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RUPE GROUP GOLD MINING AND MILLING COMPANY.

	The Rupe Group Gold Mining and Milling Company has purchased from Elias 
Rupe some 380 acres of ground, one mile from the town of Roubaix, and on the 
line of the B. & M. Ry., and is prosecuting active work in developing the 
mineral resources of the property.

	The property is not far from the Clover Leaf mine, and is between that 
mine and the Homestake, and on the course of the great Homestake Belt system of 
veins. The ores exposed in the different workings are similar in character to 
the pay material of the Homestake company, low in average values, but in such 
masses that it can be profitably worked when handled in a wholesale manner.

	In this sense, gold mining is like manufacturing, the larger the tonnage 
the lower the cost per ton. It has been demonstrated a good many times in the 
Black Hills that with large ore bodies and proper equipment ore carrying $4.00 
per ton will pay large annual dividends.

	Among the numerous openings showing ore on the Rupe property are two 50-
foot tunnels, both in ore running from $3 to $8 per ton. The ore is a decomposed 
iron quartz, and can be profitably treated by amalgamation and cyanidation. At 
another point a two-compartment shaft has been sunk to a depth of 200 feet; it 
will be pushed to 300 with the present equipment, a horse whim, and then steam 
machinery installed. The shaft is covered by a building 32x46 feet, enclosing 
the whim, blacksmith shop, etc.

	At the surface, near the top of the shaft, the vein has a width of 112 
feet, thoroughly demonstrated by crosscutting and additional minor shafting. 
Assays taken from the shaft mentioned above, which is sunk following this vein, 
run from $4.60 to $33.00, with average values showing ore of commercial grade.  
Altogether, in tunnel, shafts and crosscuts, 480 feet of work had been done 
March 15, 1904. The work is being pushed assiduously under Mr. Rupe, who is on 
the ground.

	After completing the shaft to 300 feet, the company will make thorough 
tests of its ore before deciding on the kind of a plant best adapted for its 
economical reduction.  Meantime shipments can be made to any of the custom mills 
at Deadwood or vicinity at a total cost of transportation of about one dollar 
per ton.

	The property embraces about 33 acres of fine timber, from which a supply 
for mining, mill building and fuel can be drawn. In the matter of water, the 
Rupe company is well supplied. Gold Run creek, which traverses the property, 
flows enough water to supply a mill of good capacity.

	Altogether the Rupe company is well dowered with all of Nature's gifts to 
make a successful gold mine. Ore, timber and water arc present in almost 
unfailing supply, and while the former is the most important adjunct to 
successful mining, the latter are of no small import. High prices are often paid 
by mines for these commodities.

	The Rupe Group Gold Mining Company is capitalized for $2,000,000 in shares 
of a par value of one dollar each; 500,000 shares have been set aside as 
treasury stock.   The president is H. E. Perkins, cashier of the Meade county 
bank, Sturgis, S. D.; vice-president, G. F. Earley, Sturgis; treasurer and 
general manager, C. A. Martin, Racine, Wis.; secretary, Wesley A. Stuart of 
Sturgis, attorney for the Northwestern railway.  The above, with S. A. Oliver, 
owner of the Sturgis electric light plant, comprise the board of directors. 
Offices are maintained at Racine, Wis., and Sturgis, S. D. Letters directed to 
either office will receive prompt attention.

MONTEZUMA AND THE WH1ZZERS.

	J. T. Gillmore and the estate of C. W. Carpenter are the owners of a mine 
situated almost within the city of Deadwood, from which hundreds of thousands of 
tons of pyritic ore have been shipped to the smelters of the Black Hills. It is 
practically a new property in point of production. Some three years ago, when 
the Homestake company ceased shipping concentrates to the smelters, and treated 
them in their cyanide mill, it devolved upon the smelters to secure their 
pyritic material, or flux, from other sources  Attention was attracted to the 
vein cropping on the ground of Montezuma and the Whizzers mine, and contracts 
were entered into with Mr. Gillmore and his partners whereby they were to 
furnish an unlimited amount of the flux, as required.

	It served its purpose well in the smelters, as it carries by analysis 
about 39 per cent iron, 38 per cent sulphur and 1 per cent copper. Along the 
foot wall is a streak averaging four feet in width which is almost solid pyrite, 
and assays $3 in gold. Mr. Gillmore has been in charge of the mine since the 
smelters first commenced to purchase the ore, and has gotten the system of 
mining down to a science. The vein, being a wide fissure in the slates, with 
hard walls, admits of mining without the use of supporting timbers. From the 
tunnel, which is driven straight into the mountain a distance of 650 feet, 
upraises are made in the ore and chutes made of timber are put in, from which 
the mine cars are loaded. This is practically all the timber needed for the 
mining of thousands of tons of ore, and costs usually in the neighborhood
of $150.  
	The miners work upward, excavating great chambers in the vein, and, 
standing upon the broken material, drill the holes which, when loaded with 
dynamite, serve to break the ore. The ore drops by gravity, assisted by a little 
shoveling, to the chutes, is drawn from there to the mine cars and trammed to 
the railroad cars on the outside.

