Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-09
MINING IN The BLACK HILLS
Belt Company RenewS Its Lease and will
Continue Dew lopment,
TURNING ATTENTION TO TIN PROPERTIES
Unusual Activity ~ Manifested I'm
the Keystone District-ChicngO
Parties Take the Bullion
Group.

DEADwOOD, S. d., March s.-(special.)
Il. r. Enrich Of Colorado Springs, accom-
panied by a number Of the stockholders Of
the Belt Development company, operating
on the "Homestake" vein to the south Of
Lead, arrived in the city last Thursday
and. It is stated, will complete the arrange
ments already made for developing the
ground which the company is now holding
on an option. The option on this ground
expired on the first Of the present month,
but the company succeeded in getting an
extension on It. Operations In the work
ings on the ground we're suspended for a
few days, but were resumed again on last
Wednesday. and will be continued with a
much larger force than formerly. The
company has already placed a great deal
Of money in the ground in the shape of de-
velopment, having sunk upon 1t a 700-foot
three-compartment shaft, from the bottom
OF which It has driven 1000 feet of drifts.
It is said that under the new arrangement
made with the owners Of the ground the
company will spend more money than It has
already put into the ground in the work Of
exploration. and that It will also put in
additional machinery. Several ore bodies
have been encountered in the workings Of
the ground, but the Homeetake vein, the
one for which they had been looking, II
was announced, had not been struck when
the work closed down last week, but min
ers who have worked for the company in
the deepworkings say that It has been
struck, and that the values carried are
much higher than where the vein is being
worked in the Homestake. However this
may be, II is Get cain that the company has
spent a fortune on the work It has already
put in the ground, and is prepared to spend
as much more.
The appointment OF L. p. jenkins Of Lead
as assayer in charge Of the United States
assay office in Deadwood is one which meets
with the approval OF all mining men in the
Hills. Mr.. jenkins was a member Of the
state senate when the appointment was
made, he is a practical mining man and
heavily interested in mining properties in
this s%ection. The assay office is now one of
the most important federal Offices in the
country, for 1t receives and pays for a
great deal OF gold bullion during each
month. So far this month II has shipped
over 5000 o worth Of precious metals to
the mint, and the amount is increasing
every month. Before the end OF the month
three large cyanide plants will be adding to
the amount passing through 1t.
CIeanups Are Large.
The Observation-Disclosures company, on the
last cleanup of its mill on Johnson gulch,
produced a brick which weighed a little
over $4,000. The plant Of the company is
now running at its full capacity, and It is
believed that the next cleanup will be
much larger. PlaPs have been drawn to
enlarge the mill to double it's present ca
pacity.
Thu Alder Creek company on the Arst of
the month sent down a s., 1000 Nrick, the re-
suit Of a cleanup OF it,. ffty-ton mill after
a ffteen-day run. The Alder Creek COM
pany adjoins Wasp 2 on Yellow creek, and
Is In the same character of ore, a por-
phry. and an excellent cyaniding PROPOSE
tion. Wasp 2 came down from Yellow
creek with an 81, 900 brick, the result of Us
emi-monthly cleanup. The Glover Leaf
sent its regular cleanup in from Elk creek,
about IS 5000. This mine cleans up every
week. The Golden Crest made it's first
regular cleanup after a month of expert
mental working of its new mill on Straw
berry, and the brick weighed about IS, 900.
This mill has a capacity Of but thirty-hve
tons a day and had not been running full
all OF the time. 1t Is the intention to en-
large 1t at once and bring its daily ca
pacity up to 100 tons.
~ AAROA N1NN AAAhAAb oCaA was tOubuUQ-
mated last week in Spruce gulch property
by which the Lexington Hill Mining com
pany, composed of Colorado and Black Hills
people. has acquired title to 800 acres Of
good mining ground there. The property in
volved in the deal consists of the Highland
Chief group and the Belle Eldridge and
Annie groups.
Developing Tin Property.
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pany which has been recently organized for
the purpose OF working the tin deposits on
Bear gulch. The company was organized
in Chicago under the laws OF the state of
Illinois and interested in II are a number
of Deadwood people. The company has re-
Gently acquired a large acreage OF land in
the Bear gulch country and upon some OF
its claims has put a great deal Of develop
ment. Recently a mill test Of 300 tons OF
the ore was made. and from the test Il was
demonstrated that the ore carries a much
higher percentage OF tin than does that
mined in the English mines of Cornwall.
The new company has fitted up offices and
boarding houses on Bear gulch and has
made every preparation for entering upon
the work Of getting out ore on a large
scale.
j. n. IL ErratIc.
KEYSTONE. s. D., March S.-(SpecIal)-
The work which has been done on the ].
r. mine during the past few months has
resulted in again finding the trembling
vein from which so much rich ore was
taken by the former owners before they
lost II in the country rock several years
ago. A shaft was started on the ground
forty feet below the point where the old
workings ceased. and at a depth of las
feet a drift was run, which struck the
vein at a distance OF seventy-hve feet. II
was still in the same condition as where
abandoned In the old workings. II was
about forty feet wide, between slate walls.
quartz and country rock mixed. but the
quartz carried as high values as II did in
the old workings. The SHAFT was continued
to a depth Of 200 feet. and at that depth
the vein came into the shaft, but in a diff
ferent state respecting the gold. the ma
terial e~ncasing 1t being very refractory.
II is a strong vein, and drifting has been
done on II for a distance OF 200 feet in the
hope that at this depth the Trembling ore
would again be struck, but so far this
has not been the case. The ore carries