Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-01-03
Mining Items.

Mining Items.
One of our northern Hills exchangt 8
says Aaron Dunn is preparing to make
ore shipments from the Belle Eldridge
ground on Spruce gulch, to a Deadwood
reduction plant.
1t Is reported that the Homestake
Mining company will erect during the
coming year a 6OO.stamp mill. 1t viii
be the largest plant Of the kind under
one roof in the world. Its location is
still an unsettled question. y
According to reports from Keystone
the Holy Terror Mining company is do
ing the deepest mining in the Black
Hills just now i'm cross cutting the Key.
stone ledge on the 1900 foot level, and
when finished there will be a thousand
feet of ore above ready to break down
for treatment.
NORTH A
While the operations on this property
have practically been discontinued, by
reason of a scarcity of water, Superin-
tendent Lemon and one other employe
are still retained at the mine, pending
the resumption of operations in the tut
ure, when we learn that the main shaft
will be sunk to a much greater depth
with a view to securing q water supply
sufficient to meet all demands. We
we're unable to ascertain just when
operations on the mine would be re-
sumed, bot there are good and substan-
tial reasons for the belief that it will not
be a great while.
CLARA BELLE.
, Operations on this promising property
are being continued with brilliant pros
poets for successful results. The work
ing shaft has now attained a depth of
1876 feet, and at this depth the conditions
are regarded as being highly favorable.
| Operations on the mine will be greatly
facilitated by the recent purchase of a
steam hoist, boiler, pump and everything
necessary to enhance operations and put
| the mine on q paying basis in the short
| est possible time. The machinery will
be installed in q short time after which
| we may expect, with a full measure OF
| confidence, that the star of he Clara
Belle will rapidly rise to its ascendency,
and that the goal Of deferred hope will
be fully reached.
L COMPANY FOR SOUTHERN HILLS.
The first meeting Of stockholders in
| the Redfern Gold Mining and Milling
| company resulted in the election of the
following officers: John Croft, presi
dent; A. Mochon, vice president; A. G..
| Stephens, secretary and manager; J.Mc'
! Donald, treasurer. These with R. Z.
Hawley, Fl. Mcclellan, Robert G. Hayes
and Samuel Pasco constitute the direc-
torate. The officers and directors are
residents of Lead and Deadwood, 5. d.,
| and Alliance, Neb. The company was
only recently Incorporated, with a CAPT
talization of 81 900, 900 divided into ! ,000,-
600 shares of stock of a par value Of one
dollar a share. 1t is designed to confine
| the heaviest stockholders to the employees
and officials of the Burlington railroad
system. The promoters are Burlington
men and they are assured OF important
financial assistance from other men of
the system. A number OF Burlington
| men have owned the Redfern property
| for several months. A five stamp mill
was built early in the past fall and is be-
ing operated for demonstrators purposes.
The property consists CT twelve claims a
! mile and a half from Redfern station On
| the Burlington, and eight miles from
| Hill City. Water is obtained in various
springs for milling purposes, and 1t is
estimated hat there is sufficient for forty
stamps. The developments OIL the prop
erty reveal a vein fourteen feet in width,
| carrying uniformly good values in free
gold. The vein may be traced 10000
| feet across the company's claims and a
painful of dirt and broken rock taken
from any point along the outcrop yields
good results in free gold. The body OF
the ore shows a general value of from
81. so to S22.8O q ton from wall 10 wall.
The property lies adjoining the King
| Solomon mine, which was n noted prop.
erty in the early days of the Black Hills
1t is only a mile and a half to the Sun
beam mine in Friday gulch, where re-
markabfy rich ore is being obtained.
The Redfern company intends to extend
its operations, having control Of adjoin'
ing property which it proposes purchas-
ing. Development work will continue,
and check will be kept on progress with
the small stamp mill. AS o as the
property will justify it a larger mill will
be built and it is probable that cyanide
will be adopted for the re~treatment Of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Great Opportunity.