Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-05-11
Mining Items.

America produces more than one
third of the worlds total supply Of cop
per.
Charles G. Hill of Denver has put on
a force of men opening up the old
Grizzly Bear gold mine, four miles south
west of Hill City.
The North Star Mining company are
tinbering the shaft in the North Star
mine, and will shortly commence sink
ing the shaft to the c0C foot fsvel.
Two men are at work at the Old Bill
mine cleaning out the old workings pre-
paratory to commence development work
on the mine. The property is bonded
to Chicago parties.
Twenty shares of Homestake stock
changed hands in New York last week
for their face value, 800 share. 1t is
predicted by well known Black Hills
mining man that the stock would he
selling for 5000 share in less than eigh.
teen months.
The Copper Butte Mining company OF
Custer have commenced development
work on their group of copper claims
near Spring creek, ten miles northwest
Of Custer. Eight men were put at work
last Monday, and this force will be in
creased as rapidly as more men can be
worked to advantage. AL Gere has taken
charge of the boarding house.
RECENT RULINGS.
The rulings of the U. S. Land De.
partment have made marble locatable
under the provisions Of the Revised
Statutes relating to placer claims. An.
other ruling of the department requires
a discovery of the mineral (marble) on
each 20-acre tract of location. If the
marble is horizontally bedded deposit a
placer location could be made with a
little exploratory work to include 16C
acres. If the deposit is narrower and
dips beneath other rocks, high author
ity on mining law states that properly
the deposit should be located as lode
which would limit a claim to 1900 by
600 feet, or 20 acres. The Land De-
partment, though later rulings say mar
BILE is placer, has accepted and patented
limestone deposits, as, lodes. On what
would be strictly sspeaking ledge o.
marble neither lying fiat or nearly YER
tical, locator might take it up both
ways, as a placer and as lode.
THE HOLY TERROR COMPANY.
John S. George, president of the Holy
Terror-Keystone Consolidated Mining
company, said yesterday that his com
pany proposed to wait and see how thu
present legal difficulties in which thu
company is involved were disposed o
before formulating any plans for the fu
ture. The company has number o
important suits on hand, based OH titlt
to certain interests in the property a
Keystone, and Mr. George says it is no
the intention of the company to inaug
urate any extensive operations until th'
suits have been finally settled. He sale
these suits had been retarding the de
velopment of the company's propert!
for long time. The company does no
desire to put any more improvement
on the ground while there continue
any danger Of outsiders coming in ant
laying claims to interests in the ground
based on transactions before the presen
company acquired possession. "We ar
running fifteen stamps of the Keyston'
mill at present, on ore from the Hol.
Terror" said Mr.. George last night, "an,
we have been intending TO install pro
cess by which we could handle our re
fractory ore, but We shall not do any
thing in that direction at present.-Pio
neer-Times.