Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-06-11
Mining Items.

reported to have been recently encoun
tered in the Rua Mine on Squaw Creek
Lawrence county.
The Homestake's last semi.monthly
clean up, made last week was the larg'
est in the history Of that matchless min
ing company. The amount aggregated
$500 ounces of gold, valued at $14S,S 800.
The Holy Terror Mining company
is now engaged in running drift ir
an easterly direction from the 500 foo
level with q view to intersecting the
Keystone veins, upon which the former
company hold bond.
Great activity is manifest, says the
Deadwood Mining Review, in rebuild.
ing the smelter in the First ward of thii
city. The Burlington trussel has been
rebuill, and much of the brick work anG
foundation is now completed.
j. "A. Schenk and Q. y, Rustin, o.
Omaha, who are interested in the North
Star group of gold claims, six miles wes
OF this city, came in Tuesday to examine
their property. They expressed them
selves as being well pleased with the out
look for the future success ofthe property
upon which the work of development
will be continued.
A. special correspondent of the n. Y
Engineering and Mining Jonrnal writing
from Rapid City, says: A force of mer
is at work remodeling and repairing the
large chlorination plant in Rapid City
which was recently purchased by Col
M. III. Day, his son Lee, the owner ofthe
Gilt Edge mine at Galena, and num-
ber Of Denver capitalists. A rumber o.
furnaces are to be put in to be run in
connection with the chlorination plant
Everything is to be in working order ir
60 days.
ST. ELMO.
Reports concerning the operations
at the st. Elmo mine, eight miles north
of this city, and owned by Captain w
w. Marsh of Omvha are most encourag
ing. The mill is said to be running
steadily with results that are highly
satisfactory to the owner, and the mine
is looking splendid, with large body
ofpayable free milling ore exposed in
the workings.
CASTLE CREEK PLACERs.
The Black Hills Mining Review says
Placer mining on Castle creek is goine
forward more energetically this season
than for years past. Great confidence
is felt that when the Webher Company
can control the water and cross.cut thu
bedrock on the Pitt ranch, one mil,
above Casteton, placer gold in larg,
quantities Will be found.
THE CROWN HILL AND SPOKANE.
The Crown Hill Mining company
owner of a fine group of silicious ore
bearing claims at Crown Hill Station
after having opened its claims up ther,
began looking for fiux and through it
superintendent Hon. S. f. Young, pur
chased the Spokane mine at Silve
City, near Keystone, paying thereto
$4,000. The company has been work
ing the mine for the past three month
and shipping the are to Aurora. At
depth Of 100 feet the vein matter
fifteen feet in width and the pay strea
is from thirty inches to four feet. TIL
Spokane is now the only developed lea
mine in the Hills. The ore runs 60 pc
cent lead and 80 OF. silver in carloa
lots. The ledge gives evidence Of de
yeloping into copper pyrites carryin
considerable gold and retaining its pc
cent Of silver. 1t is the most valuabl
auxing proposition in the Hills. TIL
company is composed Of practical bus
ness men and they purpose getting NOR
mines before building works. .-PioneeI
| Times.
| RUBY BASIN.
The solid mining companies Of Rub
Basin, although little is said of the
operations, are undoubtedly becomin
the most formidable institutions in tn
Hills in the development of the miner,
resources. The successful mining {
silicious ore by these concerns gaye 81
couragement to mine owners of Law