Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-07-23
Mining Items.

mine, located about six miles southwest
Of this city, which has lain idle for a
number of years, is soon to be opened
up again. The demand for electric
mica has become 80 great that the
owners think it advisable to resume
operations.
Mining matters around Custer seem
to be picking up conside re5ly, especi-
ally in the vicinity of rot. Nile, where
Minneapolis company are about to
start to sinking shaft 200 feet. John
Beuter has also opened up good body
of ore on his property, haying splen-
did prospect of q free milling vein pay
ing from $50 to S75 a ton.-Pioneer-
| Times.
S. E. Young and associates. who have
recently shipped two car loads of ore to
Aurora, ILL.,, from the Spokane mine,
about fourteen miles east Of this city,
have received returns which netted
them $500 to the ton. They are now
down l2o feet and haye ledge of good
milling ore, about four feet of which is
galena running 60 per cent in lead. 1t
is reported that hoist will be put in at
once, and If it proves to be as good a
proposition as it promises, lead smelter
will eventually be built on the ground.
John Bueter last week made a test
run of about Is tons of ore from the
the Caledonia mine, located about 8
miles west of this place. The test was
made at the Alexander & Marsh mill, at
Four Mile, which he reports as having
been very satisfactory. 1t is the inten-
ton of Mr.. Bueter to continue deyelop-
ment work on the property during the
summer, and if circumstances warrant
he will put up mill on the property
in the not very distant future.
Work on the Lizzie, mine two miles
east Of town, is steadily progressing.
The shaft has now reached a depth of
65 feet below the level of the tunnel,
which gives the present workings a
vertical depth of 12O feet from the sur
face. The owners report that the copper
streak is constantly widening and the
per cent Of copper increasing with every
foot of depth attained. The central core
of the vein is honey combed quartzite
which carries gold of good grade, which
is also increasing with depth. Consider
ing that the vein is true fssure and
cross cutting the formation, and that it
is feet in width between two solid
smooth slickenside walls, we can but
regard the mine as one Of wonderful
promise, and rsiterate our former ex-
pressed opinion that it lacks nothing
but development to make it sure win
ner. A fortune to its owners and a
great acquisition to our camp.
THE STANTON HYDRAULIC GOLD MINING
| COMPANY.
A. Axen and VIM. II. Smith of the
Stanton Hydraulic Gold Mining Com
pany, have just completed the transfer
to the company, of the Rosebud Con-
solidated Placer, and Strawberry Con.
solidated Placer, which include all the
old bar placer claims below the Pen
nington Bar, on Battle Creek, in Custer
county. The company also own about
80 acres Of placer ground on Castle
Creek near Rockford. Messrs Axen &
Smith were in Custer Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week, making final
payment to the former owners of the
Battle Creek placsrs, and making con
tracts for extensive working of the prop
critics. Mr.. A. T. Feay, who was
employed to examine title to the prop
erty, reports the title to be good, and
that the purchase money $4,000 has
been paid over. Mr.. Smith is superin.
tendent of the company, and will prob
ably make headquarters at Cnster. Mr.
Axen is county treasurer of Stanton
county, Neb., and the company is made
up of Stanton county people. The in.
corporators are as follows A. Axen
E. M. Thomas, Joseph Grafton, w. G.
Neuman, J. Eberly, 1. N. Winning. VIM
Pearson, j. r. G.. Applsby, VIM. Hugh
Smith, and Geo. Schott.
GAMBoIA DISTRICT.
A representative of the Pilot recently
made visit to the Gamboia mining
district. This mine is situated OF
Middle Squaw creek about twenty miles
from Hermosa. 1t is the home of Dan
Wise, and number of Hermosa people
are interested in that section Of the
country. Work on the Gamboia ia pro.
crossing, and Chicago parties are becom.
ing interested in the property and will
develop the same and in doing so will
make application of electricity for the
treatment Of the ores. The prospects
are at present bright. with good indica.
| tions that sooner or later there will be a
fiourishing mining camp established
there. The Pilot hopes 80 and that all
interested parties will make fortune
out Of it. Not far from the Gamboia is
the Chilkoot mine. This mine was
discovered bp w. w. Challis, and is now
owned by Mr.. Challis, Alex. Madill, T.
G. Blair and Frank Lockhart. The
Chilkoot property consists of five claims,
but the owners have considerable
ground adjoining. Upon the property
drift has been run to the length OF
about eighty-five feet, which has just
cross cut vein of quartz that is rich in
gold. This quartz vein assays aboye
fifty dollars, is about foot wide and
crops out at the surface about seventy
feet above the end of the tunnel. 1t