Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-07-10
Mining Items.

The Harvey Hydraulic Company has
recently received two new seven ton
boilers and two large pumps, each ofthe
latter weighing $1,000 pounds and is
putting them in position Oil the CON
panys property near Hayward on some
new placer ground. The management
hopes to get the new machinery at work
by the first Of August and is enthusiastic
over the outlook.-Journal.
The work on the Sunnyside mine.
near Hill City, is going steadily forward
says the Review, under the manage
ment Of Foreman John Munger. At
the end Of about ten days another hun.
dred feet will be completed, when an
other level will be established and
enough ore can be taken out to run the
mill continually. This mine proves
what can be done in the Southern Hills
With enough money and brain. to run
mine.
ANOTHER GOOD SALE.
I On Tuesday last T. Gibbs and Mrs
Cynthia Waite transferred, for consid-
Grafton of $4,000, to the Golden Reward
Consolidated Gold Mining and Milling
company the Kimberly group, consisting
Of two full claims and a fraction. The
ground is located in Rubby Basin, and
is considered one of the most promising
in all Of that rich district. It lies ad
jacent TO number of producing mines,
and ha: already opened on it several
good chutes Of ore. The Golden Reward
Consolidated has made in the deal one
of the best buys of the year and its
management is 10 be congratulated on
their dness.-Review.
UNION HILL.
The company last week began work
on the foundations for its proposed 400
stamp mill at Galena and has employed
quite force Of men. Should the plans
of the company be carried out, and there
is at present no doubt but what they
will, Galena will have such an awaken
ing as never before visited a mining
camp. All the mines of the company
are reported to be in good condition
and showing up well. There ia plenty
of good ore in the Union Hill and Of
such character as warrants the construc-
ton Of extensive works for its treat
ment, but so far the mine has been
opened up in such manner as to show
its best points TO the least advantage,
many Of the most important positions
about the mine being held by men
thoroughly incompetent TO perform the
duties involved. With pratical men in
charge there is no reason why success
should not crown the company's efforts
in Galena.-Review.
URANIUM INDUSTRY.
Herman Reinbold, the eminent chem.
ist of Omaha, and yice-president Of the
Omaha Railway Lubricant Manufac-
turing company, arrived yesterday. Mr.
Re:otoid ;s associated with Mr.. Won
Dayier in the development of the lat
ter's uranium property on Anna creek
and informs us that they will put men
at work opening up a new tunnel which
discloses good ledge of uranium ore
aud as soon as a wagon road can be
bulls. from the mine shipments will be
commenced. Msssrs. Reinbold and Won
! Davier will go out to the ground today
and the former expects to return TO Oma.
/ ha Monday and from there to New York
to close q contract With representative
Of ar English concern for supplying S25,
10000 worth Of the ore year Consid-
erable ore is in sight that will run $3.50
per ton in uranium and besides this
appears plenty of it that may be concen-
trated by Frue vanners to Is per cent
ore, when it will make good money for
the owners.-Pioneer- Times.
SOUTHERN QUEEN MINE,
Custer Co., July 2, 1897.
EDITOR CHRoNIcLE:-As promised to
report from this section from time TO
time will try to fulfill my promise, but
time and space both admonish me that l
cannot make my report anything ike
full or complete.
The Southern Queen copper mine las
think your readers are generally
aware) is located near tho mouth Of
French creek canyon, in a small gulch
which makes in from the southwest.
We. that is, my partners, James Demer-
eau, Charles Ostrom and myself, have
been at work on this group of mines,
prospecting and taking out ore for ship
ment to smelter for the last months.
In speaking of the product of these
mines (of which there are quite num-
ber), i will say that tho character of the
ore is what is known as "malachite," or
green carbonate of copper, and copper
glance of the highest grade, much of
which will yield as high az IS per cent
Of metallic copper. The ore occurs both
in the vertical veins and in the fiat
chutes, irregular bodies and pockets.
The vertical veins vary in width from l
to IA feet. They have the appearance
Of seams in the rock, running down
vertically, in which the copper in solu-
tion has come yelling up, impregnsting
the intervening rock, and changing it to
ore where it was soft and open enough
to absorb it, and in other instances,
where the rock was too hard to receive
the mineral solution it has the nature
and appearance Of horse" with a
thin coating of copper, apparently plated
on the outside.
The rock is Of limstone. but not the
ordinary limestone belonging to the
sedimentary formation. On the con-
trary It is hard, compact chrytaline
dolomitic marble. In some cases quite
silicious aud of intrusive. or what is
called igneous origin. The term igne-
Gus, however, consider q misnomer, as
II implies fire. and there 10 no evidence
Of volcanic action, or of greater heat
than that Of hot water. which might be
accounted for by the action of the
chemical constituents Of the different