Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-06-09

menced work. Their object was TO reach
water level, and for this purpose they
sunk vertical shaft to that depth,
thirty-two feet, and from there COM
menced drifting for the vein. When
they first found the ledge they encount-
cred ore which showed little free gold,
but in extending their drift they found
richer rock than they anticipated Mr.
| Mcclure brought home from the mine
last Saturday a small painful of speci-
mems which created an old.time excite
ment. and for time the Office Of the
Mcclure hotel was thronged with peo-
| pie, everybody being anxious TO see the
painful Of ore which the proprietor had
in his show case. The rock is literally
covered with gold and as it lays in the
pan, it presents a sight which few have
has been estimated from two to three
hundred dollars, and to place the value
of ton Of ore at twenty thousand dol
lars is very Conservative estimate. If
such rich finds had been made in Cali
fornia or Colorado, as have been made
in the southern Hills in the last few
weeks, the country would have gone
wild, stampede would have followed
and capitalists would have tumbled over
| one another in their rush TO the rich
fields TO invest in.--Iiill City News.
LARRABEE MINES.
Concerning the Hay Creek coal mines
recently sold, the Dubuque Telegraph Of
May Both, has the following: Hon. j.
X. Graves returned from Chicago last
evening and in answer to our inquiry
said that while negotiations had been
! pending for some time, yet no absolute
sale Of the Larrabee coal lands located
in South Dakota had been concluded
until yesterday, when sale was con-
summated, and this valuable property is
now owned by gentlemen of the highest
| financial standing who, living in the
east, will at once construct a railroad
from this property eastward to Mime
sela about eighteen miles, where it will
connect with the Fremont, Elkhorn and
Missouri Valley r. r. and it is highly
probable branch will be run south to
Spearfsh. The line from the coal east
to Minnesota will be constructed within
the next forty days. II is an easy task
and involves the handling of not to ex-
ceed probably 10000 yards Of earth.
The line sill be pushed elsterly from
Minnesota 260 miles to the Missouri
river where connection will be made
with trunk line to Chicago. The prop
erty embraces eleven hundred and
twenty acres and has vein Of coal far
superior TO any mine in Illinois or Iowa,
Of about six feet in thickness and will
be mined by tunnel instead of by shaft.
The coal will be worked under the COR
porate name of the Wyoming Coal &
Coke Company, while the title Of the
railroad will be the Wyoming & Dakota
Il. r. Co. The coal will coax and if on
another test the quality proves equal TO
that now used in large quantities by
the smelters there then the supply will
come from those mines instead Of as
now from Connellsyille and Trinidad.
| 1t is understood at Deadwood and other
points that the Fremont, Elkhorn x
Missouri Valley line has bought the coal
mines and will simply extend its track
/ 70 hnt hn n
new line while connecting
with both the B. d VI. and the
F., +. & VI. V. lines will be entirely in
dependent of them and will be pushsd
eastward to the Missouri river and form
another trunk line to the Black Hills
country. This will be glorious news to
the people of Minnesota, which has a
large water power and is one of the most
desirable sites for large and prosper
Gus city, and they will learn the glad
tidings to-day by eleven o'clock, and by
the way, several Dubuque parties own
property in and near Minnesota, and
are to be congratulated in their wise
forethought now that their hopes will
rapidly change to glad fruition."
HINT FOR OUR MINING MEN.
There is no use of getting down in the
mouth about the condition of mining in
the west. All miners are not murder
ers. Very few of them are. Anarchy
does not rule over all the mountains
and canyons of the west. Cripple Creek
and Ceur d'Alene, where all the trouble
is, bear about the same relation to the
whole mining country that a town lot
on Broadway, n. Y, does to the whole
city. There are more men beaten, ham
mered, manned and killed any week in
New York than have been beaten, ham
mered, manned or killed at Cripple
Creek during the months since the
st rike began. But all the world does
not think New York is going to the
devil ON an express train on that ac-
count. Nor is property less secure in
this Rocky Mountain region than it is
in New York, even though in two iso-
lated spots there is trouble and viola.
tion of law. These will haye only their
usual mushroom period of existence
after awhile the sober, common sense OF
the people will settle them, and the all
will be purer and healthier because
there was a storm. Take the west as a
whole, and day by day there are more
mines starting. more men are being en-
p!oyed than dismissed and there is an
increasing sale for merchandise. 1t is
no time to croak. and think everything
is going to the devil, because somewhere
it thunders and rains. Other storms
and foods will come, and the thunder
will no. cease to be this year OF next,
but on that account we need not all stay
In the house and below because the sun
cannot always shine, and the skies al
ways be cloudless Mining Industry
and Tradesman.