Graham guardian., 1895-05-11
pIscoveRge eY A WOMAN.
A Geld Mine That is One OF the Richest
in the Black Hills

One day during the latter part of
last June. William Franklin and his
daughter, Mrs. Frank Stone, happened
to stroll up gulch in Pennington coun-
ty, and stopping TO rest Mrs Stone
idly broke in two small piece of rock,
which in the break, upon examination,
showed some particles of gold. A lit
tie digging, says a Chamberlain tS ID
correspondent of the st. Paul Pioneer
Press, exposed more of the rock, which,
upon being panned, proved very rich.
Everybody in the vicinity, having
nothing to do, visited the spot, and for
pastime were allowed to dig out some
of the rock and pan out the gold. AS
every man in that vicinity was in bad
condition financially and without other
means of raising the money for the
proper celebration of the approaching
Fourth of July, quite an opening was
made and the proceeds were devoted to
that purpose.
From this little incident dates the
discovery of gold in the Holy Terror
mine, which from day to day causes
greater excitement in mining circles
With five stamps the owner recently
pounded out $500 in gold in ten
hours. Much of the ore runs $500 to
the ton. Persistent prospecting re-
vealed no other place where the vein
came to the surface save this one spot,
which has been walked over every dag
for years Mr.. Franklin took in T. c.
Blair as partner and shaft was begun,
the ore taken ont being treated in the
Keystone mill and reti~ned value much
above the expense of sinking the shaft.
When the shaft reached the depth of
forty feet, developing well-Gefined
vein, which steadily improved With
width and value as depth WAS
gained, the owners made an arran re-
ment with j. j. Fayel and Albert Ans
bury by which they agreed to erect
stamp mill on the property in coisid-
Grafton of half interest in the mine
A iive-stanp mill with an engine Aapac-
ity of ten stamps or more was C.a..ssslzIy
built at cost of about 5000 and put
in operation three weeks ago While
the mill was being built men were eI1l-
ployed to run drifts north and south
from the shaft at depth of forty feet,
while sinking was pushed in the shaft.
Most of the ore milled has been taken
from these drifts. The vein consists of
marvelously rich ore, averaging sixteen
inches on one wall, with about two feet
of low grade ore filling the remainder
of the vein. The richness of this ore
streak must be seen to be believed.
Nuggets of solid gold from ono to two
pennyweights to five ounces in weight
are found snugly tucked away waiting
to be brought to light. while large
pieces of quartz are so bound with gold
that the parts hang together when
broken with a hammer.
Theirs cleanup was made in the
new mill after a run of 80 hours. The
result was aretort weighing little over
1GG ounces, from so tons of ore as taken
from the mine. The second run of ~
hours gave retort weighing l79 ounces,
and the third run of 26 hours gave 2O3
ounces. These three retorts are worth
$4,000, and were all produced by FIVE
stamp mill and taken to the Harney
Peak bank at Hill City for shipment in
side of one week from the start. The
shaft has now reached a depth of sixty
feet and shows larger and richer body
of ore than ever. Parties who have
recently visited the mine report that it
is probably the richest ever discovered
in the Black Hills.