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Show TIN MYSTERY UNRAVELED. IH Soma iD.IJa l-arts Aboat a, ramona Rmth gH Dakota Mlaa. H Sleux City Journal The myatery ot ggH the famoua South Dakota "tin mine" ggH has at last been solved. The mlae In ogH question was a good deal talked about H In tie newspapera a few yeart ago. It H waa said to be very rich Great prom- jH lies were made ot Its assistance In pro- H motlng the Industrial welfare of tho H Dlack Hllli, when It should begin to H pour Ita wealth to the surface. Tin 3H mills of the flnt magnitude were pro- (sB Jected In the minds of sanguine specu- iJH latora to consume Ita product. The mtn. Bffl! eral was there In great quantities, It BUS waa alleged, and all that wai needed to HI develop It and gtve all thla western Ml country a boom wai capital. To secure wn tho needed capital negotiation! were M opened with an English lyndlcatl. In E1 the pretence ot Itt representatives the mine yielded up torn of treasure Having Hav-ing got It, why waa It not worked? That wit the mystery. Thero were va-rlout va-rlout ipeculttlem concerning It. Ihe explanation that seemed to aecur the most credence wai that the Eagllta-men Eagllta-men who had bought tho mine wire ox. tenilvily Interested In tin propertlei eliewhero, and that It wai to their Interest In-terest not to Increiie the production of the metal to the extent that 1U operation opera-tion would do, and that they would make more money by keeping Itt trees-urea trees-urea bidden In the bowelt of Ihe earth then by bringing It up to tht surface to bring dawn the price ot tin as Its great abundance threatened to do. The subject dropped out ot the public mlcd, It Is now revived and the mystery explained ex-plained by Charles M. Dobson, a mining min-ing engineer, who writes a story about "Mine Salting" In the current Cosmopolitan Cosmo-politan Magatlne. Of the niack 11111s proposition ho iayi: "A tin mine In South Dakota not far from Harney Peak, wai for sale, and tome English capitalist! wero Investigating. Many torn of tho flrcit caaalterlto ore were dug from the claim. It surpassed In richness the better grades of Cornish ore, A car load was taken to tho smaller smal-ler and proved to be all that could be wished, Ths property waa bought and the money paid down, sixty tons ot cat-Iterlte cat-Iterlte were mined and not an ounce more, for the whole ilxty torn had been bought, telected Cornish ore, then hipped to the lonely tpot, dumped Into the gulch and covered up tome five yean before." This, the expert declares, waa tho moat gigantic case ot mine salting on record. The English In-vestori In-vestori nppear to have quietly charged their Ion up to the account of experience, expe-rience, The transaction It a very complete com-plete explanation of the mystery why the mine waa not worked. The owncra were worked Instead, |
