Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-11-23
Mining Items.

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The Bismarck company at keystone
has commenced milling ore. Twenty
stamps are in operation.
A new hoist has been installed at the
Slipper mine near Hill City. The hoist
has q capacity for sinking 800 feet.
Thos. G. Blair was up from Chilcoot
Thursday. lie reports work progressing
at the Chilcoot mine. A
new compartment shaft will be started
within few days.
Development work at the University
property on Spring Greek was
resumed the forepart ofthe week. Work
was recently at q standstill at the mine
owing to the inability to get miners. It
is confidently expevted that the ore
body in the shaft will be struck within
a short time.
Morice Riley Of Salt Lake, Utah, has
discovered new solvent for leach
ing copper. It is said to be very cheap
and the solution does not effect the gold
or other constituents of the orc. 1t
operates excellently on the laboratory
on small scale, and he is preparing
tanks and perfecting the process so as
to work on large scale before placing
it on the market. 1t would be an ex-
cellent thing for many Of our ores in the
Black Hills.
The new concentrator invented by
DR.. ]. A. Ogden of Deadwood by which
100 tons of ore can be treated every
hours is the latest in that
line. 1t Is claimed that the ore can be
and roasted at the same
time, at cost not to exceed 80 cents per
ton. A company is about being formed
10 exploit this invention and get the ma
chine into general use as soon as possi-
BILE. After treating several hundred tons
Of ore the doctor certainly knows what
.hese machines will do on a commercial
cial scale. The low grade ore problem
IS about solved. Black Hills News.
LAND OFFICE RULING.
The General Land Office at Washing.
on has ruled in recent case coming
before it that the entry of a mineral
application for United States patent must
be made within the calendar year next
succeeding the calendar year in which
he period Of sixty days publication of
he notice of application was completed.
This ruling takes the place of the rule
hat entry must be made within a rea-
'onable time after the publication is
The old rule enabled n
claimant, but has developed abuses that
he new rule, substituting q definite
INIT, will do away with.
NEW HILL CITY COMPANY.
The York Mining company was Or
,anized at Hill City Friday, says the
1t is composed of Black
Hills and Chicago parties. and is design
3D. for the development Of the York
group of claims on Friday gulch, near
Hill City. This is the property that
was sold few weeks ago to Chicago
capitalists, the deal being made through
Miss Estelline Bennett of Deadwood who
conducted the negotiations at both ends
of the line-with the prospective inves-
ors as we'll as the original owners of
he ground. Miss Bennett went to Hill
City Friday morning for the purpose of
in the organization and incor
poration. She was accompanied by her
ather, Judge G. G. Bennett, who is the
egal advisor, and will probably also be-
,ne of the incorporators. The property
consists Of FIVE claims on Friday gulch,
adjoining the Hawk Wright property,
with ali excellent showing in ore as we'll
rs fine water right, millsite and tim.
Der.
THE ELKCTRo-CYANIDE MILL.
The plant at Mystic was erected near
y two years ago by Chicago capitalists
lnder the supervision of Prof E. H.
Long. Its purpose is to work custom
ores. The process to be employed is in
many respects secret and has taken
much time and labor to perfectit. Every
hing is now in such condition to do the
required work that within a month the
plant will be ready TO operate. The
treatment of ore is by electricity by
which application chlorine gas is pro.
luced without any other agency. The
capacity of the mill iS 100 tons Of ore a
lay. Five tons Of ore can be handled in
IS minutes by applying an electrical cur
'ent of about twenty-five volts and 800
% 1000 ampheres. The manager of the
Whole concern is Prof. F. H. Long, the
In the mill III. M. Bowen,
he electrical department will be in
charge of BENZ. F. Jones who is expect
ID from Chicago, and the assayer Is Mr..
Gleason. The mill will be OF great bene
1t to this country il it can successfully
reat low grade ores.-Hill City News.
HARVEY PEAK RANGE.
From the depth thas has been reach
ID on the contact mines of the Harney
,ange there is but little known in prac-
ical way of the rich veins ofore that are
being followed from the surface and
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