The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-16
SOUTH DAKOTA
BLACK HILLS GOLD.
General S. E. Olson in Deadwood
Looking After His Interests
in That Section.
The spearhsh Company Has Millions
in Sight and Is Still
Prospecting.

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company and principal organizer OF the
proposed merger of the Ak-sar- pen, W III,
versity and other companies, nve III 81,
has arrived from Minneapolis. Ihere was
special meeting of the stocknoloers ~
the Ak-sar-pen and University com pdliies
for the purpose of ratifying the actl.oh :, "
the directors of the two companies IN the
matter Of consolidation. 1t is proposed to
form from these five companies the nei-
ance Cold Mining company With a capltal-s
ization of $5,0Oo,00O that being the amount ,i
of the shares in all the companies. lHe
Ak-sar-ben company has Voteu Aoi .s
merge. These companies control. d iarss
tract of mining ground along Annie ciesh
and adjoining the property OF the 10
company west of Portland. rms terii.oiy
includes much of the richest mineral Del.
of that section and has a vast supply OF
ore In sight.
The University and Ak-sar-ben* connpa-
mics have been working on Annie creek
since last fall, and have performed a large
amount of development. Iests navy
been made on the ore at the door q
Lundberg cyanide plant in DeadWood, anu
the ore has proved to be an exceiieht inili-
ing proposition. Preliminary survey mas
been made for mill by James Hartger-
ing, and the companies expect 10 nave a
mill of their own by winter.
The Spearfish Gold Mining and Redue-
ton company is supplying its cyanide ml.l
| entirely with ore that Is being removed
incidental to prospecting work me com
pany has in sight enough ore to insure the
continuous operation Of the plant Tor the
next fifteen years.
The company last week sent to Dead
wood a bar Of gold bullion worth 50. 900,
the result of six days run at the mill,
and deposited it in the United States as
say office The mill has been idle the
greater part of the last half month, .oW-
ing to- the non arrival of new shells Tor
the rolls. This is the longest shutdown
the plant has known since 1t was COM
pleted, and has materially cut down on the
months product.
Prospecting work is under way at sew
eral points on the companys ground, aud
within the last few days an entirely new
body of ore has been found in the north
ern part of the group, 800 feet distant
from the principal workings. This is a
| separate and distinct ore body and con
tains values ranging from Sill to $23y per
| ton gold. 1t is a lower horizon than either
| Of the bodies that the company has been
| working in the: past and furnishes still
further evidence that the. Ragged. TOY
country is a series of ore bodies arranged
one above the other to an indefinite depth
| Only; a few months ago the third ore
body was discovered on the Spearfish
ground a few feet below the second. The
company put down a winze at first from
| the workings on the second horizon. It
| afterwards went on top of the hill di-
rectly above the Wine and sunk a shat Fl
from the surface. This third ore body
is forty one feet thick and from the shaft
| drifts have been driven in the ore with
! out reaching its extremities.: This is
what warrants the assertion that the com
pany has fifteen years ore ahead
The mill is running at the rate of 22E
tons daily, and this ore is all being taker
out of tunnels and drifts twelve feet wide
in various new ore shoots, These shoots
range in width from ten to twenty five
feet. No stopping has been done for many
weeks at the mine and will not be done
until the present prospecting work has
been carried to a determining issue.
At a meeting of newly elected director.
of the Anna Gold Mining company hello
last week, John Baker was elected presi.
dent, R. e. Grimshaw. vice president
Neil McDonough secretary and treasurer
The Jupiter cyanide plant in Backtai
gulch has been closed down several days
while repairs are being made on the
crusher. 1t became necessary to send FOL
a new eccentric and until that arrives nj
milling can be done. The company Is jus
getting the new plant adjusted to fav
orable basis and expects to begin to real
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| few weeks.
Captain H. E. Palmer Of Omaha, mem
Der Of the national sanatorium board ha!
been in the Black Hills this week on bust
ness relative to the proposed $500 0O(
sanatorium at Hot Springs. Captain
Palmer is the member of the board wht
has charge Of this sanitarium. Bids ar,
being advertised for on the construction
and the board expects to open the pro
posels July Is, when the contract will
probably be awarded The entire boare
expects to visit the Black Hills in Au
gust.
Lakota tribe, No. 1, Improved Order O
Red Men Of Deadwood has Installed Off
GERS for the term. ]. w. Baker has en-
tered upon his third consecutive term al
sachem; Charles Van Meter, senior saga
more; F. 3. Peterson, junior sycamore
/ w. A. Rankin, prophet; Charles Eckart
guard Of the forest, and George Hoosier
guard of the wigwam. .s