The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-24
SOUTH DAKOTA
BLACK HILLS MINES
Second Cleanup Of the Month Of
Deadwood- STANDARD Gold Min
ing Company.
New Mill of the Lexington Hill Com
pany Is Showing Good
Results.
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Special to The Journal.
Deadwood, s. D., Sept. 24.-The Deadwood-
second cleanup for September, and the brick
has been deposited in the assay office. The
mill is running at its full capacity of 125 tons
a day, and the ore is maintaining its uniform
value.
pairing for winter work. Part of the ore Is be-
under cover. In a few weeks more the company
will be getting out all Of its ore under cover.
The floor of its ore is almost level, while the
hill rises rapidly from the company's mill 1or
long distance, and In following the ore 1t
gains in depth This will be of advantage dur
Ing the stormy months, as the mining may be
from the mine will be fit for crushing without
drying. The ore is to be hauled in cars some
three or four hundred feet to the mill, slightly
down grade all the way. ~.
The regular annual meeting of the company
will be held early in October At that time 1t
will be decided whether the company is to build
an addition to the mill at once, so as to In.
crease its capacity, or whether the proposed ad-
dition be deferred until spring.
F. T. Corwith of the Lexington Hill Gold
Mining company, has gone to Denver with a bar
of bullion representing ten days work at the
cyanide mill in Spruce Gulch the result of the
second cleanup since the company started the
plant There in the bar 1875 ounces OF gold
extractd from about. 500 tons of or. This
indicates general value Of about 81 ton, and
on ore of this kind the company with Its facili-
ties is able to derive good profit.
The disclosures of the last few weeks in the
mine have been gratifying. The company has ore
ahead Of it for long and continuous run. It Is
of character well suited to cyaniding, and Its
value exceeds what the company expected.
. ROUBAIx, 8. D. - Miners in the Uncle Sam
mine of the Glover Leaf company were all but
driven out by water the last few days. An enor-
nous volume of water was broken into on the
sixth level at depth of 900 feet. There has
been good sized pump on the 5oo-foot le,N
water boiled out in such a torrent tht the pump
was entirely inadequate. In short time the
seventh level was filed and the water was fast
filling the workings of the sixth, when the
larger pump was lowered from the fifth and con-
nected ,s.,.ss : ~-s.a@
Before the final connections. were made, how
ever, the pump under water and the men
had fairly to work like divers to complete the
connections. This they did, and in a short
time had the water under control. When they
came out they were numb and practically help
The Glover Leaf company has at the mine one
of the largest pumps ever manufactured for min
ing purposes. It has not been installed how
ever and it Is stated that 1t will not be until
| the 1,O0o-foot level is reached. The company
has other smaller pumps on the way which are
| to be set up on the 600-foot level and on the
7oo-foot level as auxiliaries to the pumps now
| working. s'
| ROCKFORD, s. D.-The Golden West Mining
| company expects to have a mill of 100 tons
capacity working on it's. grounds along Castle
Creek, in Pennington county the coming winter
/ A ten-ton Chill mill is running, night and day
| The little plant is paying for all development
work on the property and is proving that the ore
is worth better than 81 q, ton.
| Percy Train, who was the first. general man
! ager Of the Golden West sold his interest las
| week for cash consideration At a meeting
Of the stockholders it was decided not to sci
any treasury stock. e The company is hell
bya few men who are buying in all ls che .outsd4
! Mr. Curt1sof Chicago, one .of the principa
7 owners. has been on the ground for several day
and has completed survey of the water right
He found that the company could, bring all tn
water In Castle creek to a point JOG feet aboy
the mill, which would develop an enormous hors
cheap power, and In view of this, the. prof
on the will be much greater than If stear
power had to be used ~
CENTRAL CITY, s. D.-The Big Four Mir
ing company has been operating its plan
along Deadwood gulch since the first of It'll
month There are steam hoist, air compressor
| air drills and electric lighting plant = Thes
were installed during August and are now rur
ming smoothly. ~.
The shaft U.s. little more than 100 feet deer
following along vein Of phono1ite ore. Til
ore IS of good quality and the company expect
to encounter a body Of it with depth. j. T
: Beech is general manager of the company, an
p, T., Baird of Deadwood, superintendent II: III
The Titanic Gold Mining and Milling compan
. has. resumed operations near Carbonate cam1
after idleness of more than a year ri
, shaft, which is about 200 feet deep, Is to h
continued to- quartzite, which Is expected to
! reached in from twenty to fifty feet. H.
Bartlett of the company. has gone to MINI,
apol1s and. st. Paul on company business.