Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1897-04-19 | Page 3 | The Ragged Top Mine

I The Ragged Top Mine Pioneer Deadwood South Dakota Starner brothers of Ragged Top have just received the returns for the shipment of ore made from theIr round some ten days ago I was a check for 1SOO In payment for 55700 pounds of ore 1700 sf San I pounds over 27 tons over and above o I cost of shipping and treating about Sll per ton whch laces the value of the of tle oro at more than 70 a ton Al Sterner said yesterday that there was ore in the shlment worth fully 200a ton It Is generally spoken of as the best c I load of ore to be shipped from Rasped Top I is from the Silver RfXW frc ton and the Iva H Another car was pent out from the same mine yesterday morning loaded with n little more than 23 tons This was In excess of the cars capacity and four tons of the ore was left atEnglewood The boys are expecting greater things of the last carload than tan of any of its predecessors Six men are r t J 0 I at work on the ground including the owners and they ere able to take out enough ore to load a car in seven days The McCready boys have a lease upon that portion of the Balmoral croup that has recently revealed the new vertical It Is proving to be one of the best verticals cals yet found on the group The ore Is I hl h grade and the seam Is wider than waa at first supposed This Is the vein I that runs at right angles with tho other I verticals of the same vicinity