Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-12-18

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tons annually. The powder is all
brought to the mine over the company's
own railroad from Piedmont a station
on the Elkhorn, in cars having a carry
ing capacity of ten tons each, and it
would require train Of fifty cars to
bring in years supply of this indis-
pensible adjunct to that company's
colossal mining operations.
Tne attitude Of the highest mine in
the Black Hills that is being worked,
saws the Black Hills Mining Review, is
G.2G0 feet, which :s the Clinton mine 9.
the Portland station, six miles west of
Deadwood. While the best paying
mines in other state are usually above
timber line and where the operators
are in danger Of snowslides that are
very dangerous, the owners of mining
lands in the Black Hills can 60 to and
from their properties winter and sum-
mer in palace coaches il they so desire.
In relation to the character and prob
able value of the gold lodges in the
Custer district, the Deadwood Mining
Review, in its issue of last week, says in
part: THE predominant characteristics
of the gold bearing ores of Custer coun
ty is free milling and concentrating
quartz rock in nearly vertical veins,
ranging in width from foot TO upwards
Of 100 feet. There are lodges within
three miles of Custer that have one wall
of granite and the other slate. that ex-
pose width of 40 feet, which will yield
by fire assay $ll per ton. Whenever
these properties are presented in a
reasonable way by their owners, there
is little doubt but that purchasers will
be found in numbers TO take hold of
every proposition where the prospects
warrant the investment. On the Omega
group, three miles east Of Custer, there
has been good deal OF development
work going forward for the past few
months. Tire tunnel. which is being
driven, has penetrated the ledge 40 feet
without reaching the other wall. 1t is
said the vein stuff taken from the face
Of the tunnel returns by fire assay $ll
to the ton in gold"
THE LIZZIE GROUP.
Development work is still being con-
tinusd upon the Lizzie group Of gold
claims with very encouraging results
This group Of claims. located one mile
and = half northeast of this place,
upon which night and day shifts have
been employed for some time. 10 owned
BY the Le Mars Development company,
and its members are manifesting much
confidence ia the value of their prop
erty by the expenditure of money to q
considerable amount in determining its
value as mining proposition. Their
confidence Is based upon the favorable
appearance of the rein se~ being in.
vestigated. and the result of recent tests
made upon the ore which clearly irdi-
cate its valuable character. A tunnel
started In the mountain with view to
tapping the vein 1t considerable depth
hes already reached the 1855 foot mark,
disclosing an ore body Of more than or
binary magnitude. aAording much en-
coursgement to the owners. who are
hopeful y containing the prosecution OF
ne work, in anticipation Of being
4sentnally rewarded for the time and
npney expended "a the solution OF the
Mining problem Upon which they are
pneaoed ard In which their faith is
evidently most firmly fixed.
rRH KEyszoxn DEAL.
D. B. Ingram, the well known mining