Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-07-29

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which the South Dakota newspaper mer
had been used as foot balls by the poll
ticians, who after having attained the
topmost round of the political ladder,
had turned their backs on the means oil
their elevation and told the newspaper
men to go to--where it was hotter
than it was at Sioux Falls.
Another veteran newspaper man was
also at the convention, in the person OF
Joseph Kubler, of Custer. Mr.. Kubler
established the CHRONICLE at Custer in
1880, and continuously ever since has
been its sole proprietor and publisher,
making for him service Of thirty
years in the newspaper harness and all
the time on the same publication. If
| there is another in South Dakota with a
record like that we would like to hear
of it.
The winter meeting of the Press Asso-
citation will be held at Yankton, and we
expect to meet the bunch there again.
Panner Joe's Morning Star Mining Claim
Last Sunday the CHRONICLE reporter
in company with A. Burnham of Dead
wood, took stroll across Custer Park to
the Morning Star mining claim, owned
by "Panner Joe." Uncle Joe has strip
ped ledge of ore distance Of 100 feet.
According to mill tests its value ranges
from $4 to $ll per ton, free milling. He
is confident every foot of the ledge un-
covered will average over IS per ton.
AS he proceeds with the development
he is sorting the rock very carefully.
Assays of the quartz ranges as high as
$l76 per ton; and he is satisfied some of
it will go even higher than that figure.
Being in his 80th year; and also in very
poor health "Panner Joe" is anxious to
sell all his mining property and quit
prospecting. He is desirous of going to
Alaska and engage in truck-farming in
the Yukon Valley.
Here is an opportunity for some one
with capital to make investment of min
ing property that makes good showing
at grass roots. The Morning Star min
ing claim is on the west side of Custer
Park, about six miles from Custer City
and two miles directly west from Berne.
Uncle Joe would be pleased to have
any one seeking investment to call and
examine his ground at any time.
"Panner Joe" is prospector of varied
experience and when in a reminiscent
mood can relate many an interesting in
cdent of his search for gold both
the Black Hills and Alaska-having
made four trips to that far-of country,
prospecting for the "yelow metal"
While eating dinner Sunday he stated
that during his second venture in the
Klondyke, on one occasion at a salary
of $25 per day he cleaned up 81, ,735 in
10 days, panning the black sands from
placer ground-at which he is an ex-
pert.
In the rich placer grounds of that re-
gion he frequently "panned' over 500
in single day. In fact, his skill in
that line caused his fellow-miners to
dub him "Panner Joe." He has been
known by that cognomen for so many
years that he has almost forgot his birth
name. He came from Missouri to the
Black Hills over 80 years ago.
After joIlying Uncle Joe few hours,
Mr.. AL. Burnham and Uncle George re-
traced their steps homeward Flooding
leisurely across the Park, chasing ground
hogs (which were feeding that time in
the evening" and stopping few times
to pick berries, We arrived in town in
ample time for supper-though some
what weary from our tramp.