Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-30
Mining Items.

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week, says the Keystone Miner, that
twenty-five foot ledge had been struck
in the Bismark mine which surpasses in
richness anything heretofore encounter
ed in that mine. Dame Rumor now
| says there IS likelihood of Mr.. Barth
building reduction plant near the
confluence of Buckeye and Battle creek.
The clean up of the st. Elmo for the
last month exceeded airy month since
the mill started, says the Deadwood
Mining Review. They start sinking
shaft about the first of August. The
ten-stamp mill has been running since
starting, on ore from near the surface.
We are glad to know that it is the in
tention of the company to 90 down
deeper and develop the property. The
indications are that the st. Elmo will
prove one of the best producing mines Of
the Black Hills when depth is attained;
Work on the North Star mine has
been resumed, and tho first hundred
is now being timbered preparatory to
sinking an additional 100 feet and cross
cut. A new pump and hoist will soon
be in place which will materially faci-
litate operations and better progress
will be made in the future. This has
always been considered one Of the very
best mines in the famous Penobscot dis.
trict, and the recent development has
disclosed the fact that the vein not only
increases in width as depth is attained,
but also improves in the uniformity of
its grade which was always high.
The shaft on the Gold Coin has now
reached depth of l02 feet. The work
of cross cutting the vein is progressing
steadily toward the hanging wall which
it is expected will be reached in about
40 feet which will then disclose vein
Of ore 60 feet in width. The character
of the vein matter is made up for the
most part of BLUSH quartz and quartz.
ite, highly mineraized and mingled
with iron OXIDE which assays uniformly
good throughout. The property is
most promising one and bids fair of soon
being producer under the efficient
management of superintendent Bush.
Work will be commenced today on
the Alert claim belonging to the Union
Hill company, says the Pionser-Times
Of the 26th insi. Prof E22d went oyer
yesterday with gang of men to 90 to
work, and Mr.. Bradley will go over
Wednesday. There is considerable
work to be done in the way ofclearing
out drifts where cayed in. and
getting the mine ready to work. They
expect, however, to take out
ore tomorrow. If everything runs
smoothly, rs Is expected, the
Union Hill properties will be running
full blast IN a month or six weeks. The
smelter and stamp mill will be started,
and 120 out of the 100 clai ms owned by
the company will be worked
GOLDEN SLIPPER.
Some experts, supposed to represent a
company of western mining men, says
the Hill City correspondent of the Dead
wood Mining Reyiew, examined the
Golden Slipper this week, and as near
as your correspondent could learn they
were highly elated at the prospect, it
being much better than they were led to
expect. Every little piece ofrock found
at the mipe showed that the gold was
evenly distributed through the ledge,
and the rock carried a good value. The
samples were taken 230 feet below the
surface for so feet along the bottom of
the drift, and the ledge showed up to be
about two and half feet in width for
that distance. 1t is only a question of
time and money when the Slipper stock
will be as eagerly sought after as Home.
stake or Holy Terror, and here I pause
to remark that there are others, and the
early bird catches The big fat worm.
CHILKooT CAMP.
Alex Nadill and partners of Chilkoot
Camp. about 81 miles east of this place,
last week shipped about thirty sacks OF
ore from the different claims now be-
ing opened up in that camp to Chicago,
to be tested by the new electrical pro-
| cess invented by F. H. Long Of Chicago,
to determine the average value Of the
ores on the several locations, and to test
the adaptation ofthe process to the treat.
ment of this character of ore. Mr.. Long
enjoys the reputation of being quite q
minerslogist and has made the applica.
tioR of electricity to the treatment oil
ores study for a number of years
Having visited the Black Hills on sew.
eral occasions in years past, he has paid
good deal of attention to the peculiar.
tiles of the gold ores of this section.
We have heretofore good reasons to
hope and believe, that he has discover.
ed process for the extraction of the
gold from our quartz, which will be
simple, cneap, thorough and reliable
on commercial scale. If he has dis.
covered snch process, it will supply a
long felt want. and he will have merited
fortune, together with the thanks OF
the miners of this district.
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