Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-01-20
An Omen Letter.

1
SHERIDAN. 8 d., Jan. II, 1894.
, 70 the Editor OF the Chronicle.
4 have seen by the Rapid City Jour
p".h bat the Gold Hill mining property
sad cfeivisg OF late good deal Of cheap
9xN sefasipe.t ia justice ia myself and
the other owners Of the property men.
toned Twill reply TO Professor Jenney's
report az follows: / will not criticiss
ths.professor's assays as he has reported
them, but have a sufficient number Of
certificates exhibited from responsible
assayers to the hoard TO more than off
set the professors report.
As neither Mr. Movnahan or myself.
or anv other mining man who has ever
examfr~n the Gold Hill property would
believe in the professors report a. being
correct At the meeting held on the
/ twenty-third day Of December | had
several mining men present, namely ::
Robert Florman, Frank Eaton and c. l.
Lewis, who had personally examined
the Gold Hill property. Those gentle
men along with Mr.. Blackstone, of Lead
City. all examined the coarse gold that
the professor talks 80 much about in his
report. All of these gentlemen, includ-
ing the professor, expressed themselves
as being satisfied that the coarse gold
referred 10 in the report was quartz
gold. At the end Of this meeting it was
agreed that all the evidence was in on
both sides of the question and the mat
ter was then left with the board for their
decision.
But it now appears that the professor,
believing that | was absent from the
city, concluded TO produce more evil
dence. But the meeting had adjourned
to meet the twenty-seventh da' of De
cember, and at this meeting the pro-
fessor produced his other witnesses.
His puFpose was to show by these
witnesses that Mr.. Moynahan had told
the amalgamator, Mr.. Reed, that he
knew that this Gold Hill ore woui q
carry some coarse gold and also run
from $500 to $500 per ton in gold.
This evidence was produced for no
other purpose than TO arouse a suspicion
aloynahan.
The professor also stated that Mr..
Moynahan told him that there was a
s35, 900 deal depending on this report,
and that Mr.. Moynahan was the pro-
moter of the said deal. In this way the
( professor tries TO make it appear that
/ Mr. Moynahan may have salted the ore
4 referred to, as il was proven in the
meeting that was not present in Rapid
| CITY or at the school when this lot of
ore was run. In order TO Offset this sus
picior against Mr.. Moynahan | produc-
cd assay certificates from a reliable as
saver in the east showing what Mr..
Il Moynaham based this opinion on when
he made the statement referred 10 above.
| wish at this time to say that the pro-
f.ssor never mentioned the coarse gold
that came out of the battery, either to
Mr.. Moynaham or myself or in his re-
port until he was asked by Mr.. Moyna-
ham in my presence what had become
of the gold that was taken out of the
battery. (Mr. Moynaham being present
when the gold was taken from the bat
tery), aud at this time the professor said
he did not think it belonged to us. L
asked the professor to give an explana-
ton. when he said il did not correspond
with his assay. So any one can SEE that
the only way the professor lad at his
! command TO make his assay and his
mill test agree was by retaining about
$1,000 worth of gold. l wish farther to
say that from the time the ore referred
to was delivered at the School of Mines
. the professors every act was to discour
/, age and prejudice Mr.. Moynahau
, against the property, by saying that the
!. ore was not as good as the tailings cha
ran down Deadwood Gulch. He alsC
stated that in ar around Rockford thu
ore would not e, over 75 cents per ton
He offered his services to Mr.. Moyna
|, ham and his party and said he woul,
~ assist them 10 obtain good property.
Il This looks as though the professo
. had an ak to grind. Again, to show tn
. injustice of this whole proceeding Nj
n Jenney did not produce his additions
j. evidence until after he had run tn
y coarse gold from the battery into but
/ ton, thus precluding the possibility G
= further examination Of the character G
, the gold which he tries TO prove was nc
II obtained from the ore but was place
- gold. His statement as to his being cor
q frmed in lis opinion by the extraord
"a nary fneness Of its quality must fall
= the ground, when bis marked ignoranc
= | upon this point was demonstrated %
!, fore the board Of trustees. His answer
- touuestions touching upon the aserag
:. 6neness of the gold of the Souther
= Hills were also as erroneous as the
II were surprising. coming as they dl
"A from the dean of the school of mine
"a Again, wish to call the attention OF II
40 public. especially those of the souther