Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-17
Mining items.

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A rich strike is reported as having
been made on the 600 foot level Of the
Keystone mine on Monday last. the ore
encountered being Of a free milling
character. and yields twenty dollars
gold per ton
The tunnel being run by the Demer-
eau Mountain Mining company, near
Pringle, has reached the mark of los
feet. 1t is G expected that the main vein
for which the tunnel is being run will
be encountered within the next fifty
feet, which, at the present rate of pro-
gress made, will require about six weeks
time.
Work is still being vigorously continu-
ed upon the Empire and Baker claims,
two and q half miles north west of this
place, and good progress is being made.
Working shafts are being sunk upon
! each, which have already attained to a
considerable depth. Crosscutting will
| be commenced on each at a depth of 100
feet, which will soon be reached.
Supt. j. S. Cradle, of the Union Hill
NJ Co., returned yesterday from New
| York, where he attended q meeting of
the company's directors, at which the
matter of erecting a stamp mill of large
capacity was discussed and practically
decided in favor of its erection on the
Union Hill group of mines. The smelt-
er and 10 stamp mill in Galena camp
are running steadily on ores from the
company's properties with satisfactory
and profitable results Shines.
The stockholders Of the Minnesota
mining property at Rockford are well
satisfied with the result of their recent
test run. The work is mostly shut
down at present awaiting the result of
the election, and they declare if Bryan
is elected everything will be shut down.
The company has contemplated making
some extensive improvements, consist
ing of a tramway from the mines to the
mills, a distance of three miles, a new
water ditch and adding to the MILL
Times.
i. II. Graves, of Deadwood, one Of the
owners in the st. Elmo mine, eight
mites north Of this place, came in on
Tuesday with the gold recovered in the
last run Of the mill. The gold, amount
ing to $4,000, was run into two bars by
Mr.. Samuel Scott, an assayer of this
city, in which condition it was shipped
to the mint through the First National
bank of Custer. He reports the mine
looking favorable, and improving with
depth, the present average value of the
ore being about SIS per ton.
\ stampede to Spearfsh canyon is
reported, almost the entire canyon, from
a point just above Spearfsh to the falls
having been located, the finding Of rock
similar in appearance to that found at
Ragged Top causing the excitement.
We are reliably informed that a large
portion Of the claims recently staked
are on patented ground, being the prop
erty of the Carbonate Flume company,
for which they obtained a patent several
years ago. The principal stockholders
in this company being well known and
prominent business men of this and sur
rounding towns, the stampeders are
likely to have their trouble for nothing.
Review.
S. +. Emmons, Of Butte, Montana, a
United States geologist, arrived in the
city Sa 'urday, and will spend several
days in the Hills, with a view to the
. performance of economic work in this
locality in the future. This speaks well
for the Hills, as such work is only done
in mining camps OF Importance, consist
ing of keeping a record of geological
occurrences, the extent aud character
of the ores, and the development Of the
veins, with an outline oftheir character
istics and tendencies. This work, fol-
lowing as it does the typographical sur.
vey of country. of necessity requires
that such survey shall be exact as to
contour, and may necessitate a new and
more correct survey.-Review.