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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-03
THINKS DETROIT
WILL WIN PENNANT.

| have been asked to give my
opinion of the American League, the
probable pennant winner and the
prospective positions Of the various
teams at the finish of the season OF
1910.
In answer to the last part Of the
request 1 perdict that the American
League teams will finish in this
order:
First-Detroit.
Second-PhiladeIphia.
Third-Boston.
Fourth-New York.
Fifth-Chicago.
Sixth-Cleveland.
Seventh-Washington.
Eighth-St. Louis.
In selecting the winner of the
pennant of 1910 in the American
League there is nothing for me to
say other than that Detroit Is the
logical candidate for the honor.
In the first place, the members
Of the Detroit team have the ad-
vantage Of having won the pennant
for three years in succession. In
my opinion this should be a twenty
five per cent. advantage to any club
in baseball. For three years they
have won the championship Of their
league in hard, uphill fight.
marked by many ups and downs.
The Detroit team has stee,led It
self against these odds. 1t has for
three years played with spirit that
is never beaten or squelched and
they have never quit no matter how
tough the proposition they faced
"Hughie" Jennings in the September
Metropolitan Magazine.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-03
MOGUL COMPANY TO
SINK MARK TWAIN SHAFT.

The Mogul Mining company has
commenced the work of sinking the
shaft on the Mark Twain property,
for the purpose of reaching quart
zite and developing the ore measures
of that zone. A hoist has been
moved from one of the other work
ings of the company in the Bald
Mountain district, and Is now in use
on the Job. 1t is estimated that 1t
viii be necessary to sink about 400
feet to reach quartzite or about 200
fact less than the depth to which
the Dakota Mining company was OBJ
liged to sink, in order to reach quart
zite on their property. The STRAIT
um of quartzite which will be
reached by this shaft, is the same
upon which the Portland Mining com
pany, on the Deadwood side of the
divide, has been working for long
time past and from which it has
shipped large quantities of high
grad, ore. The Portland however,
was not put to the expense Of deep
mining, as on their side of the hill,
the quartzite is exposed close to the
surface and it was possible to open
up the ore shoots by tunnel work.
The Mark Twain for many years
past has been a producer of high
grade shipping ore and rock of lower
grade which has been profitable cy-
aniding proposition. These ores,
however, have been taken from the
shale strata, close to the surface and
far above the quartzite level. Sew
eral strata of this character of ore
have tsen worked and generally
with satisfactory results. There
seems to be little doubt in the
minds of the officers of the Mo-
gul company that ore shoots of good
grade will be encountered on the
quartzite and at no great distance
from the point at which the shaft
will reach its destination.
The Mogul mill at Pluma is again
working full force with its four
Chinian mills in operation. At the
! present time they are putting thru
about $50 tons per day, which is
considerably above the estimated
capacity Of the plant at the time 1t
was built. In fact IL was put up
to treat 800 tons daily, but this
point was long ago passed. With
certain varieties of ore, it is pos
sible to force up the daily capacity
of the plant to more than 400 tons
and this figure has ben reached dur
ing several periods OF one month
duration. Taking, however. the av-
erage run Of the ore, a tonnage Of
from $50 to 375, is all that can be
expected of the plant and wnen this
is maintained, the management is
we'll satisfied with results.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-03
TO WORK MAGPIE
WITH LARGE DREDGE-

1t Is announced that the negotia-
tions which Frank Sherman of Pac-
tola has been conducting for some
time past with Pittsburg people, look
ing to the working of the Magpie
placer ground on Rapid Creek, near
the mouth of Jenny gulch, are being
brought to successful termination
and that it will not be long before
active operations are in progress on
the property. 1t is the plan to in
stall large dredge, probably larger
than any similar machine ever
brought into the Black Hills and to
work the diggings on a mammoth
scale. The scheme has been very
carefully thought out and it is claim
ed that the economical methods
which will be pursued in washing
immense quantities of the gravel,
will be productive of large profits.
The company has acquired large
acreage of placer ground, including
the Magpie and adjoining properties,
most of which have been thoroughly
prospected and are known to contain
considerable quantities of gold. At
different times in the past, attempts
have been made to work some of
the bars, but in each case the oper-
ating companies were not supplied
with sufficient capital to install a
plant that would handle the dirt on
a large enough scale. One of the
recent attempts, in that ocality, was
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other proposition takes in the rich
Columbia mine which is owned by
the Manions, r. Griffith and others
Of Keystone.
Mr.. Craddock represents strong
eastern capital and he believes he
has the properties that will suit his
clients. He informed the Journal
last evening that he had never be-
fore in all his mining experiences
seen such great possibilities for the
making of permanent mines as
around Keystone and the Central
Hills. F. w Bower, of Deadwood,
who was instrumental in getting
Mr. Craddock to come to the Hills
was also in the city, with Mr. Grad
dock.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-03
WHY COMSTOCK MERGER
HAS BEEN ABANDONED

