The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-10-02
BLACK HILLS MINES.
Chicago Men Organize New compa-
ny With $4,000, 900 Capital.

SniCd9o wen organize view Sompd-
ny With 100000 Capital.
The purchasers of the Benedict and
Yellow Bird group of claims in Horn.
blende camp, near Rockford, have or
ganized the Golden West Mining COM
with a capital of $3,000,000. The
company is composed almost entirely
OF Chicago men, and the officers are:
]. H. Fisher. president; Charles e Cur
tbs, vice president: e. j. Kennedy, sec
rotary and J. II. Caldwell, treasurer.
The company has purchased 800
acres of mining ground, including the
Benedict and Yellow Bird group, and
several other claims intervening and
adjacent. There is a Chilean mill on
the Benedict group. A shaft was be-
ing sunk on an incline, and the ore
taken from the shaft more than paid
for the development of the ground.
The Golden West company intends to
keep the quartz mill running, and will
begin an extensive systemiof develop
ment, using the mill as means of as
pertaining the relative Ialue of the
ore from the different veins In process
of development, thereby Keeping check
on what is being done.
The Benedict ground shows one OF
the strongest lodges of tree-milling and
concentrating ore in bennington coun-
ty. The development work of the
past has not been OF an effective ma
ture, and the ledge have not been
opened up to any fpth. The Yellow
Bird was at one tine under bond to
Eastern men. Among those interest
ed was James X Hackett, the actor
and matinee idol Tn ework they did
was of desultoB character, and moth
ing OF importance was accomplished.
Percy Train, formerly of Butte, Mont,
will be in charge of the operations OF
the Golden west company.
A discovery OF quartzite ore has
been made N the shaft of the Gold Hill
Mining company, in Spearfish canyon.
at depthof $50 feet. Ii is not known
yet how extensive the chute is, but il
assays we'll and is apparently a strong
body. This is the first ore discovered
on uuartzite in the Spearfish canyon,
and it is regarded as an important de-
velopment.
Seth Bullock, superintendent of the
Black Hills forest reserve, has issued
a circular letter to the owners of pat
GnIeu anu UOD16SltduS,
the reserve, soliciting their
aid in effecting the determination OF
the black beetle, the insect that has
caused such widespread destruction of
pine timber. He asserts that IL is use
less for the forest officers TO attempt
the eradication of the pest without the
of the owners of ada
cent lands. thas been recommended
by experts that the best means OF get
ting rid of the beetle will be to cut
down and remove the bug-infested
trees before May, and to peel the bark
from the stumps, which will destroy
the young and the eggs from which tne
beetles are Matched.
The officials of Dickinson were noti-
fed that a anchman was load in OLD
Mckenzie county. The defunct cow
was Jimmy Clark, and death
was due to natural causes.
A thresher on the Muffler crew, near
was found dead behind a
straw stack He had complained OF
feeling i'll, and is supposed to have
taken an overdose of morphine.
Groton has completed a sewer sys-
tenn and Lennox is ready to begin sim
liar improvements.