The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-04-21
DEVELOPMENT UNDERTAKEN
At GILT EDGE-MA|l

ha JILL luu[ IJIhtk.
Deadwood, S. D., April 1.-THE
return of General Manager Henri
Schnitzel of the Golden Reward Min
ing company from six weeks VISIT
IN the east brings the announcement
that the plans for the proposed new
mill, which the company will erect
in Deadwood are now being arrane-
ed for and will probably be complsa-
ed within the next two or three
weeks. This mill will be generally
of the same model as the mill now
in operation, but will be supplied
with all modern improvements and .
strictly up-to-date affair. Its capacit1
will probably be 500 tons dailya
which will give the company a min-
ing capacity of approximately see
tons.
Work at the mine is progressing
most satisfactorily and the develop
ment of the bog shoot, from which
the product for the new mill will bo
taken, is going ahead at a rapid ratio.
The continued opening up of the orc
body is confirming the earlier deo-
laration that it is one of the great
est discoveries ever made in the flas
formation of the Black Hills.
Former State Mine Inspector Ire
cd ho
superintendent of the Gilt Edge
Maid Mining company. The proper
ty. which has been worked spasmodi-
cally for the past few years is one
of the best in the Bare Butte dis
trict, II not In the Black Hills. Az
one time 1t produced more high
grade ore than any other mine in
that district and made some ship-
ments to the Deadwood smelter ana
to the Kansas City and Omaha smelt-
ers which ran pretty nearly $1,000
to the ton. To get at this rich ore
former superintendent of. the prop
erty paid but small attention to the
large bodies of good ore which are
still In the mines, in fact, they 80
worked the property that it has since
been difficult proposition to oper~
ate it without extensive new WORT
being done
1t is announced that a large por-
ton of the capital necessary for the
erection of the concentrating plans
which the Gilt Edge-Maid Minina
company is about to erect in con-
nection with the Osterman-Danck-
wardt smelter at Galena, has been
deposited in local bank and thea
the grading for the structure will
commence in few days.
The Burlington engineers who re-
Gently visited Galena have approves
the work done on the grading for
the extension Of their line to the
site of the Observation-Disclosures
smelter, 1000 feet below the town.
and will proceed with the laying oF
the ties and steel at once. The
grading for the smelter has been
completed and the erection of an OF.
flee building is now commencing. The
material which has been purchaseA
| from the Golden Reward companZ
is ready for shipment from the OLD
smelter site at the lower end OF
Deadwood and will be loaded for
hauling to Galena as soon as the
Burlington has laid the steel at ths4
point. On the whole. everythfno
connected with the erection Of tho
Observation-Disclosures smelter II
progressing satisfactorily.
| A report comes to Deadwood thaa
there has recently been opened NJ
at point few miles southeast a
the city, four-foot vein of steol
galena ore that is said to assay 5000
per ton In silver and lead. Very lit
tie definite information can thus far
be gained regarding the find, as the
owner is evidently trying to keep Il
a secret, and only three persons have
been allowed to inspect it.
Another big cleanup has come
from the Wasp No. 2. The cleanup.
which has just been brought in, went
way up into the thousands of doh
lars and the grade of gold was q
trifle better than that contained n
the last. The mine is running fun
handed, and the ore body shows no<
the least sign of diminishing in qual-
ity or quantity. For years Wasp
No. 2 has been one of the producing
and paying mines of the Black Hills
and bids fair to continue as such foa
many years to come.-Mining Rec
ord.