The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-11

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ing and Milling company resulted in the
election of the following officers: John
Croft, president; o. Mochon, vice pres
ident; "A. G. Stephens, secretary and
manager; j. Mcdonald treasurer. These.
with r.. e. Hawley, H. Mcclellan. Robert
C. Hayes and Samuel Pascoe constitute
the directorate. The company was only
recently Incorporated, with a capitaliza-
tioin Of $1O0O,O 900, divided into 100000
shares of stock of par value Of ST.. a
share. 1t Is designed to confine the heaV-
lest stockholders to the employees and Of
ficials of the Burlington railroad system.
The promoters are Burlington men, and
they are assured of important financial
assistance from other men Of the system.
Burlington men have owned the Red
fern property for several months. A
five stamp mill was built early in the
fall and is being opera ted for ,demonstra
ton purposes. The property consists
of twelve claims mile and a half from
Redfern station on the Burlington, and
eight miles from Hill City. Water Is OBJ
tanned in various springs for milling pur-
poses, and it is estimated that there is
sufficient for forty stamps The deVel-
OpmentS reveal a vein fourteen feet In
width carrying uniformly good values.
in free gold. The vein may be traced
1000 feet across the companys claims
and a painful of dirt and broken rock
taken from any point along the out
crop yields good results III free gold. The
body of ore shows general value of from
so cents to $3.50 a ton from wall to-
wall. ~ a...s>t ...,+' :..$ ~ 49,.
The incline shaft son the Sunbeam prop
erty is 100 feet deep, and the ore is richer
than before. The ore possesses Singu-
structure
mated with particles Of metallic gold, vary
ing in size from that of a pin point and
barely visible to nuggets as large as grains
of wheat, Occasionally wires Of pure gold
are found through the ore. The vein is
over fifteen feet wide and shows great
regularity all the way down. Y 1t possesses
| an average value of over $50 a ton, and a
| sample taken recently assayeds se6:O00 a
ton. The: Sunbeam Mining company was
organized for: the development, Of the
! ground Friday gulch was one Of the rich
| est placer regions in the Black Hills dur
| ing the early days, but it was not until a
few years ago that men turned their atten-
! ton towards discovering the origin of the
! placer deposits. ~ ~ So"
| .DEADWOOD, S. D.-The machinery has
| arrived for the Golden Crest ter-stamp
! wet crushing cynaide mill, in course of
| building on the head of Two Bit gulch, five
| is waiting for the shafting, which has been
delayed. If'it arrives next week the mill
will be in operation by Dec. 20. Water
| wilt; be. supplied from the main shaft of
! the Golden Crest mine, which is 225 feet
| deep and filed to within seventy five feet
| of the top with water. = There is a strong
4 pump iii the shaft, and as soon as the mill
startes The pump will unwater the shaft.
The ore is found in strong verticals most
of them showing an incline. They lie in
1 a series, and during the last few months
| the company has been developing several
! new ones whose apexes:are near thettop of
! the hill back of the plant Inclines have
been put down. r. p. .,-~-yes,
A cyanide annex capable of treating $50
tons a day has been started by the Jupiter
| Gold Mining company on Blacktail gulch.
| three miles west Of Deadwood, to: be used
in connection with the forty-stamp mill
! of the Gustin mine, which has been leased
and bonded by the Jupiter from the Bos-
| ton-South Dakota company. There will
be sixteen Oregon far tanks in the annex,
in which the failing from the stamp mill
will be re-treated with solution of cya-
| hide =. -. 49,. :. 49,
t PIERRE, S. ,D.-The Indians in the. vi
| entity of Ionia, in southern Lyman county,
| have recently been pand over $4,000 In
| cash for their summers work on Rosebud
i reservation in the making Of dams and
i roads, and the work, is. yet going on
! G.; H. >JaXnes, a meat dealer, has pur-
T chased. two. full blooded buffalo from the
7 Philip herd at Fort Pierre, at a cost of
4 $1,000 and will kill them for the Christ
mas trade.-Articles of Incorporation have
7 been filed for the Rintour Gold Mining
! company at Pierre, with; capital Of
; $I.000,000; the Harris Ideal Health Flour
Milling company, at Huron, with a capt.
tai of 100000; the Western Woodwork
ing company at Pierre, with a capital Of
$4,000; the Montana Land and Cattle
company at Pierre. with a capital Of
100000; the Bonanza Gold Mines Devel-
opment company at Huron, with a, CAPT
! tai OF $1,000, 900; the Internat ional Metal
lie Railway Tie company, at Huron, with
eapitaIof $1,500,0O0. q r.. e.: = :
i CUSTER, S. D.-Judge Rice Of Dead.
:: wood has been holding court in the alb
Il sence Of: Judge MCGEE, who is in Mexico
, on business. In the case of Aaron: Dunn
Il against the Saginaw Gold Mining com
> Eany. a decree was given the plaintiff
f against the estate of B.. r. Noble The
t jury in the case Of John A. Collins VS. the
/ Gladiator Mining company. awarded
plaintiff Judgment in the sum of $500. II
Walter. Lloyd against DAVID Sisk,. triet
t to. a jury, the plaintiff received a Yer.
e dict for $500. The case of r. F. Nc
Laughlin VS.. B. R..Noble was dismissed
g In. the case of Rhomberg VS.. Dowen a yer
: cree was entered in favor of the defend
: ant The most important case is that O
the Custer County Bank VS.. Custer
county, involving road warrants issuet
before Custer City was made an indie
r pendent road district. The amount suet
l. for is $1,000. X. + -. Ia, -,
} CANTON, S. De. w: Norton, one O
the. oldest: settlers and most prominent cit
! liens ofsLincoln- county, died suddenly yes
8 terday, The cause Of his death is sup
a posed to have been apoplexy. He was 6
81 years old and leaves wife and famiI
t. Of seven grown up sons and daughetrs H
| came to Lincoln county. in. 1871, and wa
, one of the best known men in this part {
t Of the state. During, the. rebellion h
served three years in the union arm.
: enlisting as a private in Company A, Thir
Colorado cavalry. J., The funeral took plac
/ from