Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1912-07-25
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AS to quality this tin ore will yield
$11.SS per ton on a basis of IL per
cent tin, or s7.92 on basis of ! per
cent tin to the ton The latter is
about twice as much value as the aver
age gold ore of the Homestake--three
| times as much as the average Of the
| Wasp mine gold ores-both of which
have been dividend payers from the
start. This is the value of the tin
alone, saying nothing Of the gold VAL
ues in the ore and its accompanying
schists, which assay from $3.50 to
IS in gold per ton. III addition, there
are other known lodges of gold ore
running parallel with and distinct
from the tin lodges, which assay up
into the hundreds or dollars.
In support of the charge that the
English syndicate is not endeayorins
to work its Black Hills tin mining
property at a profit, it is stated that
three years ago an employee of the
company, seeing that nearly half the
tin in the ore crushed was going over
with the tailings, set sluice box be-
I low the mill, and, satisfied that there
was money in the scheme, asked per-
mission to sluice5 the tailings for half
the tin he might save. His request
was refused. Again, in the same line
| Of experimentation, another man set
a section of Hungarian rifle in
Isluice box below the mill, and. on 60
ing to it four or Ave hours later, found
| the rifles full and running over. II
the company was honestly striving to
demonstrate that the tin lodges of tho
district sees.Ia be pTofitabiy,
mining men say it should have placed
| a line OF siHiee bexes below the mill
and thus save the greater percentage
| of the tin that the mill failed TO hold.
| 1t is pointed out by experts that at
1.-THE Swansea and for that matter in all
Tin reduction works legitimately oper-
Iated, the taiIings are run through long
lines Of sluices to save the fine par
ticles OF tin that escape from the mills
IT is stated on good authority that
1.-THE ore from the Black Hills tin mine
owned by the English syndicate car
ried by-products other than gold that
could easily be saved. and which would
more than nay the cost Of mining and
reducing IL
The presence of tin ore In the Black
Hills was first discovered by placer
miners working along the streams Of
the Bear Gulch district. What they a.s
FIRST looked upon as worthless black
sand and which bothered them con-
siderably in sluicing for gold, was
proven to be stream tin.
y Through the efforts Of the South Da-
kota Representatives in congress, that
body some years ago placed q nominal
tariff on tin plate. Its continuance be-
Ing conditional upon the production cf
block tin in the United States. II was
naturally presumed that this would
induce capital to open up the tin
mines of the Black Hills and thus ss-
tablish new ana highly profitable 81.
dustry In this country. a new intlis-
INV did result in the ablishment Of
tin plate mills Id various parts Of the
United States. but 30 far, Of until the
last year or two, the plating has been
done altogether with imported block
tn from Cornwall and other British
possessions. while the Black Hills tin
mines have continued il 4 dormant
cod tion,
WAS d singular coincid ence That
On the heels of the passage Of the
provision placing the tarin on Tin,
Representatives. of British capital 1T
once hooked to the Black Hills and
tried To purchase an the tin ground
ii sight. They succeeded til part
But the discovery Of new ttia depcsits
within recent years has tos u great ~
tsnt crushed the monopoly of ire
English capt. 1lsts ana with she olpipep
Ing of indep endent infnes ins q
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