The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20
SOUTH DAKOTA
GARDEN CITY DISTRICT
Clutches In a Black Hills District Are
~ Teen,Inu With Activity.

Teemlng With Activity
GARDEN CITY, S. D.-Actual mining
or dcvelo pment work is in progress In
nearly every gulch within a radius Of
two miss OF Garden City. Mining i'm
proveInents are making satisfactory head
way in numerous places, and are of
more lasting nature than the camp has
ever known. Several properties are being
pr eparea for the production of shipping
ore. and TIE companies and individuals
owning claims where there are encourage
ing prospects are bending their energies
towards the development of their proper
ties to point that will demonstrate
whether or not they contain ore in COM
mcrcial quantities. e..'
Much Of the territory immediate to
Garden City has lately been purchas ed
by the Penobscot Mining company, and
much more is under bond to this COM
pany. If the latter bonds are taken up
the Penobscot will own about 1000 acres
Of the choicest mineral land in the dis
trict, beginning above Garden City and
extending over a mile down the stream,
as we'll as taking in properties on Para
disc and Tetrault gulch. The Penobscot
mas fort! stamp wet crushing cyanide
plant practically complete, and will have
it running before Jam t. The company is
finishing large boarding house. barn
ana other buildings near the mill Devel-
opn ent Is being continued in the mine
meanwhile and large bodies Of ore of a
good grade for cyaniding are being
blocked out.
~ mile northwest Of Garden City the
Gold Edge Mining company has per-
formed the necessary amount of work
on about 200 acres, and has the ground
entered for United States patent. The
company has ore in large bodies, much
or IT. adapted to cyaniding, and contem-
plates the building of a mill early in the
spflrg. There Is water right on the
property, carrying sufficient water IN Tx
horn gu:ch, to supply a mill of modest
proportions. There is also considerable
ore on the property that will pay to ship,
out the company will not begin mining
until patent has been issued.
Charles Brown and James K. Pollock
nave lately been getting an excellent
quahty OF silver carbonate mile and a
hal1 west OF Garden City, and a contract
mas peen let for a tunnel. This discov-
cry was made early in the summer, and
SUBSEQUENT developments have tended to
revive interest in silver mining.
Charles Graham, John holland and
other property holders are following "a
vorabIe indications on their claims The
Masnolla Mining company, COMPOSED
largely u DeadWood persons, has started
work on Burno gulch, west of Garden
City two miles. Everything has been
stliled out. as far as the limestone can
ping at the edge of the prairie, and the
district promises great activity for the
winter.
CEN CITY. S. D.-The Columbus
Consolidated Mining company has dis
closed several new ore bodies in the fiat
formation towards the northern extremity
nf G How oil
They WerC encountered while continuing
some Of the old ore workings on the Ros-
sitter claims, and practically parallel the
other Lodie:' Of ore that the company has
been working for two months. These
shoots have a northerly and southerly
trend and lie near the surface, being
reached by tunneling in from the side hill,
TIL. ore recently discovered shows an
average value of 81 a ton. The discovery
increases the company's visible ore supply
considerably. and it is now assured that
the plan will be enlarged perhaps three
times it's present capacity provided. suffi-
Glant water is available. Otherwise the
plant will be enlarged as far as the water
supply will admit, and another and
larger plant will be built elsewhere, on
some water course, to which the ore may
be shipped conveniently
=. n. Duncan of Mercur Utah has been
in the Elack Hills during the last week
examining property that he and asso-
clates from Utah and Colorado have I'M
der bond. This takes in the Dakota Min
ing ccr.pany's territory, of about 800
acres. lyinS Immediately west of Portland,
in the Bald mountain region, and several
adjoining claims, making about 500, acres
all told. Q R.Amsden of Colorado Springs,
who is consulting engineer and superin-
tei>dent for the Black Hills Belt Develop
Ing company, organized by the Crosby
Enrich syndicate, is TN the deal. and has
made all exhaustive examination of the
properties listed. If the deal goes
through it will be of great Importance
to the Hills.