Show SOUTH DAKOTA Ie deadwood adwood mining review the famous old bengal tiger mine at hill city is in th the hands ot 0 eastern parties who have a force of men employed in repairs and general cleaning up per to commencing ing extensive work early in the spring this is one of the best knower properties in s the southern hills and during the early days held high rank among the producers of bonanza ores it is proposed to continue L development where it was suspended a de cade ago in the hopes of recovering the lost ore shoot and resuming production lead tribune the homestake Home stake south extension under the direction of A H oleson is pursuing its development work steadily and accomplishing excellent results the two crosscuts cross cuts being run from the foot level are advancing at the rate of between thirty and forty feet per month and one of them is already in about feet the work thus far has been by hand but an equipment of electrical machinery has been purchased and will be installed some time in may the power will be provided by the consolidated light and power company of pluma lead tribune the gild edge maid mining company during the suspension of operations have been installing a tailings stacker this has been made necessary from conditions existing at the mill which allowed the tailings to accumulate at an inconvenient point the new stacker which is in reality a conveyor carries the tailings in buckets a distance from the mill and deposits them where the sluicing water with which they are mixed takes them down the gulch the stacker will be completed in a couple of days and will be ready for duty as soon as the operating nia machinery chinery arrives lead tribune the new shaft on the pluma being sunk within the township limits of lead encountered at a depth of 80 feet an ore addy body I 1 which completely filled the shaft the average value is 20 a ton and indications are that the deposit is extensive ore is free milling and cyaniding cyan iding preparations are being made to put in a steam hoist so that the shaft may be sunk to a depth of feet which it is expected to encounter the caledonia vein one of the richest assets of the homestake Home stake company whose ground adjoins the pluma on the west and south three shifts of men are being worked this shaft now being 0 sunk will be used as a working shaft being large enough for that purpose deadwood mining review ev before the first of the month operations will be resumed in earnest at the holy terror mine at keystone this famous old property the producer of some of the richest ore ever mined in the black hills was shut down on account of legal entanglements entangle ments these the new company headed by chas R morgan of new york have been paid to the last cent and all obstacles standing in the way of a resumption have been surmounted the holy terror shaft which is 1000 feet deep with a feet making a t total otal of 1200 feet depth on the vein is to be connections will be made with the egyptian workings and the holy terror mill after repairs and ren ovations are complete will start pounding ore from th etwo mines lead tribune frank B R little of minneapolis nea polls president of the minnesota mines company whose ground is located in the maitland district arrived from the east easi wednesday and yesterday visited the com banys property he returned to deadwood in the afternoon and expressed entire satisfaction is at the progress being made on the mill building as well as with the development that is going on in the mine the mill is about closed in and in a few weeks will be ready to receive the machinery which has been bought and will be shipped as soon as required it is expected that the company will be crushing ore early in the spring the wet crushing roll process will be installed and the plant will have an original capacity of tons per day with tank capacity sufficient to increase it to tons with little additional additional work electric power will be used but it has not yet been decided whether the pluma or the red river ditch company will be given the contract the red river water company has its poles set up to the minnesota company Dro property perty the showing of ore in the mine is all that the campay company could expect and the reports of superintendent majors show that the mill will be amply supplied when it is ready for operation |