Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-05-14
Mining Items.

The Mining Review says: Placer
mining at the town Of Hayward, in
Pennington county, will be conducted
on "A much larger scale this season than
heretofore. Excellent pumping ma.
chinery will be installed and every
facility is being arranged to sluice the
highest bars along Battle creek.
The Red Jacket shaft of the Calumet
and Hecla Copper mine at Houghton,
Michigan, is the deepest shaft in the
world. Work upon this, the greatest
mining shaft in existence, has beer. con-
~tinuous, night and day, for the past nine
years. and a depth Of 1900. but $50 feet
less than q statute mile, has been at
tanned. 1t has six compartments and
was constructed at an expenditure Of
we two and a half million dollars.
The Miner has been informed that q
deal has been consumated whereby
John j. Fayel, superintendent of the
Holy Terror, is to furnish $500 to be
used for developing the new find Of
VIM. Challis and Alex. Madil, on Squaw
creek. This is undoubtedly one Of the
best finds ever struck in the Black Hills,
the owners having assays running as
high as So 900 per ton, and the lowest
assay heard of their receiving from rock
taken from this prospect was $32 free
gold.-Keystone Miner.
The special Black Hills correspondent
Of the New York Engineering and Min
ing Journal informs that paper that
there is some prospect of the Harvey
Peak Tin company recognizing in some
way and of the investment Of a
portion Of its capital. With a few alter.
atoms and additions the Hill City and
Eta concentrating plants might be
fitted mp as mills for free.milling ores
from the Pactola, Keystone, Hill City,
Rockford and other districts. The com.
pany's property is under litigation, but
It is expected that this will end oon
NORTH STAR GROUP.
Work is still progressing in the shaft
on the William, one Of the claims com
prlsed in the above group. 1t is ex-
pected that the 100 foot mark will be
reached today, when the work Of cross.
cutting the vein will be commenced
The vein will be tapped in the cross cut
in a few days, when its extent and
,I,.,tn. ~ 1hn 1a,th CtnIal Wt1l he
determined. The management are con.
fiuent of satisfactory results, which will
warrant the further sinking of the shaft
to the 200 foot level.
Since the above was put in type, word
has been received to the effect that the
vein has been encountered in the shaft
at a depth Of 80 feet, and that the ore
exposed is Of a very promising char
acter, and that a quantity of it is being
taken out for exhibition at the Trans
Mississippi exposition.
TWO BIT.
The sinking of several shafts in the
basin Of Two Bit is still proceeding will
diligent precision, and one or two of thu
more advanced are expected almost any
hour to reach the quartzite or ore floor
The Great Eastern shaft has passed /;
depth of 260 feet, with the miners sti!
working in shale, but from the existing
surroundings it is quite evident the orr
level is not far off. The Hercules Com
pany's shaft is down $50 feet and is sink
ing at the rate of II feet per week. Thu
stuff ut the bottom of the shaft is mucl
softer than heretofore. with indication
of ledge material becoming stronge
with every shot. At the Golden Ores
the shaft is being rapidly sunk, will
every probability Of its reaching tn
siliceous ore contact soon.-Reyiew.