiture,
under the statutes, the part interest of
one who fails to pay his proportion of
the annual expenditure for annual labor
exists oily in favor of one who is CO.
owner in the year for which such labor
is performed. One is not a co-owner
within the meaning of the statute,
who merely holds a sheriff's certificate
of purchase at an execution sale of q
part interest, for title does not pass until
he receives a deed. The owner of a
part interest In mining claim is con-
testant with the others, and without
their knowledge he procures patent in
his own name, he becomes trustee for
them, and equity VIII enforce the trust
in their favor.
"Where one owned two claims. the
veins of which unite below the surface,
and at a much greater depth, met the
vein at another claim, which has been
located long after the location of the
other of his claims, in ejectment for the
ore below the point Of meeting which
he claimed, under the statute as having
the prior location, the only issue was
whether the vein united or crossed each
other. Ii was iinmaterial whether the
location of the jnnior claim was prior or
subsequent to the others location, and
rulings upon evidence on that question,
If erroneous, were not preiudiced to
him."
Custer City School Report.
The roll of honor for the month Of