Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-03-03
lnalitY. The deposit extends

IN qualltV. Inc utpoSiJ eAtcnuS 0Ner
800 acres of land 1t bears beautiful
polish and has remarkable strerlth.
Samples have been sent to Washint tton
for an official test.
George Turner, of Hot Springs. ole OF
the owners of the Lady Gay minej has
been stopping at the Conway hoteRdur. |
ing the week. Mr.. Turner is very well
satisfied with his Investment in this
gold mine and expec great returns
from it The company is now working
twelve men to open up the mine and
get everything ready to extract the ore
with the least possible expense by the
time the mill will be ready TO run,
which Mr. Turner thinks will be by the
middle of April.-News.
An exchange gives the following
simple method for testing carbonate Of
silver and lead ores: "Pulverize the
rock and put il in a crucible or common
clay pipe; put in as much common salt
as there is of pulp and enough water to
make them liquid; let it come to a boil,
when it cools the silver and lead will
be in the bottom of the vessel used, sill
YER the lowest. TO separate the lead
from the silver put it in bone dust cup
and melt, the cup will absorb the lead,
leaving the silver and gold if there be
any of the latter metal. To separate
these boil the button in nitric acid and
this will leave the gold"
The absence of Judge G.. G.. Moody
attorney for the Homestake COMPANY
and Mr., I ]. Grier, superintendent. for
the same institution in New Yofk, 1has
given rise to a report that the new COM
bination it is said will take the Dead
wood smelter, is none other than the
Homestake company. The fact that
uperintendent Carpenter of the smelter
leaves in a day or two for New York,
presumably to join the two gentlemen
named, gives color to the report, and
induces many to believe all formalities
will be concluded and the transfer COM
pleted within the next few weeks.
Whether or not this is true, the Pioneer
is not in position to assert, but this
paper shares the general wish it is frue,
tor the reason that were this institution
owned by the Homes:ake, there is little
doubt its operations would be continu-
ous.--Pioneer.
The gold ores Of Cripple Creek, Col,
are not Off strictly free milling char
acter, but like the ores of this district re-
quire chemical treatment in order TO
obtain the best results in their reduc-
ton. Referring to these ores, a Denyer
paper says: ITO the mill man or me
talurgist it need not be said that this
rock cannot be milled to high percent
age of its value in the ordinary stamp
amalgamation mill. Some Of its value
can, of course, be saved in that way, but
not high percentage. We doub. if the
mills working on it save 40 per cent. If
roasted this ore amalgamates fairly well,
like all roasted tellurides. II can also
be worked successfully by chlorination
or bronination, and some Of it 10y the
cyanide process. Perhaps all Of it can
be worked by the latter method if SUI.
ficicnt skill is called into use. Certainly
either Of the latter methods will save
more Of the value than amalgamation
even after roasting. There need be no
bug-a boo scare about the refractory ma.
ture of Cripple Greek ores. They need
no new process. The old ones are good
enough, if they are worked skilifuily."
SYSTEMATIC MINING.
The following, taken from late issue
of the Lead City Tribune, would ndi-
cate that the Homestake company con
templated the prosecution of mining
upon more extensive scale than ever,
and by the adoption of the latest and
most approved systematic methods, sur
pass the world in the magnitude Of its
future mining operations: There are
but few only in this vicinity, perhaps.
WIZ ItaliEC tnut tIIC VI tDc
Homestake and associate companies are
to be revolutioniZed to some extent in
the near future. A visit to the new
hoisting works, however, is convincing
that such is the case. The new nam
moth hoist has wire cable attached
long enough, it is said, to go down 400
feet. The shaft and cages are large en-
ough to take short train Of cars at one
time. TIE machinery for working the
rock drills and air compressors is in
p ace, and half dozen of the diamond
| rock drills are here, and as soon as the
pipes, hose and attachments can be
made they will be put to work. We 20
rot know that this vast machinery will
supplant many miners, but that these
drills and the conveniences for handling
ore and timber will accomplish much
greater results than has been in the
past there is no doubt. 1t is hoped,
however, by those who are watching
the progress. that as the compressors
will furnish good air in many of the
drifts and Slopes that are now dormant
on account of insufficient circulation,
that the drills will be used for develop
ment work almost entirely and that in.
stead of reducing the number of men
the effect will be an increase in the
number of laborers of all descriptions
r. l..
OF development work is accomplished,
and then that more stamps will be ad-
ded, which will make the increase per.
manent. In all events, the new High
land plant will revolutionize operations
in and around the Homestake mines"
The Mid-Winter Exposition.