NEW YORK CITY, Aug. a.
Abandonment of the plan to merge
various mines operated on the Com
stock lode is explained by members
of the committee which had it in
charge as having been due to the dis
covery that the merger would have
been in violation Of law. It was
planned to place all of the compan-
les under one management and to
use the Comstock tunnel in mining
operations. The committee, which
was appointed last March to put
through scheme of consolidation
was composed of Franklin Leonard,
Jr., Adolph Lewisohn, Earnest Thai
man, A. l.. Schuer, w. c. Ralston,
James McNab, ]. Parke Charming,
B. F. Shaw and Charles A. Ellis.
The committee itself represented a
majority Of the stock of the COM
panies which 1t was proposed to
merge.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-03
TO DEVELOP WARREN
PEAK MINING GROUND

DR.. L. d. Bailor, a prominent
mining man of the Hills, was in the
Bear Lodge Mining District this
week looking over the property of
the Warren Peak Mines Company.
On his return he stated that 1t was
his opinion that all that was neces-
sary to start operations was proper
investment of certain amount Of
capital, and that he thought that peo
pie with sufficient means to install
the necessary machinery would be
here to inspect the ground in the
near future, and If such be the case,
a course Of development work not
yet witnessed in the field would be
the order of things this winter.-Sun
dance Monitor.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-03
SHELTER TRUST WILL
NOT CUT DIVIDEND.

NEW YORK CITY, Aug. "a
Speaking in reference to reports that
a reduction is contemplated in the
common dividend rate of the Amer
ican Smelling & Refining company,
one of the directors of the company
said:
you may say with the utmost
authority that there is no truth to
the rumor that Shelters will reduce
it's present common dividend rate.
The showing on the common will be
at least per cent and in addition
there will be large earnings on the
60 per cent Of the common stock
which the Refining company owns
of the American Shelters Security
company, but which will not appear
in Shelters statement, as the Sc
curities common stock is not yet on
dividend paying basis.
"Smelters Securities" year ,nded
May 80, 1910, and will be by far the
best in its history, its net earnings
available for dividends totalling
somewhat over $6,O0O,0O0 or an i'm
provement of approximately 100 per
cent over last years net available for
dividends. Disbursements on pro-
ferred stocks A and B call for a Co
tai Of $2,520,000, so that the bal
ance of roughly $3,500,000 Is equiv
alent to 11.66 per cent on the $30,-
100000 common stock outstanding.
Shelters 60 per cent holdings In the
Securities common stock give 1t an
equity of $2,100,000 in Securities
earnings on its common, which is
equal to 1-2 per cent on the Smell
ters common stock. So that II Smell
ters received its pro rata of the Sc
curities common earnings, It would
show at least IL 1-2 per cent for
year on its common stock. This, It
seems to me, should show the alb
surdity of the recent dividend reduc-
ton reports that have been circu-
lated.
"The business Of the American
Smelling & Refining company is prin
cipally the smelling and refining of
lead ores and the company will be
affected in no way by any curtail-
ment in copper production. The Be-
curities company handles the cop
per refining business. and It is from
that source that It's large increase
in earnings have come"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-03
GENERAL MINING
NEWS CONDENSED

