Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-29
LIMESTONE AND s1L1cArE.
News from Mines and Prospects in the
Hills About

News from Mines and Prospects In the
| Hills About.
Last week the owners of the Durango
mine, situated on the Poorman divide,
shipped S6 tons of ore that sample
from $50 to 800 gold per ton, and 9, ,1SO
pounds in sacks, worth from s1,5OO to
to $4,000 gold per ton, to the smelter at
Aurora, ILL.,, for treatment. One of the
owners accompanied the shipment.--
Sturgis Record.
The contract has been let to sink the
shaft in the Holy Terror mine another
hundred feet and work is to begin i'm
mediately. This will make the shaft
500 feet deep. Stopping is now being
done on the 4OO-foot level, and the
mine is in a better condition than ever,
because the value of its ore is more
uniformly rich.
The Pluma and Hawkeye Mining
companies will be consolidated and
transferred to new company that has
ample money at its disposal to thor
oughly develop and openup the ground.
The new company will have block of
mineral land aggregating about 14o
acres adjoining the Homestake and
Caledonia properties that when devel-
oped will prove to be Il second Home
stake.-Sturgis Record.
The formation at Ragged Top seems
to be "a puzzler. For quite time it
appeared as though it was vertical
formation, pure and simple. from the
top. A week ago, however. OH. Schaad
drifted in from the side of big cliff
and found a clean cut flat formation of
good grade ore. A flat formation has
also been found 125 feet from the top
of the Dacey shaft and here is found
the 3, 400 ore.-Ragged Top Shaft.
A report received from Ragged Top
says that ore worth s6o,OOo per ton was
struck in the Dacey shaft on Friday
evening. Our informant, who was at
the shaft when the stuff was hoisted,
says it was very dark blue rock. close
grained and was encountered on the
west side of the shaft. which is now
down about 300 feet. Other reports
ara that it came from the east side of
the shaft, but all agree that phenom-
inally rich strike has been made in the
workings. s.-Deadwood Times.
A new strike has been made in the
limestone formation three miles west
of Ragged Top and about two miles
north of Iron Greek on what is known
as the Dolphin lode. The discovery
consists of a tissure vein from to 6
feet wide, capped with few feet of
loose rock, highly crystalized and iden-
tical in every respect with that from
Ragged Top. Samples of the ore as
sayed at the Dacey-Kilpatrick Office
gave returns of 1925 gold per ton.-
Deadwood Times.
For the past three weeks Messrs. Err
pelding of Pringle and Oakes of Edge
mont have been doing development
work on claim near Pringle. The ore
is similar to that recently discovered
all along the Limestone. From surface
tests running from 81 to SO, they con-
cluded to sink shaft. They have sunk
the shaft to considerable depth and
we were shown samples of ore which
they hal brought in for assay. We
would not be surprised to learn that
they have valuable property.-Custer
Journal.
Hot Springs is in the midst of a min
ing excitement of itsown. The discov-
cry was madein the conglomerate lime
stone on Butte mountains southeast of
the town and the country is staked all
the way to Buffalo Gap. The Butte
mountains are said to be free milling
and assay from sl.5O to sl2 per ton.
An enterprising assayer has opened u
shop and is doing good business.
Next thing we hear will be that gold
has been discovered in gypsum beds
around Sturgis and Rapid.-Deadwood
Pioneer.
| A remarkable discovery, which is
bound to make Custer City one of the
foremost mining centers in the Black
Hills, was made several days ago on the
limestone range, a short distance from
this point, by several old time pros
pectors, who we're convinced that as
Ragged Top was part of the Limestone
it must necessarily contain rich depos-
its in this section of the range. After
several days of fruitless and tiresome
work, they were rewarded with the dis
covery of the richest silicious ore ever
found in the Black Hills. This re.
markable strike is claimed by experts
far superior to the notorious Holy Ter
ror of Keystone. Specimens of this
valuable find are now on exhibition in
Custer City.-Custer Journal.
The ranch which Frank Brown owns
and on which he has lived and worked
for years past, is just now the scene of
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