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Show Black Hills Tin Mines. Joseph Hare, editor of The Tin Miner, of Hill City, S. D., in speaking of the tin mines at that place, says: "Hill City is situated exactly in the center of the tin belt, which is in the shape of a half j moon, and is about thirty miles in length j and three miles wide. We are twenty-; twenty-; eight miles from Rapid City, the near-j near-j -est railroad point. j "The richness of these mines is Bimply 1 wonderful, and one- who has not been j there can hardly believe it, but I state a ! fact when I tell you that there is enough tin on the dumps and in sight now to I supply the United States for live years. As soon as the big mill is started at Hill City we shall then be able to ship the tin ent in bars. Some of these mines have been pushed down 240 feet, and the deeper the richer. "The vein is eight feet thick and dips toward the east at an angle of about 45 degs. Some of the mines average 27J per cent, of metallic tin, and the whole ledge averages 10 per cent. The capitalists capital-ists interested are mostly New York and ! English men. The larger part of the j capital is furnished by New York men." |