The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-19
SOUTH DAKOTA
HILLS COPPER ORE
Shipment Soon to Be Made by the
Wauconda From It's Mine
Near Lead.
Reliance Company Is Making Some
Good Discoveries--status Of
Other Properties.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. s,at.
Lead. s. D.. Nov ia. shipment of
copper ore is shortly to be made by the
south OF Lead. Machinery for a new
hoist has been purchased and is being
set up
The shaft Of the Big Four Mining com
pany will soon be 200 feet deep. At that
depth a crosscut will be driven to the vein
which has recently dipped away from the
shaft. At depth of 100 feet tho vein as
disclosed by. the shaft was seven feet
wide.
The Hidden Treasure Mining company is
making preparations for it's winter work.
The property along upper Deadwood guleh
has recently been patented and the COM
pany is secure in its titles.
Treber Brothers, Dave Davis, Frank
Clifford and Emil Willoth have had work
under way on their group Of claims west
Of -Deadwood towards Polo, creek, almost
thru the entire year. They have their
assessment work performed and much de-
velopment done.
1t is expected that a shipment of ore
will soon be made by the Pennsylvania
Mining company to a smelter. The COM
pany made several shipments a year ago
last summer to- Rapid City and received
gratifying results Work is being con-
tinued in the shaft which was equipped
IL
The Orc ,Hondo Mining company has
finished cutting the station on the 6O0foot
level and is beginning to crosscut. It Is
the intention to- crosscut both ways and
as soon as the drifts are in far enough
| sinking Will be resumed and the shaft con-
tinued to "a depth of 1000 feet or more.
| The Rex Gold Mining company is ex-
pecting q consignment Of machinery in a
short time for equipping its works The
company is developing a tract of ground
not far from the Whitehall crossing Of the
| Fort Pierre railroads. southwest Of Lead.
! b. G.. Cook, one Of the pioneers in the
! cyanide practice Of the Black Hills, has
i severed his connection with the Lexington
Hill Gold Mining company, and has under
consideration several offers from other
mining districts.
! The gold production of the Black Hills
for 1903 will just about equal that. of the
ipreyious year. The product for 1902 ac-
cording to the report of the state mine
inspector, was s7,342,227. Sc. Notwith-
standing the closing down of the Golden
4 Reward smelter at Deadwood last March,
the record of that company for the year
will nearly equal that for 1902. There has
been more money spent in development
/ the present year than there was last and
more substantial strides have been made.
Over 5000 ]aborers are employed in the
various mines and mills of western South
| Dakota.
I DEADWOOD, S. D.-Circular letters are
ibeing sent out by the secretary of the Re-
lance Gold Mining company to the stock
holders in the Ak-sar-b ben, informing
1 them that their certificates may be ex-
Echanger share for share for certificates in
the Reliance. ss 81 4 ;*e5 ~ q g. H.
/ e. Recent development at the mine are OF
. the most favorable nature and are growing
better as the work progresses. The com
4 pany has an excellent, outlook. Every few
i days new ore bodies are found, and two of
1.-The latest and best discoveries in the Anna
creek country were made on the Reliance
| company's ground a few weeks ago. They
consist of fiat shoots of ore, one Of which
/ Is twenty seven feet wide, eleven feet
thick, and opened so far for a distance of
more than 600 feet. The other Is twenty
feet thick and fully eight feet wide. It's
EeXsremities have not, yet been determined.
! The company has a large amount Of ore
ready for the mill and as soon as the plant
can be built Will begin to receive profit
| from treatment.
The Dakota cyanide plant In Deadwood
| is to be started as early as possible, and
Twill be operated on it's present site the
coming winter. This has recently, been
decided upon by the officials of the Da-
/ kOta company. They have decided that
to move the plant to the mine this winter
would be impracticable, owing to the rea-
| sonable certainty that work would be In
terfered with by cold weather. Hence
the determination to start the mill where
! it stands and supply it with ore by. ship
| ping over the railroads. bi2
The Dakota was the first wet crushing
] cyanide plant to be built in the Hills for
| cyaniding essentially. The plants ma
chinery consists of a large crusher and
thirty stamps. The stamps drop in a
fsolution of cyanide and it is asserted
that the greater part of the extraction
is obtained in the batteries
j James A. Ogden of DeadWood has two
patents for processes of extracting metals
1 from cyanide solution and for the app
paratus to be used in the application OF
\ the processes.
81 DR. Ogden has invented a process for
precipitating the gold in cyanide without
thesuse. of zinc. The patents We're issued
Il Nov 10 to Or. Ogden and s. w. Russell
4 of Deadwood, to whom the former had
i conveyed a one quarter interest.
sf&. 1T is asserted that these processes will
j be used in the cyanide plant in the first
ward of Deadwood to treat the tailings
of the old Rossiter cyanide mill. DR.. Og-
den, R. q. Glass and others are asso-
ciated in the enterprise.
ROUBAIX, S. D.-The Lucky Strike
Gold Mining company is preparing to re-
/ be continued from 100 to 200 feet. Be
! tween 300 and 400 feet of drifting has
been done on the 100-foot level and much
ore of commercial grade has been dis
! closed This ore is largely pyritic in
character, ;altho containing some free gold
values, and it is believed it can be treated
successfully, by concentration and cyani-
dation. The company is working on q
very economical and judicious scale, hay
i ing from fifteen to twenty men employed
The Glover Leaf Mining company has
ninety men in its employ, and is making
1 a good record at the mine and mill, drop
ping forty stamps. The ore that is be.
ing mined preserves a good uniform value
land the last cleanup made was the bes
since the company began work.
FLEET rs SCATTERED
Boats of the Pontoon Company al
Chamberlain Are Frozen In.