Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-01
Mining Items.

results. Further tests made upon tn,
, ores recently encountered haye had
: tendency to Augment the feeling o
confidence in the future success of In,
enterprise that has from the first beer
, entertained by the owners of the prop
, erty.
LOOKING FOR WOLFRAM.
, AT the present time, says the Dead
wood Pioneer-Times, there is consider
I able activity in mining matters al
through the lower Hills region. Her
man Reinbold, the well known Oman.
chemist who is interested in the ura
mum deposits in Annie Greek, arrived
in Custer this week. accompanied by
A. d. Smith. q mining man from Ere
} mont. Nebraska, who has operated sue
cessfully in Colorado, until recently hi
attention has been turned to the Blach
Hills Mr. Reinbold is looking after q
deposit OF wolfram. valuable meta
which is used in the manufacture O
steel shots by the United States for the
government gun boats. This deposit
has been opened up in Sunday gulch
adjacent TO Custer, and two foot YER
tical has been discovered. Wolfram il
usually found in conjunction with tin
wherever the latter metal is mined
The Black Hills deposit is found in q
slate formation and gives promise o
proving very valuable. Mr. Reinbold
intends to develop the property for
which he will receive q third interest
The other owners are Samuel Scott and
John P. Foran. The American Metal.
lurgical Works, at Phoenixvills, Penn
has agreed 10 use 25 or 80 tons of wolf
ram month and pays SSl so per ton
for it.
ST. ELMO DEAL.
Captain w. w. Marsh, of Omaha, who
has bonded the St. Elmo mine near
Oreyille, in the Southern Hills yester-
day closed the deal for the stamp ,nill TO
be put upon the property. 1t was the
ten stamp mill that was built year or
50 ago upon the Bismuth ground in the
Keystone district. The purchase was
made by Capt. Marsh from F. L. Langan,
Of Minneapolis, who owned large IN
terest and represented the other own
ers. The mill cost SIC, 500 npon the Bis
ninth property but we understand the
price paid by Captain Marsh was con.
siderable less than that. The mill is first
class in every particular, modern mill
in the fullest sense, and is in excellent
cnndiiion it-as-.s-:s g,,.a~ssio- o,Ais,-e
few weeks. The mill has been moved
over to the st. Elmo ground and large
force Of men is engaged putting it up.
Captain Marsh informs US that he has
20 men at work upon the mill and in
the mine and they are making satisfac-
tory heddway. Nose Thompson has
charge OF the operations and hopes to
have the mill in operation upon St.
Elmo ore within GO days.-Pioneer-
Times.
CASTLE CREEK.
Two concerns are at work on Castle
creek for the purpose Of exploring the
bed, rock for placer gold. One company
is engaged sinking on the Pitts placer
location, about one half mile up the creek
from old Castleton while the other, we
are informed. has taken bond on the
Brown property at Mystic, and will sink
at once to bedrock at that point. Aside
from the placer work there are a great
many mine overs who are planning to
vigorously push developments of the
quartz assures Of that district. Some OF
thess assure lodges are very rich in free
gold, besides holding valuable content
in an iron pyrite. The men who have
ATTEMPTED to exploit them heretofore had
not, as rule. the means TO properly
equip the property with economical
machinery for mining. transporting and
treating the ore. Every indication
points to great amount of activity In
the placer and quartz mines Of the creek
during the coming year.--Review.
RAGGED TOP BoNANzAs.
Several Of the Ragged Top properties
have risen in value during the past few
weeks. owing to the bodies of ore ex
panding to huge proportions. 1t need
not bc surprising ifthe camp comes to
the front again as large producer and
surpasses the output during its boom
days year ago. -'S'
II. B. Swain, whoi Is working the Rag
ged Top Mining company's ground, (ths
old Johnson & Whiting ground) under 9
lease has opened the largest and mosl
VALUABLE body of ore ever found in the
camp. At a depth Of 35 feet he ran q
drift with the vertical ledge and has
opened up body Of ore that is IA feel
wide and averages $S5 per ton. Mr.
Swain is making regular shipments and
is netting spiendfd returns from them.
i +. NJ. Wall who is working lease on
the Balmoral group has fine ledge oi
high grade ore is making good money
out Of IL. The shaft Is Ito feet deeu
where the ledge was opened 10 . width
of five feet. The last shipment netted
him $lS5 per ton. He is working az
large force Of men as he can to advau
tage with double shifts.
A new strike was made recently on
the A. j. Smith ground which Sharne 4
Co, are working under lease. They
have large force OF men ut work and
are shipping two TO three ears OF ore q
week that returns them big profit. A
mining man who il familiar with the
various properties the Ragged Top dis.
trict giveA It as his opinion that II There
ID a big mine over there II Is the Smith
ground. At present the ore Is taken from
q large vertical ledge that was encount.
cred nv driisine from the bottom OF q %.
4 fook aha6 into thA hill