Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-23
MINING IN The BLACK HILLS.
PrOspeCtOrs Are Active at Present in Several
New Fields in This Section.
PARTICULARLY ENERGETIC IN KEYSTONE
Bear Gulch and Iron Creek, Close
TO Deadwood, Are Also ReceIv-
ing More Than Usual
Attention.

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doing something with it Just at present
and the work is showing up some pretty
good prospects. The Tycoon mill is run
ming on ore from the Ranger ground. and
the ore that is being milled is OF the usual
high grade that is met with in the camp.
The company is doing extensive develop
ment and prospecting work on its ground,
and the mill. which is dropping ten stamps
every day, is paying for the work that is
being done. The company is working a
force Of twenty-five men, and as It is
getting out more ore than can be used up
in the mill, a whole lot OF It is being stored
and will be held for shipment, as 1t is all
OF better than the average, grade.
The Mount Etna company has a big
force Of men at work on the Lucky Boy
claim, and has the shaft down 100 feet.
The Lucky Boy vein Is a continuation on
the southern end of the Keystone vein,
and the ore which Is now being taken
out Of the shaft is a low grade, free
milling proposition, which has occasionally
very rich streaks running through it. The
vein at the 1O0-foot level is about thirty
FIVE fet wide, at least 1t has been crosscut
to that width, and the hanging wall has
not yet been met with.
The Holy Terror company, since 1t has
passed into the hands of the new manage
ment, is doing as we'll as 1t ever did.
President Hughes Of the company is at the
mine and giving the work his personal
supervision. The mine is in better shape
than 1t has been for the last three years
and the rich ore that made the Terror the
most famous small vein mine in the Black
Hills is still met with, while the average
grade Of the ore is much higher than that
taken from numerous rich mines. Ore is
being taken from the 1,o00-foot level and
from drifts which have been run in on the
vein below the 900-foot level. At this
depth the ore body is a pretty big one, and
from that level and the 1,000-foot the
ore which is milled is all being taken at
the present time. The mill is treating
eighty tons a day.
Prospecting In ChilkOot.
Some good ground is being opened up in
the Chilkoot district, eight miles south OF
this camp, and there are a good number or
men working. Some Of the prospects have
had much work done upon them, but prob
ably on the Chilkoot group, from which
the district takes its name, the most work
has been done, and its claims have been
better developed than have any OF the
others. On this group a great deal OF sur
face work has been done in the shape or
open cuts, besides a number of small tun-
nels. There is, however, one SHAFT which
is Down 200 feet and from the bottom a
drift has been run on the vein Tor ABOUT
100 feet and a crosscut driven, which shows
the vein to be twenty-five feet wide. Tne
ore is a cyanide proposition and gives
assays ranging from So to $50 a ton BE-
sides this vein, there Is a smaller one,
which is also rebellious in the character OF
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considerable extent by the surface work
spoken of and 1t Is not known what 1t may
turn into with depth. Assays from the ore
give very good returns. The property is
owned by Thomas Blair, who located 1t
about sixteen years ago and who has held
onto II ever since. Besides this group
there are others being worked In the dis
trict. and good prospects are being re-
ceived from the ores taken from them. IL
has. however, only been OF late that atten-
ton has been given the mines here by
outside people, and all OF the work that
has been done on them has been done oy
small owners, so 1t has not received the
development which its Importance deserved,
hut II is now beginning to awaken and Will
from now on receive It's share of work.
Are Active.
DEADWooD, s. D., June 22.-(special.)-
OF late there has been considerable at
tention paid to the Bear gulch and Iron
creek districts. and in both Of them some
very good prospects have been struck In
the Bear gulch district, especially, the
prospectors have been active, although
there are many properties on which much
work has been opened up In that section
of the Hills. On Tuesday last there we're
twenty-three locations filed from that dis
trict with the register of deeds In this
city. and since that time they
have averaged about ten a day
1t is said that during the last win
ter several good strikes had been made
in the district, but the fact OF their dis
covery was kept quiet until a few weeks
ago, and since that time there has been a
little stampede of prospectors to the dis
trict and many locations have been and are
being made. Last Friday Stewart Thomp-
son. one OF the best known mining men
In the Hills. left for Bear gulch, where
he Will take charge Of the operations
which are under way on the Connors group
Of claims and will add to the force OF
miners already at work on the ground. This
group has received considerable develop
ment work during the last three years. and
a number Of small verticals have been
opened up on IL, all OF lhem chITgih6 q
good grade of ore. and some of them ore
that will assay very high. The present work
is being prosecuted on a four-foot vertical.
which at the surface gave some excellent
assays and which as depth has been at
tanned has grown better, and now at a
depth of eighty feet gives indications OF
growing wider and stronger From this
point the shaft will be carried down 100
feet further.
From the Iron creek district at least
eighty location certificates have been hled
within the last three weeks. and the pros
peetor Is very much in evidence. The
same conditions exist in this district as
do in the Bear gulch and the ground is
being taken up very rapidly and there will
soon be none left to locate. While re-
ports OF rich finds in the district are nu-
merous, nothing aside from what has been
worked for a number of years is known.
but. nevertheless, the district is receiy-
ing more attention from the prospeetor at
the present time than any other part Of the
Hills. so there must be something upon
which to base the reports. In the car
Donate district, also, there is a little rifie
Of excitement. and the fact Is emphasized
by the fling OF numerous locations from
that section. This district, however, has