Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-10-23
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80 HILLS MINES.

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LACK HILLS MINES
4 win sink to a Great
I s' rGss discoveries Around
ssA ,,ring Company has or
GSo0s ,a,st hump, air compress
pss and is preparing to
18th Of 1000 feet on Its
. us distance west OF Lead.
! superintendent. He is
Fsa r.,rhanks-Morse gasoline
compressor and Leyner
20 Tne company is The owner
.,ount OF mineral land in the
.oreage running up into the
Y heretofore the work has
~ as,sd to tunnels and crosscuts
\. he top Of the hill, where low
,.asmilling rock has been dis
cold Mining company ID
i, nav assay office. at the
y, sroup Of claims, recently
and Jesse Simmons or
S.sI ! graduate of the South
cosool OF mines, has been en-
s.eayer. The Office is a com.
s-sne structure, two stories
rill contain a complete Ia
y well as a company Office
.ssuing apartments for its ON.
"a shaft of the Roosevelt
!. sayenty-hve feet deep. After
,@is,onal depth of twenty-five or
ssat has been gained, a cross-cut
sr,ven to the ledge, to prove
\. Sody. II it is found as strong
= i Is at the outcrcp, a steam
: ulant will be installed. Tie
Il M company il sinking on the
rlno group is 113 feet deep, and
.ron Is being cut.
rsthsr discovery has been made
!. ground of the Columbia Mining
Ss,,y near Rockford, the second
/, tsu DAYS. The second discov-
shout q mile from where the
,trke was made the fore part OF
rsak and, while the ore is not so
. tat first discovered, 1t appears
IN larger body and to carry uni
freemiIling values. 1t was made
nnnel that has been under way
several months, and Is evidently
vein from which ore was mined
agaye years ago, TO supply the
Garter Oak mill, the first quartz
10 be erected in that part of the
Il Hills.
,Ftsinking has been commenced
ske ground OF the Deer Lick Gold
ing company, six miles north OF
IRISH, along Iron creek, west of
IRISH canyon. The company has
several thousand dollars worth
YORK on the property, all OF 1t In
els and ~cross-cuts from tunnels,
the result that much ore of good
ie sne adaptable to cyanide has
revealed. The new shaft has
started on a vertical of rich ore,
Is found coming up through the
ation. The property has been ex-
he'd by competent mining men, and
been praised by all OF them. Ev-
Ring. IS eighty mineralized in the
hediate dcinity, and the q~uartzite,
Re exposed on the surface, assays
h than 81 per ton on an average.
here Is believed To be sufficient ore
light 70 justify the erection of a
p for Its treatment, and the com.
hopes to be able to build early in
spring.
large body OF s12 ore has been dis
Pred on property belonging TO Hen
Lepsia, W. ]. Mclaughlin and John
lezlsE adjoining the ground OF
Deer Lick company on Iron creek.
Schnetzler was the original owner
pc tract, comprising ten full claims.
beng the earliest locator between
alilsh canyon and Beaver creek.
PeAs and Mclaughlin purchased in.
sS with him two years ago.
Y Castle Rock Mining company,
posed OF Spearfish men, is obtain
f1cellent r on its property. eight
Z southwest Of Spearfish. This is
: cyaniding ore, and within the
lev months a large part of 1t has
exposed. Plans are now under
% start a plant.