Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-19
Mining Items,

The Hill City News says the ore in
the Holy Terror mine at the 500 foot
level is the richest ever found in that
mine.
Articles OF Incorporation have been
fled, says a Pierre dispatch of the 18th
inst, for the Willow Creek Mining COM
pany at Custer City, with a capital Of
$500 ,000. ln%corporators, ID, p. Moore,
j. J. Gehlen, LeMars, Iowa; Frank b.
Mclaughlin, Custer.
A rich strike is reported to have been
recently made in the Eldorado lode
near Hill City. The vein is said TO be
five feet wide, and abounds ia samples
of ore that will yield as high as 500 per
ton in free gold, The strike was made
in a shaft at a depth Of So feet.
NORTH STAR GROUP.
One ofthe owners ofthe North Star group
of claims located on the Penobscot gold
belt, six miles west of this place, which
was recently purchased by an Omaha
company, informs the CHRONICLE that
arrangements have been perfected for
the sinking ola 100 foot shaft on the
property, and that work on the shaft
will be commenced the first Of the com
ing week. Lumber for the erection Of
the Necessary buildings has already
been placed on the ground, and a force
Of men is now employed in prosecuting
the work preliminary to the thorough
development of the property,
DRUMMER GROUP.
Work on the above group is still in
progress, with exceptionally favorable
results. The ore encountered in the
present workings is of excellent grade
and ths-vaiu il increasing in width With
increased depth. A good flow Of water,
sufficient to supply the ten stamp mill,
which has just been put in operation,
was recently struck in one Of the shafts
on the property, and the outlook for the
success o! the enterprise is regarded ny
the owners as being very na,tering The
present run Of the mill, which will be a
short one, will be completed in n few
days, when we hope to be able to sub
nit Il favorable report.
ST. ELMO.
We are informed that the work on
the st. Elmo mine has been suspended
until March LIST, the work upon the ten
stamp mill being continued and the
same being almost complete. The
building is entirely completed, and the
machinery is o being placed, and it
is expected that everything will be
ready for the operation Of the plant
early in March. A large quantity of
excellent ore is reported in sight in the
workings.
CASTLE REF
II was reported Saturday that the
parties who have a lease on the Brown
placer ground, at the mouth Of Pony
gulch on Castle creek, are going ahead
with the work Of sinking, obtaining, as
greater depth is reached. splendid pros
poets in the gravel they are taking out.
At a depth of five feet the miners en-.
countered water, indicating that the
bottom Of the shaft was on a level with
the bed of the creek, and before they
could go further a pump had to be put
in to take care Of the flow of water.
This being accomplished the work of
sinking went on. Men from that dis
trict say that every cubic yard Of gravel
taken out below FIVE feet will yield in
placer gold so cents. If the lcssees of
the Brown property demonstrate that
the gravel on bed rock will average so
cents per square yard, there is no doubt
that great activity in placer mining will
be the result on Castle creek for several
years.-Mining Review.
PECULIAR FORMATION.
The formation in the Chicago and
Two Bit shaft is the most remarkable
on record, says the Desdwood Pioneer
Times. At 1870 feet below the surface a
loose wash gravel was encountered. 1t
prospected well by panning and after a
pan Of the material would show a string
of bright placer gold. When the gravel
was struck it was supposed to be a small
stratum and little attention was given
it. The gravel bed has proven 10 be 20
feet thick and the bottom was struck
Monday, when the miners broke into a
deposit of sandrock, at 200 feet below
the surface. The gravel was handled
by pick and shovel entirely and a shot
has not been fred in the shaft during
the past month. The theory accepted
by the officers Of the company. is that
the gravel was deposited In the bed ola
river that existed ages ago and that the
sand rock is the bottom or foundation
Of it. Mr.. Hardin advanced the theory
years ago that tho property was situat-
ed over the channel Of q river and he
was evidently correct There Is no
doubt a vast amount OF wealth In the
gold contained in this gravel which
will some day DO worked to .. big
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