Omaha daily bee., 1900-12-10
MINING IN The BLACK HILLS
Omaha Company Operating Extensively on
Anew Eody Of Ore.
LOCAL PLANT TO EXTRACT THE llTHli
DR.. ReinboId Tires of shipping His
Mineral TO Germany for Treatment
aud VIII Establish Reduction
Works In Omaha.

Works In Omaha.
DEADwOOD, s. D., Dec 9.-(Special)-
The Reinbold company OF Omaha Is about
to start new enterprise In the southern
Hills A short time ago DR.. ii. Il. Reinbold
discovered q large body of manganese in
Custer county and men were set TO work
opening Up the ledge. 1t has been found
to be extensive and will prove valuable
thing The ore contains about 20 per cent
manganese, 30 per cent phosphate acid,
per cent lithia and small quantities of iron.
lime and aluminium. The company has
| this plan in view: For the last two years
Or. Reinbold has been shipping spodumene
| to Germany from a mine near Hill CITY
| This material contains about per cent
lithia, and 1t is for this that the ore Is
shipped. DIR. Relnbold discovered the value
OF the ore and he has now shipped to Ger
many several hundred tons For some time
he tried to get the German company TO
erect works at Omaha In which to extract
the lithia values from the spodumene ore.
but the plans never matured. Reinbold
has now found this large vein OF manganese
| ore. which contains about twice as much
| lithia as the spodumene. His company
propo,es to put in extensive works at Omaha
| for the purpose of separating the manga
nese, phosphoric acid and lithta, all OF
which are valuable products The plant Is
to be In operation by spring. Two buildings
have been picked out in Omaha, one Of
which will be converted into the works.
Plenty of Prift.
The manufacture Of lithia alone will be
| money maker. The German company
| could afford to pay good price for the
| spodumene ore besides the freight and ad-
| ditional cost of extraction. The manganese
ore carries so per cent of valuable ma
| terials, which can be saved by secret
process that has been worked out by the
| Renbold company. The company has
very large amount of the manganese and
| the enterprise means the shipping to
| Omaha OF a great deal Of ore. DR.. Rem
bold has also discovered in Custer county
a good sized ledge Of arsenic. which run-
| about so per cent to the ton or rock. This
mine will also be worked and the ore VIII
be shipped to the Omaha plant. DR.. Rein
bold has made more valuable discoveries
Of rare minerals In the Black Hills than
any other person. He made the first real
discovery Of wolframite and made the frs;
shipment of the valuable ore, which netted
him nearly 5000 per ton Sheelte was
another valuable mineral discovered by him.
He has found evidences Of nickel veins
near Custer some Of the ore found giving
rich assays. There could not be much
better proposition at present than good
nickel mine.
DR.. Reinbold believes that he has found
a number OF true veins of copper ore. His
theory is that copper ore exists In fssurc
veins the same as gold In quartz veins.
He has made several important discoveries
recently Of copper ORE there being a num-
Der OF prominent railway officials In Omaha
interested with him in their development
A fine deposit Of roofing slate was found
by this promoter last summer. Tho oe-
posit is Of good -size and the slabs that can
be mined are very large. DR.. Renbold
states that there are few places in the
United States where as good quality o.
building slate can be found. There are a
number of rare minerals that are found VI
small quantities in but few places in tte
world that Dr. Reinbold hopes to find IN
the Hills Beryl is one of them and vans
dium is another. These materials are sold
by the ounce and are very valuable. DR..
Reinbold believes that a great many OF t.c
very rare and valuable metals and minerals
! will be found In the Black Hills. The min
ing Of tin In several localities, accordin,
to this expert, Is but question CT time
The finding of such rich spodumene ore is
an indication Of rich tin rock near By. Dr
Reinbold states that in his explorations OF
, the different camps Of the Hills that he
r has seen tin lodges running for consider
able length that will give averages in white
, tin higher than that now being worked II
8 the Cornwall tin mines.
New Ore I'm Spokane.
= The Spokane mine, south of Keystone, l:
3 soon to become producer of lead and sill
! yer ore. The mine is owned and operated
by the Crown Hill company. shaft ha:
a been sunk about $50 feet. following dowr
\ a twenty hve-foot ledge of galena ore
e e Last summer the company built a ffty-tor
concentrating plant. which handles the orr
e successfully. The company has increased
] the capitalization for the purpose of carry
. ing on the development of the mine. Th'
shaft is to be sunk to the 500-foot leve
a and the concentrating plant will be en-
laIged to 100 tons per day. The Grown
:, Hill company also has a mine at Grown
Hill station, east of Ragged Top. Her
= large bodies OF cyanidlng gold ore hav
;. been blocked out, cynanide plant 4
a being planned for, to be erected at tn
;. Crown Hill mine News of the sale of tn
= Grand Junction mine to New York partie
n is expected every day. An expert has bee
i out from New York City and carerul eX
: animation of the mine has been made. TIL
Grand Junction Is called the "Homestake
d Of the Southern hills. 1t is located abou
. seven miles northwest Of Custer In par
d ticularly rich belt. The formation is prac
It tically the same as the Homestake. A shat
has been sunk 1876 feet and a cross-cut q
- tho shafts bottom shows the main or
" ledge to be over 100 feet wide. The valu
r of the ore is about the same as the Home
=; stake ore and many mining men consde
s. 1t equal in every way to that great min
of lead. The Grand Junction belt Is sey
II eral miles in length. Several large deal
~ ~ are practically closed In this camp.
,e The Saginaw Mining company, which wa
IN organized last October by Michigan pee
:, Pile, has commenced building cabins an
making other preparations for continuou
rs development work on a group OF minin
v, claims purchased from Custer parties, IL
,,Se location being about eight miles northwei
IN of that city. There are three separat
n veins OF gold ore within a radius OF fifi
te feet the theory being that they come t'
x gether at a depth Of about 100 feet I'll
d. average value Of the ore on the surfa'
ne is about S22 per ton gold, A deep shaft wi
q be sunk. The president OF the company
ic Another Smelling Company.
W Mr. C. C. Curtis OF Vassar, Mich.
su A new smelling company has been O.