The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-01-30
STAMPEDE ON AT DEAOwooI
Grantz Discovery Proves the Richest Strike
Ever Made In the Black Hills.

Grant, Discovery Proves the Richest Strike
Ever Made In the Black Hills.
The interest in the rich Grant,
strike of gold ore In the North Lead
mining district, near Deadwood, has
assumed proportions equal to a STAN
nede. The remarkable assays which
have been obtained from the ore In the
last few DAYS has set the country wild,
saws the Chicago Records correspond
ont Nothing like il has ever been dis
covered I'm the Black Hills. Rich strikes
have been made which were at the
time pale when compared with the
Otto Grant, discovery on his Hidden
Fortune claim. located about three
miles southwest of Deadwo0d.
Otto l.. TIL. Grant, is a German and
a practical miner. He Is about 20 years
old and has spent a greater portion OF
his life I'm the mines of the West. For
eighteen years he has worked the ore
veins of his four claims in the North
Lead district and he has at last discOv-
cred the mother vein for which he has
been searching up and down his
ground for the past years. He has
made his fortune in II find and his
fortune is way up in the thousands nj
ready. He has taken from his mine
about $4,000 and he estimates that
there is still 100000 in sight which
can be taken out i'm two or three more
days. This is the ore that he has
stripped off the grass and surface
earth. The vein can be traced very
distinctly for several hundred feet in
each direction from his discovery and
there is no doubt but that his rich ore
has only been tapped in a small place.
The ore is very communicating
stuff. 1t has been passed over thou
sands of times by miners and common
people. but it was left for the old Ger
man to make the discovery. The mine
is not a hundred yards from the base
ball park, where Lead and other mines
have crossed bats. Some of the COM
mOnest-loOking ore, in which no gold
appears at all. shows, upon being as
sayed, to be worth anywhere from
$1,000 to $4,000 a ton gold and the
richest ore is too rich to assay. Esti-
mates have been made on some of the
best and the most reliable report was
made by the assayer. who has become
familiar with the character of the ore.
who states that there are numerous
places in the mine that will run $780,
600 and over to the ton. To satisfy
himself, Mr.. Grant, had a piece of ore
aSsayed which was taken from what
he calls his "secOnd-class'' ore, and the
Lead assayer gave a return of $59,2S0
to the ton gold. The gold button left
after the assay was worth $500. This
is the richest assay ever made in the
Black Hills. The best of it is, there
is a large amount of this high-grade
ore in the mine. Mr.. Grantz has had TO
erect ore sheds and do other prelimi-
nary work, SO that he has not really
commenced to mine the ore. He has
opened the vein far enough to see what
he has for future work.
One day this week two men sacked
about $4,000 worth of ore. Some of
the chunks were half gold and others
were literally strung together with
wire gold. The ore vein has been
traced to the apex of the mountain,
which is several hundred feet higher
up on the mountain from the discov-
cry.
The mine was visited to-day by the
Colorado capitalists who are here for
the purpose OF investigating into the
merits of the phonolite district west of
Deadwood. Among the men were
John Harnan, vice president of the
Portland Mining Company; Thomas
Burns, with the same company, and
Spencer Penrose. an owner i'm the Colo
rado-Philadelphia reduction plant.
These gentlemen were %astonished at
what they found and expressed their
surprise freely. The ore was com
pared with the Cripple Creek ore and
1T was stated that one kind of the
Grant, ore, which is gray in color. re-
sembles the same class of ore in the
Portland miAe. The values in both the
Grantz and in the Portland. in this
KIND of ore, run about the same. While
the values that are being found i'm the
Grantz mine do not quite equal the
richest Cripple Greek mines, the fact
must be considered that the Grantz dis
covery is just under the grass roots.
An assay of $4,000 was obtained
from a weather-stained boulder which
was plowed out from the surface.
MIR. Grant, will probably erect n ten
stamp mill himself, with n cyanide at
tachment, and will treat his w ore.
lie has a number of other ore veins on
ms ground which contain both free
milling and refractory ore and he now
mas enough capital to erect n plant TO
handle these other ores.