Reports say that hydraulicking
may begin soon at Cobalt.
The Cohise Copper company at
Cochise, Ariz., are making arrange
ments to resume operations.
The Erie mine at Verginia City,
New, is being developed by a group
Of West Virginia capitalists.
The Patrillo mine at Inde, Mex,
has been sold to an American COM
pany. The price is reported to be
$15O,OO0.
Results of prospecting in the Yak
tunnel at Leadville, Colo, is a 80
foot body of ore that carries values
running $50 per ton.
A vein has been opened up in
the Mountain View mine near Red
ding, Calf, which is 16 inches wide
and asseys 1866 per ton
Returns from the first shipment
Of ore from the Mountain Dell mine
in American Fork canyon, Utah,
netted the company $57 per ton.
The East Snowstorm of Occur
d'Alenes needs a different way of
raising money and are planning to
change to an assessable corporation.
Shipments Of about 12O tons
per month from the Cardiff property
on the south fork of Big Cotton
wood show ore values from $50 to
SIS per ton.
Orders have been issued by the
New York office of the Consolidated
Copper company and wired to the
mines at Ely, Nevada, to curtail the
output Is per cent
The surface plant of the Birch
vile mine at Graniteville, New, was
destroyed by fire few days ago and
the mine is idle as result. About
100 men were employed.
Placer mining in California is
badly hampered by the universal
scarcity of water. AS a result there
is general idleness of such work and
many men are out of employment.
In the Smartville section of Cali
fornia the mining outlook is better
than it has been for 80 years. Scores
Of prospectors are in the hills, while
several parties are placer mining on
the Yuba river. The Yuba river Is
the lowest for 40 years.
Work has been resumed on the
Stanard copper mines at Grand En-
campment, Wyo., and will probably
continue the balance Of the year.
Operations were suspended in April
on account of the floods caused by
sudden melting Of snow in the
mountains.
1t is reported that the Rothchilds
are after several Texas mining prop
critics. Representatives for the
London money kings are in the So
nora district and have a deal under
way for a group of mines near Can
anea, the price of which is placed at
$1,5O0,0O0.
The Ophelia tunnel and mining
properties connected thereto are to
be sold on September %, by the
master in chancery, to satisfy a
mortgage Of nearly 100000 held by
a Chicago bank. The sale will be
held at the entrance of the tunnel
near Cripple Creek, Colo.
BY decision of Judge Dietrich, in
the federal court at Moscow, Idaho
mining companies operating in the
Occur d'A'lene district have the
right to dump tailings into streams,
This decision is of prime Importance
to the mining industry in that dis
trict, and will remain a matter of
record unless reversed by the court
of appeals.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-03
OPTIONS ON MINING PROPERTIES

RAPID CITY, Aug. 18.-Ross s.
Craddock, a well known mining en-
gineer, who has been engaged the
past two months in making thor
ough examination Of the Keystone
district passed through Rapid City
yesterday on his way to New York
City. He is taking back with him
options on two mining properties,
the larger being about 500 acres in
extent, embracing most OF the
ground north Of the Holy Terror
Keystone properties for a distance
of two miles along that belt. The
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hundred feet should the company SO
desire after the completion Of the
contract. The depth of the shaft
is TAO feet now. Mr.. Kempt brought
with him crew of experts miners
from Colorado and is paying them
$500 a shift. He is working them
eight-hour shifts. Work was COM
menced on the 18th of this month.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-03
BIG sH1PMENT FROM NATIONAL

DAo oA1AN NAnIN1 cISoNu ch1AoNhhs
Winnemucca, New, Aug. 1S-The
shipments Of the National Mining
company of Nevada, including the
Stall Bros lease, for the month of
July amounted to $280,000. The
final shipment for the month was
brought in here and shipped through
Wells, Fargo & Co., to the United
States mint at San Francisco.
Like former shipments, the gold
en- bars, 10 in all, and weighing $40
pounds, was conveyed here under
heavy guard in an automobile.
President John E. Pelton of the
National Mining company of New
ada had charge of the consignment.
He was accompanied by Sheriff
Lamb.
The new mill which is being in
stalled by the National Mining COM
pany of Nevada to work the lower
grade ore extracted from the prop
erty is about ready and will COM
mence grinding as soon as the tram
way from the workings is COM
pleted.
What can be easily called a mug
get of gold, weighing 124 pounds
was hoisted last week from the Stall
lease, on National Mining company
of Nevada's ground at the camp of
National. While the big piece of
ore is not solid gold, yet it appears
as such, so rich is it in the yellow
metal. and is estimated to be worth
over $40 per pound or total value
of about $4,000. This is the biggest
chunk Of the rich ore yet taken
from the famous lease, although
this block Of ground has produced
tons Of this high-grade ore and is
still producing.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-03
THE KNOCKER,
She had a little hammer,
She used 1t with a will.

Sne mad little hammer,
She used it with a will,
She knocked at everybody
They couldn't keep her still;
She knocked about her neighbors
If they were friends or foes,
She knocked about the table
And knocked about her clothes.
She knocked at hubby's smoking
About his snoring, too;
And knocked about his whistling
And, SO, perhaps, would you,
At last the reaper claimed her,
Her course on earth was run;
Her husband then considered
Her knocking days were done.
But hubby went one evening
To see spirit show,
Where always, in the cleaning,
The spirits come and go.
He heard a spirit knocking
"My wife," he said, "I bet!
Now isn't she a wonder?
Here that! She's knocking yet!
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-03
TINTON COMPANY
RUNNING $50 TONS.

The linton Reduction Company is
employing a force twenty-five men
at it's linton mines, and $50 tons of
ore go to the mill daily. The rock
after being stopped out much in the
same manner employed by the Home
stake company goes to the mill via
an aerial tram. The management
is ably conducting the operations
now in progress and excellent re-
suits are reported as being obtained.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-03
TO SAMPLE THE
PAHASA MINES.

fAhASh MINES
Word from Hill City is to the ef-
feet that Expert Duncan win soon
commence extensive samp'ings on
the Pahasa Mining company neal
Hill City. Superintendent Kammon
has completed the unwatering Of the
Coats shaft and has a number OF
men steadily employed getting the
drifts ready for a thorough explora-
tion. 1t is thought by men who are
familiar with the Cowboy and Goats
properties that they can be made to
pay wen with the application OF mod
ern methods Of handling the 6re.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-03
A Busy Life.

