Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-10-05
MINES AND MINING.

Manager Davis of the Proyident com
pany shipped carload of amblygonite
to the company's headquarters in Oma,
ha this week. With the ore be also
sent the concentrates from the tin run
made last week.-Keystone Recorder.
The Briar Hill Coal company, compos.
ed Of Illinois and Black Hills men, is
about to open up the large coal deposits
in eastern Wyoming, in Weston county.
The company owns $4,000 acres OF coal
lands about fifty miles west of Dead.
wood.
An eighteen inch vein of high grade
free milling ore was struck last week in
a drift at the seventy.five foot level on
the Deep Down property near Keystone.
Tests made are said to show some of the
highest values ever found in the Black
Hills.
The Saginaw Gold Mining company
have reconstructed their blacksmith
shop, and are now getting out timbers
and lumber with which to replace their
hoist building. The boiler and air com
pressor are also being repaired, and we
understand an order has been placed
for new hoist which will have cap.
acity to sink to depth of 1000 feet.
Recent work on the ground of the
Mariposa Mining company, under the
direction of John Wise has opened up
ledge Of ore of good proportions and
milling grade. The vein which is al.
most twelve feet wide, was struck at a
distance Of 675 feet from the mouth of
the main tunnel and has an average
value OF 81 per ton in gold. 1t is of the
granular quartz variety and lying next
to it on the hanging wall is a two-foot
streak of high grade stuff
There are two principal veins which
show by their croppings on the surface
and the most important one of these is
still to be tapped. 1t is thought how
ever, that it will be reached within the
next 80 feet and the tunnel level will
give a depth Of 300 feet from the sur
face. The new steam power compressor
is working satisfactorily and good pro.
gress in the work is being made. The
company's ground is located on Slate
creek, two and a half miles from Mystic.
Lead Call.
HoMEsTAKE CONDITIONS PRACTICALLY NOR
NAL AGAIN.
The remarkable record made by the
Homestake Mining company in the en-.
tire resumption of work within approx.
mately six months after the breaking
out of the fire, has probably never been
exceled, if, indeed it has ever been
equalled. The history of the average
mine fire has gone to show that when a
mine is 50 unfortunate as to get on fire,
that shut down of at least twelve
months may be expected, and that the
workings will be found in such shape
that additional time must be allowed
for putting them in a workable condi.
tion. Black Hills people do not as
rule appreciate the excellence of gen
eral conditions at the Homestake and
the wisdom and efficiency of its man.
agement. but yet, it is WE'LL occasional.
ly, TO call attention to the unusual com.
pleteness as well as promptness with
which the affairs of the company are ad-
mnstered.
Some time tonight, or at the latest TO.
morrow, the pump on the 100 foot level
will be again doing business at the same
old stand, and at the same time the two
small pumps on the /, $50 foot level will
also resume operations This will mean
that all the shafts will be released for
their regular work. Mining is now go
ing on all the way down, and within
very few days conditions will once more
be normal. This is record to which
the people of the Hills may point with
pride, and Supt. Grier is entitled to
many congratulations.
The full number of stamps has been
dropping since the llth of July, but
large amount of ore has been mined from
the surface. This amount is being grad.
ually decreased and within few days
will be only the amount which is ordin-
arily taken out.
With conditions as they are, there is
every reason TO believe that dividends
may be resumed by the first of the year.
Pioneer Times.