Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-08-26
Mining Items.

II you are wise you will see to it
that such step is not made necessary
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Mining Items.
The working shat. In sae Old Bill has
been enlarged, and is being retimbered
preparatory to deep sinking.
The Homestake Mining company has
declared its regular monthly dividend
of twenty-five cents per share payable
at the transfer agency in New York on
the 25th.
On the Lizzie two shifts employed
continuously, and the best ret,rns from
the face Of the drift gave an assay re-
turn Of $3.50 per ton in gold The
vein is Of immense size and the hang
ing wall has not been reached
The Vigilante shaft is making good
headway in its descent into the earth,
and some very fine looking pyritic ore
has Just been struck in the bottom
This was unexpected and seems to in.
dicate that large cross zone is dipping
towards the vertical line of the shaft.
The vein upon which the shaft started
has dipped away to the east, and it is
not expected that it will be reached on
the 300 foot level short of 100 feet of
drifting. Still, you can't most always
sometimes tell what a man will strike
when he gets probing around under tue
crust of mother natures pot pie"
CHILcooT CAMP.
The prospects Of this camp have lain
idle for nearly year, but everything
goes to show that things will pick up,
and that in the very near future The
latest strike has been made upon ground
belonging to Daniel Wise and L. +.
Parrish. The owners believe it is con-
tinuation of the Chilkoot ledge Sam
piles taken from the vein go from $50 to
$50 per ton free milling That this will
be gold producing camp is beyond dis
pute as the ledge can now be traced for
Hills are bound to come TO the front.
The more finds the merrier
THE EMPIRE AND BAKER.
Very little is known, even by Custer
people, Of the merits of the Empire and
Baker mines, situated about two
miles west Of Custer, therefore We will
-;va our impression obtained from a
in company with the owners, Mr.. WfSS'
liam Tarrant and Edward Rogers of
this city.
The property consists Of ten full
claims and fraction. Four full claims
and the fraction are located on the
main vein, the others are side claims,
covering valuable timber and mineral
ground. The country rock on all sides
is gran ite and slate. The course OF the
vein is nearly north and south. The
east wall Of the vein is granite, the west
wall is slate. The character of the ore
is quartz, schistose slate and sometaIc.
The gold occurs free and in combination
with arsenopyrite, and tellurides. Open
ings have been made along the vein for
distance of more than mile, vary"
ing in depth from a few to 100 feet. On
the Baker there is one shaft 100 feet in
depth with a cross cut at the bottom
80 feet, On the fraction tunnel 80 feet
Under cover. On the Empire there is
one shat. so feet in depth, and one OF
one hundred feet, with q cross cut at the
bottom Of 90 feet. On the Empire No.
there is a 25 foot shaft. Besides these
Developments there are about twenty
other openings which consist of open
cuts and shafts under fifteen feet IN
depth. At every opening along the
vein good free milling and concentrat
ing ore is found in large quantities,
and in many places very considerable
amounts Of exceedingly rich ore is
found. There are large bodies which
will certainly yield from $50 to $50 pei
ton, while there is considerable ore tina.
will 90 up into the hundreds. Selected
specimens can be taken from the Em
pire which are from five to twenty-fiv
per cent Tree Soiu. Al ootuO va suSu
the gold can be seen at quite distance
If surface prospects are indication
of a mine, the Empire and Bake
will, when operated, certainly tax
their places among the great gold pre-
ducers Of the world.
ANEW METAL FOR THE HILLS.
A metal has been found In the bottor
of the Detroit Il Deadwood company
shaft, on tine Hill above City creek. ths
is puzzling the metallurgists in this SCI
ton. 1t is white metal, resemblin
, platinum to a certain. extent. but it
malleable, and perfectly indestructib|
, as far as has been ascertained. II hs
been subjected to different acids. an
under the aqua regia test it underwe'
slight effervescence, but 1t is believe
{ that there was little gold in the pie'
| thus experimental with, as it was afte
' wards found that the ore In which II
!, metal was found carries about so cen
i a ton in gold. 1t was submitted
9 nitric acid. and snlphurc acid, ar
Il neither had any effect upon it. Itw
Q answer the description Of three or TO
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