Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-02
MARBLE cos. ACTIVE WORK.
President b. r. Noble Is on the Property
Near Custer. X.

President b. r. Noble is on the Property
| Near Custer. -
B. R. Noble, of Yale, Michigan, presi
dent Of the Black Hills Porcelain Clay
q Marble company, accompanied by j
B. Stafford, of Chicago, Of the Chicago
Standard Car Truck company, arrived a
Custer the first of the week and are
looking oyer the marble ledges and
other resources Of the company. It ID
likely that Mr.. Stafford will come tc
Deadwood today. He is examining the
property in the interests of a number o.
railroad officials Of Chicago, who are
about to become stockholders in the
company. He intends to 90 over the
property later in company with an ex
pert, so as to be able to submit definite
report when he goes back.
The Clay and Marble company is in.
augurating extensive operations on the
property, and fifteen mea are at work.
A sawmill has been SET up ON the
ground. and is turning out lumber and
building materials. "A boarding house
has been erected, and q bnnk. house il
now under way. II is promised tina,
the Burlington railroad will build q spur
.
| The company has been acquiring
more territory during the present week,
and President Noble has sec,ired two
more mica properties and black gran
ite property from Custer men. The
latter contains some excellent black
granit0, that takes good polish. and
would 60 we'll with some Of the other
stone found on the company's ground
in building
Work is progressing fayorably on the
white marble ledge and on the kaolin
clay deposit. The marble has been
opened to depth of rs feet, and water
has been encountered, It is fiat ledge
and is particularly free of seams and
breaks. 1t runs under the hill at slight
incline, and the deeper under cover it is
found the better it is. There is a solid
face of it 25 feet up and down, and il
makes n fine appearance. Old marble
men say it is the finest thing ever found
in the United States. Some large mar.
BILE ledges have been found in Colorado
in the past, and attempts have been
made to work them, bit it has invari-
ably been found there that the marble
could not be taken out in slabs of suffi.
cient size TO warrant continuance OF
the work. The marble found in the
Black Hills has not this fault
The shaft on the kaolin clay has reach.
ed depth of 55 feet, and the vein has
widened to IA feet Wire gold has late
ly been found in the clay, and it is be.
lieved to exist in paying quantities
This is moet unusual thing, and il
causing considerable comment among
mining men to whose attention II has
been called. Lee Hoyt, the company's
prospector and assayer, found the gold
and since then he has found clay in
which gold exists in sufficient quantities
to make it visible to the naked eye by
kneading the clay in the hands.
Mr.. Noble intends to put diamond
drill to work on the lithograph stone in
order to determine how great an area /,
underlies, and what it's quality is in
depth. He will also begin work short
ly on the mica deposits, and will then
have four crews of men at work. Amos
Morley, of Barra, Ohio, man who has
had twenty-eight years experience in
marble AMI stone work, is in charge oi
he operations at present.
1t is probable that Mr.. Gibbard, O
Rochester, New York, an officer anC
heavy stockholder in the company, viii
come to the Hills for the summer
Pioneer Times.
The company's marble quarries ART
developing in fine shape. The vein il
increasing in width and quality as it il
opened into the mountain. Seyera
marble experts who have examined th'
workings pronounce the marble the fin
est in the U. s. and there is enough o
it to last for hundreds Of years. Tht
company own three Gravestone Granite
lodges of the finest quality that will b'
operated Immediately.
Work has already commenced on two
of the company's mica mines and mics
will be shipped direct to Chicago with
in 80 days. The company also own
FIVE graphite mines that will also b'
operated. Mr.. Noble has engaged ar
experienced quarry man to open up th'
Lithograph stone Of which the company
own 400 acres. The stone is fully equa
in quality to the Bavarian stone and thu
OPENING up of these quarries will add al
industry to this community that csnno
help but be of incalcuable benefit to ou
business interests. Mr.. Noble states tc
US that the company now own l4Ol
acres Of claims and that he shall no
purchase any more as they haye all th'
company desire to operate. A large
number OF the eastern stockholders viii
visit the quarries this summer and viii
stop at the Sylvan Lake summer resor
which is but Il miles distant. A roac
will be built from the lake to the quar-
ries for their accommodation.