The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-05-11
BLACK HILLS LEAD
AND ZINC UTILIZED
in MINING SCHEME
Heretofore Unused Ores Made
Use of for Treatment by
New Process.

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lief that zinc and lead mining are 10
become powerful factors IN the deVei-
opment of this section, the Deaowood
| Zinc and Lead Mining company a
just been organized here for the pur-
| pose OF exploiting the Belle Eldreoge
| ground, n mile and Il half east or here.
The officers, all local men, are: Presl-
dent, Aaron Dunn; vice president, =.
| NJ. Bonniwell, secretary-treasureT,
| George S. Jackson; manager, .. N.
| Brown, and director, Chris. Ruth. me
| property, which Is located in the Lex
| ington hill section. contains a large
quantity of lead and zinc ores Wnlcn
| have heretofore not been utilized, U
will be treated with the electrostatlc
separator process in Wisconsin.
The Imperial company. operating IN
| the Bald mountain section, has driven
its tunnel in 800 feet from the Da-
| kota shaft, which is down on qu quart
Cite. 500 feet. Tunnel is being driven 10
connect two large areas, one on the
| east and the other on the west SIDE,
where 1t Is expected that large bodies
OF higher grade ore will be found. me
work has been slow. owing to hard
rock and bad air.
Old Companies Consolidate.
Under the name of the Trojan Min
| lug tiIe Ole Portland and,
Clinton Mining companies, two of the
richest properties in the Bald mountain
section, has just been consolidated n
will be now maintained and operated
as one company. Some adjoining
| ground has been purchased, giving the
company in all 700 acres. The mill pur-
chased from the American Eagle Min
ing company. and remodeled, will be
in operation about June l, first on ore
from the American Eagle ground and
later from the Portland workings
through a tunnel now being driven.
The officers of the Trojan Mining COM
pany. who are Chicago and Clinton,
Ia, men, are: President, H. w. Sea-
man; vice president, G. w. Curtis; sec
rotary, T. NJ. Clark; treasurer, A. M.
Cooper: manager, H. s. Vincent; sup
erintendent, Hope Slaughter.
A new shoot of ore has been located
on the Rebsamen ground in the Matt
land district, by its wner julius
Rebsamen and Sol Burns, who haye
been developing it off II on for some
years.
Robert Bunce, president and general
manager of the Black Hills Develop
ment and Financial corporation, is or
ganizing a home company to operate
some of the mines in the, Carbonate
section. The Seabury-Calkins, Home
Run and Iron Hill properties are to
be the principal mines Of the company,
work of the last few months there hav-
ing disclosed the contour and quality of
the ore bodies, which contain gold, sill
Yer and lead ores in values ranging
from $40 a ton up, work on which
properties is to be started in a perma-
nent manner within the mex few
weeks.
A circular to the stockholders of the
Titanic Mining company, whose ground
is in the Carbonate district, calls a
meeting for June % at this place,
when a proposition to issue 500, 900 in
bonds to pay back Indebtedness and
to finance future operations, will come
up for discussion.
LIED ABOUT HIS MONEYS;
MURDERED 81 His BRIDE
Pierre, S. D. May S.-Back of the
tragedy of the killing of Philip Kreiter
on February 20 on his farm, five miles
east Of Hecia, by a knife stab in a
quarrel between him n his wife,
county Jail awaiting trial on the
charge of numbering her husband, lies
a romance. according to the story OF
j. l.. Steigel, of Princeville, ILL.,, an
acquaintance of the couple.
Steigel vas in Hecla last week on
business regarding the 100 acres OF
land he sold to Kreiter last winter. He
the woman afterward his bride, while
visiting his relatives at Topeka, Kan
Last winter Kreiter left P%rinceville TIC
WOO, out he made little impression
upon Eva, who was in love with q
young T%opekan. He was more success
full with her parents. picturing him
self to them as a heavy property
owner. Subsequently Eva consented
to marriage, and the couple came te
Hecla, where Kreiter had bought 6
ranch, paying down $500 to Steigel
and agreeing to pay the balance Of
the money on March /, when he sale
he would get the receipts of the salt
of much Illinois real estate.
Kreiter's wife, it is said, felt that hi
had deceived her as to his world,
standing; she quarreled with him, AND
the sequel was the killing of the hus.
band.