The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-03-14
Paid advertisement.
DEADWOOD ZINC & LEAD
DEVELOPS MINE: BUILDS MILL

INV ouJoihih6 a WY III
of Deadwood. just around the hill,
and up Spruce gulch a mile, is an in
stitution working quietly and unob-
tEusively in an honest endeavor to
make a mine. We refer to the Dead
wood Zinc q Lead company. This is
a local corporation, Differed by
Deadwood men, and which is being
conservatively developed with the as
sistance of capital from eastern
South Dakota. Moss Hanson, the
company's fiscal agent, is the live
wire who has raised all of the money
now being spent.
Within the past three OF four
months the property has been the
scene of much activity. In that time
the mine entrances have been retim-
bcred, new mine tracks have been
laid, all of the workings cleaned out
and put in good shape, and develop
ment work pushed ahead at a good
rate.
A little over a hundred yards from
tho mine a ten-stamp mill is under
construction in which the ores will
be treated by concentration.
Aaron Dunn, president of the COM
pany, is in direct charge of the I'M
foreground work, and as he is thor
oughly familiar with every foot of
the mine, we must accept his state
ments as authority. He says that
the ores have been traced for over
1000. feet i'm five tunnels along the
side OF the hill. and he is confident
that they will be found to have a
thickness of at least 500 feet. Prob
ably this will not all be- solid ore,
but developments SO far would seem
to indicate that they have a veritable
mountain Of pay material.
The ores contain gold, silver, zinc
and lead in varying quantities, and
it is believed that the average values
will be found to be at least $40
per ton. Several places in the mine
show faces up to several feet in
| thickness that will essay from $4S
up to several hundred dollars per
ton. Mr.. Dunn is confident that he
can keep the mill supplied at its full
capacity with ore that will pay hand
somely.
At the mouth Of the tunnel the
mine cars will be dumped into a bin
of 200 tons capacity. From this bin
to the mill, a distance of $50 feet,
the ore will be trammed, the cars
dumping direct to the ore crusher.
From the crusher the ore will drop
to a bin of $50 tons capacity. Thence
1t will pass to a battery Of ten
stamps. The stamp product will be
sized in three classiiers and treated
on three sand tables and one sinner.
making a thorough and complete
system Of water concentration. To
dry the concentrates, a boiler is be-
ing installed, the steam from which
will also be utilized for heating the
mill in cold weather. Everything
about the plant is being arranged
with a,yiew to saving labor and maxi
ing the plant as nearly automatic as
possible. Electric power furnished
by the Consolidated Power G. Light
company, will be used in all depart
ments. Water will be secured from
a spring in Spruce gulch. 1t will be
pumped by an electric pump to a
large reservoir tank on the hill
above the mill.
With this mill, which will have a
capacity of fifty tons per day, the
company figures on having a gross
income. treating $40 ore. Of $4,000
per day. Figuring costs at not to
exceed 81 per ton. there would be a
profit of $500 a day, $4,000 a
month. or approximately $50 per
cent per year on the entire capital
stock. which is but 100000 shares of
a par value of 81 per share.
When 1t Is said that Chris Ruth Is
in charge of the mill construction IL
will be known that the work Is be-
ing well and substantially done in
every particular. Mr.. Ruth is one of
the best millwrights in the country,
and is doing his usual excellent work
at this plant. With a force Of eleven
men working. good progress is being
made at mine and mill, and it is hop
ed to have the property in the pro-
ductive stage some time in May, for
the mill will probably be completed
by that time. 1t is hoped that it will
prove to be the success that it de-
serve to be, for it will then mean
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