Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-08-06

three cents per share is three per cent
per month on the par value of the stock,
and the total dividends paid since last
September, when the first was issued, is
$l0S,000. Considering that the com
pany has in the meantime paid $4,000
for a mill, purchased and paid for other
expensive machinery, performed large
amount of dead work, and built up a
fine reserve, and all with only ten
stamps in operation, the Holy Terror
may we'll be considered a phenomenal
mine.
CHILKooT CAMP
Our reporter who recently visited the
Chilkoot camp reports that work on the
different locations is steadily progress
ing. The Chilkoot group of 5 claims,
and the Detroit group of 4 claims are
improving with development. There
are q number of veins which run
through both properties from north to
south. These veins have been opened
in different places along the belt and
show an average width Of about three
feet, with walls Of quartzite on the one
side, and granite on the other. Consid.
ering the uninterrupted continuity ofthe
veins, and the fact that the ore is ex-
ceptionally high grade, it marks this
group of mines as being a property Of
excellent promise. 1t ia comparati yely
a new strike, on a new belt, 1t is in Gus
ter county, and we shall watch its de-
velopment with much interest.
For the benefit of those of our citizens
who contemplate a visit to the new
colorado in the lear future, we will tell
you how to find the way. Leaving
Custer, take the regular Buffalo Gap
road, and do not leave it until gu reach
the old stockade ranch. Take the road
to the left, down French creek, which
you cross on the bridge, and continue
on past the Doran ranch, and on over
the divide to south Squaw creek. Keep
this road until you come to Boyden's
saw mill, 8 miles from. Custer, where
you turn abruptly to the left and pass
over a low divide to the middle fork Of
Squaw creek, distance about II mile,
where you strike the old Squaw creek
and Hermosa road. You will travel on
this for a short distance, and take the
first left hand road, which will soon
bring you to the mouth of Chilkoot
gulch, where the camp is located. Steer
for the biggest house you can see AM
sing out hello. You will soon be con,
frcnted by Madill, Challis, Wise OF
Mckay (Shamrock) they are all there
and will receive you in true western
style.
GOLD EXTRACTION WITH POTASSIUM
PERMANGANATE.
A new process for the extraction o
gold has been tried with success in the
gold districts Of New Zealand. The
finely powdered auriferous ore is first
mixed with common salt and SULPHUR
acid, and potassium permanganate il
then added in solution. Hydrochlori,
acid is formed by the action of the sui
phuric acid or the salt, and from thil
chlorine is liberated by the permangan
ate. The chlorine then combines in the
nascent state with the gold, forming
soluble gold chloride. The new method
is said to have many advantages owe
the cyanide and a1aalgamation pro
cesses. The chemicals used are harm
less, non poisonous, and cheap, and thu
extraction of gold from the ore is near
ly complete A particular advantag'
lies in the fact that the process can b
applied to ores containing copper TO
which the cyanide process cannot bt
used. A gold mine at Mount Morgan
New Queensland, obtained by the per
manganate process 50 per cent of tn
gold present from ore yielding only q
per cent by the cyanide process. TIL
ore contained also copper, iron, anti
mony, and manganese.