The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-02
OLD LOOKOUT TO
BE REJUQENATED
DEAL MADE OF FIRST IMPORT
7 @ ANCE TO ROCKFORD.
Property Made Idle by Litigation Will
Now Be Worked on an Enlarged
scale-B1g Ore Body Yielding from
81 to SIS a Ton--Late Mining News
from Deadwood, Mystic and Custer.
Specials to Tho journal,

Specials to Tho journal. .. . %,
Rockford, 8. D.. Aug. "A sale which is Of
the greatest interest to everyone In this vicinity
Is that Of the old Lookout property, about four
miles west Of this camp. A company known
as the Blossom Mining company was at one time
organized to push work ona this ground but the
entire property was afterwards sold to Q. D.
Hazard of Quincyville Cal, and he has just
sold it to Charles r. Bishop Of Berkeley,
There are about 200 acres Of land In the hold
ings of the company, and all of 1T Is patented
forty.stamp mill was put up some time ago
and for several months the property was worked
at good profit. Later on, however, 1t became
involved in litigation, work was suspended and
then abandoned altogether. The ground has
been we'll opened. Several shafts, including one
that is 100 feet deep. have been sunk, and nu-
merous tunnels and drifts have been run.
So well is the ground developed that 1t would
be an easy matter, without further opening, to
supply enough ore to run this forty-stamp mill
constantly. 1t is the intention Of the new owner
to put force of men at work at once clearing
out the mine workings and making necessary re-
pairs at the mill SO that actual work can soon
begin in nest. There Is an ore body from
forty to fifty feet wide of free-milling ore that
will give values Of from 81 to IS a ton.
DEADWOOD, 8. D.-Encouraging reports are
coming in from the Victoria extension, where
good force of men is kept constantly employed.
three compartment shaft is being sunk to ex-
plore the body which it is expected to en-.
counter at depth Of from 1925 to $50 feet. II
has now reached depth Of fifty feet. The
company has encountered some very rich ore, and
it Is expected this shaft will develop still other
bodies in the lower ore measures. -
Some Of the ore taken out of the new body re.
Gently discovered shows values that run up into
the pictures. Aside from this rich rock, the
company has an abundance Of low grade ore
which could DO mixed with the high grade stuff
| in fashion to give good milling values.
MYSTIC, S. D.-The Mariposa group Of clairns
near this city is showing some remarkable val
ues. Recently samples were taken and aftel
all the specimen rock and the loose gold were
picked out the returns brought from SIP t
$6s9.15 ton.
The tunnel which is being run to cut the gold
bearing lodges is in about 300 feet but it Is no
expected to reach the vein matter before 10,
or 800 feet.
! Two shifts of four men each are constantly
employed and the work is going on In a m s
| satisfactory manner. -
CUSTER, s. D.-with the work that Ia be
ing done at the Saginaw 80 well under way
it should be only short time until some Of tn
drifts being from the different levels o
the new shaft cut the ore bodies. On the SUI
face there are, in all, twenty openings, part o
which, being in ore, have served to identify til
strike and dip Of the veins. The equipment O
the plant is complete, including boilers engine
| air compressor, engine and dynamo for furnish
ing light and blacksmith and repair shop.