Sub-Editor-"A dispatch from the
penitenitary says the convicts have
struck, and refuse to work unless
they can have pie twice day"
Great-Editor (busily) - Counsel
moderation and arbitration. - New
York weekley.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-03
BONDED PLACER CLAIMS.
Chin City News.)

Dan Garfield took Col. Miller and
Robt Seholt out to his placer dig
gings on Spring creek Wednesday.
Col. Miller is an old placer miner
and has made success with dredges
in working gold placers in Colorado,
and is interested in propositions of
this character on Castle creek near
Mystic and Deerfield. He and Mr..
Seholt prospected the gravel on
Canfield's ground and deemed the
same of sufficient value to assure a
profit If worked with a dredge, that
they took an option on the placer
claims, the Maggie and Bessie
which Mr.. Garfield has owned and
worked at times, for a number OF
years. These placers were known
in the early days as the "Niggel
bar" from which several negroes
who worked the diggins in 1876 took
out many thousands of dollars. They
adjoin Mrs. McDermott's homestead
near Oreville, which was known as
Niggerville before the railroad was
built and changed the name to Ore.
vile.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-03

Mr.. Gordon S. Duncon of London
England, was met at the depot on
the arrival Of Thursdays train by
c. H. Kamman, Superintendent of
the Pahasa Mining Co., and accom-
panied that gentleman to Deadwood
and from there to linton where Mr..
Duncan will look at the linton re-
duction works and property for a
few days. He will return to Hill
City where in company with Supt.
Kamman they will carefully ex-
anime the property of the Pahasa
company.
Mr.. Duncan is mining engineer
and of large experience in the pro-
duction of 'in ore and will perhaps
stay in the Hills for several months.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-09-03

The Continental Copper company
held its annual meeting last week
and let contract to ]. M. Kempt
of Denver, to sink the shaft 200 feet
deeper, with the privilege of another
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Bodies Of Miner and Mules
Found in St. Paul Mine

CHERRY ILL.,. February 1.-The body
of one miner and the carcasses OF six
ty-four mules were found $50 feet deep
in the St Paul mine today by the relay
parties OF repairers and explorers who
BEGAN work in the burned passages last
night
1T is probable the corpse of the miner
will be brought to the surface some
time today.
The explorers during last night stop
ped up all the dangerous breaks In the
walls Of the main runway to the west
Of the main shaft on the second level
The work was also extended to the
south as far as the air shaft. thus open
ing a passa geway between the two
shafts of the mine.
It was at the edge o. the air shaft that
the body was found 1t lay sprawled
along the runway with hands extended to-
ward the escape pit.
Safety, however. could not have been
found In the air shaft. 1t was in this well
that the hay blazed so f1erceiy, causing
flames to leap through the fan and melt
the steel rivets.
II was discovered today that the third
level, 500 feet below the surface, Is not
full of water, as had been thought.
A stone dropped down the elevator shaft
hit the top of the cage that ran from the
third level to the second. As this car
now rests on the bottom OF the third level
the water cannot be- more than five feet
deep, probably less.
Pumps were installed today to draw the
water from the mine.
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worked with the rescuers all night, COM
ing up only at intervals to get little

worked with the rescuers all night COM
ing up only at intervals to get little
fresh air
Peter Kelly, the missing foreman, has
been in mine accidents before. and fire.
quently had told his wife that should an
explosion ever occur where he was at
work he would escape somehow. either
by rushing to the air shaft or to some
safe part of the mine.
, Members Of his family are still hopeful
he has escaped the fate of his men. The
mine officials, however. fear that Kelly
is dead.
State Mine Inspector Prof. c. ]. Nor
wood said that the Browder mine had
given the inspectors some uneasness on
account of its peculiar gasy conditions,
and therefore had been inspected ofteneI
local station, left Pittsburg early today
been visited at least once a month.
PITTSBURG, Pa. February 2.-Assist-
ant Chief Engineer ]. c. Roberts, in
charge of the United States geological
survey station at this point. has ordered
Mining Engineer ]. J. Rutlidge OF Knox
Vile, Tenn, to Drakesboro to assist in
rescue work.
]. NJ kavanaush. an assistant at the
local station, left Pittsburg early today
with oxygen tanks and safety helmets
for the scene Of yesterdays mine disas-