Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-31
Mining Items.

The Cyanide works are now running
at full capacity, treating 80 tons of ore
every "a hours, with abundance of avail
able ore for continuous work Mining
Review.
A Brown roasting furnace will be
placed in the Golden Reward plant at
an expense of $4,000. Horace F.
Brown, the inventor, arrived in Dead
wood and will superintend the placing
of the machinery.-Mining Review
The Rapid Journal reports four foot
vein of ore recently opened in the Holy
Terror that will mill 10000 per ton.
The Journal has, no doubt, inadvertant-
ly stuck in an extra cypher, as a foot
vein of $1,000 ore should be good enough
to satisfy any body, and that is probably
what the Journal meant to express.
MANGANESE.
The Deadwood Times says: Grady,
Slyfield and Petty, who have been out
in the Limestone Ridge country, about
Is miles west of Rockford, prospecting,
came in town yesterday and exhibited
specimens Of manganese ore that look
first class. They opened l0-feet verti-
cal vein of the ore which, they claim,
contains 80 per cent manganese and
about 81 in gold They have a group of
| claims and have done considerable work
developing them. A good deal Of work
has been done over in that section and
a number Of good prospects have been
| found.
THE MoFFIT oyIDIz TER.
j. k. Motfit, inventor of the new me-
thod for treating all characters Of gold
and ilvcr-bearing ores, has contracted
for the machinery for the lO0-ton plant
to be erected at Puma, to miles south of
this city. In reference to the matter
the Omaha World Herald says: "Dr.
Moffatt, the inventor of the Moffatt OK
idizier for treating ores, and c. B. Coon,
general agent Of his company, who are
| in the city, have let a contract to Davis
4 Cowgirl to build an independent plant
for the Moffatt, system. The plant that
was being erected at Lead depended up
on the-Star mill, the engine Of which
broke down, delaying operations for
some months. This necessitates moving
the Moffatt mill and determined the
owners to construct a complete mill, that
would treat not only concentrates. but
also ore direct from the mines 1T is ex.
pected that besides this mill, which will
be erected at Puma, a number Of mills
will be built by Davis 4 Cowgirl for use
in various parts of the Blatk Hills and
that considerable work will be done in
this line. Times.
THE ORE MARKET.
This continued harping about the
Deadwood works not being able to
handle all the ore mined is calculated to
deceive and discourage small owners
and lessees. While the works may not
treat all the ore mined the day or week
| il Is mined, the d. & ID. smelter not only
advertises to buy ore hut it buys every
pound offered that will pay to treat and
il pays cash AS soon as the returns are
received from the sampling works. Mr..
Falconer the ore buyer for the smelter
don't overlook dump no matter how
small the amount of ore on the dump.
The smelter charges is tS per ton which
III deducted from the assay value. The
object Is to accumulate a surplus suffici-
cient to warrant enlargement Of the
works and SO long as the miners receive
pay for their ore, it is none of their
business when it is treated. The three
or four thousand tons of ore at the
smeiter is small amount compared to
the quantity used Ut some smelters. Let
the miners develop their properties and
there will be no trouble in finding a
ready market for the ores. We do not
want any more works lying idle for
want of ore. Better food Of ore than
idle works. 1t is easier to enlarge the
present works or build new ones to
meet the increased demands, than 1t is
10 make ore eprow.-pioueer.