Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1910-08-13
CONDITIONS SIMILAR
IN CARBONATE CAMP

county, will in time prove to be as
great a gold producer as Leadville,
Colo, has become, is again ecralled
by the publication, in the Mining
World, of a statement of conditions
there, which there is reason to be-
lieve, development will duplicate
here. Mining men know that in the
surface workings in the Colorado
camp, conditions almost identical to
Carbonate were found; that Lead
vile in its early history was only
silver and lead producer and that
when the deposits of these metals
played out, the camp lay almost
dead for years. When deep mining
was undertaken, gold bearing veins
were opened up and they are now
turning out the yellow metal at a
rate that is creating colony OF mil
lionares. The possibilities of Car
Donate as gold producer were little
thought of by the men who were
mining its silver-lead ores twenty
five years ago, and still since the
Black Hills Development and Finan-
cial corporation has undertaken the
opening up of the camp, they have
been able to send out car load ship
ment of gold bearing rock averaging
$24 per ton. With this gold show
ing almost at the grass roots and
with indications pointing to the prob
ability that the camp will develop in
depth as Leadville has, it seems GER
tain that when the lime and upper
strata are penetrated, Carbonate
will become a great gold producing
camp. The Mining World, speaking
of Leadville as a gold camps, says:
Breeze Hill in the Leadville dis
trict, Colorado, has possibly produc-
ed more large gold nuggets than any
other vein mining district in, the
world The finding of nuggets of 10
lbs and upward is a frequent oc-
curence. Masses of virgin gold are
found so frequently that the hex
Co., has made special provision for
the melting of such nuggets. In the
last few years the hex alone has
melted nearly $5O0,000 worth of
gold nuggets.
A mass of gold weighing about 80
lbs, was found some time ago at the
Winnie. 1t was not pure gold, but
contained some quartz. Recently
gold mass weighing 13 lbs, was
found in the Ibex but that discovery
has been lately eclipsed by the dis
covery of a mass weighing &c lbs,
This contained great deal OF
quartz but still was worth $4,000.
The Leadville gold belt, which is
now being opened up almost entire
ly by local mining men, bids fair to
make Leadvile as widely known as a
gold camp as carbonates made her
known as a silver district. In the
Cleveland mine, which is almost ex-
clusively a gold producer, it has one
of the most profitable gold mines in
the state of Colorado. The ore in
this mine is phenomenally rich and
has a continuous ore shoot of 1900
TT, and without finding the end of
the shoot at either face of the long
est level. The Cleveland deposit Is
radically different from that of any
other in the Leadville district. 1t
is a true fault fissure. The discov-
cry in the Cleveland that this fault
fissure passes down through the sed-
imentaries into the Archean gran
ite, has opened a new chapter in the
study of Leadville ore deposits.
1t has long been held in the Lead
Vile district that, contrary to the
belief of the geologists of the U. s.
smelters of Pueblo and elsewhere.
eventually be found penetrating the
granite. Practical mining work in
the Leadville district has almost de-
monstrated that the local opinions
are correct. 1t is certainly so in
the case of the Cleveland and it is
very likely to be the case in some of
the workings of the Iron-Silver.
In conclusion it might be said
that Leadville presents a very good
example of the fallacy so often heard
that for every dollar that comes out
of the ground two go in. During the
last 10 years almost no outside cap
ital has gone into the Leadville dis
trict. The development work has
been done entirely by capital that
has had its source in the local mines
During that period of 10 years Lead
vile has added over $100,000,0 900
to the wealth of the world, 1t has
maintained in comfort population
of $4,000 people besides furnishing
large incomes to individuals who re-
side in Denver, Detroit and st. Louis
In addition to all this the district
has furnished an enormous tonnage
of freight to the railroads and vast
quantities Of fluxing ore for the
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