The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-05-24
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give SOmesE Insight into h Immense
magnitude OF our mining industry.
Ore mined and milled at Lead, Ter
raville and Central daily, 1000 tons:
approximate cost of mining and MILL
ing So per, ton: total. $1,000. Daily out
put of ore ut Bald Mountain and Ruby
Basin 400 tons: approximate cost OF
mining. transportation and treatment,
$40 per ton, total $4,000. ]. r.. Summit
and Grizzly Bear mines, near Hill City,
when the mills are operated at full ca
pacity. which they will be doing by the
middle of the year.. will consume 400
tons daily, at a cost not to exceed $3.50
per ton for mining and milling, or q
total Of $1,000. The milling capacity OF
the keystone mills at the present time
is about 25O tons per day, but with the
present prospective enlargement, there
can be no accurate estimate on the
years increase. but from the volume OF
ore already blocked out in the district
of a profitable grade. it would not be
surprising to sec the milling capacity
increased to 500 or wen LOCO tons per
day. BY placing the daily average for
the year at 800 tons at Il cost OF 200
for mining and milling. would make a
pay roll Of $3.50 per day. At the -Four
Mile. near Custer. the output can De
safely placed at 12O tons, at a cost OF
not over $3.50 per ton. which would
make a daily pay roll of. $500.
The contemplated building of new
work and the opening of new mines
bids fair of increasing the above output
twenty-five per cent. before eighteen
months have elapsed.
1t can be seen from the above sum
mary that the Black Hills daily produc-
ton of ore has reached the enormous
amount of 3,O05 tons. with an outlay OF
$4,000 per day. or a total pay roll Tor
the year of 81. S5O.5OO.
A gentleman who came i'm from the
Mammoth mine on Thursday reports
that the big strike OF low grade ore on
the 1.2OO-foot level holds out. and that
it has been dlifted in for thirty feet.
1t is the conclusion that this is the
same ore body that has been worked
from the 900 level down. and remarka-
bly, it was found in the 1900 before it
was opened up in the 1,2OO level.
Reports are received from the Ca
risa mine in Tintic to the effect that
on Wednesday a body of good gold ore
averaging eighteen inches in thickness
had been opened out. Mr.. Thomas has
just returned from q trip to Nevada,
and last night left for the mine.
Speaking Of the late strikes in Bling
ham. one experienced miner yesterday
stated that there is now more ore in
sight in the old properties Of the main
ore zone than was ever before seen
even in the best days of the m
According to the reports received
from Harker'S Canon operators. the
field has not been abandoned by any
means. Mr.. burst and his associates
are sinking for bedrock just below the
spring, and the shaft is now down
twenty-five feet with no bedrock vet.
Every foot of the shaft has been pros
pected and always rendered the same
%unvarying result, two or three small
nuggets of the same angular shape as
those found in the first discoveries be-
ing found in every pan of dirt. The
owners are quite content with their
findings, and are quietly prosecuting
work, and many others who have loca-
tons are making preparations to sink
TO bedrock.-Salt Lake Tribune.
Arizona.
There is great activity at the new gold
district and in the vicinity Of the Pierce
camp. Sorting ore is still in progress at
the Pierce mine preparatory to ship
ment. Some fifty tons are now ready
waiting to be loaded. The roads have
all been graded for the big teams of Nc
PherSon & Co., and the sixteen-mule
teams will. it is expected, begin their
work in a few days. hauling by way Of
Tombstone to Fairbank
A new discovery, which will undoubt-
edly prove a bonanza when developed,
was made in the Little Jessie. about a
mile from the Pierce mine, recently.
This mine is owned by Messrs. Raciga-
lupi, Butler, Howe and Welsh. A ledge
has been encountered which is four feet
wide and shows free gold in large guam
titles.
A lease has been filed for record from
Abram S. Hewitt of New York 10 A.
Falco for the Silver Prince mine in The
Bradshaw mountains. The mine is To-
Gated near the Peck and has been a
heavy silver producer in years past.
Since taking his lease on the Peck mine.
Mr.. Falco has been more than pleased
with the result of development in that
mine and has great faith in adjacent
properties as we'll. The OLD Peck camp
will one of these days resume it's former
activity.
There is considerable excitement over
recent strikes in the mountains between
Thumb Butte and Copper Basin. and a
dozen or more locations have already
been made in that vicinity. The orc
near the surface is fanCloEsiy ricl, in
! gold. The now finds are located within
from six to eight miles of Prescott.
Montana.
Placer gold is coming into the assay