Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-16

month and has made its hrst cleanup.
the result Of which has been so satisfactory
that the management OF the company has
decided to begin at once the erection OF
an addition to the plant, which will raise
It's daily capacity to 100 tons.
J. r. Phelan Of the b. a NJ. who owns
the Bion mine, located ON Bare butte
creek. between Galena and Virginia City,
has been shipping ore from the property
TO the Horseshoe smelter at Papid city.
The ore is being taken from a vertical,
which occurs In tho states, AMI T. reached
by tunnel. The present force Of miners
will be increased in a day or so and an
effort made to ship at least a carload a
day The ore is high grade pyrltic.
carrying splendid values In gold, and an
ideal smelling proposition. The vein
where crosscut in the tunnel is about
twenty feet In width and IL prospects
well for its entire width
The Ruby company is about ready to
begin the erection OF It's mill on the
Portland mine, the property on Ruby
gulch from which so much rich ore has
been taken.
North star to Resume.
CUSTER CITY. 8. D., Feb. 1e.-tspe-
cial.)-It is reported that the North Star
mill will resume operations on ore~from
the mine this week. The North Star is
one Of the best developed mines in the
southern Hills aRd has upon II one of the
best mills in the Hills. The mine is a rich
one. and were its quartz freemilling there
would be no question but what Il would
be paying proposition from the start,
but as depth has been made on the vein
the ore has grown more or less refractory,
and at times II is almost impossible to
save anything near the assay values of
the ore. 1t is said. however, that the pes
ent run of the mill will be made for eX-
perimental purposes, and that should the
result warrant It an addition will be added
to the stamp mill, most probably in the
way of cyanide annex
The mines in the Tigerville district arc
again beginning to attract attention, the
Kimball property. the Redfern group and
the old King Solomon. which is again
being worked have lately been produce
ing some very rich ore.
Tubbs and compeny, who have been
prospecting In a small gulch. tributary
OF Tenderfoot. have struck some very rich
placer diggings and have been piling up
the dirt. and in the spring will cart it to
the creek and wash 1t out. There are many
of the small gulches in the vicinity o;
Custer-dry diggings-which are worked
every year, and those working them gen.
orally make good wages. Tubbs and as
sociates while working their new find, have
run across a good many fair sized mug
gets.
The White Cloud Mining company is
doing a development work on it's property
on Laughing Water, three miles north Of
Custer City, and is getting good results.
The miners have opened up a good body
OF ore, which assays we'll w. W, Olds
has resumed work in the Old Charley mine
at Four Mile. When the mine was being
worked the last time the ore taken from
the shaft was being treated in twenty
stamp mill, and all that could be saved
from the ore, which assayed into the
hundreds of dollars, was 81 a ton. 1t
could not be saved by amalgamation. Some
OF the ore from this shaft has assayed as
high as $2,100 a ton gold. and the ore
which is now being taken out Is being
corded and sacked, the richest saved for
shipment to Omaha for treatment Work
on the old Penobscot will soon be resumed.
Edwin VanCise of Denver has recently
!, interested some Colorado people In the
property and they have agreed to take
hold of the proposition. There is good ore
in the Penobscot in fact, It contains the
| largest free-mlllfhg vein In the southern
Hills, and while not high grade PROPOSE
tion, 1t will be made to pay well IL worked
on large scale. The Golden Banner Min,
ing company now has the main working
shaft on it's property down about eighty
feet, and the vein through which the shaft
has been sinking still looks we'll and keeps
up IT. its values. The vein is now twelve
feet wide. and from tests made the ore
will free mill about SO, but the concentrates
from the pulp. when reduced twenty in one
will assay $40 a ton. while samples from
the rich streak have given returns of as
\ hiRh as S3O4 a ton