The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-01-13
:t MINE AMI MILL.

~ r. VI puJGlng IN new con-
..entrating works at1he old grease
factory arrived % Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week. Their
names are +. M. Brown, John B.
Wright and NJ. E. Hiltner who hail
from Lincoln, Nebraska. Eugene
Waugh and r. E. Waugh, who
brought their wives with them come
from Denver, Colorado. A portion
of the machinery composing the new
plant has been unloaded and all
hands are busy putting it in place.
Mr.. Hiltner, the assayer, is fitting
up a laboratory in the building and
ard teams r already engaged in
hauling ore from different mines to
the works. They all seem to be
active, energetic business men,
fully in earnest. in the enterprise
which they have undertaken. 1t
will require a good deal of expert
menting aud testing before it can be
ascertained what ores are suited to
their process, but with the activity
which they are manifesting, it will
take but a few days to tell the tale.
1t is needless to add that our people
are watching this movement with a
good deal of interest.-Custer
Chronicle.
The Southern Hills have never
seen the activity that they are being
blessed with today, so far as mining
interests + concerned, and if the
spring of 1899 does not usher in an
era of unprecedented development
tie mining editor of The UNION will
quit business. In the Keystone
district the activity is particularly
marked. The Holy Terror, although
temporarily shut down for neces-
sary changes in machinery. keeps
up its old time record of phenom-
email richness as the days 90 by.
The cd keystone mill has her full
20 stamps dropping with good re-
suits. The new mill on the Bis
mark will soon be completed d
ready for operation. The old Glen
dale tin mill is O dong duty on
gold ore, while promising reports
come from the Wealthy and other
mines in the Tepee gulch country.
New finds of promising value are
getting to be very and the
district has a great future. A
n umber of copper properties in the
southern Hills are to be developed
the coming spring and summer, so
The UNION is reliably informed, and
the mining situation in this section
presents a very rosy hue.
Four-ffths of the stock in the
Hat ward Group Silver mines, own
ed by the Hayward Group Silver
Mining Co., incorporated with $780,
900 shares we're bonded a few days
since to VIM. Hugh Smith the pro-
moter and superintendent of the
Rose Bud placer mines near Hay
ward. Some of the conditions of
the bond are as follows: The party
taking the bond is to begin the
sinking on or before Jan. 10th and
to keep q force of net at work con-
tinuously thereat until June l, 1899
completing present shaft to a
depth of n hundred feet below
water level; then to cross cut from
shaft or sink farther depth. The
first payment on the bond becomes
due on or before April l: 1899; the
second on Or before July l, 1899;
and the last on or before Oct. l, 1899.
No ore is to be shipped before first
payment has been made. Before
work Of sinking the present shaft
deeper can be successfully perform
ed it will be necessary first to
put in a steam pump and erect a
new steam hoist. This property is
situated on Battle creek about three
ard a half miles southeast of Kew
stone and a quarter of a mile from
Hayward post office, The present
galena body is some eight inches in
l ~ -
width and from tests yields 20 OF.
of silver, 40 per cent lead, So in
gold and a per cent. of copper.
The width of the r. body increases
steadily as the depth is attained.
We learn that Mr.. Smith has been
very successful thus far in placing
stock with parties in the east-hav-
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