The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-24
MINING FOR MICA.

Force at Brown NINE wear eaS' :"
eating Everything in ship Shape.
The Brown mica mine at Custer is
,slng worked with a small force un-
j, the direction of Mr.. Knoble. This
work is not designed to take out mica
8 any extent, but to outline the ore
.soo,s trim up the drifts and to get
svsrything in good shape for regular
.rd vigorous work, which will soon be
thought to bear upon it.
yanadium is common In the mines
:, Custer county. 1t is quoted as
vorth 5000 a pound and it has been
,onpd that a small portion OF it COM
hiDed as an alloy of copper adds so
much to the elastic quality of that
metal that it may be drawn out in wire
a the finest fiber. 1t is also used for
MANY other purposes. 1t is found in
nam of the gold veins near Custer.
DIR. Rate says the Ivenhoe is show
Inc excellently as the work progresses.
A rich strike was recently found on
me Detroit which discloses ore OF an
excellent grade, the latest assays run
ming sll.2O, SIG, $500 and $20.S0
ton in gold.
The National smelter at Rapid City
il running steadily and has good
supply of ore on hand. The property
now belongs to the Horseshoe COM
pany and will be run on ore from the
company's mines in Bald Mountain.
Or. Theodore Knutzen. a well-known
smelter man of the Hills, is in charge.
At the Cuyahoga property in the
Iron Mountain district, about four
miles south of Keystone, the tunnel
was driven in the side of the mountain
at sufficient elevation to make the
delivery of ore into the mill an easy
natter, the mill site being at the foot
OF the hill. The main tunnel is in
about GOO feet. Two lodges were en-
countered the first about eighteen
feet wide, 100 feet from the entrance,
and the other an enormous ledge
which it is said shows assays from
Just trace to $14 in gold. Copper
and graphite are also found in paying
quantities.
In driving through the ledge cave
was broken into which is about thirty
by fifty feet high A shaft was sunk
IN the ledge at one side of the cave
to a depth of thirty-five feet, and the
cave serves as an underground hoist
ing room A branch tunnel was driv-
en-, following vein of graphite.
The company owns $50 acres of
ground on Tollgate creek, in one of
the most beautiful and picturesque
spots in the Black Hills. There is an
abundance of water and timber close
at hand for all purposes. The com
pany is composed of Cleveland COhio)
business men.
The Gladiator company has had its
plant in Deadwood gulch running for
ten days. Drifting has been under
way on ore that is improving with
further work. The company expects
to install one of e. z. Kids placer
machines in Custer county early in
the spring.
The Orc Hondo shaft in Whitewood
sulch below Kirk has reached a depth
OF 600 feet, and at that point a station
is being put preparatory to drifting
both east and west 1t is triple COM
partment shaft and has a hoist capa-
Die of going 1900 feet in depth. The
company intends ultimately to reach
mat depth in the course of its explora.
tons.
Inc Hidden Fortune Gold Mining
company expects to have its new eva
moe plants below Deadwood in rum
nlng shape before the first of October.
me work of remodeling the plant is
"cil under way. A new building has
oeen erected for the plates over which
ue tailings from the solution watts will
run TO catch the free gold. It was
proven that cyanide would not work
successfully on this ore because so
nuen OF the values were in a metallic
state. The ore could not be consid-
eieo properly free milling PROPOSE
uoii' and, acting on the advice of the
. mos competent mill men, amalgarna-
uoh was added as a secondary treat.
ment.
the meantime work is being
S Srss at the Hidden Treasure mine.
surface ore is being blocked out and
TroNen down for starting the mill.
ons ma Bingham shaft is 300 feet deep,
anu the company is beginning cross.