Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-09-22


BRoMINATIoN.
E~nglehardt's bromine process which
has been so thoroughly and practically
tested at the plant owned by the com
pany in Denver, Colorado, has for some
months past been closely investigated
by leading metallurgists Of the country,
the results proving 80 satisfactory that
two large plants will soon be erected.
One of them is now under construction
at Pueblo. Col, that will have n capacity
of 200 tons per day. The other of 100
tons will be put up at Helena, Montana,
work on which will commence about the
first of next month. Both are in the
hands Of practical mill and mining men,
who will operate them under a royalty
from the Englehardt company, with the
proviso or privilege of purchasing the
right OF using the patent in the states
named. Mr.. Englehardt has inst return
ed TO Denver from a trip to Montana
oiih yum ma a idIEt HullutI dUu
amount of samples from various mining
districts had been received at the home
plant during his absence, sufficient to
keep him busy for several months 20
come. He has lately been expert ent-
ing with a method for recovering the
gold and silver at one operation and in
which he has practically succeeded.
The company are not making much
noise about the method but are quietly
introducing il to mining men and others
who are interested in the problem of
recovering values from low grade ores
at a reasonable cost. The process is
similar in every respect to that of
chlorination. except that bromine in.
stead Of chlorine is used.-Times.
YELLOW CREEK.
A. G. McShane and brother, Of yell
low creek, shipped twenty tons of ore to
the ID. & ID. smelter, getting returns of
$40 to the ton, or 81 800 for the lot. A
few days later they sold thirteen tons OF
ore for 81 800. They have nearly com
pleted another car of ore from their
mine which they will ship to the same
smelter to-day. They are working as
fast as possible IN this shipment of
twenty-five tons and the smallest assay
made from a mixture of the ore gives a
return of over $3.50 to the ton. This
country is the verge of a miuing growth
that will equal any yet seen. Three
months ago the ground or which this
strike was made was not ever thought
Of as mineral ground. Prospectors pass
ed it by IN their way to other fields to
gather wealth and left these rich de.
posits 20 be discovered almost by acct
dent. Al present there is not a foot OF
ground to be had and discoveries Of rock
assaying from S25 to $3.50 to the ton are
being made and kept quiet until the
lodges are developed. The various
plants in Deadwood and vicinity in
three months will not be able to handle
the ore that is now being uncovered in
the Yellow creek and Bald Mountain
country. ~Prospectors are at work in
every gulch in the country and there
are parties coming into the city here to
purchase provisions who leave and are
not seen for a week or two and they
have prospects of ore that only the as
sayer knows anything about. Last week
a discovery of ore was made and the
ledge found just under the grass roots, a
little work disclosed a body two foot
thick and three assays, $3.50, $1,000.
and 500 rs only six feet from the surface.
These are the mines that will bring this
country into prominence as a gold pro-
Queer that will put every other camp
into observation-disclosures Is.
A NEW RESOURCE. G.
The attention Of outside smelters is
o being drawn to the Black Hills as
a source of supply for f1uxing ores.
About two weeks ago the smelter clear