	The property covers approximately 3,000 feet along the course of this 
vein, and the tunnel, if continued under the apex, would reach a depth of 600 
feet vertically on the ore body. Thus there is an almost boundless supply of the 
material contained in the ground, and to supply the flux for years to come it 
would not be necessary to hoist one pound of it. Thus the mine can be most 
economically worked. There is a supply actually blocked out in the mine and in 
sight to-day of 100,000 tons-enough to supply the present demand of 100 tons a 
day for over two and a half years. And, although there is not a large profit 
made on each ton, it is probably mined as cheaply as anything in the Black Hills 
where underhand sloping is in vogue. Gillmore says that it costs about fifty 
cents a ton, or a little less, to mine and load the ore in the railroad cars. 

	Transportation facilities are excellent. The Northwestern railroad main 
line to Lead City crosses the property in several places, and the mouth of the 
tunnel is about 100 feet from the tracks. A switch has been constructed by the 
railroad, over which Mr. Gillmore has built a small trestle, and the mine cars 
run out on it are dumped into the railroad cars standing below. Two miles' haul 
delivers the ore at the Deadwood smelter, and forty-five miles' haul, both of 
them down grade, reaches the National Smelter at Rapid City.

	Although the mining of the pyritic ore or flux is itself a money-making 
proposition, and has paid well from the start, the owners have something perhaps 
of greater importance in view. It has been stated by mining experts of renown 
that several different characteristics exhibited would indicate that paying 
deposits of copper ore would be found below water level.

	In many vertical copper veins a metamorphosis has occurred in the nature 
of the ore above water level, the copper being replaced by iron, and the red 
metal, being dissolved by the downward leaching waters, is redeposited below 
water level.

	The copper discovered in the mine, averaging 1 per cent, would indicate 
most strongly that such was the case, while even to-day the leaching copper 
waters are leaving their rude stain on the rocks in the mine. Upon visiting a 
portion of the mine where work has not been carried on for a time, the greenish 
deposit of bluestone, nature's copper sulphate, is found.

	On the outcrop of the vein, called for convenience the Iron Dike, rich 
copper ores have been found, some samples assaying as high as 40 per cent 
copper. This is another indication that good values may be expected below water 
level.

	The owners are taking an easy, and undoubtedly the best, means possible 
for the developing of the mine. The shipments of flux are continued, and the 
profits used in equipping a hoisting plant which shall be capable of raising ore 
from a depth of 1,000 feet. Among the other improvements are a good, substantial 
building covering the same, blacksmith shop, etc. 

	When the machinery shall have been installed, at the cost of the flux 
shipments, the work of sinking will begin. At 300, and possibly 200, feet depth 
below the tunnel level cross cuts will be run to the vein, where it is 
anticipated the ores will be found. But should a greater depth be required, it 
will be secured, and the copper mine ultimately opened in the best possible 
shape. Then should reduction works be necessary, they will be forthcoming, and 
the mine become a great copper producer of the Black Hills.   

	The site selected for the shaft is some distance above the tunnel level 
and creek, thus affording plenty of room for the construction of a reduction 
plant below the shaft. The shaft will be sunk east and north of the vein, and as 
the ore body has a dip of a little to the east and the shaft is vertical, the 
two will meet at a depth of about 600 feet. In order to clearly illustrate this 
point, Mr. Gillmore, under his own supervision had the cut on the opposite page 
prepared. It shows the location of the hoist, the width of the ore and its dip, 
the lateral workings representing 100 feet of depth between each. 

	Montezuma and the Whizzers mine consists of 135 acres of patented land, 
and is officially known as Mineral Lot No. 1324. It adjoins the townsite of 
Deadwood on Deadwood gulch on the southwest, and, extending over the divide, 
joins the townsite again on Whitewood gulch, near the baseball park. The 
properly extends southwesterly up to near the northeast corner of the townsite 
of Lead City, and adjoins the holdings of the Homestake and Pluma Mining 
companies.

	The mine was discovered and located by Mr. Gillmore in 1885.

THE ANACONDA GOLD MINING COMPANY.

