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Show nonrst'ii l;ieh ;ld Jiinr. "Tho Homestak ir.vn: in th Black Hills, of which lienalor Hearst is a prin-cipal prin-cipal owner, i,;tiie riehe:.t gold mine in ; the world," iaul II. C. Korapaugh, of ' 'Dead wood, S. U., at the Metropolitan. "It is the bigge' t in a group of mines in 1 tho immediate vicinity of Deadwood. liio comii'iny has !!,000 men at work in tho mines, mills and woods. For fourteen four-teen years they have never missed dividend, and every mouth take out from $150,000 to W.00O in gold. There are l,5i00 stamps in operation. The vein cf the Hamestake is .100 feet wide by bout two ruiles in length, and there is ore enough in sight to run ail the mills for the next tweuty years." Washington Washing-ton Post. |