Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-03-26
THE SOUTHERN HILLS.

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\ THE SOUTHERN HILLS.
Jim Sutherland Talks Some on the Pros
| poets of the Southern Hills.
Jim Sutherland of Hill City. who is
one of the old timers and one of the
best posted mining men in the country
is in Deadwood on Il short business
trip. MIR. Sutherland is we'll informed
on the mining interests of the South
ern Hills and in a conversation with a
Journal reporter leaked much infor.
nation regarding that section of the
richest 100 0square miles on earth.
He says that the keystone aud Holy
Terror, the most prominent mines of
the southern country, are proving
even better than was expected. The
Keystone is closed down Just now
pending the closing of 81 deal which is
Oh for the sale of the property to east
ern parties. The vein on the keystone
is forty feet wide on the l00-foot level
and of an excellent grade. He consid-
ers it an exceptionally fine property.
| The Holy Terror is down 400 feet and
is cross-cut every fifty feet to the vein
The ore body continues to hold ont in
good shape, is widening and holds its
own in value.
The Sunnyside mine. two and one
half miles northwest of Hill CITY is
working good milling ore that assays
from S25 to 80.
The st. Elmo. south of Hill City. is a
very promising proposition and it has
IL strata of free milling ore from twelve
to fifteen feet wide that runs from $40
to sl5 per ton.
The Golden Slipper is getting ore.
every ton of of which goes an average
of $50. The shaft is down 2o5 feet and
continues to look better as they go
down. The G. a. r. is said to be
| equally as good and is at the 40O.foot
| level.
The "T'' lode aud Dalcode have ver-
tical veins from twenty inches to six
| feet wide, and next to them is the Ell
Dorado. The ore in all of them goes
from s25 to $50.
81 cannot see why Prof. Dickermarl
wrecked the King Solomon mine in
the Tigerville district. said Mr.. Suth-
| erland. "Here is mine that two re-
sponsible men, one of whom was ANAL
gamator when it was running, are will
ing to make affidavit that every pound
of the ore that went through the mill
gave returns of s7.o5. This is patented
ground which was abandoned in 1852
Today there is a lot of ore ready to be
put through the mill. Right next to
the King Solomon is a claim with 16-
foot vein. This is just outside the
line and was discovered by the King
Solomon people from the $50 foot level
1t could have been purchased by them
very cheaply, but was not. This prop
erty is now being developed by the
owners and every opening shows free
gold in ore.
'ln the limestone districtthe Ragged
Top formation can be traced right
through. There is the Potsdam sand.
stone, the quartzite and limestone
The flat vein of ore is located between
the sandstone and limestone and gives
from ID to IL per cent copper, in fact
the ore can be put in IL common black
smiths forge and run made of pure
copper. This find is located at the
head of Spring creek and there is plen
ty of excitement over it. The vein is
fully six feet thick.
"There is great deal of prospecting
going on all through the Souther,
Hills: also much development work
In the vicinity of the keystone and
Holy Terror there is the Big Hit mine
which, at the 14O foot level has Il fine
body VI refractory ore. The Blue Rib
bon is looking fine and the Carbon
recently milled 100 tons that went
$40. The Caspian group has $50 feet
feet of tunneling showing big body
of ore as a smelling proposition. &c
north of the Holy Terror and you viii
find the Bismarck with great body OF
free milling ore running from 81 te
$50. East and adjoining this is tn,
Egyptian which has been thorough,
examined by experts and pronounced
a good thing. The Bullion located
right above the Keystone has larg'
, body of decomposed ore on top of th,
ground. 1t can be plowed and scrapet
and as the owners have tunnels ant
upshoots they are able to put the ors
into the Keystone mill at an expens,
of % cents per ton, Below this decom
posed ore is a grade that require
, smelling.
"The only thing to make the South
ern Hills boom is a little capital an,
there are fair prospects for that com
ing in within short time."-Dead