The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-10-23
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BLACK HILLS MINES.


nlobe Company Will Sink to Great
n.nth-ore Discoveries Around
spearfish.
The Globe Mining Company has or
aered a new hoist, pump, air compress
sor and drills, and is preparing to
link TO a depth of 1000 feet on it's
Droperty short distance west Of Lead.
= Wade is superintendent. He is
Installing a Fairbanks-Morse gasoline
hoist and air compressor and Leyner
air drills. The company is the owner
~ vast amount of mineral land In the
Eills. the acreage running up into the
,housands. Heretofore the work has
been confined to tunnels and crosscuts
,cwards the top Of the hill. where low
Grade. free-milling rock has been dis
covered.
The Grant, Gold Mining company ii
finishing its new assay office. at the
Roosevelt group of claims, recently
nurchased, and Jesse Simmons Of
Deadwood, a graduate of the South
Dakota School of mines, has been en-
Gagged as assayer. The Office is com
modious frame structure, two stories
tie1. and will contain a complete la
boratory, as well as a company Office
and sleeping apartments for its Off
GERS The shaft of the Roosevelt
group is seventy-five feet deep. After
an additional depth of twenty-five or
thirty feet has been gained, cross-cut
will be driven to the ledge, to prove
the ore body. If 1t is found as strong
and rich as 1t is at the outcrop, steam
hosting plant will be installed. Tie
shaft the company is sinking on the
old ST. Elmo group is il3 feet deep, and
a station is being cut.
Another discovery has been made
en- the ground of the Columbia Mining
company, near Rockford, the second
within ten days. The second discov-
cry is about a mile from where the
rich strike was made the fore part of
the week, and, while the ore is not so
rich as that first discovered, 1t appears
to be in larger body and to carry uni
form free-milling values. 1t was made
in a tunnel that has been under way
the vein from which ore was mined
twenty-five years ago, to supply the
old Charter Oak mill, the first quartz
mill to be erected in that part of the
Black Hills.
Shaft-sinking has been commenced
on the ground of the Deer Lick Gold
Mining company, six miles north OF
Spearfish, along Iron creek, west Of
Spearfish canyon. The company has
done several thousand dollars worth
of work on the property, all of IL in
tunnels and cross-cuts from tunnels,
with the result that much ore of good
grade and adaptable to cyanide has
been revealed. The new shaft has
been started on a vertical of rich ore,
that is found coming up through the
formation. The property has been ex-
amined by competent mining men, and
has been praised by all OF them. Ev-
erything is highly mineralized in the
immediate vicinity. and the quartzite,
where exposed on the surface, assays
better than 81 per ton on an average.
There is believed to be sufficient ore
in sight to justify the erection of a
plant for its treatment, and the COM
pany hopes to be able to build early In
the spring.
A large body of $12 ore has been dis.
covered on property belonging to Her
ry Lepella, w. j. Mclaughlin and John
Schneider, adjoining the ground OF
the Deer Lick company on Iron creek.
Mr.. Schneider was the original owner
of the tract, comprising ten full claims
he being the earliest locator between
Spearlish canyon and Beaver creek.
Lepella and Mclaughlin purchased In
terests with him two years ago.
The Castle Rock Mining company,
composed of Spearfish men, is obtain
Ing excellent ore on its property, eight
miles southwest of Spearfish. This is
also a cyaniding ore, and within the
last few months large part of it has
been exposed. Plans are now under
way to start plant.