Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-02-04
The Holy Terror Mine

The Holy Terror Mine
Has, SO we learn, produced during
the year 1897 s1sO,OOO in gold, an aver
age of $4,000 a month, with ten
stamp mill. The record of this mine
probably equals the gold production
in the same length of time, of any
ledge of its equal size ever discovered.
1t is the record of Southern Hills
either.
Defamers of this part of the Black
Hills who have assiduously claimed
that there were only rich surface pock-
cts, but no mines, will now have to &C.
knowledge. and that with good grace,
that the Southern Hills have at least
one gold producing mine.
1t is not SO strange that the Holy
Terror prospect has been made mine
as it is that SO many rich surface pros
bects have been made mine failures.
1t is indeed strange that large num-
Der of men who were backed with am
pie capital in developing gold pros
poets in this part of the Hills should
have failed SO universally for lack of
practical experience, knowledge and
judgment.
By this we do not wish to be under
stood that every surface prospect will
make a producing mine, but this we do
say, that had those who started in to
develop gold ledges sunk below what
is called the barren zone the probabili-
ties are that the Southern Hills would
have today more producing mines.
The Holy Terror is not unlike other
veins and has shown the same charac-
teristics which have been found in
others. The barren zone was there
the same as in other veins, only the
Holy Terror company sunk through it
and opened up an extensive ore body
equally as rich to the ton in gold as
the rock on the surface.
The ore which has produced the
s1S0,OO0 in gold was taken from the
levels below the barren zone. This
fact ought to enlighten people as to
the nature of Southern Hills mineral
bearing veins and should give mining
men sufficient confidence to follow the
example set by the Holy Terror min
ing company.
In this vicinity there are many gold
bearing legdes yet owned by prospec
tors which, with ample means to de
velop them to a depth equal to that of
the Holy Terror mine, would become
rivals in gold production of this new
mine. For capitalists seeking invest
ments there is not a field that offers
better inducements than the Southern
Black Hills-Hill City News.
Cross cuts have been started to con-
meet the Keystone and Holy Terror
mines at Keystone and the two will
soon be working as one. said Tom Blair
to the Independent Tuesday. The
cross cut from the Holy Terror side
has been started on the 5OO-foot level
and is following the course of the vein,
running quartcringly towards the Key
stone line. 1t has already advanced
200 feet and is across the line of the
ground. The cross-cut from the Kew.
store is being run to connect the un-
derground workings of the two mines
as soon as possible, at level consider
ably higher than that OF the HOLY Ter
ror cross-cut as the mine is not as deep
by 200 feet as the Holy Terror. Mr..
Blairsays tits the opinion that the Key.
stone mill will be enlarged to 40 stamps
and that mining will begin extensively
on the ore being opened up in the Holy
Terror cross-cut. The vein is main-
tanning width of more than ten feet
and as it is being penetrated at 500 feet
vast amount of ore is being blocked
out. 1t has been penetrated 200 feet,
beginning at the old working: allowing
the vein mean width of 6 feet from
the surface to the 5OO-foot level, there
has been blocked out in the drift so
far 900 cubic feet of ore of paying
quality, aud the development has just
begun. -Deadwood Independent.