The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-08-21

| for an excuse of doing annual assess
ment work, have begun to realize that
there is something in the district and
THAT their prospects may be developed
into mines and have been doing de-
velOpment work upon them, and, in
many instances, meeting with good re
lSultS At the present time there are
more men at work on their ground in
the district than in any other section
| of the Hills and the various transport
tation lines from Lead and Deadwoo6
are kept busy drawing supplies there,
many of those working having already
begun to make arrangements for the
winter.
In the Canton property which Mr..
Anderson is developing a remarkable
find of gold ore was made Thursday in
the tunnel. The latter has about a
length of 165 feet and has passed
through ore all the time. At or near
| the 100 feet mark the tunnel cut the
shaft and from there about IS feet to
the north the rich ore was encountered
The ore of the Canton mine has always
shown good values when assayed but
never much free gold to the naked eye
| 1t was the rock that was broken We'd
nesday evening with the last shots
| that revealed the following morning
that the same was literally peppered
with gold. In some places the yellow
metal was coarse and a number of
handsome specimens were secured. AS
a general thing the gold is fine and dis
seminated through the rock and
plainly visible to the eye, which gives
greater assurance that the gold will
stay with the rock then when found in
large coarse pieces. Mr.. Anderson will
fully develop this new shoot.-Mining
News.
Mr.. Phillip Konrad reports new
strike on the Little Pink claim, which
lis one of the elbow Jacket group of
mines consisting of the Yellow Jacket
Nos L. g. 3, 4, and the Little Pink and
Little Pink No. 2. This group is To-
Gated near Elephant Gulch, about five.
miles west from Custer and takes in
quite number of small dry gulches
for their yield of placer gold. There
which in the early days were famous
are prospect holes and shallow shafts
on all these claims, and all yield free
gold in the pan, but the Little Pink
which is the most recent discovery, is
the boss of them all The gold in this
vein is quite coarse and will run in
free milling gold, as per pan test about
~ per ton. Samples have been sent
away for assay, but the returns have
not yet been received, but the ore has
the appearance of being rich in tellur-
ides besides the free-milling gold. The
vein in the new shaft just started is
about four feet in width, of solid quartz
mingled and stained with red oxide of
iron with well defined walls Of slate
We are glad to chronicle this new find
and add it to the list of excellent pros
poets with which the Custer mining
district abounds.--Chroniclee
General Manager Duncan of the Gilt
Edge-Maid company, who has been in
the east for several weeks perfecting
arrangements for the resumption of
work upon the property, is expected to
arrive in the Hills within the next few
days, and upon arrival, it is said
operations on large scale will be in
augurated. The property is in good
condition even at the present time to
make beginning on ore shipments
but it is believed that the new com
pany will not content itself with hav-
ing it's ore treated in custom plants
but will at once begin building the big
plant which it has in contemplation
With its big pump running night
and day and the two skips which are
in operation bringing to the surface at
each trip many tons of water, the
workings of the Hercules Mining com
pany in Two Bit will soon be drained
When this work shall have been done
the work of exploring the big ore body
which has been opened up by the drift
from the 230-foot level of the mine,
will begin. The company, just so soon
as it is practicable, will put on three
shifts of miners, and will rush the
work, for it is satisfied that the ore, a
porphyry, will be treated successfully
when the attempt is made by the cyan
ide process.