Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-03-23


tions. 1t is said TO be the intention OF
the owners to erect mill in the near
future upon the mine, which has al
ready been exploited 10 an extent that
fully justifies such proceeding.
The new custom mill at Keystone has
made its first cleanup on the Bismark
ore, and though expectations were justly
high on ore from mine that all knew
to be remarkably rich, the mill run far
exceeded the estimates of the most
hopeful. little better than ten dollars
per ton is the result. The owners,
Seirth & Ingel, expected about five dol
lars This is not only very agreeable
surprise TO the mine owners, but com
plimentary to the management Of the
uill. Prospectors throughout the belt
are eiated at the result, and a number
are getting out ore for milling.-Pilot.
A car of the capacity of thirty tons is
now being loaded at this place with
gold ore from the May Flower mine
two and half miles west Of here, which
will be sent to Kansas City for reduc-
tion. Numerous laboratory tests have
shown that the ores OF this mine con-
tain high per cent of the yellow metal,
but as yet it has not been submitted to
commercial test. The resuI. OF the
shipment is hopefully and anxiously
awaited. We also learn that the early
shipment Of txc cars Of ore from the
Park lode, on the Penobscot belt a few
miles west Of this place, to the cyanide
plant at Deadwood IL contemp ated,
from which the owners Of the mine AID
the citizens generally earnestly hope fof
favorable results.
IMPORTANT MINING DECISIONS.
A late Washington special gives two
important decisions recently made by
Secretary Smith, on which the decision
Of the last administration in the cele-
brated Pixies Peak case has been over
ruled. The decision affects mining cases,
where disputes arise between placer and
lode claims. Secretary Smith decides
when it has been ascertained by the de-
partment or determined by q court of
competent jurisdiction that lode claim
exists within the boundaries Of the land
coverered by a placer patent, that such
lode claim was known to exist at the
date Of the application for such patent,
and was not applied for by the placer
claimant, the land in the lode is re
served from the operation Of the con
veyance. and patent may issue for such
lode, if the law has been In other re-
spects fully complied with. The first
decision is in the case of y. J. McConel,
known as the South star lode case, and
the other in the Plaiuview Mining and
Milling company and Charles RI. Peters
against James II. Freeman, known as
the Furinan placer case.
HIDDEN TREASURE MINE BONDED.
An option on the above property has
been taken by Mr. Zimmerman, Of Chi
cago 1t is lis intention 10 thoroughly
develop the claim and make II one OF
the producing mines in the southern
Hills For the present he has but two
men at work sinking shaft. The HID
den Treasure was discovered in 1879 by
c. j. Best and George Rose, and was one
of the richest pocket mines ever found
in this neighborhood. Rose and Best
realized several thousand dollars from
it. but after working the pocket out,
have only just kept up the representa-
ton work. Two years ago Mr.. Feigel
put stamp mill on the mine and run
some ore through it, which paid about
expenses, but not having the means to
develop the property sufficiently to
place it on paying basis, quit running
the mill. The Hidden Treasure mine
will now be worked and opened up, and
if surface prospects count for anything.
it will in time become one Of the pro-
ducers of the yellow metal.-Mining
News.