The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-17
SOUTH DAKOTA
MINING \ | |.G FOR MICA
Force at Brown Mine Near Custer Is
Getting Everything in
Ship Shape.
Hidden Fortune Company Will Start
Its New Cyanide Mill This
Month.
Special to The Journal,

Special to The Journal. Ees
Custer, S. D., Sept. 1.-THE Brown mica
mine is being worked with small force under
the direction of Mr.. Knoble. This work is not
designed to take out mica to any extent, but to
outline the ore shoots, trim up tie drifts and to
get everything in good shape for regular and
vigorous work, which will soon be brought to
bear upon it.
Vanadium is common in the mines of Custer
county. 1t is quoted as worth $500 pound and
1t has been found that small portion Of it
combined as an alloy of copper adds so much
be drawn out in wire of the finest fiber. 1t is
also used for many other purposes. 1t is found
IN many of the gold veins near Custer
DR.. Rate says the lyanhoe is showing excel
lently US the work progresses. A rich strike was
recently made On the Detroit which discloses
ore OF IN excellent grade, the latest assays run
ming 112O, S16, $500 and $2o.sO ton in gold.
RAPID CITY, S. D.-The National smelter is
running steadily and has a good supply Of ore on
hand. The property now belongs to the Horse
shoe company and will be run on ore from the
company's mines in Bald Mountain. DR.. Theo-
dore knutzen, a well-kIown Emelter man of the
Hills, is. in, charge.
At the Cuyahoga property in the Iron Noun
tain district, about four miles south Of Key
stone. the tunnel was driven in the side of the
mountain at sufficient elevation to make the
delivery Of ore into the mill an easy matter, the
mill site being at the foot Of the hill. The
main tunnel is in about 600 feet Two Lodges
w1de 100 feet from the entrance and the second
an enormous ledge which it is said shows as
says from just q trace to $14 in gold. Copper
and graphite are also found in paying quantities
In driving through this ledge a 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 depth Of thirty-five feet,
and the cave serves as an underground hosting
room. A branch tunnel was driven following a
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 company is composed of
Cleveland Ohio, business men.
| DEADWOOD. S. D-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 COM
placer, machines In Custer county early in the
| spring. -;
| The Gro Hondo shaft in Whitewood Gulch be-
low Kirk, has reached a depth of 600 feet, and
at that point a station is being cut preparatory
| to; drifting both east and west. 1t Is : a
] triple compartment shaft and has a hoist capa-
BILE of going 1000 feet in depth. The company
intends nltinlately to. reach that depth in the
|; The Hidden Fortune Gold Mining company ex-
poets to have its new cyanide plants below
Deadwood In running shape before the first of
October: The work of remodeling the plant is
well under way. new building has been
erected for the plates over which the tailings
from the solution watts will be run to catch the
free gold. 1t was proven that cyanide would not
work successfully on this ore because SO much
could not be considered properly. free milling
propositions and acting ION the advice Of the most
competent mill men, inauguration was added
as a secondary ,treat ment.
| In the meal time work is being pushed at the
| Hidden Fortune mine Surface ore is being
blocked out and broken down for starting the
nill.t Tile Bingham shaft is 800 feet deep; and
the: COMPANY is beginning crosscut towards
| the Bingham vein. g. talti IS II :.