Show SOUTH DAKOTA deadwood dead wood mining review W R bond at Custer is maintaining shipments of two cars per month of the mineral is consigned to reinbold co of omaha where it is treated for its contents of lithia and phosphoric acid it commands a price of twenty five dollars per ton and the fortunate owner of the property is rapidly accumulating a neat bank account deadwood mining review harry H francis who has been shipping iron sulphide to sulphuric acid works in the east has suspended shipments until satisfactory arrangement can be made whereby he will receive remuneration for a percentage of antimony recently found to be contained in the ore in some of the material the values in antimony run as high as 40 per ton while the sulphide commands only 6 or 7 per ton fairview news the vein recently encountered on the red rock from which specimens of quartz containing free gold were repeatedly taken has widened out until it now exposes five feet or ore and the hanging wall not yet touched this strike is in an inclined shaft and is undoubtedly one of the greatest veins yet opened in the district for size and general appearance of permanency twelve inches of the vein is shipping ore with a prospect of values getting better with depth lead tribune another mine was started yesterday when work was resumed on the dividend property in bald mountain this is one of the old and famous properties of that section and in fact of the northern hill it has in the past and from indications will in the future make rich yields for some years it was one of the richest shippers in the hills and J E stewart john hawgood L M ward and william wygant who control it propose to make the dividend again what its name implies yesterday in charge of mr wygant about ten men were put to work some of them developing the property and others operating the small 30 ton test mill that has just been added to the property this mill treats by the eya plan the ores from the mine and later the dumps may be handled if the present experiment proves as successful as is hoped the mill is operated with electricity and is a model of its kind and the terry men are likely to be heard from before long deadwood mining review wark stork on the extensive scale will soon be inaugurated on the ground of the echo mining company located at garden city and adjacent to that camp the company has recently increased its capitalization and from the sale of stock has accumulated a large working fund which will be expended under the direction of one of the most experienced mining men in the west in the development of the ground to begin with will be expended in development work and in the installation of machinery during the past three years considerable work has been performed on the ore bodies which have shown on the surface but as yet no deep mining has been done on the property it is the intention to sink a large working shaft on the ground to quartzite and arrangements range ments are now under way looking to the performance of this work which will be done in a most thorough manner electricity will be installed and all of the machinery the hoist compressor plant drills and other apparatus driven by that power it is said that this is but a small amount of the money which will be expended on the ground during the year by the company but that work will continue upon it on a large scale until the proposition has been thoroughly developed and proven when an up to date treatment plant will be built on it |