Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-06-05
Mining Items.

near Loring station during the week
returning on Saturday. While there
they uncovered a vertical which promis.
es to be valuable, and they are feeling
greatly encouraged with the prospect.
An old Montana pauper named Vance
seventy n years old, recently fell heir
to a fortune of $4,000. 900, and at once
proposed marriage 10 a sixteen year old
girl, the daughter ola railroad section
boss and was accepted. This may ap.
pear to be a peculiar proceeding on the
part of the girl, but the fact should not
be overlooked that there was a four
million dollar cause for it.
There was quite a stir on the street
Yesterday, created by reports of new
go~!ddiscoyeries said 10 be Of fabulous
richness, the location and other p%articu-
lars of which bafIled all efforts OF our re-
porter to obtain. The only item ofinfor-
nation which was permitted to leak out
waS nat the ore run over $500 per ton,
aud even this could not be traced to any
reliable source. We may only hope
there may be some foundation for the
scare, in which event the theme will be
continued in our next"
TIE UNION HILL COMPANY.
This company met its monthly pay
roll on Saturday, when a good many
thousands of dollars were distributed
among its employees. This made the
second pay day during the month OF
May. Development work continues
undated at the company's mines and
the ore bodies improve in extent and
value as they are opened. The stamp
mill and smelter are shut down temper.
arily while repairs are being made.
The smelter was blown in on May 18th
and shuS down on the 25th, during the
time 244 bars of bullion being run
through, each weighing eighty.five
pounds. The bullion is valued at $1,000
a ton in gold, silver and lead. A cam
shaft is being put in the mill which
ceased operations on Saturday last. 1t
is hoped to resume work in two or three
days.-Pioneer.Times.
CONCERNING TIE PIERCE DEAL.
1t vas automatically reported in this
city and Lead Yesterday that the Pierce
mining transaction had been closed, and
that kilograms to that effect had been
received from Mr.. Pierce, who is now
in New York CITY. At anv event it is
known that a messenger was dispatched
to Belle Fourche on matters pertaining to
the deal. At Belle Fourche is where it
is proposed to build the reduction works
for handling the ore of the ground in
Guided in the transaction, Seth Bullock
donating Il forty acre site and the PEG,
PIE Of Belle Fourchc the water right
This is Il transaction Of greater magni,
tude than any other ever inaugurated
in the Black Hills. -Pioneer-Times.
vANADIUM.
This valuable mineral, which is known
to be far more precious than gold. has
recently been discovered in the Island
mine located in the -Four Mile gold
camp west of this city. So far as known
to the writer, this is the first discovery
Of this valuable mineral in the Black
Hills, and while, as yet, the quantity
contained in the ore which is also GOLD
bearing, has not been definitely deter
mined. it is believed that it exists to al
extent hat will warrant the additional
expense which would be necessarily in
Cured in its treatment. The minera
treatment involves the use o facids, by
which. it is dissolved. and the precipitan'
smelted by electric heat The minera
is said to be produced in Germany only
and it is principally used in the manu-
facture Of dyes for coloring the higher
grades of silk.
A NEW MINING COMPANY.
The Anna Creek Gold Mining ant
Milling company has recently been or
ganized, and is preparing to build q re
duction plant on Anna Greek for TIT
treatment Of the refractory gold anC
silver ores of that vicinity, says TIT
Deadwood correspondent. of the Siou,
City Journal. The company "
large amount Of mining ground on tn,
creek, upon which there is an iinmens,
supply of ore along the upper contact
net exactly of Il shipping quality, bu
worth working if it can be treated by
cheap method right at the mines
Ground is being broken for the plant
which will be of 100 ton capacity daily
equipped with the electro.cyanide pro
cess. The site of the proposed plant i
along the Spearfish branch of the Bur
lington railroad, and the railroad Off
calls have ordered the construction o
sidetracks and spurs. to be used in set
ting off material and equipment of tn
plant, and for the fuel and foreign or
that may be shipped in after the plan
is in working order. General Manage
Itoldrege and General Superintendent
7. f Calvert, of the Burlington system
visited Anna creek yesterday to get al
idea of what is required. A shaft i
being put down or the ground to reacl
to the lower quartzite, in which tn
richest ore is always found. 1. J.. Gal
braith is superintendent of the ney
company, and he expects to be ready t
begin treating ore by fall.
URANIUM.
Herman Reinbold, PHI. ID. Of Omahi
Neb.. anne to Deadwood a week ag,
and was occupied during his visit to tn
Hills in special investigations of tn,
commercial extent of some of the rar
minerals. One of the purposes Of hi
enquiries is to determine whether mer
charitable quantities of the metal uran
ium could be found that would warran
treatment, and in order to obtain tn
required information he devoted thre
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