The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-09
SOUTH DAKOTA
THRIVING NEW CAMP
Lucky Strike Gold Mining Company
Is Building It in the king
dom Of Lawrence.
Homestake Company Installs Its
New Compressor Plant at
the Ellison Hoist.
Special to The Journal.

Roubaix. S. D., Tuly 9.-The Lucky
Strike Gold Mining company has recently
purchased sixty acres of additional ground
OF Ravndale, jacobson II Vanvic. This
ground adjoins the main group of the COM
pany on the southeast, and lies along the
course OF the series Of veins that cross
that property, thereby giving the com
pany control Of these veins for a much
greater distance than it had originally. The
addition increases the company's area
to 800 acres.
The company is building thriving new
camp In that portion of Lawrence county.
1t has been making substantial improve
ments ever since it was organized, and
Its camp has grown to such Importance
that 1t Is petitioning Tor postoffice and
has asked for telephone services The lat
ter may be obtained by extending a line
from RoubaiX southerly which will prob
ably be done. The company has large
group or buildings or its ground and is
still building. 1t has sawmill, which,
was erected last February, and has been
In almost continuous operation since, get
ting out lumber for the various surface
improvements 1t is at present cutting out
timber for a new shafthouse and for
large twelve-room building, to be plastered
and finished nicely thruout and used as a.
hotel and boarding house.
Negotiations are under way for large
hoist capable Of lifting from depth Of
1000 feet. The machinery will consist Of
two eighty horse power boilers, large hoist,
air compressor, air drills and pumps. The
new shafthouse will be 44x72 feet, and
Will occupy the site of the present shaft
building, 22x40 feet, which is to be re-
moved
The company is owned principally by
Minnesota. Wisconsin,, Iowa and eastern
South Dakota men, and several we'll
known local mining men are directing
IA
VINO We're the first to make a success of
cyaniding on the ore of Ragged Top sew
eral years ago, Is superintendent.
The Uncle Sam mine Of the Clover Leaf
Mining company has lately undergone i'm
portant developments. The drift from the
main shaft on the 600-foot level has been
continued until the vein has been encoun-
tered and the ore is revealed In a very
handsome body At 600 feet 1t is also
very rich and the mine is yielding many
beautiful specimens, as we'll as ore in
large quantities of good commercial value.
The ore really Strengthened between the
fourth and fifth levels and the new open
Ing on the sixth simply proves that it is
continuing it's true downward course.
Above the fourth level the vein dipped rap
idly and this dip was largely responsible
for the difficulty encountered by the pre-
vlous owners in working the NINE II
made it hard to keep the water from the
mine workings. ,..
Since A. B. Amsden became superin-
tendent of the property, he has been de-
! voting almost his entire attention to de-
Velopment work. The mill has been run
ming from ten to thirty stamps, but no,
as regular thing. The mill operations
| have been Incidental to the further explor.
alton OF the mine. All the workings of the
upper levels have lately been sampled, anc
new work has been started. This is also
| opening up some very good ore .
| LEAD, s. Done hundred new stamps
are to be added to the Anxious mill of the
| fiomestake Mining company. That will
give the mill 240 stamps and will increase
the total number of stamps In the 81.
Homestalke mills to 1000.
| Il. j. .Grier, superintendent, saws there
is no truth in the report of contemplated
new mill, but that his company is pre-
pairing to increase the-size of the Anxious
mill, formerly called the Highland.
For operating the additional stamps the
| company will put in new compound en-.
CINE at the west end and the old simple
engine at the east end will be removed.
Work on the new addition to the Ami
Gus mill will begin Immediately, and the
company expects to have the 100 addi
t1onal stamps running the coming fall
these will be practically the same as thu
stamps now In use in all the other Home
stake mills. weighing about 900 pound!
apiece. The added stamps will make tn,
Homestake mill facilities greatly in ex
cess Of those of any other mining com
pany in the world. The company has {
greater number Of stamps dropping thai
any other gold mine, the next largest be-
ing the Alaska Treadwell, with $50 stamps
The Alaska Treadwell stamps are some
what heavier than those in use at tn,
Aomestake mills. +
The new Ingersoll- Sergeant compressor
at the Ellison hoist of the Homestake II
Lead Is In commission. It is one of tn,
largest compressors ever manufactured b,
the acknowledgement company and Il
as large unit as is practicable for use
being capable Of running $50 air drills a
one time, but as many drills are never ii
use at once the Homestake company ha
considered it practicable to attach 2O
drills to this machine and obtain the re
quired energy.
The new compressor practically doubles
! the air pressure In the Homestake mine
The company has not yet decided whethe