Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-10
SOUTH DAKOTA.

1t Is claimed that the gold product or
he Black Hills for the present year will
% $40, 000, 000, with a probability of
o~eaching $l2. 900, 600. The estimate is
based IN the product Of the mines now
n operation for the past eight months,
which nave averaged $1,000 tons per
month of siliceCus ores from the Bald
,iCuntaln section and 800 tons Of tn"
anne character OF ore from Yellow
Crylk camp. and the properties will
aggregate for the year in round num-
bers. $50, 900 tons, principally by the
HCmestalie and associate companies.
Ar ore chute estimated to be worth
10. less than "a, 600, 900, has been struck
n the Fannie. Ruby Basin, near Dead
wood. The ere averages $50 to the ton,
and is 100 feet wide, extending nearly
across the property. 1t Will be handled
n the Deadwood and Delaware smeiter,
At Deadwogd, to which II belongs. This
smeiter is now handling $1,000 tons OF
,re a month. The monthly production
& $40, 000.
After an all day argument on an al
tentative writ Of mandamus, the SUI
preme court made the writ peremtory,
ordering the commissioners of Roberts
county to submit 10 the people at the
November election the question Of coun-
~ seat removal. The question has been
1otlN fought from the start and means
political compiled tions in that county
his fall.
\ large barn belonging to Richard
owen, a prominent farmer living seven
miles south of Britton, was destroyed
by fire, together with over fifty tons of
nay. The stock was safely removed
rom the building. A little son, only 4
)r 5 years cid vas playing with
matches in the barn and set the build
ng on fire.
The annual conference of Presby-
:erian and Congregational churches held
IN the Yankton reservation, near Green
wood, was a great success. The Daio-
AS, Nebraska and Montana were well
represented. Services were held In Sioux
md English. There are about 500 In
iian voters in Sisseton.
BY the explosion of a threshing ma
.hine boiler nine miles west of Millbank
he engineer, Bird Shannon, and the
fireman. Hiram Franks, were instant
y killed and the water carrier, Frank
Manning, seriously injured.
The fifteenth annual meeting of the
DalNlG oil ulIloiis. lll' lbdDllok
Young Peoples union and the South Da-
sota Baptist convention was held in the
Baptist church at Huron. A large at
:endance was present.
Henry Gregg and Lawrence Fowler,
the boys who stole the mail pouch at
Blunt were arrested at Deadwood and
taken to Pierre and sentenced to six
months each in the Hughes county Jail.
The South Dakota conference Of the
Free Methodist church closed its four
teenth annual session at Beresford. Tn
attendance was large. Rev. Harpel OF
Mitchell was elected presiding elder.
Reports show nal a far larger amount
IF hay than usual has been put up In the
the ranges west OF Fort Pierre, and
whatever the winter may be, there Is
but little danger OF short feed.
CATTLE shipments from the Black
Hills ranges have begun. Over 1000
head were shipped In three days from
the towns of Brennan and Belle
Fourche.
Ferdinand Keno, living west of War
aer, lost his barn. forty tons Of hay and
sixteen stacks of grain by fire. sup
posed TO have been started by children.
Hog cholera has carried off a large
number Of porkers in the vicinity Of
Yankton. Nc way has been devised to
heck the spread of the scourge.
a great deal OF grain is now being
marketed at Centerville and elevator
men are kept busy most of the time
weighing and unloading.
a cooperative creamery has been
started at Castalia. over 400 cows have
been obtained and the number will
o o be doubled.
A body of galena has been struck in
The Iron Hill mine at Deadwood, which
'uns 80 per cent lead and 40 ounces silver
% the on.
A p~ostoffice has been established at
Ruger, Charles Mix county, with John
NJ. Goodwin as postmaster.
The Presbyterians of Aberdeen have
decided to erect a church edifice to cost
"a, 1000.
+. +. Jarrett, living near Mellette,
ost 800 bushels Of wheat by fire.
The ~tristate fair held at Sioux Falls,
proved a grand success.
Mayor c. II. Enos Of Lead Is dead.