Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-12
Mining Items.

Mr.. l.. B. Parker and party are busy
men just now, and it is probable that
the new concentrator will be ready to
start about the middle Of the coming
week.
The first payment on the Blue Lead
copper mine came due the first day of
August and was promptly met by r.
M. Maloney of Deadwood, who holds
the option on the property.-Hill City
News.
The Bismarck concentrating mill at
Keystone ID reported to be q grand sue
cess. and the company expects to erect
another plant to treat the ore from the
Big Hit mine, says the Hill City News.
The concentrates from the Bismarck
mill are being shipped to the smelter.
The work on the Lizzie mine is pro-
gressing favorably, and the work is con-
fined TO the drift which is cross cutting
the vein, but which has not penetrated
far enough to reach the hauging wall.
They are taking out an excellent grade
of quartz, impregnated with iron sui
phide. which yields fairly we'll in gold,
but it is not expected that they will en-
counter the rich copper ore, which was
found in the upper workings, until they
approach the hanging wall.
The report from the North Star mine
is to the effect that they haye struck
their vein In the drift west from the
bottom of the shaft after penetrating
the slate for distance of about 80 feet.
They are now engaged in crosscutting
the vein, the ore from which yields
we'll in free gold besides an excellent
showing of concentrates upon which no
assays have as yet been made. They
have also struck new vein on the sur
face, 260 feet east of the shaft. This
vein is feet in width, from which they
have obtained an assay of $500 to the
ton in gold.
FRANK HEBERT's GOOD LUCK.
There is an old saying that, "all things
come to him who waits" AS q
general proposition we do not believe
in it. However it appears to have
proven true in the case of our old
friend and prospector, Frank Hebert Of
Bear Gulch, one mile east of Oreville
He thinks he is within hailing distance
of another "Holy Terror" and expects
soon to be near enough to put out his
hand and strike the fur of the tigers
back and see the free gold sparks fly IN
his lap in great nuggets. This is no
Joke, for Frank is "on the other end of
it" in the biggest kind of shape. Few
if any prospectors in the Hills have had
harder luck and more mishaps and dis
couragements 10 contend with than no.
Early in the pioneer days of '76 he
heard of rich strikes in the Black Hills
and deserted a surveying party with
which ne had come west. After placer
mining in every camp in the Hills with
varying and Indifferent success, mostly
the latter, he helped build and run the
little five stamp prospecting mill ofthe
st. Elmo, when our townsman George
Kimball was one of the owners. That
was one of the rich est blow-outs eyer
discovered in the Hills. He then locat-
ed some claims on the south end ofthe
ST. Elmo, called the Clara Belle group.
All these years he has been as sure as
death that one end of the st. Elmo vein
extended to and across lengthways Of
the Clara Belle. He might haye had
plenty of capital to have demonstrated
it years ago for the asking, on terms
satisfactory to the capitalist But he
perferred to wait till it should be prov
ed by others with sufficient exactness to
enable him with his own labor to dig
down and land on 1t himself. The de-
velopment by the ST. Elmo company has
fully accomplished that, for they have
drifted on the south end of their vein
right up to his end line, and he is now
sinking shaft that will come right on
top of it with depth of about seventy
FIVE feet. The shaft is now down about
fifty feet. We all wish Frank the
success which his pluck and persever-
ance all these years merit.
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