Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-01-30
Mining Items.

Thirteen car loads of mining machin-
cry, weighing 100000 pounds. was re
Gently shipped to Johannesburg, South |
Africa, by the Gates Iron Works COM
pany of Chicago.
w. c. Ward and John Darlington re-
Gently discovered number of fine ap.
pearing ledges of rock upon their ranch
0 miles west ofthis place, which promise
to become gold bonanza's BY develop.
ment. Surface tests gave from $3 90 to
Sc 40 per ton, and they went out yester.
day with powder and drill to determine
its value beneath the surface. They
say there is oceans of it. and if it proves
to be paying proposition they will be
first water gold bugs in the quick hence.
Another rich strike has been made in
the Reddy mine, situated on the Poor
man divide, owned by 3. +. Salmon, of
Lead. who for several months past has
had quite force of men at work night
and day developing it. The new dis.
covery is evidently cross-shoot. 1t is
Of good size and bids fair to be perma.
nent, Samples from the breast Of ore
now exposed give returns by ire assay
bf from $500 to 5000 gold per tom
Times.
Mr.. Osborne, Of the Harney Peak
company, who has been prospecting the
immense holdings of that company in
this section, paid off his men and de-
parted for Denver yesterday. While
like most mining men, Mr.. Osborne is
rather laconic concerning his business
affairs, this much is known, that he has
uncovered several valuable auriferous
ledges on the tin properties owned by
his employers, and that he vii. return
in about a month to continue the work
Of expiorations.-Nugget.
From present indications the Juniper
mine seems destined to develop into
one of the best producers in the south
ern Hills. The ledge, which has for
merly lacked stability, has widened to
five feet on the $50 foot level, and its
course has changed from steep incline
to Il vertical. What is supposed to be
a new ledge has been discovered short
distance west of the shaft, and while
one set Of miners is sinking on this an.
other shift is drifting to intersect the
chute from the bottom of the shaft. No
pains are being spared to develop this
mine and prove its worth, and both
owners and bonders are TO be cong: atu-
latod upon the splendid showing it now
makes.- Nugget.
H THE LIMESTONE.
Fl. d. Reynolds and d. w. McFadden
came in from their newly discovered
prospective gold bonanzas on the lime
belt, at Reynolds ranch, west of this
place, on Saturday, and report an en-
couraging outlook for their future sue
cess in the effort now being made by
them to establish paying mine OIL the
| aforesaid belt. While little progress
has yet been made, on account Of the
numerous difficulties which are always
incident to the inauguration of opera
tions in new mining camps, they have
made some headway, and are greatly
encouraged by the tests of the ore,
which determine increased value as
depth is attained. Con,iderable time
has been spent IN surface work, seeking
for a vertical, which they believe has
been found, and at a depth Of less than
five feet upon the same the ore, as
shown by assay. has increased in value
over 100 per cent over that found upon
the surface. They returned on We'd
nesday and will resume the work Of
sinking upon the vein, which. in the
| event of the continued increase in the
value Of the ore encountered, it will be
only question Of short time when
they will be in position to ship ores 10
outside points for reduction that will
yield fair margin of profit over the
cost Of production, transportation and
treatment. in whicn event an era Of
mining development will be created
which will surpass anything Of its char
aeter eyer known ia the southern Hills,
and should result in making the names
of these gentlemen famous in the future
mining history of the region.
| IMPORTANT MINING SALE.
| the sale Of the Grown Hill group,
embracing eight claims, located at