The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-05-17
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TEPEE GULcH, May 8, 1895.
The Lucky Cuss. G. M. & NJ. Co., who
have a bond On the Wealthy graup of
mines here. are still at work with two
shifts and Mr.. Brooks as foreman,
who has been sampling the property for
the past week and has secured many
good specimens Of ore and exposing a
vein twelve feet in width that will give
a pan test OF $1S to 500 per ton. Mr..
Charles Carpenter is assisting Mr.. B. IN
sampling, they are experts at the BUSH
ness and say it IS q fine prospect, Mr..
FLYNN, Of the Deadwood Times, is one OF
the Lucky Cuss company. and Mr.. c. s..
Crysler, the superintendent, came up
from Rapid City today and has made a
flying trip to Keystone for the purpose
of making a contract with Mr.. Wilcox,
the owner of the custom mill at that
place, to mill 500 tons of ore from the
Lucky Cuss in the near future. A con-
tract will be let to haul the ore 5000.
Messrs Farrar and Swanson were up
from Rapid today to look after their
interests in and around the Lucky Cuss
group.
The Little & Jensen stage line is travel
ing this way most of the time now, the
road between here and Keystone is being
repaired for the purpose OF traffic and
ore hauling. The road will be graded IN
good shape on the Tom Custer hill and
also Oh the Miller Sack hill. these two
places being the worst part Of the road
from Rockerville to keystone by way OF
the Lucky Cuss mine.
Work will soon on other
property adjoining this group, and be-
yond a doubt there will be just as good
ore found as there Is now In SIGHT in the
Lucky Cuss.
Messrs Little and Jensen have pur-
chased o fourth interest in the Rattle
snake lode claim on the east side Of
Rocky gulch neal keystone. the pur-
chase price being 5000 cash. A recent
assay from this claim brought $10.S5
free gold. The writer has visited the
ground and chose the sample that was
%assayed,
The woods are full Of prospectors and
there is plenty Of Don for them all. one
mar make the remark that a certain
man had ought to fence the country on
Tepee. and the answer was that the
posts are set and | will string the wire
next week and 1T will be a (Lawful) three
wire fence and there will be no breachy
stock allowed to run On Tepee, If any Of
them jump u fences they are liable to
get into the pound, and it may cost
them something toget out. We have a
f~1ne class Of citizens in this locality, good
schools and plenty Of good wood and
water, and the best OF all lots OF the
squire yellow stuff that man labors for.
There has been quite a number Of new
locations made here lately and some OF
them show good prospects in the pan
The time is not far Off when the South.
ern Hills will surpass the northern and
central portion. Sust think of surpass-
ing the Homestake mines. who have
paid nearly SIX million in dividends and
fed lawyers and built mills and pur-
chased ground to the equal OF that in
the past fourteen years.
Bismark mine has struck some high
grade ore, they will soon make another
run that will make a boom. @s
The Iowa group on Tepee has gota
fine prospect and will soon have a M
test OF fifty tons. E. j. Cross will have
a run on the Cross ore in a few dAvs.
There would be plenty Of worksSi6r q
large custom mill here if some one would
build one, it would cost but very little
more to run fifty stamps than 1T does