Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-22
Mining Items.


has had several assay tests made recent
ly which range in value to the ton
Of rock from $3.50 to $3.50 in gold.
1t is stated that the Ragged Top cya-
pide plant will be ready for test run
in few days, as the building is finished
and most of the machinery in place.
Messrs. Allen, Small, States and Souls,
the owners, have been guaranteed suf-
ficient ore to keep the plant going at its
full capacity, which is about 25 tons of
ore per day.-Review.
The st. Elmo mine and mill have
been temporarily closed down. Captain
Marsh is expected to arrive from Oma-
ha next week, and it is understood that
the company will then commence the
sinking of vertical shaft and place
some new machinery on the ground, as
the old shaft and the whim are made
quate for their present need.
The Vigilante mine with its shaft Of
$50 feet, and drifts of l40 feet, is still re.
ceiving all the development work which
good management and strong crew of
men can give it. The ore which yield
ed gold at the surface is fast changing to
copper and some of it Is rich enough to
send to smelter. Superintendent Bush,
who is seldom seen on our streets these
days, must be attending strictly to busi-
ness.
The North Star mine has been reliey-
ed of its super abundance of water, and
the drift is being run to strike the vein,
which had dipped out of the shaft. The
water is still coming in the shaft at the
rate of about so barrels day, but the
old whim has been oyerhauled and i'm
proved, and they have no trouble in
keeping it out. We expect to receive
cheering report from that valuable mine
in few days.
1t is reported that the Britsh-Ameri.
can Mining company has encountered a
large vein of free milling ore on their
copper property recently purchased six
miles west Of Rockford, in Pennington
county. A shaft has been sunk about
fifteen feet and the assays are said to
run all the way from So to $l1 ton
gold. The vein has the appearance of
being at least 100 feet wide and IL is con-
sidered great discovery.
The Lizzie mine which has shaft
down to a depth of 295 feet, with
drift As feet, run to s.rikC the vein, have
it is believed struck what hey are look
ing for. After cutting through about 10
feet of talk, they entered a fine veil of
sulphide ore. II is Of the arsencal
variety and has the appearance of be-
ing rich. No test has as yet been made.
Their latest returns from the copper
streak In the tunnel run as high as
$500 per ton. This streak is about 2
feet in width and lies next to the hang
ing wall.
Work is still being prosecuted on the
May mine, and tunnel is being run to
strike the vein which will tap it at a
considerable depth. Meantime we are
informed that three other new veins
have been opened on the property.
They are quite close together and will
probably join at greater depth. They
are said to yield very rich in the pan
but have not the phenominal showing
in free gold which marked the original
discovery. We were further told that
the boys shoveled in wagon load of
dirt gravel and soiD from the foot of
the hill, took it down to the creek and
sluiced it out. They cleaned up $3.50
in quite coarse gold.
Col. Carpenter, of Deadwood. and his
associates have every reason to be en-
couraged by the showing made in their
preliminary work on the Palmer Cop
per reef near the Gillette ranch, in wes-
tern Pennington county. In stripping
the vein to determine its course, tons
of green carbonate have been taken out.
This ore is said to crowd 40 per cent
hard, and any considerable body OF such
rock means fortune for the owners,
and a new industry for that region
heretofore chiefly celebrated for Uri
Gillette's gilt edge" butter. 1t is ru-
mored that the ledge is to be prospected
by tunnel, for which the ground offers
fine adoption, and work will soon begin
in the face of quartzite wall 750 feet
below the crest of the vein as now opened,
"Dick" Palmer has waited long for the
wand of capital to strike his favorite
prospect, and it would seem that bis
faith was justified.-Rapid Journal.
THE CROWN HILL ANNUAL.
The annual stockholders meeting oil
the Crown Hill Mining company, which
is also the owner of the spokane group
Of claims east of Custer, was held a,
Rapid last week. The following board
of directors was chosen for the ensuing
year: George H. Dippo, Chagrin Falls
Ohio; DR.. c. E. Jones, Chicago; T. A
Snow, Chicago w. FL. Smitt, Chicago
]. G. Eddy, Sioux Falls; A. A. Craft
Greenyille, Me-, and s. E. Young, Ra'
pid City. George II. Dippo was elected
president, DR.. e. E. Jones, vice presi'
dent; A. T. Snow, treasurer, and S. E.
Young secretary and general manager.
II was decided at this meeting to put VI
a concentrating plant of 90 tons capacity
at the Spokane mine, as the plant in
operation at present is inadequate. The
shaft at the Spokane has been put dowr
to the 200 foot level, and drifting is now
in progress on the ore vein which /,