Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-04-11

dirt taken from the streak is said TO run
$40 to the eight-foot set, the gold being
very course and greatly resembling yell
low corn. The owners are elated over
their prospects, as they already have a
small fortune in sight,-Pioneer.
The work of prospecting the various
placers Of the Black Hills Water and
Mining company is still being continued
under the supervision Of Msssrs. Cloud
and Scott, and will be in progress for
some time to come, as it is the inten-
ton OF the company TO make their in.
vestigations Of very thorough char
acter. We are informed that their
investigations thus far have been fairly
satisfactory, and that especially during
the past few days, they have been quite
! iattering, and that the outlook for the
final consummstion Of the deal is fairly
favorable. While we have no means of
determining future results in this direc-
tion. we are comparatively hopeful Of Il
favorable outcome, which time alone
may definitely determine.
At the greatest depth ever attained
/ by miners in the history Of the world,
says the Scientific American. the mines
in the vertical Red jacket shaft of the
Calumet & Hecla copper mine have re-
Gently stopped sinking at a depth Of
1900 feet, as this is the required depth
necessary for this company 10 reach the
limit of its underground territory.
Bored wells have been carried down to
a greater depth, but the Red Jacket
shaft is the largest and best constructed
mining SHAFT in the world. Its inside
sdimensions are fourteen by twenty two
fsfsments and timbered throughout
With pine. The shaft was started in the
fall or 1880. The new shaft rock house,
which will be built of iron and will be
made fireproof throughout, is the only
part Of the work necessary to put this
deep shaft in commission, as the hoist
ing machinery, which consists Of two
pair Of triple expansion engines of 5000
horse power per pair, and will hoist
load of ten tons sixty feet per second,
was planned aud put in place while the
sinking Of the shaft was going on.
Col. Stone. whose energy and per-
seyerencs has been so essential in bring
ing the Keystone miae from what at one
time seemed an absolute failure TO q
thoroughly sound footing as q mining
proposition, is feeling in excellent spirits
ever the present outlook for the Key
stone mine. Everything in and around
the mine and mill is in the best possible !
shape, tie work of development and
dropping of stamps going on without a
hitch. In the 200 foot level the ore
body encountered during the past week
or ten days is better ia quantity and |
quality than at any previous time. |
Twenty stamps are dropping regularly, |
ten stamps on Bullion and ten on Key |
stone ore. Mr.. Stone says that the full
capacity of the mi forty stamps, will |
be ia operation after the first of May, |
the tweaty stamps not now in use being |
used on ore from the Bismarck. with |
which the Keystone company has sign
ell a contract for one ySar and on ore
from the Keystone mine. The new mill |
is perfect in every respect. the machinery |
being the best obtainable. The electric |
plant arrived at the mine yesterday and
in comparatively short time both mine |
and mil will be furnished with this |
mode of lightning.-Journal.
THE ASPEN.
The work of development on the As
pen lode, one OF a group of claims own |
ed by the Buckkorn company, west of
this place, has been continued during !
the week with very favorable results.
The shaft which has now reached a
depth Of over fifty feet, is all in ore, the
quality of which is constantly improv-
ing As the work of sinking progresses.
samples of the ore taken from the bot
tom of the shaft were being shown il
the city on Thursday, which fairly
glistened with visible gold.
THE MANDOLIN.
Paul Kleenann, one Of the owners Of
the Mandolin mine, located few miles
west Of this city, visited that promising
property on Wednesday, and reports
operations progressing satisfactorily.
The pump recently placed in the shaft
works well. and the work of sinking is
no longer hampered on account Of the
presence Of an Nxcess Of water. The
vein, which shows ore OF exceptional
quality, IL still widening as depth 10 at
tanned. and the owners are entertaining
the highest hopes Of the perfect success
ofthe enterprise.
THE sUNNysIDE ORE.
Amer having waited for weeks for
report from the car of Sunnyside ore
shipped to Kansas City for reduction,
and amer number Of false accounts Of
the result had been circulated concern
ing the same. the Hill City News finally
publishes what purports 10 be. and
doubtless is true account. in relation
to which the Deaiwood Times Of last
Sunday has the following, which We 70
produce for the information Of cur