The Yale expositor., 1900-06-08
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MARBLE COMPANY'S ACTIVE WORK.
President B. r. Noble is on the Property
Near Custer.

Near Custer.
B. r.. Noble, of Yale, Michigan, pres.
ident of the Black Hills Porcelain CLAW
" Marble Company, accompanied by j.
b. Stafford, of Chicago, of the Chicago
Standard Car Truck Company, arrived
at Custer the first of the week and are
looking oyer the marble ledges and
other resources of the company. 1t is
likely that Mr.. Stafford will come to
DeadwOod to-day. He is examining
the property in the interest of a num-
ber of railroad officials, Of Chicago,
who are about to become stockholders
in the company. He intends TO go
over the property later in company
with an expert, SO as to be able to sub
NIT definite report when he goes
| back.
The Clay and Marble company is in
augurating extensive operations on the
property, and fifteen men are at work.
A saw mill has been set up on the
ground, and is turning out lumber and
building materials. a boarding house
has been erected and bunk house is
now under way. 1t is promised that
the Burlington railroad will build q
spur out to the marble ledge.
The company has been acquiring
more territory during the present week,
and President Noble has secured two
more mica properties and black gran
| ite property from Custer men. The
latter contains some excellent black
granite, that takes a good polish, and
would go well with some of the other
stone found on the company's ground
i'll building.
Work is progressing favorably on the
white marble ledge and on the kaOlin
clay deposit. The marble has been
opened to depth of % feet, and water
has been encountered. 1t is fiat ledge
and is particularly free of seams and
breaks. 1t runs under the hill at a
slight incline, and the deeper under
cover it is found the better it is. There
is solid face of it 25 feet up and down
and it makes fine appearance. Old
marble men say it is the finest thing
ever found in the United States. Some
large marble ledges have been found in
| Colorado i'll the past, and attempts
have been made to work them, but it
has invariably been found there that
the marble could not be taken out in
slabs and of sufficient size to warrant
BILE found in the Black Hills has not
this fault.
The shaft on the kaolin clay has
reached depth of 55 feet, and the vein
has widened Ia feet. Wire gold has
lately been found in the clay, and it is
believed to exist in paying quantities.
This is most unusual thing, and it is
causing considerable comment among
mining men to whose attention it has
been called. Lee Hoyt, the company's
prospector and assayer, found the gold,
and since then he has found clay in
which gold exists in sufficient quantities
to make it visible to the naked eye
by kneading the clay in the hands.
Mr.. Noble intends to put diamond
drill to work on the lithograph stone in
order to determine how great an area
it underlies and what it's quality is in
depths. He will also begin work short
ly on the mica deposits, and will then
have four crews of men at work. Amos
Morley, of Barra, Ohio, man who has
had twenty-eight years experience in
marble and stone work is in charge of
the operation at present.
1t is probable that Mr.. Gibbard, of
Rochester, New York, an officer and
heavy stakeholder in the company, will
come to the Hills for the summer
Pioneer Times.
The company's marble quarries are
developing in fine shape. The vein is
increasing in width and quality as it is
opened into the mountain. Several
marble experts who have examined the
workings pronounce the marble the fin.
est in the L. 5. and there is enough of
it to last for hundreds of years. The
company owns three GravestOne Gran
ite lodges of the finest quality that will
be operated Immediately.
Work has already commenced on two
of the company's mica mines and mica
will be shipped direct to Chicago with
in 30 days. The company also owns
five graphite mines that will also be
operated. Mr.. Noble has engaged an
experienced quarry man to open up the
LithOgraph stone of which the COM
pany own AGO acres. The stone is equal
in quality to the Bavarian stone and
the opening up of these quarries will
add an industry to this community that
cannot help but be of fincalculable bene-
fit to our business interests. Mr.. Noble
states to us that the company now own
400 acres of claims and that he shall
not purchase any more as they have all
the company desire to operate. A
large number of the eastern stockhold-
ers will visit the quarIies this summer
and will stop at the Sylvan Lake sum-
mer resort which is but 15 miles dis
tant. A road will be built from the
lake to the quarries for their accom-
modation.-Custer City (South Dakota)
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