The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-29
SOUTH DAKOTA.
A MINE In ITSELF
Bingham Vein of the Hidden For
tune Gold Mining Company a
Rich Proposition.
Splendid Showing in Gold Values
From the Roosevelt Group in
Custer County.

From the Roosevelt Group in
Custer County.
Special to Tho Journal.
I Lead S. D., Jan. 29.--The disclosures
that have been made on the Bingham vein
Of the Hidden Fortune Gold Mining COM
pany have demonstrated that it is a mine
in itself. The present generation will not
witness the exhaustion Of this ore body,
evening with milling facilities of four
times the present capacity. The vein par
allels the main Lodges Of the Homestake,
being true fissure in the states. .y4s~
The company has driven tunnel par
allel with the vein for a distance of 1883
feet, and has opened it with five crosscuts
from the main tunnel. So far as opened
it has an average width Of 224 feet, all
GRE that will yield a good margin OF
profit to- treat. It's greatest width Is 2ae
feet; The first crosscut, near the en-
trance Of the main tunnel, is $50 feet be-
low the surface. The hill rise almost pre-
cipitately from there, and the last cross
cut, which forms junction with the
tunnel almost at it's face, is $50 feet below
the surface. The vein is therefore opened
for about 1900 feet along its course, with
an average, of about 500 feet OF stopping
ground. --.,- +. --'~
| On the Father DeSmet of the Home
stake, joining the Hidden Fortune on the
east the ore vein has been opened to a
depth of 800 feet, with levels in ore at
each 100 feet. The first level. opened
twenty five years ago, Is not yet ex-
hausted. The ore is identical in charac-
ter, appearance and value with that 1ouno
on the Hidden Fortune.
CENTRAL CITY, S. D.--The prelinlin-
airy survey is being made on the property
| of the Hidden Treasurer Mining company
above Central City ON Deadwocd gulch.
for United States patent. For several
weeks the company has been clearing out
the old workings and making them Access
sible to the surveyors. There are l2e
acres in the tract, situated on the phono-
lite belt, and the work Of the last hVe
months has disclosed several distinct ana
strong veins of, phonolitic ore, from which
assays ranging from $l4 TO over Pow Ioll
have been obtained.
The Pennsylvania Gold Mining COM
papy is engaged in the extensive develop
ment of it's property along DeadWood ana
Rutabaga gulches.
Building and mining operations are UNI
der active Roadway on the group OF the
Gladiator Consolidated Gold Mines, and
Milling company, alongside the PennsEl--
vania . This company has revealed sew
eral strong veins, both In the phonOllte
formation and in the states.
The Big Four Mining company Is begin
ming to crosscut the phonolite formation
on its property. 1t has a steam hoist ana
| - installing air compressor
CUSTER. s. Done hundred and nine
samples recently taken by the Grantz
Gold Mining company on the RooseVel'
group, not including concentrates. gave
an aggregate assay Valuatloll VI r,,;., o. =,
or an average of 500 in gold a ton. This Il
the most remarkable showing in golc
values ever made in Custer. county, ant
represents a body Of ore that it -Will're'
CURE years and giant mill to exhaust
, A specimen is occasionally found that as
says from $4,000 to $4,000 a ton in gold
Some of the ore is schist, interstrati
fled with quartz and mica and showing
needle spar. The native gold appear
!, brilliantly against the dark schist and II
= the. quartz crystals. 1t is not SO easll:
9 detected in the mica but ca'retni test
i show that the latter is as rich as any o
! it. Gold is also seen in a gray granite
i picked samples of which nave assaye
q $13, 3332O ton
The Interstate Gold Mining and Mill
ing company is preparing to begin tn
+ DEVELOPMENT of it's property, adjoining
y the Roosevelt group of the Grantz com
y pany There are 1876 acres in the tract
r with good showing of free gold an
- tellurium ores.
: | The Gladiator company is continuing it
q development of the Gold Fish group
;. claims, and is taking out ore that Is al
most fabulously rich.
l. HOT SPRINGS, S. D.-The Deer Cree
n group of claims west Of Rapid City al
: showing up we'll The property is owne
It by James keenan, and Major M. Maguil
n Of Rapid City. The free milling ore WI
Is 20 from SO to $13 a ton, and is said
re be, a very good cyaniding proposition
l. There is a large body of it, one plac
showing a width of about 100 feet.
q The surveying has been completed q
RS Colonel j. A. Clar1s ground which IN
~ amounts to between 800 and 1000 acre
a He now has the surveyors at work 6
Is the Wheelock group. 81 s
as Work on the Wheeler Hill property {
i'd Castle creek is being steadily carried o
The tunnel is in 14O feet. and has CT
two or three small verticals of ore ca
a rying good values. The vein for whit
i'd the tunnel is being driven cannot be Fl
Oh distant, and when it is reached it is b
ne lieved it will be as rich, If not richie
= than where opened In the shaft, and "
hit be tapped at a depth Of about 400 fee
ed The vein carries free milling ore and tt
values are high, free gold specime
being freol1 emily met with tn me eomp p,,,
raj drills are being used In the work of dr.
es ing.
nd r. r.. Griffith of Bridge, Col, is
Fn Keystone in the interests of the Ida Flo
OF ence and is making thorough examin
ton of the property.
At the Uncle Sam mine some of t.
n richest rock ever taken out of the mi
on is being secured from the 500-foot lev
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as, MAINS EACH NIGHT
CHI
sioux Falls Poultry Show One Of the 81
Held in the West.
"a SIOUX FALLS, S. Dan aggrega
lat of about 1900 birds are on exhibition
,ar the first annual show Of the Queen CT
Poultry association, which is being he
in this city. Minnesota, Iowa, Nilsson
lat Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Illint
Ids and South Dakota are represented.
,ry interesting feature is several Engli
ringneck pheasants and pigeons Of
known varieties. There are also pc
-, of fine ducks. The display Of banta1