Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-02-14
Mining Itema.

purchased Mr.. Mendenhall's interest in
the now strike south of the Golden Slip
per.
An extraordinary rich strike is report
ed as having been made the forepart of
the week on the Leroy mine. It is a
telluride ore. Four men are at present
working at the mine ard good progress
is being made.
Parties in from the Golden Mortar
mine report the shaft down about rs
feet, and a drift is being run to crosscut
the ore body. The formation is horn
blende mingled with quartz carrying ma
tive copper, free gold aud bismuth tellu.
ride. The showing is excellent.
Hawk Wright has purchased the claim
north of the Old Bill from T. /. Wheeler
and has put four men at work sinking
the old shaft deeper, and otherwise de.
veloping the property. The working
crew consists of Mr.. VIM Campbell, Sam
Virtue, Ed. Dority and Mark Foran.
John Foster came in on Tuesday from
the Grand Junction mine where he has
been at work for several weeks. john
ME reports everything looking well at
the old camp where has been filling the
position for some time ofSupt., foreman,
engineer, fireman, SHIT boss and miner.
Al Wise came in from the Chilcoot
camp on Thursday. He reports work
going on smootly and the Chilcoot show
ing up in good shape and has the max.
ing of as rich a mine as any in the
/ southern Hills. Challis, Wise, Shamrock
and the rest of the boys are all their
working, aud have never lowered their
flag.
Very encouraging reports are brought
in from the Iron Mountain district.
While performing the assessment work
for 1902 many good veins were brought
to light and many who own prospects in
that district are going to work in dead
earnest in the spring. There is so much
tin and bismuth in the veins in that
camp it has never been given full credit
for the gold contents in the ore.
Word comes from Hill City that a new
and very rich strike was made last week
OH the south extension of the Golden
Slipper mine. 1t is u blue quartz and
the vein is about 20 inches in width with
a red clay gouge on one wall. We have
seen a sample of the ore and it is very
rich indeed in gold. The property lies
! about 5000 feet south Of the Slipper and
belongs to Jack Forsythe, Frank Marsh,
and others.
There is at least one mine in Custer
county, the ore from which the assayers,
both local and foreign, have not thus far
been able to handle successfully. We
are told that the School of Mines at Ra.
pid City is at present equipped with an
excellent faculty, but we question their
ability to separate the precious metal
from the tin, bismuth, anthony, plati-
nun, copper, lead, selinum and other
minerals which this ore is found to con.
tain. Should the assayer or chemist de-
sire to experiment we will send them
some of this ore, and when they haye
tried it they will 1--WE think find that
they are up against something entirely
new, aud worthy of their STEEL"
IvANHoE, CHILCooT DISTRICT.
DR.. Fl. +. Rate reports a fine FIVE foot
ledge of pay ore recently uncovered on
the Ivanhoe claim, in Chilcoot district.
VIM. Chalice is experimenting the work.
The ledge, it seems, is in an open cut
where it is left standing to a height of
ten feet, and a cut is being made around
one side, leaving the ledge completely
exposed for several feet in length. 1t
will be left standing that way until they
are ready to remove it. The doctor
says it certainly is a handsome sight,
and it prospects well. There is also
quite a large tonnage of good ore now
on the dump. The doctor thinks a great
amount of development work will be
done on this ground during the coming
season.-Keystone Miner.
BELLE MEETING.
A meeting Of the directors ofthe Clara
Belle Mining company took place last
Tuesday, February 10th, at which time
Mr.. Frank Hebert handed in his resig-
nation as secretary Of the company, and
Mr.. +. NJ. Lockhart was elected to the
Office Of secretary. Mr.. Hebert also
made a tender of 100000 shares of his
personal stock, to be sold as treasury
stock, the proceeds of which is to be used
for the d-ayelnnment and hetrerment of