Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-08-24
Mining Items.

70 assume immense proportions.--TiInes-
The McShane brothers are now ship
ping from their Yellow creek mines
thirty tons of ore per day to Kansas
City, says the Lead Call, and OH these
shipments are enabled to save 800 per
day over what they would haye to pay
at Deadwood for treating the same
amount of ore. They claim this saving
pays the running expenses Of their mine
every day.
ST. ELMO.
This mine, located about 8 miles north
OF this city, on Sunday Gulch, is classed
among the most promising in the district
In which it is located. A force Of men
are now G. gagged in its development, and
,aB excellent grade of ore is being en-
= rate1esl !. .ltrge quantity OF ore now
lies upon the dumps. for the reduction
of which arrangements are being made
with some of the mills of the district.
CUTrY sARK.
j. B. Dickoyer, Of Hot Springs, has
purchased % horsepower engine for
use in the mill being erected on the
Guilty Sark mine. Of which he is one Of
the principal owners. The engine has
been shipped from Deadwood, where il
was purchased, and is being placed in
position. 1t is said that the mill will be
operating in about two weeks Two
Kidd q Moore concentrators, recently
purchased, are being set up, and the out.
look for the early inauguration Of an
other successful mining enterprise in
the Hills is now conceded TO be except
ionally fiattering.
Work at the Tea mine is going for
ward ut lively rate. Reeds sawmill is
cutting lumber for the mill and other
buildings large boarding house is al
ready enclosed large hoist is already
begun, and first class stamp mill is TO
be built, which will be capable Of doing
custom work besides treating the ores
Of the mine. The work of sinking the
shaft goes on, and the work of develop
ment will be urged forward in order to
give supply to work on when the mill
is completed. From present appearan-
ces the Tea will in few months become
one Of the leading producers of the Hills.
Miner.
HEBERT GROUP.
The Frank Hebert property adjoining
the st. Elmo on the west has been, says
the Review, under bond for several
months to parties who have performed
expense developments. They sunk an
incline % feet on so inch vein of free
milling ore, when, at that depth the vein
pinched, but the shaft was continued
and in a few feet the ledge widened, un-
I'll at the bottom 45 IT. from the surface,
became FIVE feet in width, and instead Of
being free milling the ore has changed
to dark mcaceous schist, carrying from
20 to % per cent arsenical pyrites, as.
saying from Sl7 to $50 per ton. The
vein dips to the northeast about As, deg
and a shaft was lately sunk further down
the hill which has attained depth of 35
feet.
GRAPHITE MINES.
In prospecting on French creek about
six miles from Spokane short time ago,
Dan Holden, James Mccain and DR.. L.
c. Green discovered peculiar substance
which they were unacquainted with.
Upon investigation n it proved to be gra-
phite. The two boys have large ledge
from three to FIVE feet wide and well de
fined and the surface ore will probably
concentrate four to one Of pure graphite.
Graphite is worth about twenty FIVE or
thirty cents per pound and it may be
easy TO figure that the boys have bon
anaza." They say there is lots of the
stuff in sight and prospects of thousands
of tons yet to be uncovered. The Gus
ter axle grease factory has already made
a handsome offer for the property or the
ore which ever they choose to sell, and
the owners are now considering the pro-
position. Many graphite veins are
showing in this section and the Nugget
predicts that the time is not far in the
future. when graphite mining will be a
paying and profitable industry about
Keystone.-Nugget.
MILLIONS IN SIGHT.
Commenting upon the recent annual
report of the Homestake Mining Com.
| pany at Lead City, in which the super.
intendant submits the statement that,
there is now enough ore in sight to keep
the mills in constant operation for wen.
ty years, the Black Hills Mining Re.
view says:
I'm the above statement emanating
from the head of this gigantic enterprise
in South Dakota. the residents of the
Black Hills cannot otherwise than be
enthusiastically inspired with the know
ledge Of the powerful resources that
surround them. When 1000 tons of ore
is mined and milled every twenty.four
hours, and continuously without cessation
365 days in the year the probabilities
are but few comprehend the magnitude
implied by the estimate of the Supt.
when he informs the directors of the
company of twenty years available ore
blocked out. 1t implies, however, that
there are in sight (which means can be
measnred) in the Homestake mine alone
between 100000 and 100000 tons of
ore, and placing the average value at the
same figures as the ore mined during the
fiscal year. which, according to the Sc
cretary's report was $+.6S per ton, the
value Of this vast body of ore is between
$50. .000, 900 and s4O,OOOOOO. The enor-
nous estimate is exclusive Of the ore in
the Deadwood-Terra, Father DeSmet
aud Highland, which, if added to the
Homestake. would increase the amount
in all probability to 25,000oOO Of tons,
or a grand total value of the available
ore In the Belt mines Owned and con.