Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-16
MINING Items.

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quantity and quality as depth is attain.
ed. The Ingsrsoll drill recently put in
the mine 10 working to perfection. and a
large amount of mica of good size is be-
ing taken out daily. A car load Of mica
from this mine was shipped east yester-
day.
The old Looko out property five miles
east of Rockford, consisting Of twenty
four patented claims, a 40 stamp mill on
Castle creek, and other extensive i'm
proyements, al one time owned and
operated by Col. M. H. Day, has been
purchased by c. ID. Hazard Of Califor-
MIA. A force OF men are at:sork retim-
bering and clearing up the old shafts
and tunnels.
Little progress Is being made on the
Newark owing to the heavy flow Of
water that has lately been encountered
in the bottom of the shaft. We under
stand that arrangements are being made
to put in pump, when work will again
be pushed and the shaft sunk with all
possible rspidity. The shaft is dowh Al
feet and the ore is looking well. The
vein at this depth is about three feet
wide.
Manager F. w. Bush, Of the Vigilante
mine, pulled the pumps and pipes and
shut down the mine Wednesday even
ing. The company, SO Mr.. Bush in
forms US, are going to re-organizs and
increase their capital stock, with view
Of sinking several hundred feet below
their present workings. Mr.. Bush
leaves for New York early next week to
attend a meeting Of directors of the
company.
The Mining and Metallurgical j Journal
estimates that one-third Of the copper
now being produced in this country is
being exported, England is now buying
copper in this market for war purposes
and Germany is also absorbing large
quantities in trolley and telephone con-
struction. Notwithstanding the high
price the demand continues phenomenal,
and all the mines have their products
sold for months ahead.
The report circulated on the streets oil
Custer last week that work on the Gales
burg mica mine east of this place was
stopped, owing to suit pending in cir
cult court, proyed to be a canard. Mr..
Lyman West. who is in charge OF the
property, informed CHRONICLE report,
er that two men are at work. The mine
Is improving as deyelopment wofk pro-
crosses, and the mica that is being
taken out is of a first class quality.
From Frank Herbert who was in
town Wednesday from his home in
Bear gulch. we learn that he has decid-
ed to put upa mill on the Clara Belle
property. For some time he has been
negotiating with the st. Elmo people for
the remain stamp mill but has not yet
closed tho bargain owing to disputes
existing among the owner of it. The
Clara Belle has large body of ore
which Mr.. Herbert thinks will pay a
handsome profit when economically
mined and treated.-Hill City News.
The electric cyanide plant recently
constructed at Mystic by eastern capi.
talists has just finished test run and
is declared to be success. A few
changes are necessary in some OF the
machinery and the mill has been smut
down for the purpose of making those
changes. Ore from the northern Hills
and concentrates from the Holy Terror
mill at Keystone were tested, and in all
cases the extraction was good. When
the new machinery is in place they ex-
pect to Start up and will then be prepar'
ed to handle large quantities of ore.
SOME INFORMATION.
In neat and artistic folder gotten
up as an advertising means by the
Hearst Mercan tile company, or more
generally know n as the Big Brick Store,
some interesting data is given concern.
ing the Homestake mines and mills al
Lead, says the Pioneer-Timss of recent
date The number Of men employed is
given at lS00 the number of stamps in
operation at 720, and the average num-
Der Of tons of ore crushed by each
stamp every twenty-four hours at four,
The amount of gold produced for one
| year, from June lst, 1898, to June 1st
1899, was $2,674,336 Is and the total
amount of dividends paid up to that
time since the operation Of this mine
was placed on a dividend paying basis
was S7,59S,750. On July /, 1899. the
| Homestake company absorbed the
| Highland company and consequently
the output of gold by that company will
be largely increased.
CocHRAS's PRIVATE BANK.
The Black Hills Mining Review OF the
llth inst, in speaking of mining opera
tions in the central Hills, says: James
Cochran has started his mill to work
three miles west of Rockford. This
pendent persons in the Black Hills. He
has a mineralised vein over 100 feet
wide, fifteen feet Of which is free mill
ing gold. He has thirty-ton Hunting
ton mill, which he runs about half the
time. He is becoming rich every day
from his little mine. He hires two men
and one team and it Is said that he
clears up not less than 500 per day. He
is Scotsman by birth. People from the
east tried to buy his cut last week but
he asked price for his mine that
stunned them. He has a bank which
is absolutely safe. He works when he
feels like it and he is able to turn big
gold brick every month. His mine has