Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-12-22
Mining Items.

stock, payable Immediately.
A rich strike of ore is reported to have
been made on the 1s5 foot level of the
Chilcoot mine, eight miles of this place
The ore is very pretty white quartz
quite granular in structure, and the gold
Is found in the free state.
The last issue of the Sundance Moni
tor states that development work on the
Black Buttes marble prospects near that
place has been suspended until spring
when, it is said. operations will be re
sumed on large scale. Custer City
money is said to be interested in the
properties.
Report comes from keystone that the
Wealthy. group Of maning claims has
been sold to a Sioux Falls company.
The ground is on the Holy Terror min
eral belt, about four miles northwest OF
Keystone, and consists of six claims. 1t
is said that the Holy Terror ledge is
found on the property, and mining men
consider the group of great value.
LATE DECISION.
Secretary Hitchcock has handed down
a decision in the case of Coleman
against the Homestake Mining company
which announces an important change
in the rules of procedure in the depart
ment. Where there are conflicting
claimants to mineral claims, all claim.
ants under the same location, and where
one claimant to the exclusion of the
others is seeking patent to the claim,
the land department will afford litigants
an opportunity to settle the controye
In the local courts.
GROWING DEMAND FOR MICA.
There is growing demand for mica
consequent upon its use for electrical
institutions, and among manufacturers of
electrical machinery mica in such small
sheets as were formerly unstable now
finds purchasers. Even scrap mica is
now being utilized for lubricants. Last
year the United States produced l08,57O
pounds sheet mica, worth S705S7. 1906
tons scrap mica, worth $30,878. This
was considerable of a decrease as com
pared with former years, caused by in.
creased imports, which last year amount
cd to 256,228 pounds, valued at 81 ,6l6,.
397. During the year 1899 the total inn
portation Of mica manufactured Yves
l,709,S39 pounds. The importation OF
mica is on the increase, and domestic
production is on the decrease e.-Dead
wood Independent.
GRAND JUNCTION ORE.
The Grand Junction is said by those
who have been through it to be the
greatest mine in the southern Black
Hills, says the Pioneer Times of recent
date. The Grand Junction ledge ranks
next to the Homestake in point of its
size, and it is shown to possess a splen
did uniform value. The shaft is III
feet deep, and crosscuts have been rur
in either wall. The ledge is 173 fee
wide by actual measurement, and there
is no telling how much wider. J. II
James, who visited the nine the fore
part of last week to make an examina
ton for intended purchasers, took {
quantity of the ore back with him wher
he returned, taken in a careful samplinl
of the face. He has informed the own
ers of the mine that the samples he tool
showed an average value of S. q ton
Ia view of this it is said there is NJ
doubt but that the deal for the min,
will go through, as the owners have onl,
been claiming S4 ore. The ore Is founC
In a large vertical. 1t is a quartz anc
quartzite mixed.
UNIVERSITY GOLD MINING co.
The Pioneer.Times of recent date il
speaking Of the above company, says
This company has l44 acres of groun,
in Tenderfoot gulch, near OrevilIe, il
Custer county. and has an excellen
showing of ore. 1t is free milling am
concentrating proposition and an assa,
certificate obtained at Lyon & Cheairs
assay Office in Deadwood showed tn
following values: One sample of con
centrates, l4.44 ounces at $50 an ounce
$2SS,S0; sample from foot footwall, 81
another sample Of concentrates, $44
The company has properties in bot
Lawrence and Custer counties. Wha
is known as the University group is sit
uated about three miles southwest G
Oreyille. The formation is slate, GU
by numerous dykes and veins. Th
vein that is being developed this win
ter is very strong, being FIVE feet wide
1t is quartz stained with iron oxide, an
the structure is identical with the vel
matter of some of the richest mines i
that section. The trend is northwestel
ly and southeasterly, and it can b
traced along the company's property 70
1900 feet. A tunnel is being driven fo
the purpose Of opening up this vein, an
the company intends later TO sink
shaft and explore the deeper levels an
open up other veins. The property
the center of what has been rich place
mining district, and goldbearing sand
that have yielded prolifically in pas
years. There is still some rich place
on the company's ground, and 1t coul
be worked at an advantage ifthere wer
sufficient water for the purpose. A BED
rock fume is to be put in by the com
pany in the early spring when there
plenty of water in the gulch. A larg
amount of placer gold has been take
out of the property adjoining the com
pany's on the west. and it is though
that deposits will be found on the I'M
versity ground just as valuable. Their
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