Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-07-18
Mining Items.

MINING Items.
1t is reported that the Bullion Mining
company is making arrangements to
erect an 80 stamp mill at their property
near Keystone. Enough paying ore is
said to be blocked out to keep an 80
stamp mill running constantly for three
years.
The Mile High company are working
a full crew of men on their claims four
miles east of town. This is a large vein of
medium grade ore, quite uniform in
duality and boundless in extent. 1t is
not a poor mans mine but just the kind
that suits good strong company.
Capt. C. A. Haserodt came in from the
Globe mine in which he is interested
and is much elated in the new strike
which they have made in a new shaft
which they are sinking south Of the Old
shaft. The ore is high grade telluride
that will run into the hundreds of dol
lars per ton and ought in the near future
to make the old Captain a rich man.
The Columbia Mining company are
arranging their new mill to treat their
ore on a new plan. 1t has been the
custom heretofore in the Hills, where
ore is treated to amalgamation and
cyanide, to first amalgamate and then
cyanide the tailings. The Columbia
will reverse the method and will submit
the pulp to amalgamation after it has
passed through the cyanide tanks. 1t is
said that this method makes a better
saving of the free gold.
Development is progressing with full
yigor on the Extreme Mining companys
claims, two and half miles west from
Custer. The shaft on the London is
going down rs fast as two shifts can sink
it, and although the vein takes a dip Of
about 35 from an horizontal, and al
though the shaft has been in ore from
very near the surface, and is being sunk
perpendicular, it is still at a depth Of
about 70 feet all in ore.
The Golden West Mining company
whose property is located on Castle
creek, few miles west from Rockford,
has just completed test run with Eve
ton Chilian mill. The ore was taken
from the Benedict mine and the cost of
mining was figured at Sc cents, hauling
43 cents, and milling 80 cents, making a
total of $l.79 cents per ton. The ore
runs $4.S5 per ton which is an excellent
showing considering that the ore was
taken from an open cut across the vein
for 100 feet wide. The little mill runs
by water power.
The work on the Interstate company g
ground in the Penobscot district, eight
miles northwest ftom Custer is still pro-
crossing finely. Theshaft is down about
65 feet and has cut through the quartz
vein which was found still taking it's
regular dip to the west. The shaft
which is being sunk vertically will not
follow the vein, but the company will
drift to it from the 100 foot level. The
vein where cut by the shaft was about
feet thick, and still retains its excellent
quality. Mr.. Millham who recently re-
turned from the east is experimenting
the work.
The federal statutes provide that fail
ure to perform 500 worth of work, or to
make 500 worth of improvements dur
ing any year following the first of Janu.
ary after date of location, renders such
claim subject to relocation by another,
no matter what amount of work may
have been previously done. A new dis
covery is not an essential basis for a new
location. Under the law discovery and
appropriation are recognized as sources
OF title to all mining claims, and devel-
opment by work as the condition of cor.
tinued ownership. If the vein discov.
cred by the former locator or discoverer
is exposed, it is sufficient upon which to
base a new location. A relocation ID
made in substantially the same manner
as an originator. The relocstor may use
the stakes and monuments of the former
locator if he wishes.-Lead Call.