Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-04
Mining Items.

to start up for continuous run on their
| ricn ore.
The Oriole, which is the name Of the
recent rich strike below Hill City, is
about ready to ship car load Of ore to
the smelter for treatment. 1t is estimat-
ed that the car load contains $4,000. 90
In gold.
The Clara Belle is receiving her new
steam hoist with pump and ,all attach
ments complete. 1t should be ready for
business in the course Of two weeks and
then we may expect to hear the music
| of the stamps.
VIM. L. Mclaughlin Of Deadwood has
been elected general s,snager of the
Horseshoe Mining company as successor
of Charles Allis who is president. There
has also been several changes in the
board of directors and the company is
now in shape to 60 forward prospering
and to prosper.
JOHN Collips is, preparing I'd sink deep
er in the shaft on the Ringold, which ia
one of the claims Of the White Cloud
group, situated on Laughing water.
There is . good belt of veins running
through the White Cloud group, and the
last work, which was done on Ringold,
the ore from the bottom of the shaft as.
sayed $40 to the ton in gold.
The Index Mining company, which is
operating upon a group Of claims near
the head Of Susan gulch, where Mr..
Phillip Konrad and Sam Bunker have
just completed 3 contract. for a shaft 20
feet in depth. There Ia .ai, excellent
belt of quartz veins running through this
group of claims, number Of which show
ore Of an excellent grade, and some SAM
Piles have been obtained of phenominal
richness. A meeting of the company
will be held the coming week to vote the
letting of another contract to continue
the shaft down to the one hundred foot
level.
James Cochran is expecting to begin
work on his Alti Lodi property as soon
as spring opens fully. This is the prop
erty that was bonded year ago last
winter to Chicago persons who formed
the Cochran Gold Mining company, by
which the bond was afterwards allowed
to expire. Mr.. Cochran has worked the
mine few months each summer for the
last six years with a thirty ton Hunting
ton quartz MILL, taking out from $4,000
to $4,000 a season. The orc is free
milling gold, and carries sufficient taer--.
curry that it is not ,aeecssary to quicken
the plates for ANAL lsamation-this being
something almost unheard Of in the an
nuals of mining. ng.-Pioneer-Times.
.sYLvANITR IN THE HILLS.
A.recent issue f,.he. Lead Call says.
sylvanite is found IN SONS localities in
the BlacE Hills, but its appearance and
characteristics are not generally under
stood by Black Hills prospsctors. For
their benefit, it may be said that this
minerslis telluride of gold and silver
-ofa steel gray silver white or brass
yellow color-and was 30 named from
Pennsylvania, where it was first found.
1t often occurs in implanted crystals re-
sembling, written characters; hence it. 10
called graphic ,tsllurium. Hardness,
1852; specific gravity, 1919; lustre,
metallic. Composition, tellurium 55.s
gold 2S.5; silver 1877. Anthony some
times replaces part Of the telluriutn, and
lead part of the other metals. Treated
with nitric acid the gold becomes visi-
BILE; or the ore showing the crystals may
be roasted at low temperature, when
the gold will also become visible.
OLD BILL.
The shaft in the Old Bill mine is now
down 81 feet The vein is seven feet in
width and the ore is reported to be ofan
excellent grade from the top to the bot
tom. The working crew consists of Bill
Campbell, Geo. Black, Sam Virtue, Ed.
Dority, Thomas Wheeler, Mark Foran.
This is the second shaft which has been
sunk on the vein, and while they are
quite distance apart, yet the same quail
ity of excellent pay ore has been found
in both openings. This demonstrates
what the owner has all along claimed,
that while the vein Is large, it is also
permanent and continuous and marks
the Old Bill az one of the proven grand
mines of the district. 1t is now lacks
only the machinery to prepare the ore,
and the adoption Of the best process for
the extraction of the precious metal,
which the ore Is known to contain. This
is one of Mr.. J. N. Wright's enterprises,
and is another proof, if proof were need
ed, that his mining Judgment is sound.
HORSESHOE MINING co.
The Horseshoe Mining company have
reduced their capitalization from $l0.
100000 to $5,OOO,Ooo. They have like
wise determined to start up their cyan
ide reduction works as quickly as posi-
BILE and will make some changes in the
management. As consequence of this
change of policy the stock Of tho COM
pany which had fallen as low as cents,
has now risen to 80 cents and the trend
Is still upward. The secret of the whole
matter as it strikes us is that the cons
pany was paying too much attention to
selling of their stock and not enough to
tho working of their rock. Now that
this is all changed we may expect soon
to see the Horseshoe take it's place as the
second great mining company in the
Black Hills. The grade of the Horse.
shoe ore is much higher than that ofthe