Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-11-10
Mining Items.

were shipped from the factory on the
/ 29lh ult.. and rs SOC as it arrives and
is placed in position the work Of sinking
will be resumed. The shaft is now down
about So feet.
II is reported that the Detroit proper
ty adjoining the Chilcoot, eight miles
! east of town, has been bonded TO some
Ohio capitalists for $4,000. The prop
erty is owned by Frank Lockhart of
Rapid, and w. w. Challis and is con-
sidered one Of the best properties in the
district. II Clilcoot is Under bond 10
some eastern people aud is being
thoroughly exploited. A shaft is being
sunk neal the line of the Detroit which
will probably demonstrate the values Of
both properties.
Frank Ilebert was over from st. Elmo
camp Monday. lie brought with him
the clean up Of a weeks run from his
Clara Belle mine. The ore in the Clara
Belle is improving with every foot Of
depth attained. MIR. Hebert also stated
that the owners Of the Lena mine crush.
ed ten tons of ore at his mill last week
that averaged close on to O 500 per ton.
1t was the first trial Of ore from the rich
strike recently made in that mine. The
Lena is situated about three or four
miles northeast Of Hill City.
In the ". S. Circuit Court of Appeals
the following point in mining law APP
pears to be decided: Where two min
ing locations adjoin, and have n com.
mon side line, and where the groupings
of a vein, apexing upon the senior of
these two locations, and dipping towards
the junior, crosses this side line TO the
surface Of the junior location, the vein
docs not become the property Of the lat
ter until the whole Of 1t (both foot as
we'll MS hanging WALL passes into the
territory Of the junior claim Nor does
the latter acquire any underground or
extra lateral rights under said groupings
until all of them, and both the enclos.
ing walls are in their territory.
che electro .chlorinating plant at Mys'
tic, on The Burlington route, is q success
on practically all Of the Black Hills
ores. 1t was erected By Professor +. II.
Long of Chicago, backed by Indiana
capitalists. The daily capacity is 90
tons. Tests have been made on ores
from nearly every mining camp in the
Black Hills. The plant is to be enlarg,
ed soon and il is the purpose ofthe com
pany TO put in q smelter and other ore
treating works at this place, making it
one of the largest reduction works in
the Black Hills. The process used at
present is entirely new TO the Hills.
The plant is centrally located and it
means much to the development of the
mines in Pennington and Custer coun-
tie4.-Mining Review.
LATEST MINING DECISION.
Plaintiff located a mining claim, and
thereafter defendant entered on the
land claiming it as vacant mineral land.
in that plaintiff had failed to do the
amount of work required BY the law for
five years previous. Plaintiffs owned a
| claim that ov%erlapped the claim in dis
pute, and on the land common to both
claims has done work in the way of tun
neling largely in excess of that required
by law, with the manifest intention of
striking the lode Of the claim in dispute.
Held, that a finding that the work per-
formed could not be a benefit to the
claim in dispute, and that plaintiffs were
not entitled 10 same, was erroneous,
since the court could not be permitted
to substitute its judgment as TO the ex-
pediency of the method employed for
developing a mine for that of the own.
ers. Mann VS.. Bvdlong ct. al, ca Pac.
Rep. (Cal) l20.-M. and NJ. Journal.
H~oRNBLENDE CAMP.
One of the liveliest mining districts
this fall, in the Black Hills, is west of
Rockford about four miles, in Horn
blende Camp. The first ore discovered
there was about four years ago, when G
Swede named 0berg discovered a chunk
of rich float rock while chopping wood.
The district is about four miles square
and it is cut by a great many veins of
free. milling ore. During the past year,
n number of eastern companies have
commenced operating some Of the best
propositions. George B. Best of Bay
field. Wis, has bonded the yellow Bird
ftine for $25 900 and a within house and
other buildings have been erected. The
shaft is down about 80 feet on a verti-
cal Of quartz ore about five feet thick.
The ore averages across the face Of the
vein about 50 per ton, free milling.
North of the Yellow Bird, the Victoria
Mining Company, of Omaha, has a large
group of claims, which are well develop
ed. The members of the company are
mostly prominent railway officials.
The Benedict mine has been bonded
to Edmund Smith Of Rapid City, and
Thomas Gallagher OF Denver. A shaft
is being sunk on one OF the many ore
veins. The lessees of the mine have
erected a small mill with a daily capa-
city of 90 tons, on Castle creek, near the
mine. There are 10000 tons Of ore
estimated, IN sight in the mine, which
will average about 50 per ton gold.
Other companies have bonds on the
Black Eagle owned by Key stone PEG.