Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-08
MINING IN The BLACK HILLS
Weather Seriously Intsrferes with Work on
Several Properties.
DEVELOPING CLAIMS ON CITY CREEK
Additions Being Made to Reduction
Plants which VIII Add Nate
rally To Output OF the
Black Hills.

black HIS.
DEADwOOD, s. D.. April 1-(special)-
A bar OF bullion weighing $50 ounces and
valued at a little over 1000 has just been
deposited in the First National BAN OF
Deadwood, being the result OF the last two
weeks run at the Wasp No. 2 cyanide mill
on Yellow creek. This company is one OF
the most regular bullion shippers in the
Black Hills, making two shipments monthly.
The last two weeks run has been consider
ably interfered with on account OF the deep
snow and bad weather. and it is not ex-
pected that the mill can work with any
regularity before May /. The company pro-
poses to add fifty tons to the capacity OF
the plant during the present year.
The spearhsh Gold Mining and Reduction
company is taking out ore from under
ground slopes during the inclement weather
Of spring instead Of out OF the open cuts
in which It has been working for the last
year and a half A year ago at this time
the company was compelled to shut It's plant
down as the ore was being mined in the
open and hauled half a mile to the mill
with wagons.
The indications Of the proximity Of good
sized bodies OF pay ore on City creek, be-
ginning at the city limits OF Deadwood and
extending up the creek for a mile or more,
are considered excellent by mining men
who have been making examinations OF the
different. properties. On a claim belonging
to the estate OF the late j. A. Miller. join
ing the city on the west, there is an OUT
cropping OF a strong vein OF free-milling
quartz on which some work has been done
in the way of a seventy-hve-foo tunnel
and an open cut. The vein is atrue hssure.
and fe pnap,d an fnr a uvfdfb ~ fuapfy.
Ave feet without locating the hanging wall.
IL may be traced for several hundred feet
across the ground from north to south and
test pits have been put down at intervals
Of every few hundred feet. Ore taken from
the face of the tunne assays from $3.50 10
So a ton. tree-milling, and gold may be OBJ
tained by pan test on any of the ore. The
ground is about to be sold and IL the deal
goes through it will pass into the hands Of
men prepared to thoroughly develop it.
Developing Hidden Fortune.
Nick Treweek has been engaged as con-
sulting engineer by the Hidden Fortune
Gold Mining company, and the operations
Of the company in the future will be largely
under his direction, Mr.. Treweek was for
years mine foreman at the Homestake.
having entire control Of the work Of min
.Dg ore and developing the property. He
resigned his place with the Homestake
to become superintendent OF the Glover
Leaf company when that concern pur-
chased the Uncle Sam mine at Perry. The
Hidden Fortune company is working In
three places, driving the Baltic and Hood
lebug tunnels, and drifting with the ore
in the Spokane property. Plans have beea
decided upon for the building Of an ex-
perimental cyanide plant on Deadwood
n,InA ,hnrt Af1t.,a 49,. A. ..-.AL
of the Baltic tunnel. The company has
secured the Badger millsite and intends
TO obtain water by prosecuting on bed
rock. The plant will be OF 400 tons ca
pacity, aud is intended to treat the ores
from the horizontal measures Of the COM
pany's ground. Some of this ore is OF
exceptionally high grade and will be
shipped to shelters. There are thousands
of tons OF low grade siliceous ore that will
supply such a plant for a long period. The
company already WINS a cyanide plant OF
hfty-tons capacity and this will probably
also be used in milling the ore found near
the surface. The building Of the plant
on Deadwood guIch will not Interfere in
any way with the plans Of the company to
ultimately erect a 20O-stamp mill with
1,O0O-ton cyanide annex, as it will more
readily enable the company to arrive at
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ore satisfactorily with cyanide.
Ten Of the new stamps have been started
in the mill Of the Glover Leaf Mining COM
pany at the Uncle Sam mine, giving the
company thirty stamps in operation. The
shaft Is 500 feet deep, and the drift from
the 50O-feot level is over 100 feet long.
running In the direction Of the ore. The
mill is being supplied with ore taken from
the 4O0-foot level. and there is enough in
sight to run a 200-stamp mill for several
years. The ledge is dipping way from
the shaft. and the drift on the lower Level
will have to run about 400 feet to reach
It.
Mining Company Buys Ranch.
The Globe Mining company, whose min.
ing property is situated at Lead, has pur.
chased the Mckay ranch on Little Rapid
creek at Nahant. In Pennington county. The
price paid for the ranch was IS, 900, and II
is the intention to use it for a mill site
and utilize the water for power and milling
purposes. Little Rapid creek contains from
1900 to 1000 miners inches OF water dur.
ing it's lowest period, and owing to its grea'
fall il is an ideal stream for power. TIT
Globe Mining company has been purchasing
and developing a large tract OF mining
ground adjoining the townstte OF Lead OF
the west. The company Is composed largel!
OF Red Oak, Ia, capitalists, c. A. Duttol
Of that place being the president. Bodiei
Of low grade free milling ore, Of wide ex
tent, have been opened up within the las