Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-09-15
Mining lterla.

closed down on Tuesday last with a
view to the enlargement of the building
and. the introduction Of new machin.
cry.
John Henton came in from the Guilty
Sark yesterday morning. He says
everything is looking we'll and that
another car load Of ore was shipped
Saturday to the mill at Central City
Herald, 10.
The minis of the United States coined
gold and silver during the month of
August as follows: Gold pieces $50, 200,
value $~7,722000. Silver pieces 1,204, 900,
value 1915 900. Total, ], $4,000 pieces,
total value SS,69S,000.
The revival Of placer mining this year
on the streams, bars and gulches, in the
vicinity Of this city, as well as in ad
joining districts, has proven profitable
to nearly all who have engaged in it.
Yesterday the Palace Jewelry store pur.
chased over $500 worth of dust, and this
is but a fraction Of the amount recover
ed weekly in the various Districts
Times.
Stuart Thompson returned yesterday
from Cripple Creek where he has been
for two months. He says there are
probably $4,000 people in what is known
as the Cripple Creek district, which
comprises several towns situated like
the belt towns are here. There is one
mill there that is working a vertical
vein Of ore that pays 500 per ton. The
! vein is Is feet wide. There are also
others that are paying way up. 1t is a
very rich and booming camp, but not a
good place for a poor man. Living is
very reasonable, less than at Deadwood.
Times, O..
THE Guilty. sARK A BONANZA.
The returns from the car Of ore from
the Guilty Sark mine recently sent to
Omaha, are such as to make the hearts
Of the owners rejoice. The ore was not
selected, but inst the run of the ledge,
and averaged $50 per ton, and with the
amount Of ore in sight the mine has
already proved itself to be one of the
very richest in the Hills. With Just
the ore in sight there is enough to make
the owners independently wealthy
Star.
THE r SUPPLY.
About $50 tons of ore pass through
town daily from Ruby Basin and other
camps in the Bald Mountain section to
the ID & ID. smelter, Golden Reward
chlorination works and the cyanide
mill, it is safe to say of an average value
increases instead of diminishing in
quantity or value. With adequate facil-
tiles for its treatment, double the amount
could be easily extracted. Such facili-
ties can only be had by the erection of a
large custom and sampling plant, where
he p~rospecior can dispose of a ton as
readily as q carload or more of his pro- !
duct. Whitewood mining district alone,
in which the camps above mentioned
are situated. contains an almost mex
haustible supply Of siliceous ores rang
ing in value from SD TO $50 per ton,
that with a reasonable charge for treat
ment would be worked at a profit both
to the custom works and the miner
Outside works as a rule make a fat rate
of So per ton. This rate varies over or
under according to the constituents of
the ore. In many cases ores are ship.
ped from here to the smelters at Omaha
and Kansas City, and no charge hat
ever made for reducing them to bullion,
the entire value being returned TO the
miner. This Of course is owing to the
d~esirability of their fluXing qualities in
lead smelling. With local custom works
that would give similar rates as the
outside concerns do, the gold product Of
the Black Hills would be trebled.-
Times.
WHAT DOES 1T MEAN?
We were informed yesterday by a re-
sponsible aud reliable Galenaite that
there is a large corps Of civil engineers
camped on Bare Butte creek above
Galena, who are evidently surveying for
a line of railroad. Prof. Jen ely appears
to be doing the exporting for the party.
Jim Conzett has been employed to guide
Prof. Jenney through the Galena dis
trict aud they are visiting every piece
of mining property and making an ex-
animation. There are also two Ger
mans with Prof. Jenney who are said to
be eminent mineralogists and mining
There is no little s~pecula-
ton at and about Galena concerning the
party, who they represent, what they
are doing and what the result will he.
No positive information is at hand, but
the movement is believed to be in the
interests of the Homestake company,
who are either looking up a location for
a new reduction plant or are figuring on
their railroad to new timber.
any rate G~alenaites feel good, mas
much as the project, whatever it may
be. will bes benefit to that DISTRICT
IT NAY BE A SHELTER.
The secret of Professors Jenny's camp
on Elk creek is said to be the location
of a large smelling plant to be used in
with the Homestake works,
seld, that the professor is there for the
ores that is needed in such an
enterprise. The abundance of iron and
ores and lime in hat vicinity
where there is plenty of water-where
charcoal can be made at a nominal
figurc-where there is plenty Of room,
and no complaint will be raised against
the smoke aud fumes Of the stacks, or
the consumption or pollution Of the
waters, makes the location a proper one.
The expense of shipping the Homestake
concentrates to Elk creek over the B.
II & Fl. Pierre railroad will only be a
case of back freight and will cost but
little. and the cost will only be taking
ont of one pocket and putting it iuto the
other. While two miles of extension of