Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-15

year thar ever before, and some splendid
prospects are being opened up. The Bear
Gulch Mining company owns a large acre,
age Of ground in the district, and has
started development work on a number
OF fine lodges OF tin ore, Il having just
completed its annual work on a large mum.
Der Of claims, and havihg exposed numerous
strong verticals. The company keeps quite
a force Of men employed all OF the year
around on its property, and this week will
resume operations on a gold proposition
which It Is developing by a double COM
partment shaft. This shaft has reached
a depth Of lis feet. and is following down
a vertical Of cyaniding ore. which is in the
~neighborhood Of twenty-five feet in width.
and which carries values running from SO
to $40 a ton. The ore is similar to that
found in the Ragged Top district, and
OCCURS here in the nat formations, as well
as in the verticals. The company is well
prepared to do extensive mining during
the winter and will add to it's working
force soon.
URdeveIoped Bonanza.
The Eleventh Hour property, on Iron
creek, is proving to be an undeveloped
bonanza. This property is owned by John
Madill and associates, who have been doing
considerable prospecting on It all OF the
spring and summer, and have found ore
in every hole which they have sunk. They
have Just completed the erection Of a mum
Der of cabins. and other improvement on
the ground and are laying in their winter
stock Of provisions and other supplies for
the season which is to comeA They have
sunk a number OF shallow shafts on the
ground in different places and IN every
one of them have found ore. a tunnel has
Just been commenced on the rim Of the
outcrop, and is now under cover. This
tunnel will be driven in on the ore shoot
which is found In that place and work on
it continued during the winter months.
The ore is the same as that found in
Ragged Top. in fact, the district is but
a continuation Of that district, and the
ore which is being taken out from the
workings here is as good as that from that
famous district, and the shoots appear TO
be Just as large. TIL ore which is being
mined In the Eleventh Hour will run from
SIS to $40 q ton, and is a splendid cyanid-
ing proposition.
Lowell Mason, who owns a group Of claims
adjoining the Eleventh Hour is making
preparations for doing his winters work.
He has considerable work done on the
ground in the way Of development, and
has several fine shoots of ore exposed on IT
which carries values as good as that In
the Eleventh Hour. Charles Francis is
doing work on another group in the same
neighborhood which is showing up we'll. in
fact the district is being prospetcted as it
never has been before.
Butte People Invest.
ROCKFORD, S. D., Sept. 14.-(Special.)-
The Black Hills Copper company has re-
linquished the bond which 1t took several
months ago on the Benedict group OF claims
in the Hornblende district, to a Montana
syndicate, which is represented in the Black
Hills by Percy Train of Butte. The orig
inal owners are Mendenhall, Hooper, Woods
and Lewis. who before giving a bond on the
property developed 1t extensively. The
group contains 200 acres, and has exposed
on 1t one OF the largest lodges in Penning-
ton county. The Black Wills Copper COM
rany took the option on the group early
last spring and since that time has done
considerable development work on it. A
new incline shaft was started by the COM
pany on the vein. and a Chilean mill moved
onto the ground from Smith gulch, where
it has been in successful operation for sew
eral months. The incline shaft is now
down 1876 feet, and Superintendent Taylor
of the Black Hills Copper company is au-
thority for the statement that the ore taken
from this incline has paid for the work OF
sinking It, as well as reimbursed the com
pany for the expense it has been to in in
stalling the mill and other machinery.
The Black Hills Copper company will APP
ply itself exclusively in the future to the
development OF its group Of copper-bearing
claims on Copper Reef mountain. On this
group Of claims the copper. company has
a great deal Of development work done one
incline which has been driven on the
ground is 500 feet long, and from that level
a cross-cut has been driven to the west,
which is thought to be near the main ledge
toward which it is being driven. 1t IS
now in about 100 feet, the states
through which 1t is being driven being
heavily imprognated with copper, while &C.
c~asional small stringers of ore are en-
c~ountered which carry a small percent
age of copper as well as some gold and sill
yer. The ledge was cross cut at the 400
foot level. and at that point was sixty
feet across. Assay returns made showed
that the ore carried from IL to 8 per cent
copper, from 81 to SO in gold and a little
silver. The shaft, or rather incline, was
continued from the 400-foot level with the
object OF getting at the permanent water
level, for at the 400-foot the ore gave dis
tinct evidence OF leeching.