Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-06-27
MINES AND MINING.

shaft between the hoist and the mill
where the richest free gold prospects
are obtained. The recent wet spell has
hindered hauling the machinery for the
stamp mill and the tanks for the cyanide
annex, but with reasonably favorable
weather they will probably be ready to
run in about six weeks. We wish them
success.
Mr.. Ed. N. Davis is over at Keystone
and according to reports he Is under in
structions from Prof. Herman Reinbold
Of Omaha experimenting on the extrac-
ton Of new mineral. This mineral is
bismuth. 1t is not new but its method
of extraction is said to be new, and the
marketing of the same as an article of
commerce is also new. To further these
experiments they say that he has taken
a lease on the old Tykoon mill and in
working four men in his operations.
Success Ed.
A. B. Conover, assistant superintend.
ent of the Ideal mine, was in from camp
on Monday and reports but little doing
just now as the roads are in deplorable
condition. The new machinery cannot
be hauled at present. Upon inquiry we
learned that the main tunnel was in
about 400 feet and it lacked something
like 700 feet to reach the main ore body
for which they are running. However
they have all the ore they need to run a
mill as they cut thirty foot vein in the
tunnel that runs good 500 per ton in
gold.
The South Homestake mine which is
a continuation Of the great Homes.ake Q
is reported to have cut vein of pay ore
forty-fve feet wide. This vein was
found in running drift from the main
shaft at the $50 foot level. If all that is
said of this new vein is true, it is an in
QUESTION that will add great value to
the assets of that persevering and enter
prising company. They have been at
work about two and half years and
their workings in shafts, drifts and cross
cuts amounts to 1000 feet.
OUR OBSCURE MINERALS.
Mark Willis and ]. F. Sidey are the
fortunate owners Of large body of the
purest lithograph rock in this or any
other country. They are preparing to
develope the ledge and ship the raw
material to supply the eastern market.
They have bad the stone tested and the
best judges declare that 1t is equal to the
Bavarian stone. We have seen some OF
the print turned out from an impression
of this stone and as near as we can re.
collect We never saw anything finer.
One after another our resources are be-
ing developed and each tends to swell
the list of those things to 60 to augment
the prosperity of our county. Gold, sill
yer, copper and lead we have in abun.
dance, but these do not comprise the
sum total of our treasures, for in addi-
ton to these We are mining and ship
ping many of what is termed the OBJ
scure minerals among which are mica,
amblygonite, spodumene, rose quartz,
and bismuth. In addition to these we
only need the hand of capital when we
will be ready to mi ne and ship fullers
earth, tripoli, tin, tantalum, tungsten,
platinum and many other useful and
ornamental commod ties. We cannot
develope them all at once, Rome wat
not built in a day." and we must moi
forget that we dwell in one Of the rich
est districts, both mineral and agricul
tural, that the sun ever shown upon.