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

NOuhLI.
The Homestake's last semi monthly
clean up, made last week wal the larg-
est in the history of that matchless min
ing company. The amount aggregated
$500 ounces Of gold, valued at $l48, 800.
The Holy Terror Mining company
is now engaged in running a drift in
an easterly direction from the 500 foot
level with a view TO intersecting the
Keystone veins, upon which the former
company hold a bond.
Great activity is manifest, says the
Deadwood Mining Review, in rebuild
ing the smelter in the First ward OF this
city. The Burlington trussel has been
rebuilt, and much Of the brick work and
foundation is % completed.
Urhara, SabAak JandC-R Rustin. of
Star group Of gold claims, six miles west
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 Y. Y.
Engineering and Mining Journal writing
from Rapid City, says: A force of men
is at work remodeling and repairing the
large COLONIZATION plant in Rapid City,
which was recently purchased by Col.
NJ. II. Day, his sob Lee, the owner ofthe
Gilt Edge mine at Galena, and a num-
Der of Denver capitalists. A rumber of
furnaces are to be put in to be run in
connection with the chlorination plant.
Everything is to be in working order in
90 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 a large body
of payable free milling ore exposed in
the workings.
CASTLE CREEK PLACERs.
The Black Hills Mining Review a Y
Placer mining on Castle creek is going
forward more energetically this season
than for years past. Great confidence
is felt that when the Weber Company
can control the water and cross-cut the
bedrock on the Pitt ranch, one mile
above Castleton, placer gold in large
quantities Will be found.
THE CROWN HILL AND SPOKANE.
The Crown Hill Mining company
owner of fine group of silicious ore
bearing claims at Crown Hill Station
after having opened its claims up there
began looking for iux and through it
superintendent Hon. S. E. Young, pur
chased the Spokane mine at Silver
City, ear Keystone, paying therefor
$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 il
fifteen feet in width and the pay streal
is from thirty inches to four feet. Thu
Spokane is now the only developed leaC
mine in the Hills. The ore runs so pei
cent lead and 80 OF. silver in carload
lots. The ledge gives evidence of de-
yeloping into copper pyrites carrying
considerable gold and retaining its pc
cent of silver. 1t is the most valuable
huxing proposition in the Hills. The
company is composed of practical bust
ness men and they purpose getting NOR
mines before building works. Pioneer
Times.
RUBY BASIN.
The solid mining companies of Rub
Basin. although little is said of thei
operations, are undoubtedly becomin,
the most formidable institutions in tn,
Hills in the development of the minera
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silicious ore by these concerns gave en-
enlargement to mine owners Of Law
renee county to develop large tracts o
land which are now producing contin
uously, making many localities that
fewy cars ago were isolated and unin
habited large and busy communities
The beginning of work on the ore bod
les of Ruby Basin was in the year 1887
but it was not until the successful de-
monstration of silicious ore trestmen
in 1890 by the COLONIZATION process tina
aggressive mining was undertakes
First came the Golden Reward, follow
&c by the d. and d. Smelling and Xii
donan companies, all having ampl
means to unstintingly determine tn
commercial possibilities of q belt G
country which has already produce
great results, with a future Of marvelou
promise. The outcrop of the ore frs
mined in the district is in some Of tn
workings two miles from the face wher
the ore is now taken, showing a continu
alton of gold-bearing rock. seldom,
ever, known before in the history Q
gold mining. Such grand integrity G
industrial ore shoots is, indeed, a phs
nomena and is directing the attention
of mining engineers from all parts @
the world, and we at this time unre
servedly predict that should the ID an
d. company, which is sinking two mile
south of any developed ore bodies, an
o. j. Barrett, five miles south, open u
a workable grade Of ore. no other min
ing country i'm the world will shoy
greater strides in the development o
gold land than the Black Hills of Soutl
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