The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-18
SOUTH DAKOTA
HORSESHOE A BIG BUYER
Black Hills Mining Company Is Picking
Up Many Good Properties.

UP many Good Properties.
DEADWOOD. S. D.-The Horseshoe
Mining Company has extended it's domain
by the acquisition of several hundred
of the largest holders In the Black Hills
region. Among the properties that have
passed into the company's possession are
the Ben Hur, Sunset, Baltimore, Rich
mond, Cygnet and associate claims, and
the acreage of the Mcdonald Mining COM
pany.1 All this property lies In the Bald
mountain region. -.. 49,.
Before spring the company will be mill
ing 1900 tons Of ore a day In it's own
plants. The old Kildonan chlorination
mill at Puma is one Of the most success
full cyanide plants in the state and is
reducing 800 tons Of ore a day. The
smelter at Rapid City has a daily ca
pacity of 900 tons. and the new cyanide
plant at the Mogul mine, in Ruby Basin,
will. when finished, be able to treat 1000
tons a day at the least.
The Mcdonald Mining company, whose,
property was sold to the Horseshoe, has
taken steps to dissolve the corporation
The principal stockholders are Ernest May
and w. r. Driscoll Of Lead, and M r.
Russell. j. w. Higbie and John Treber of
Deadwood. The company was incor.
porated twelve years ago.
GALENA. 8. D.--The Ruby Gold Min J.
ing company will probably be the first to
build a cyanide plant in Bear Butte dis
trict., The money has been raised and
the plans are being prepared. The COM
pany has disclosed a large quantity IF
good ore within the last six months. The
ore lies In the porphyry, consisting Of a
series OF parallel assure veins in an
enormous porphyry dyke. The work has
demonstrated that the surface ground
everything the vein is highly impregnated
with free gold. -. 49,
The company: is composed principally Of
residents of Newcastle, Pa, among then,
being men interested In the American Tin
Plate company. James Conzett of Dead
wood is president; H. G. Greer Of New
castle, Pa, vice president, and Norman T.
Mason Of Deadwood. secretary. There is
no stock for SALE 49,,
The. Galena Mining and Smelling com
pany, a reorganization of the old Unior
Hill Mining company, is undergoing an:
other reorganization, and the heaviei
shareholders expect to make producers O.
several properties. There is a deal pend
Ing on the Dakota Maid ond Gilt Edge
mines and it is expected they will pas.
into the ownership of eastern men II
the next few weeks.
TWO BIT, S. D.-There has been mucl
activity in Two Bit and Spruce gulche
the last few weeks. Aaron Dunn is re
Stunning operations on his property and II
preparing to make a few shipments Of ore
1t will be hauled in wagons to reduction
| works at Deadwood. 49,. ..
The Denver and Black. Hills Gold Min
! ing company is making further improve
nents at the cyanide plant and In tn
connecting tramways between the min
and MILL, The company Is owner Of tn
| old Champion mine and associate prop
critics. comprising nearly 200 acres, mos
/ Of it lying between Spruce and Two Bi
gulches, and has a twenty stamp wet
crushing cyanide plant. There is a vas
quantity Of the ore exposed, all of it o
good commercial. grade and amenable t
cyanide.
Antoine Peterson and Hugh E. Layto
own a claim near the Denver and Blac
Hills company's cyanide plant. where the
are opening a large. body Of good ore i
a shaft: Their ore Is worth from So t
$50 ton. ... :, -