Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-09-07
Mining Items.

Work will he resumed on the prop.
erty Of the copper Butte Mining COM
pany on Spring creek on or about the
18th inst. So stated a letter received
this week from Vim. II. Buffnm, presi.
dent of the company.
A small stamp mill 10 being installed
at the Golden Slipper mine four miles
east of Hill City. The property is under
lease and bond to j. B. Stafford and as
sociates of Chicago. The mine is said
to be developing into one of the richest
gold properties in the Hills. The ore
averages better than $40 per ton gold
and there are two or more strong lodges.
Messrs. Barth and O'Brien, ofMilwau
kee, were here a few days age looking
after the work of the Elizabeth Mining
Co., and while here the parties interest
ed in the Elizabeth company took a
bond on the Detroit claim W ich is sit
uated adjoining the Chilkoot on one
side and the Ivanhoe on the other.
Messrs. Blair, Madill and Challis are the
wner of the Detroit, and also the Chill
koot property. keystone Recorder.
The University Company is expecting
to strike the main ledge of ore with
every shot, says the Mining Review.
An incline shaft was sunk some distance
on a ledge of free-milling ore, which
assayed very well. A steam hosting
plant was then installed it having been
purchased in Denver. A shaft is now
being sunk which will strike the ore at
a depth Of about rs feet. The ground is
located on Spring creek niAe miles
north west Of Custer.
$1,000 CLEANUP.
Frank IIebert came in Tuesday with
a twelve hundred dollar gold button,
the pleasing and phenomenal result of
an eight day run Of his little two stamp
mill Oh Clara Belle ore. Such results
indicate the exceptional merits Of this
Justly famous mine, which is doing Its
own talking, and doing it more effec
lively than could be done through the
medium OF tongue or pen.
THE BLUE LEAD.
Work in the tunnel on the Blue Lead
copper property at Sheridan is still pro-
crossing as rapi lily as circumstances will
allow, says the Mining Review. Eek.
treme.y hard rock has again been en-
countered and Notwithstanding the fact
that air drills are being used, the head
way being made is necessarily slow. The
tunnel has already been pushed a dis
lance OF about 1900 feet, but it will be
necessary to reach the 1900 foot mark
before the face Of the tunnel will have
reached a point directly below the out
cropping Of the ledge at the surface.
In case tie ledge dips away from the
vertical, which is enslrely probable, 1T
may be necessary to push the tunnel
several hundred feet beyond It's present
face.
OF CLAIMS.
The Mining and Scientific Press says
that more important than recording a
notice Of location is making the location.
Making the location comprises: l, find
ing valuable mineral 2. marking on the
ground the boundaries of the location Of
the discovery; 3, posting a written no.
tice Of location with the names of the
locator, the date, and a description OF
| the claim that describes it so it can be
found and identified on the ground !;
and 4, entering into possession and con
t~inuing that possession by every year
| doing the annual assessment work. Do
ing these things the ground is not open
to relocation. Failure to record a loca-
ton does not create a forfeiture. A
claim may be void from the beginning
because of an improper location, not
properly marking boundaries or posting
notice 1t is only forfeiture by failure
to do assessment work. A legal loca
ton held twenty five years in conform
formity with law cannot be forfeited be-
cause the locators failed to record the
notice.