Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-03-17


mineral in the mountains. These dig.
gings we're discovered late in the fall
80 the prospecting will be done in the
spring. They have no. found the lead
that the gold comes from. There was a
test made on the river and they said the
river bed would go sl,OO0,OO0 to the
mile. There is vast territory of it
here. There is dry bar here that has
several thousand acres in il, and it pros
poets good. There is town laid out on
the river. The railroad is at Red
Lodge, Montana. Pioneer.
a PROMISING MISIEG SECTION.
Edward Kidd returned yesterday from
visit to the section ofcountry adjacent
70 the above mine and expressed him
self as very much surprised at the
amount and extent OF work done during
the past two seasons by the prospectors
OF the district. The Keystone company
are now operating half the capacity Of
their twenty stamp mill on good grade
OF ore which has been opened in both
lower and upper tunnels, the ten stamps
have been dropping for the past ten
days and the clean ups from the plates
indicate that a thirty day run Of the
mill at full capacity on the same char
acter Of ore, would result in a clean up
Of sufficient value to pay up every dollar
owed by the company. whe lower tun-
mel is now being driven into the ore
body and a chamber will soon be start
ed. As soon as room permits more
miners will be set to work and in a
short time keystone will again become
a lively camp, in fact 10 is full of men
now awaiting an opportunity to go to
work, preference is Of course given to
the old employees. Everyb body in the
camp is we'll pleased with its future
prospects. In the same vicinity Mr.
Kidd visited the Bullion lode on which
a tunnel $40 feet in length has been
driven nearly every foot Of which is in
ore. Adjoining this is the Caribou
property developed by 200 foot tun-
mel showing the same character Of ore
as that of the Keystone. A contract
was lately given 10 extend this tunnel
250 feet further and the work is now in
progress. There are other good pros
poets in the vicinity, the owners Of
which are hard at work developing
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slate and porpnyry. the ore being found
in vertical veins ranging in width from
two to So feet and Of sufficient value
10 pay handsome profit over cost Of
milling aud mining with economical
and practical management.-Time
PREMATURE MILLING.
The custom Of building the mill be-
fore developing the mine has been a
rule of the Southern Hills, which has
been frequently deprecated by the
CHRONICLE, and to this rule is mainly due
mining failures made in this vicinity,
where in almost every instance success
would have resulted had the proper
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the mill, and the proper methods of ore
reduction been employed. The views
of mining man Of the Northern Hills,
upon this subject, as expressed through
the columns Of the Deddwood Pioneer,
are worthy of reproduction. He says
Many new mining companies in this
country kill their mines in their infancy.
No better evidence of this can be given
than the keystone of the Southern Hills
and the Hawkeye Of our own section.
1t must be taken into consideration BY
all that, when a vein or ledge of
ore is found, sufficient time must be al
lowed to fully and practically develop
that vein, shafts have got to be sunk,
drifts must be driven along the ledge,
the ore bodies or veins have got 10 be
exposed and cross sectioned with view
to determining the extent and value OF
the ores, and when everything proves
to be salts factory, and when GRE in
sufficient quantity is exposed and devel.
opments made, so that the ore from the
ledge can be broken and handled with
rapidity, then and only then is the time
for the erection of your mill. But by
doing it otherwise and before the mine
is fully developed you force the mine
and to keep the stamps pounding is to le
everything go through the mill. The
foreman gets desperate. lie finds that
the ore body is not sufficiently develop.
ed and consequently is forced to lie,
everything 90 for ore. The cleanup
comes, and what is the result2 The
tables and plates Will not yield accord
ing to the sampling of the ore. The
company expect great things in the frs
two or three months, and when it is moi
forthcoming as expected they get dis
couraged, order is received To Gloss
down, they have been cheated out o
their due rights and so forth. when il
reality they themselves have been tn,
sole cause of this failure by being alto
gether too previous. Practical miner,
and mill men have not been placed a
the head of affairs. The mining don,
in the past years has been long wa,
behind and not up to the present sys
TEN of milling or mining from a practic
al standpoint. Develop your mine anc
place it on an ore bearing footing. Thel
build your mill.
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