Omaha daily bee., 1901-01-28
MINING IN The BLACK HILLS
Rich strk Of Gold Ore in Clara Fell Mine,
Custer County,
OMAHA CAPITAL HAS DEAL FOR BONANZA
Dcs Moincs People to work Red Ciin.
Gold Fish aud Forest Queen
Marble aud Granite People
Meet NcNt Month.

HEADWOOD. ;. D., Jan. 24.--lSpccial) )--
\ very rich strike Of gold ore has Just been
made in the Clara Bell mine. two miles
east of Orevila in Custer county. The mine
has been producing fair grade Of ore for
several months. but for the past four days
the orc has been very rich Your correspond
ent visited the mine this week and VERT
fed all OF the rumors as to the richness.
The ore comes from vertical, which is
opened by shaft about l50 feet deep.
1t is a quartz ore, the vein being about
twenty feet thick. The mine is a half mile
from two-stamp Tremain mill, where
the ore is treated This little mill is pound
ing out a fortune for the owner of the mill,
Frenchman, named Frank Ilebert. owing
to a scarcity Of water, the mill is run only
few hours a day. yet it yields all the way
from $500 to $1,000 month. The writer
casually examined the pile Of ore at the
mill which had just been brought in from
the mine for treatment.
Lying on top was one OF the richest speci-
mems Of free gold ever found in the Black
HIS. The owner then sorted over several
wheelbarrow loads of the ore aud he was
rewarded by finding a half dozen very rich
specimens. The writer Joined in the OK
citing search for nuggets and two hand
some specimens were found The best
specimen from the mine IL a chunk of rock
as large as u small cocoanut. which Is at
least one half gold. Another specimen.
somewhat larger, had wires OF gold from
one end to the other with knots and warts
Of the yellow metal sticking out on all
sides.
How extensive this rich streak of gold
is is not known, but for four days there
hnu IgV,
averaging 500 per ton gold for some time
The vein is becoming much wider and at
the present depth another vein has COM
menced TO appear The ore carries never
less than ST. Il ton gold, and from that up
into the thousands,
1t Is stated that Omaha capitalists have
deal well on for the purchase OF this
bonanza mine, and that a nunher OF cailway
officials figure prominently In the matter
The deal calls for all OF the ground owned
by the Hebert Bros. which includes
several placer mines. the Clara Bell mine
and some tin properties, in the same camp
>o Equal In southern Hills.
The Clara Bell mine is simply a con-
tinuaiion OF the st. Elmo mine, which was
worked several years ago up 10 the dl-
vision line between the st. Elmo and Hcbert
ground. There the st. Elmo company had
TO quit mining and the little Frencnman
| was given a mine which nas no equal In
| the southern Black Hills. A shaft was
| sunk 100 feet, at which depth the rich
! ledge of ore was encountered and it has
| become richer with every foot The 81
Elmo company had an opportunity to buy
| the Hebert ground at one time for a very
small figure, but failed to do It. On the
| st. Elmo ground the ore body was nearly
fiat, but now 1t has become quite per
pendicular. The Clara Bell mine is by far
he richest gold property in the southern
Black Hills.
| Articles OF incorporation will soon be
filed for the Red Cloud, Gold Fish and
Forest Queen Mining company, by C. H.
Crabtree OF Des Moines, and associates. The
companies will be operated in conjunction
with the Gladiator company of Des Moines,
which purchased recently the Murry groul
OF mining claims, in Deadwood Gulch three
| miles west OF Deadwood. The Murry prop-
erty has been developed considerably by
the new company and numbers of rich
! shoots of ore have been encountered The
! Red Cloud mine at one time was a simmer
| OF very high grade ore. II is a short dis
tance west of the Gladiator company. A
deep shaft IL to be put down on the rich
vertical of ore,
The Gold Fish company will develop far.
ther the Salmon mine near Custer Tbi,
mine is one Of the richest specimen rocl
mines in the southern Hills. The mineral
ized belt Is over 300 feet wide, being but
a series of quartz verticals which carr,
good values in gold ore. shaft will b,
sunk Immediately 200 feet on the pay shoot
a short distance north OF keystone is ,
property known as the Forest Queen. /
VIII be developed by company to be or
ganized this week The property is on tn,
Keystone belt one mile northwest from tn,
holy Terror mine These four propertie
VIII be developed by officers OF the Gladi
ator company.
Marble Ia supply the West.