The Minneapolis journal., 1902-10-16
SOUTH DAKOTA
BLACK HILLS MINES
Globe Company VIII Sink to Great Depth
Ore Discoveries Round Spearflsh.

Globe Company viii Sink to Great Depth
Ore discoveries Round spearf'sh.
LEAD, .S.>D.-The Globe Mining COM
pany has ordered a new hoist, pump, air
compressor and drills, and is preparing to
sink to a depth Of 1000 feet on it's prop
erty a short distance west Of Lead. +. E.
Wade Is superintendent. He is install
ing Fairbanks Morse gasolene hoist and
air compressor and Leyner air drills. The
company is the owner Of vast amount OF
mineral land in the Hills, the acreage run
ming up into the thousands Heretofore
the work has been confined to tunnels and
crosscuts towards the top Of the hill,
where low grade free milling rock has
been found.
The Grantz Gold Mining company is
finishing It's new assay office at the Roose-
welt group Of claims recently purchased.
and Jesse Simmons Of Deadwood,
graduate of the South Dakota School Of
Mines, has been engaged as assayer. The
office is commodious frame structure.
two stories high, and will contain COM
plete laboratory, as we'll as g. company
office and sleeping apartments for Off
GERS. The shaft at the Roosevelt group
thirty feet more has been gained, cross
cut will be driven to the ledge, to prove
the ore body. If it is found as strong
and rich as it Is at the outcrop a steam
hoisting plant will be installed. The
shaft the company is sinking on the old
st. Elmo group is 113 feet deep and a
station is being cut.
Another discovery has been made on the
ground of the Columbia Mining company,
near Rockford, the second within ten
days. The latest discovery is about a
mile from where the rich strike was made
| the fore part of last week, and while the
| ore is not so rich as that first didscovered
it appears to be in a larger body and te
carry uniform free milling values. I,
was made In a tunnel that has been under
way for several months, and is evidently
| the vein from which ore was mined TWEEN
| ty-hve years ago to supply the old Charte
| Oak MILL the first quartz mill to b.
erected In that part Of the Black Hills.
SPEARFISH, s. D.-Sinking has beer
commenced on the ground, Of the Dee
Lick Gold Mining company, six mile
south of Spearfsh, along Iron creek, ives
Of the spearish canyon. The compan!
has done several thousand dollars wortl
Of work on the property, all of it in tun
nels and crosscuts from tunnels, witt
the result that much ore Of good grad
and adaptable to cyanide has been re
vealed. The new shaft has been starte'
on a vertical or rich ore that is foun
coming up through the formation. TIL
mining men and has been praised by a.
of them. Everything is highly mineral
lied in the immediate vicinity, and tn
quartzite, where exposed on the surface
assays better than 81 a ton, on an aver
age. There is believed to be sufdcien
ore in sight to justify the erection of
: plant for its treatment, and the com
pany hopes to be able to build early
tho spring. -,
"A large body Of $12 ore has been dis
covered on property belonging to Henr
t Lepel1a, w. J. Mclaughlin and job
4 Schneider, adjoining the ground of tt
}, Deer Lick company on Iron creek. M
Q Schnetzler was the original owner Of tt
3 tract, comprising ten full claims, he bt
T ing the earliest locator between tt
s Spearfish canyon and Beaver creel
!. Lappla and Mclaughlin purchased intel
e ests with him two years ago.
e The Castle Rock Mining company, con
e posed of Spearfish men, Is obtaining e,
t cellent ore on its property eight mill
southwest Of town. This is also cyanit
ing ore, and within the last few montl
a. large body Of it has been expose
b Plans are under way to build a plant.