Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-20

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ing better than wages. These are dry dig
gings, but the haul to water Is not far. II
is said that the diggings on the French
creek bars will go from IS to s TO 10 cents
to the pan, and with ground that will pay
go well as that It will not take long to a k
out a fortune.
Ivanhoe Group e. sold.
The deal which has been pending for sew
eral weeks for the sale to indianapolis par
ties Of the 1vanhoe group Of claims, seven
teen In number, south OF Kekstone, has been
closed. The new owners will begin ex-
tensive operations on the ground at once. A
new hoist and air compressor have been
purchased and so soon as they can be put
up a working shaft will be started and
sunk to a depth of 500 feet. The shaft
Will follow down the strong vertical which
shows on the Detroit, ono Of the claims,
and stations established at various levels
and drifting on the vein begun. There are
now nifty tons OF ore on the dump which
will go f25 to the ton gold. The new
owners, after the mine has been opened up
sufficiently to warrant 1t, will erect q
treatment plant OF its own and treat the ore
which is now on the dump and which will
be taken from the various workings on the
group. The ore will freemill, and the
greater part Of its values can be saved by
this process.
The Central Black Hills Copper company
has its buildings completed and its tanks
set In place and is about ready to begin
operations on Its ore, which will be treated
by leeching. Those in charge Of the work
have every confidence that the process will
nFOvo aaflQfaptnrv 18th The Elnd ~ ora
found In the ground OF the company, and
prove to be the most economical manner Of
handling the product from it's mines.
The mine companies in the southern Hills
are all busy, and the output OF the mines
Is now more than twice as great az it was
two months ago. No difficulty is expert
enced in disposing of the product of the
mines, 1t all being contracted for in ad-
vance,, and at prices which give a splendid
profit to those working ground.
VIII Go to Bedrock.
Kidd g. Co. Of Minneapolis have Installed
a plant on Castle creek, at Mystic station,
consisting Of a twenty-horsepower boiler
and pumping machinery, and will endeavor
to reach bedrock on the creek, when they
will put in a placer plant similar to that n
operation on Rapid creek below Pactola. It
has always been said by old-time placer
miners that II bedrock could be reached on
Castle creek d~iggings of fabulous richness
would be found, and several small fortunes
have been squandered in an endeavor to
reach that goal, but in only one instance
with success, and that at a point near
where the present operations have begun.
When bedrock was reached then those en-
gagged in the work only succeeded in get
ling n few fuhftIla of dirt huf ~ prOyod IN
be very rich in placer gold, and since that
time numerous individuals and companies
have been trying on the hanks Of the
stream. There Is very little fall to Castle
creek, and 1t carries a large volume of
water, so It is impossible to employ the
usual method Of the placer miner in get
ting at the rich deposits of gravel which
overlie bedrock, that is by running a bed
rock fume, so resort has been had to pump
ing, and with no success whatever. The
new company believes that 1t can reach
bedrock, n that when it does IT will be
amply repaid for its expenditure of time
and money.
DEADWooD, S. D.. April 19.-(Special.)-
The stockholders of the Horseshoe Mining
company held a meeting at Beulah, Wyo.,
last Tuesday and the proposition to issue
$500, 900 in bonds, the bonds to be a first
mortgage on the Capital stock of the com
pany, was ratified 1t is now believed that
the company will again resume operations
in its mines and, different treatment plants
and that 1T Will proceed along lines which
will lave the approval Of the most con-
sentative of its management.
The Penobscot company is now shipping
nifty tons of smelling ore a day. Some of II
has lately been sent to the Omaha & Grant
smelter in Omaha. Returns from these
shipments have given an average OF s46 a
a ton. The Spearish company. for the FIRST
half of April, although the mill during that
time has been idle for several days. await
ing repairs to the crushing rolls. has sent
down from Johnson gulch a brick weighing
$12, 900. The Observation-Disclosures in the
same district, has sent down a brick which
will weigh IS, 900.