Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-06-27

the latter being run at an expense of
twenty cents day Of ten hours. Many
samples Of the hardest and toughest
ores from different localities were run
through the mill and promptly reduced
to pulp. The whole apparatus, mill and
engine. is compact, simple and effective,
and the cost is only about one-icLrth Of
the old style and the expense of operat-
ing reduced in the same ratio.
FULLER's EARTH.
Journal A large number Of analysis
Of ore samples are being made at the
school Of mines. Two on a sample Of
what is supposed to be fuller's earth
were made within the last day or two,
the samples having been sent from
Fairburn. Real fuller's earth is hard
to determine by analysis, az is ex.
planned in letter from Prof Flinter-
man to the person sending the samples
for treatment. These reasons may be OF
interest to readers OF the Journal, and
ara --aisen. as follows: ''It is not
chemical composition that decides whe-
ther or not clay is suitable for fuller's
earth, but rather physical properties.
Clays of the most widely different COM
position may be used for fulling. The
clay must be such that it can easily be
reduced to powder, and must be greasy
to the touch it must in addition possess
the property of absorbing grease. Thus
any clay possessing the physical proper
ties mentioned may be classed az fuller's
earth.
STRUCK 1T RICH.
A Sioux City Journal correspondent
gives that paper the following account
of q recent gold strike in the Grover
mine located six miles west of this
place, and owned by DR.. II. F. Rate, at
present residing in Hill City: "Dr.
Herman f. Rate, Of Hill City, 10 in
great luck. About year ago he settled
in the central Black Hills and has varied
his professional duties by taking lively
interest in gold prospecting. new so
actively carried on about the base Of
Harvey Peak. He recently took an
interest with two prospectors in some
claims ling in the northwestern part of
Custer county, near the old Penobscot
mine. He thought it safe to promise to
each of his partners, Bud Dickson and
Walter Bowles, a new suit Of clothes If
they could show, as they claimed, rock
which would assay 5000 to the ton. For
several weeks the doctor bought -four
and bacon in strict accordance with the
terms of his grubstake, but with waning
confidence and enthusiasm. A shaft
was sunk to depth of thirty feet on the
Gold Bug and one day last week be re-
ceived two or three sacks OF ore sent in
by his associates, with a notice to pro-
ducs the new clothing. The white iron
| stained quartz reduced in the mortar
and washed in the pan proved to liter
ally cream with fine gold. Under the
clnsest. examin ation with .. strong glzss
pect of unusual richness. A pound Q
rock produced fully so cents worth o
gold, as estisated by veteran pros
pectors. No pan prospect ever made IL
XIII Nlty Wllillu LnS rcCOlltCtlOu OI III
oldest miner equals the showing mad,
by the 'Groyer'-popularly called tbs
Gold Bug. The quartz is light in color
and live in appearance. Ths samples
tested came from point in fve-fooi
ledge within three feet of the surface
The vein can be traced some distance
longitudinally. It's course is northwest
and southeast, and dipping at an angle
Of about As degrees, and the walls of
granite slate are we'll defined. The
Grover is only one ofseveral rich strikes
made during the last month within 3
radius Of ten miles about the gray
granite mass of the Hsrnsy range. The
discoveries areeonfned t1 no particular
portion of the archean area. They are
made in the states in every direction
from the center of the Harvey up
hsaval. Prospects are now under
development and producing mines are
in operation st every point of the COM
pass about Hill City"