Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-26

tom Of the shaft show no difference from
that taken a few feet below the surface.
The gold in the rock lie very ane and
cannot be seen with the naked eye, but
when a glass is put on a piece Of the rock
II fairly glltters with gold. 1t looks like a
good proposition, and even should the work
not be on the ledge, there is enough ore
on the surface Of the ground. which lie
covered for several hundred feet around
the shaft with big masses and boulders OF
float, to make the owners wealthy.
Ore is being shipped to one Of the Dead
wood cyanide plants from the Nevada
mine on Strawberry gulch. This property
is one Of the mines Of the Union Hill
company, and is now being worked under
lease by Bart Harris. who has made ship,
mcnts Of several carloads Of the ore from
the old dump. and from which he has re-
ceived good returns. He is at present
running a tunnel to tap the shoot at a
deeper level than the old workings on II
and will have to go in about seventy-ive
feet before the shoot is struck. This will
give him a chance to handle the ore with
out the necessity Of putting in a hoist.
In the meantime he will continue ship
n its from the old dump, and with them
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porphyry ore, and. like all the ore taken
from this vicinity, pays well. its values
ranging from S12 to S36 a ton. 1t ad-
Joins the Gilt Edge mine on the north, and,
like that mine. has produced some very
rich ore, ore going as high as $500 a ton
having in the early days OF its working
been shipped from it.
New Cyanide Plant at Puma.
The sixty-ton cyanide plant, built by Hall
& Mcconnell, Just south Of the city limits
of Deadwood. near Puma, has been finished
and is ready for work. The plant was orig
inally constructed for the purpose of
treating the talllngs from the Homestake
mills at Lead. which were carght and i'm
pounded on wildwood creek, about two
miles below the mills, and allowed to settle
on the fat bottom OF the creek at that
point, being protected by crib work and
bulkheads. About 100, 900 tons of these
tallings were collected in this manner be-
fore the Homestake company had COM
pleted its 1,20O-ton tailings plant on Gold
Run creek, and through which all OF the
t~ailings from its mills at Lead now passes,
These tailings so collected carry small
values In gold, not to exceed 81 a ton, hut
as the cost Of treating them is almost
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by the gentlemen now owning the ~tailings
and the plant. The p~racticability of this
scheme was first demonstrated by an
Omaha man, C. B.. Stubs, who at this
point put in a small dam and collected a
couple of hundred of tons OF these tailings
and proved the possibilities of the scheme
by the erection OF a small system Of leach
ing tanks for the treatment Of the tail
ings which he collected. He made better
than wages while he continued his little
plant in operation, and then sold out to q
| man named John Bylow, who in turn sold
to the present owners. Before erecting
the present plant Massrs. Hall & Mcconnell
made a number OF practical tests and salts
fed themselves that there was money In
the scheme. The new plant has beer
equipped with rolls and will do custom
work on ores sent to It. although 1t was
originally intended to treat nothing but the
tailings saved.
The Titanic Mining company, in Carbon
ate district. is about to resume operations
on its ground. The company owns about
1000 acres Of land in the district. II hat
ordered an air compressor plant and new
pumps, and will continue sinking In its
present shaft, which is now down 225 feet
This shaft will be sent to quartzite, whict
Il is expected will be reached within the
next fifty feet, and then drifting along thai
formation will be begun. TIL Titanic
ground is in O. good location and has beer
considered by mining men to be one OF the
best propositions In the district. It's ON
GERS and principal stockholders are al
South Dakota men, who have already ex'
pended a great deal OF money in the de
velopment Of the ground.