The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-09-23
|THE CARBONATE CAMP
may Be RESURRECTED
A Visit to the Mines by q Telegram
Representative Yesterday in
Company With Others.


from President Bunce of tho Blacl
Hills Financial and Development
company to visit his workings In tn
Carbonate camp, not - . capitals
or as an expert in metalurgy O.
mtnerology. but as q purveyor o
news to tho public, to see at FRS
hand what Is there and to give n
near as possible an unbiased idea o
what is in sight and in prospect IL
this camp.
The trip was made behind one O
e. T. Winn's teams of good step
pers. and while good time was made
over the eleven miles of mountain
road. there was no chance Of catch
ing Mr.. Bunce, who started out
ahead. He doesn't go around the
rinous turns in the road, and cuts
out going down into the depth OF
the gulches and canyons, merely
touching the high places, and as q
driver he is a progressive who does
not observe the speed limit. In the
rig with the writer was James Hall,
the veteran mining man. who hand
led the ribbons. He is q good driv-
or for he clipped OF the corner OF
all projecting rocks that lined the
road. and when a stump was in the
road he did not lose any time going
around 1t. The route took US up
Blacktail gulch, up past the Phoenix,
Esmeralda and other mines that
Mrs. Potter Palmer's father want d
to buy recently, on past the little
village of Maitland, where there is
said to be two good mines that are
now idle, on up along Polo creek.
and up a steep climb until we get
to the crest Of the hill, where a most
magnificent view is had of scenery
that would make a landscape painter
want to stay there forever. On the
left hand is Squaw creek canyon,
way down below you several hundred
feet. while off across is the magni-
ficant hills just this side of beauti-
full Speartish canyon, and away to
your right is the productive Spear
fish valley. 1t is a sight to make a
man glad that he lives in the Black
Hills.
Arrived at the camp we put our
horses up and proceeded to the camp
boarding house, where the lady cook
had prepared a dinner that Just
struck q most responsive chord in
that portion of inner man that is
most sorely hungered by a ride
through the aromatic pines and out
in the glorious ozone of these eternal
hills. When ample justice had been
done the savory viands fit for King
George or Emperor William, the
monarchs to whom Mr.. Bunce and
his assayer, DR.. Roos, have given
allegiance, the party was piloted by
these two gentlemen around the
workings. This is not a new mine,
and there are several buildings In
good preservation. Besides the
houses and the barns for man and
beast about the workings, there are
two hoists equipped with modern ma.
chinery, all in good working order.
with boilers and engines, an assay
office, blacksmith shop and every
thing complete to 90 right to work.
At the Home Run shaft the men
were at work taking up ore from y
shaft down some sixty feet, where a
Q W shaft Is being driven. From
this shaft some Of the prettiest ore
from a layman's point of view could
be seen. 1t is a s~ilver-colored rock
with chlorides of silver in such pro-
fusion and also blue carbonate ore.
carrying $3.50 to 5000 to the ton OF
silver and lead.
At the Segregated Iron Hill gold
ore Of the value of $40 was showing
from the surface, where 1t had been
shipped from to the Denver smelter,
and from which good returns were
made.
At the Seaburg-Calkins there
were piles of ore that were to be
seen and which is soon to be ship.
ped, e taken from the roadway
not three feet from the surface, II
fact at the very grass roots, was ore
of the value Of $40 to the ton.
Aside from this there are man,
thousands Of tons of ore on thu
dumps which will carry from g t.
IS to The ton.
The above are all facts which car
be ascertained by any mining mar
or one who is sufficiently familiar
with + to determine value, by I
visit to the mine.
The Telegram IL like any ordinar,
person. To see is to believe, and
visit to the Carbonate camp 10 sum
Gent to convince the most skeptica
that there is q mine In that camp o.