Arizona silver belt., 1895-03-09
DISCOVERED eY A WOMAN,
A Gold Mine That ia One of tho Richest
 in Inc Black IUls.

in Inc Black HtIs
 One day during the latter part of last June William Franklin and his daughter, Mrs. Frank Stone, happened to stroll up grlch 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 (S, D. correspondent of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, exposed more of the rock, which, upon being banned, proved very rich, Every body 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 iu 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 sS,5O0 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 day for years. Mir. Franklin took in T. c. Blair as partner and shaft was begun, the ore taken out being treated in the Keystone mill and returned value much above the expense of sinking the shaft. When the shaft reached the depth of forty feet, developing a well-defned vein, which steadily improved with width and value as depth was gained, the owners made an arrange ment with ]. J. Faycl and Albert Ans bury by which they agreed to erect stamp mill on the property in consid- eration of half interest in the mine. A fve-stamp mill with an engine capac- ity of ten stamps or more was quickly built at cost of about 5000 and put in operation three weeks ago. While the mill was being built men were em. 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 orc Inilled has been taken from these drifts. The vein consists of marvclously 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 one to two pennyweights 10 five ounces in weight arc 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 hammer.
 The first cleanup was made in the new mill after a run of 36 hours. The result was a retort weighing a little over l66 ounces. from 90 tons of ore as taken from tho mine. The second run of 94 hours gave retort weighing l7g ounces, and the third run of 26 hours gave 203 ounces. These three rctorts are worth SlC,OOO and were all produced by a i've 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 depth of sixty feet and shows a larger and richer body of ere than ever. Parties who have recently visited the mine report that it is probably tho richest ever discovered in the Black Hills.