Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-08-22

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The gold production Of Cripple Creek,
Colorado, for the first half Of the present
according to data collected by
Secretary Parson of the Colorado Min.
ing Exchange, was S7,256,0 600. His esti
for the years production is
II ,o00,0Oo which is nearly three times
the amount of gold produced in that
camp in 1895.
The annual report of the Homestake
company by superintendent t. j. Grier
gives the following figures. Tons of ore
milled from June /, '95 to June /, '96,
$4,000. Gross value of gold, 81 1905
04S.s3. Gross value of silver, 100000.
Net proceeds from concentrates. $685.
692.53. These figures compared with
those ofthe year before show an increase
in the value Of the ore of a fraction oyer
Sl.35 per ton. At the bottom of the
report the superintendent assures the
stockholders Of the fact that there Is ore
for at least twenty years work To- in
ight.-Pioneer.
During the past week the keystone
Mining company has paid out $4,000 for
labor, wood and home supplies. The
Holy Terror companr has paid out a like
amount and the Big Hit, Juniper and
others have brought the amount up to
slI,000. This is a small increase over
the past month and the amount is
likely to increase rather than diminish
in The future. The greatest inconyeni-
ence connected with the matter is that
this large amount is paid in checks on
hill City and Rapid City banks which
cause much trouble and some expense
in converting them into cash. We need
bank here badly.-Miner.
r. ANOTHER SHELTER.
I. The Anna Greek Gold Mining and
Milling company, recently organized in
the northern Hills, with principal place
of business in Pittsburg, Pa, with a
stock Of 81 ,000, 900, in as many
shares Of the par value of Sl.00 each,
fully paid and worcestershire, have
the erection Of q smelter
which will have a daily capacity Of 100
The company has now in its
treasury $4,000 cash, which is deemed
for the erection OF the same.
The site is OH Anna creek where the
company owns ground that fully war
rants the erection of a plant of the
capacity named. The inco,porators Of
the company are l. j. Galbraith, o fLead;
II. d. Gamble and c. j. George of Pitts
burg.
TIE APEX CONSOLIDATED NJ. 20.
Have recently struck q large body Of
ore in their new workings that has an
average value Of $40 per ton and is free
milling in character, in addition to a
large percentage of concentrates worth
from S35 to 500 gold per ton. Thirty
Of the stamps out Of the sixty in the
company's mill are dropping night and
day, crushing on an average 100 tons Of
ore every "A hours. Five Rice concen-
traitors are in use, handling the tailings
and are doing excellent work. The
company have recently purchased an
air compressor, which will arrive in a
short time. 1t will be used TO operate
the power drills, now run by steam.
The regular mid month clean up was
made on last Saturday, resulting in a
large and handsome brick Of gold. 1t
was shipped east on the same day. The
The present owners have opened up the
mine in good shape and have put il on
a paying basis.-Times.
COPPER MINES OF THE HILLS.
William Mcmillan was in tho c;,y
Yesterday with some fine samples of
copper ore from the central Hills. The
ore came from the Rio Tinto group on
Jim creek, and carries from 81 to 40 per
copper, 81 in gold, and twelve
ounces of silver. The Rio Tinto croup
consists of seven claims, Sylyanite. Rio
Unto, Rio Tinto Nos ], 9, 3 and A and
no Tinto Fraction, located on the
divide between jim creek and Bogus
Jim, about thirty miles southeast of
Deadwood, on the Galena belt. There il
ABOUT ten tons of ore on the dump. but
none has yet been shipped, owing to the
Inaccessibility of the mine. The ncsr.
est railroad points are Mystic on the B
\ NJ. and Brownsville on the B. II. &
IT, r., each about fifteen miles. and
'oout four miles of road will have to be
'uiit before ore can be hauled. The
MATT on the Rio Tinto is down thirty
eet, but no work has been done now
ince the first of May.
About a mile and a half southeast of
ulster lie the Custer Queen, Custer
Ning and Custer Prince. Practically no
development work has been done on
hese claims, but the surface indications
how copper. In both places, the sur
Indications, and the ore taken out
i the Rio Tinto are similar to the !
anaconda mine in Montana. Mr.. Nc
lillian thinks that this country is now. ,
regard to copper, in the same condi.
on that Montana was sixteen years
90. We know there is copper here. :
ut do not know the extent or value oil
|. ifthere was any way of shipping
Rio Tinto ore there would be a
'ady market for it at the smelter.