Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-01-03
PAYS A HIGH COMPLIMENT.
The Boston Mining Bureau Pays Meri
cd Tribute to the Black Hills.


cd Tribute TO the Black Hills.
One Of the leading mining journals Of
Boston brings out in the following
article the aspect of gold mining in the
Black Hills and pays a high tribute to
this famous gold region. 1t saysl
"The best informed mining men of the
country believe the Black Hills will, in
a short time, be the most active mining
field in the United States, if not in the
world. The region at present has an
ore tonnage nearly three times az great
as Cripple Creek. The Black Hills COM
panies are handling oyer 10000 tons
month and according to the figures for
November the tonnage in Cripple Creek
was 60.450. In reality the two regions
will not admit of comparison. Cripple
Greek contains number of the highest
grade gold mines in the world and the
Black Hills is essentially low grade
field. The Cripple Creek ores for No.
vember yielded an average value ofover
S32 a ton. The Black Hills ores for
October went $46l ton. But the Black
Hills field is almost unbounded. AS
work progresses it proves that there are
whole mountains of pay ore as yet un-
touched. Mining and milling are cor.
Quoted here at less cost than anywhere
In the world, and as an experienced
mining man recently remarked, The
country is just putting its digging clothes
on 1t has only been within the last
two or three years that the Black Hills
region has been recognized as a truly
great mining country. This recognition
is becoming more and more pronounced
and the region is being regarded with
interest by the world. There is a GER
tainty that it will in time employ more
help than any other similar gold bearing
area. Gold is the chief product of the
Black Hills, and practically the only
metal is being worked commercially. II
is the only metal possessing the stability
to insure the permanency of a mining
region, and for that reason the Black
Hills will be the scene Of activity after
the present great copper fields of the
world have been practically abandoned.
There has of late been great deprecia.
ton in both copper and silver, and it is
felt that these may 60 still lower in mar.
ketable value. This is particularly true
Of copper. The discoTe.y end develop
ment of the enormous copper mines Of
Arizona threaten to cripple the produc.
tion of copper at many of the big mines
now being worked in the north, for it
can be produced at SO much less cost in
the southwest. The situation is being
grasped by some of the brightest minds
of the country, and in a short time the
largest institutions that depend upon
mining for their existence will be CEN
tralized in the Black Hills, withdrawing
from some of the other big mining camps.
They realize that the Importance Of the
Black Hills is being increased with each
years development, and will take advan-
tage of 1t as rapidly as they can shape
their affairs to that end. There is less
poetry and gilded romance about gold
mining in the Black Hills than else.
where, and those elements are being
more and more each year.
They are giving way to business prudence
and economical management. There
are several mining companies in the
Black Hills thai are milling everything
than contains dollar or more per ton
in gold, particularly if it is in their way,
and are deriving profit. In view of
this condition gold mining is taking on
as simple an air as farming, or stock
raising, or manufacturing, having the
advantage over all these, to-
wit: that its product is not subject to
market variations"