Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-20
MINING IN The BLACK HILLS
Gold Hill Directors Examine Property and
Return TO Omaha.
WILL ERECT A NEW CYANIDE MILL
Indications OF n Large and Rich Shoot
of ore similar 60 Those on Id
Joining Property-Output
Of the District.

DEADwooD. 6. D.. oct. 19.-(special.)-
p. L. Lomax. general passenger agent Of
the Union Pacific Railroad company; r. c.
Patterson Of Omaha, II. S. Weller Of Omaha,
and r. L. Larson OF Fremont left Deadwood
for Omaha Tuesday evening after spending
several days in the Black Hills examining
mining property in which they are inter-
ested. The gentlemen are directors and
officers OF the Gold Hill Mining company,
the ground Of which is located in the Rag
ged Top district, close to the Eleventh
Hour group from which so much rich ore
Is at present being shipped, and adjoining
the holdings Of the Spearnsh company. The
gentlemen were very we'll satisfied with the
work that has been done on the ground, and
before leaving for Omaha gave it out that
arrangements would at once De made for
the erection Of a $4,000 cyanide mill on the
group Of mines which the company owns.
The Gold Hill has received some very
extensive development, the recent work
done being the sinking OF a large working
shaft to the quartzite, and on this contract
finding a deposit Of ore, but how extensive
this ore deposit is has not as yet been de-
termlned, FOR the shaft has only reached
the quartzite. and no opportunity has yet
been had for exploration. The outlook Is
most encouraging, however, and every In
dication points to a large and rich shoot
of ore being found in this place. On the
surface the Gold Hill people have the same
ore shoots which are being worked so sue
cessfully by the spearhsh, the Deadwood-
Standard and the Eleventh Hour com
panies. and have done considerable work on
them, with the result that they have lem
onstrated that there is an immense amount
Of ore on the property.
Higher Values Lower Down.
The ore on the lower contact, however,
carries higher values than it does on the
upper contact, and should the ore body
which is disclosed in the 3o0-foot shaft
which has Just been completed prove to be
as extensive as the management has every
reason to believe II will, this fact OF itself
Is sufficient to warrant the erection Of the
plant which the company has in contempla-
tton. Work In the deep shaft has been
abandoned for the present, or until the com
pany can install more boiler power and
replace the present piping in the shaft with
six-inch pipe, and so give It a greater
pumping capacity, the present facilities for
Keeping the water out Of the mine not
being sufficient. Another 100 horse power
boiler has been delivered at the shaft and
Is now being put in place, and when this
is done work Of drifting on the contact
where it is met with in the bottom Of the
shaft Will be commenced and continued until
the ore shoot, which is known TO exist there
Is thoroughly explored. The company has
a good hoist on the ground, and will install
an air-eompressor plant and put in power
drills, so that the work will proceed at a
rapid rate. The 300-foot shaft for seventy
feet Of Its depth followed down a small
vertical OF rich ore, but which at that dis
lance from the surface pitched out OF the
shaft, and Superintendent Goodman, who
Is In charge Of the operations, believes that
this vertical Is again coming in. and that a
short drift will again catch Il, and when II
Is met with that It will prove to be a
large shoot Of ore on the fiat formation.
and that the vertical is but an off-shoot
from 1t leading to the surface. superin-
tendent Goodman accompanied the directors
and officers OF the company to Omaha, and
while there win meet with them and then
decide upon the future development TO be
prosecuted on the ground, and the character
OF mill to be erected.
The discovery OF ore on the quartzite in
the Gold Hill shaft Is a big thing for the
Iron Creek and Ragged Top districts, for
heretofore all of the successful mining in
both has been done on shoots OF ore which
are found on the surface, and which, while
very extensive and all carrying very fair
commercial value, are not so rich as those
found on the lower contact. This is the
nrst time that quartzite has been reached in
the district. and the discovery will be the
cause OF extensive development. There arc
several large companies in this vicinity
n ali Of them have ample means to take
mp the work OF sinking to quartzite on
their ground.
Black HIS Growing Output.
An interesting illustration OF what mod
brn methods will do for a low grade country,
that is, a. country in which the greater part
OF the ore mined and treated is Of a grade
which in other countries would not be con-
sidered good enough to receive serious
consideration as a factor in the production
OF bullion. is given NJ the yearly production
OF gold by the Black Hills from. 1876 to the
end Of 1901:
1876. ......,,..S 100 900 1891 ...........S A.6l9. 80
1s7..,"."". cocoon 1892. ,......... b,101, $50
0aQ a z n NUAn 1890