Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-04-20
Mining Items.

has recently been discovered in the
drift of the Black Hills Copper company
at depth of 400 feet from the surface.
The mine is located in the copper dis.
trict west Of Rockford.
The new Prescott pump which was
received by the North Star Mining com.
pany last week has been placed in the
drift at the North Star mine. The COM
pany expects to soon commence to sink
the shaft to the 600 foot leyel.
Twenty-Five thousand shares of stock
in the Holy Terror-Keystone Consoli-
dated Mining company were sold at Ra-
pid City on the 11th by the sheriff, to
satisfy $1,000 judgment held by P. B..
Mccarthy. The stock belonged to John
s. George, president OF the company.
p. B. Mccarthy, G. w, Brown, DR.. Van
Buskirk, G. J. Buell., and j. p. McElroy,
Jr., each purchased 5000 shares.
A company was organized last week
on the Clara Belle mine, near Oreville,
Wv hCu ny tiO IlCUSIt pfOlIcIb Will luG
following officers: Frank Hebert, presi-
dent; John Foster, vice president, and
Charles Hsbert, secretary and treasurer
The company is called the Clara Belle
Mining company. The company is 60.
ing to sink new shaft to catch the ore
ledge. The new shaft will be started
about $50 feet from the old shaft, on the
side towards which the ledge dips.
The Century Chemical company, Of
New Jersey, has purchased two mining
claims containing spodumene of G. j.
Patton and Mr.. Reinbold. They are To-
Gated between Keystone and Greyhound
gulch, and is reported brought nearly
$1,000. j. d. Harris, of Philadelphia,
acted as agent for the company in max
ing the purchase. 1t is said Mr.. Nc
Laughlin has contract for taking out
the spodumene. Reinbold owned one
half Of one claim.-Heystone Recorder.
There has been considerable inquiry
in the past few weeks for mica in the
southern Hills, says the Mining Review
of the 18th inst. Canadian parties who
deal in mica, are looking to Custer
County for a new supply. One of the
largest mica dealers in Canada expects
to arrive in Custer in a few weeks for
the purpose of Investigating the resour
ces of that material. The Black Hills
mica is rapidly finding place in the
market, it being of the very best quality
for electrical purposes. The mica pros
poets in Custer County have only been
scratched over in places, aud ii is believ-
ed that great many mines will be open
ed up this season.
BLACK HILLS COPPER PROSPECT.
A letter has been received in this city
by a well known mining man, from
copper expert Of Butte, Montana, in
quiring about the copper prospects of
the Black Hills. The letter states that
there is soon to be an unprecedented
demand for copper bearing ground; that
the demand will be for prospects that
show good copper values on the surface.
The letter urges the Black Hills man to
get options on all of the copper ground
available in the Hills, for, according to
the expert, there will be money made
this summer in this sort of speculation.
There are great many copper pros
poets in the Black Hills, that show good
values in copper at the surface, and as
yet these mining claims can be pur-
chased very reasonably. 1t is expected
that the boom for copper ground in the
Hills will commence in about two
months, as soon as the three or four
big companies now operating copper
grounds, strike it rich. The Black Hills
Copper Company, of Benton Harbor,
Mich, has found fine ledge ofgold and
copper ore at depth Of 400 feet, in the
Rockford district, in Pennington county.
The Blue Lead mine will either be a
winner or loser within sixty days.-Min-
ing Review.
DISTINGUISHED CHEMISTS.
d. w. II. Chamberlain, surgeon of
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad,
and Eli Webb, analytical chemist and
metallurgist from McKeesport, Pa,
were arrivals in the city last night.
They came to the Black Hills at the in
stance of Col. James A, George, to es-
tablish laboratory for the purpose of
testing the various ores of the region
and determine by what means they may
be most easily and cheaply treated.
They are going to open their laboratory
in this city, and will have branches at
Hill City and Custer. Their main office
will be with Col George, room No. 303,
in the Adams block. They intend to
visit the mines of the Black Hills and
begin thorough investigation of their
ores.
The object of establishing these la
boratories in the Hills is to make prac-
tical tests on the various ores of the re-
gion. Col. George says this man is q
specialist in his line, and he is said to
to have discovered process for the ex-
traction of gold from ore that is more
economical than cyanide, and it is be-
lieved to be applicable to many of the
ores OF the Black Hills. Besides being
able to determine what process the ores
of the Hills are best adapted to, he is
also said to have thorough under
standing of the various methods of ex-
tracing other metals from the ores, and
it is believed that he will be able to sug-
gest means for the handling of great