Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-07-13
THE GLADIATOR MINE.

THE GLADIATOR MINE.
,-,. s....r,,,endent Makes an Interesting
and Encouraging statement.
Mr.. III. Crabtree, Superintendent
of the Gladiator Mining Company, has
nublished for general distribution his
report of the location, prospects, and
work being done and proposed in the
development of the valuable property.
We copy from it as follows:
The Gladiator Mining and Milling
Company property is located within
three miles of the city of Deadwood
and within a half mile of Lead, s. ID.
II is more than half surrounded by
the great Homestake Mine, the out
put of which was more than s9,ooo.oo
last wear. 1t comprises seven MN
ing claims. together with Ill site,
waking in all little over seventy
seven acres. On the northeast 1t ad-
ioins the notorious "Go 10 Hell
pulch. This makes an ideal mill site
and dumping ground. 1t is also joined
ON the north by the II. +. n NJ. V. II. IL.
i'm ueadwood Gulch The group is
compact, lying north and south about
o.5DO feet and east and west about
1.5NO feet. There are many we'll de-
fined veins of a medium grade refrac-
tory ore. ranging from S24O to s4looo
If hn
demonstrated by something over sixty
ASSAYS from the ore taken out OF the
top of the ground and the various
tunnels that range from twenty TO
forty feet in length driven in near
the surface to cross cut the various
veins. These tunnels show we'll de-
fined bodies of ore from four to fifteen
feet in width on top running on an
average of from s15 to $50 per ton.
One of the veins comes from the Home
stake property and extends clear across
the Gladiator property and north into
the Black Tail district. This vein has
been developed on both sides OF the
Gladiator property, and has been
found to be ore Of an excellent quality,
yielding large returns. 1t Is expected
to reach this ledge by our main tunnel
within a distance of three hundred
feet. Our ground is also traversed by
various other veins and groupings, all
show good ore. The main easterly and
westerly ledge for width of over three
$1,000, e..k .t,o,,, romorous veins of
all widths, indicating something of the
width Of the main body beneath. They
are vertical veins: and the history OF
surrounding country is that depth
finds greater width and richer values
The work of development has begun
by starting the main tunnel from the
north side of our Deadwood Guich
where we can acquire depth of from
eye to six hundred feet by driving
under the hill on level with thu
creek. This makes it very cheaply de
veloped and operated. Before driving
the main tunnel three hundred feet
we expect to develop enough ore tt
produce hundred tons per day. Thi
tunnel is six feet in width and sever
feet high. From this tunnel eacl
vein as it is reached is developed
This property situated as it is has
large number of natural advantage
1t is possible to operate it for lonl
term of years from .the tunnel ant
thus save the outlay of many thousan'
dollars in high priced machinery TO
pumping and hoisting purpose. N
small item again is the fact that it il
situated on railroad and i'll that re
spect it has excellent facilities.
The character of the ore is such tina
ii can be treated with the new cyanid
process. This enables the ore to b
handled and the gold separated at
cost of about two dollars per ton, an
may possibly be done for less. Th
company will soon be ready to build
new one hundred ton mill by which
will be able to handle one hundre
tons per day. We can see no reaso
why this property shouldnot be deve
oped and be ready to run at the flu