Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-05-23

snelter, will aggregate $50 tons, and this
is believed to be a very low estimate.
| Calculating the value Of these ores and
concentrates TO average 800 ton, which
is too low, the daily output is $ll ,OO0, or
s330,000 a month and very close to
"a, 600, 600 year. We are satisfied that
the product will be nearer 100000 a
year, but do not wish to appear as
being extrayagant.-Times.
A BIG DEAL PENDING.
One Of the largest and most important
mining deals ever inauguratsd in the
Black Hills is now under way and in
wolves the expenditure Of nearly two
million dollars in the development and
purchase Of about 400 acres of mineral
land on the siliceous orc belt on which
options have been secured running from
80 days to six months. The various
owners have already received per cent
of the purchase price, in consideration
of the options given. Prof. II. Pompelly
of Newport, X. l., the noted mining
expert who has been here for sone
time past investigating our mineral re-
sources on behalf Of himself and associ-
ates, secured the options after fully
satisfying himself as TO the present and
prospective value Of tho ground. Yes
terday he visited certain producing
mine on the southerly slope Of Bald
mountain and expressed surprise at the
amount Of ore disclosed in the work
ings, yet this very property, previous to
his visit to it, was represented to him
to be of no value The professor left
yesterday for Boston, Mass, and expects
to return here inside of 80 days. The
gentleman is very favorably impressed
with the Black Hills and predicts a
/ golden future for them.-Times.
SOUTHERN HILLS LEDGEs,
Expert Parrish says: They will prove
richer and more permanent than those
Of the northern Hills" VIM. A. Far
rish, the distinguished mining engineer,
whose first great service TO the Black
Hills was rendered in interesting
Messrs. Hearst and TTasgin in the Home
stake properties, has spent several
weeks of late in examining the mines
| Of both the northern and southern Hills
with view TO determining the probable
volume Of smelling ores. Mr.. Parrish
in the course of his researches has spent
some time at Hill City, renewing in the
intervals Of his work many early friend
ships. The News is reliably Informed
that in the course of a conversation
with a party of friends interested in
mining, Mr. Parrish gave il as his opinion
that ultimately the gold ledges Of the
southern Hills would prove the richest
and most permanent of any found in
this region. 81 came TO this conclusion
three years ago." said he, "and the re-
suits Of the developments accomplished
A sina~ that TINA ssxxa 10. confirfn the
: fWmedialeIy sUour rarney's PeaK ar
J more pronounced in dip, and the con
, fusion resulting greater, making minin
/ operations more perplexing, but th
ledges when found will, believe, PROV,
richer and Of greater general volume
than those Of the nothern Hills Ar
opinion of this character from an exper
of the highest reputs, after a careful
examination and comparison of nearly
all the mining districts of the Black
Hills is certainly reassuring to those
interested in southern Hills mining.
The mines of the northern Hills are
now upon secure economic footing,
and if the southern Hills can but equal
their output, the situation in the Hills
at large will be most satisfactory one.
Hill City News.