	Near the famous Clover Leaf mine, five miles southeast of Lead City, there 
is clustered a number of valuable properties. Many of them have the same 
character of ore bodies, and with sufficient development should become equals of 
the Clover Leaf in every respect.  The ores are all free-milling in character-
the easiest method of recovering gold from its matrix known to science. There 
are mills in the Black Hills that are treating ore by this process for forty 
cents a ton.

	One of these mines is owned by the Anaconda Gold Mining Company. It is one 
and one-quarter miles west of the Clover Leaf, and consists of approximately 600 
acres of mining ground.

	Four big veins are known to traverse the territory for its entire length-
about one mile. The biggest of these veins is at least 20 feet wide, a 
characteristic fissure in the slates.  Nothing can be more permanent than one of 
these great fissure veins. They are nearly or quite vertical, and how far they 
penetrate the earth toward its center no man has yet discovered. It is fully 
within the bounds of reason to say that they will be worked as far as machinery 
is capable of lifting the ore-perhaps a mile.

	Permanency! To all intents and purposes these big veins are as permanent 
as the very earth itself. They are indeed an integral part of this great sphere, 
and as such continue to infinite depths- to far greater depths than man can ever 
reach. Though he employ the strongest and mightiest mechanisms, whose breath of 
life is steam, he can never hope to fathom the subterranean secrets of these 
great fissure veins.

	Number one shaft of the Anaconda Company has been sunk to a depth of 150 
feet, with a cross-cut at the one-hundred-foot level, and a tunnel from the 
surface connecting at a depth of fifty feet. This shaft is well equipped so far 
as machinery for mining goes.  There is installed in the shafthouse an engine 
capable of hoisting ore from a depth of 1,200 feet, a big air compressor for 
furnishing compressed air to operate the drills, and a big boiler. There is 
stored in the same building a big pump for handling the water which is always 
found at depth in the mines of the Black Hills. The foresight of the management 
is displayed by the fact of the purchase of this pump before it was actually 
necessary. Some managers would have delayed the purchase of such a pump until 
the water was found-very likely in a flow large enough to drive the miners out 
of the shaft. Then it would be necessary to send to some distant point where 
machinery is manufactured in order to procure one. This would take several days, 
and days are valuable in the development of a mine. But the Anaconda Company has 
its pump ready to be lowered into the shaft the moment it becomes necessary, 
without a minute's delay.

	Major A. J. Simmons, a reputable mining expert of the Black Hills, once 
examined the Anaconda mine, and in his report he stated as follows: "Surface 
outcroppings and developments in cuts, pits and ten-foot holes show a system of 
veins consisting of four plainly marked parallel gold-bearing veins, with 
indications of others in the intervening grounds." He further states that "the 
showing bears unmistakable evidence of a valuable mine at depth, and fully 
warrants the sinking of a compartment shaft, with steam hoists and all necessary 
appliances for development and raising ore from the veins." Such an opinion from 
an eminent authority speaks well for the property.

	Adjoining the mining claims the Anaconda Company owns a ranch property, 
located on Elk creek. It consists of 200 acres of rolling mountain prairie land, 
which the management says will make a fine site for the town that will be built 
near the mine, should it prove a success. It is located in a beautiful fertile 
valley, with Custer peak, one of the loftiest eminences of the Hills, for its 
background. As a town site it is unsurpassed by anything in the Black Hills, and 
the company is making arrangements to have it surveyed and laid out in town 
lots. Included with the ranch is an elegant water right, comprising one hundred 
miner's inches of water- enough to operate two hundred stamps. This is a most 
valuable asset in itself, and with the water right which the company is securing 
on Bare Butte creek, north of the property, enough water will be had for all 
purposes for many years to come.

	Railroad facilities are amply adequate. The Burlington & Missouri River 
railroad has a spur extending onto the company's ground, where coal, machinery 
and all other supplies can be cheaply and quickly secured.  Part of the tract is 
covered with heavy pine timber-a necessity in mining operations. Timbers are 
used underground to support the walls of the mine after the ore has been 
removed, thus affording a safe working place for the miners.

	Briefly, then, the Anaconda Gold Mining Company owns all of those 
essentials to successful mining, namely, gold-bearing veins, a large acreage, 
water, timber and railroad connections, and with efficient management can hardly 
fail of success when its big stamp mills are in operation pounding out the 
precious metal from its big ore bodies. Strictly speaking, such a proposition as 
the Anaconda is a manufacturing proposition. The big low grade bodies of ore as 
exposed only need proper milling facilities to become dividend payers. The 
Anaconda Gold Mining Company is organized under the laws of the state of South 
Dakota, with an authorized capital stock of a million and a half shares of a par 
value of $l each, the shares being equally divided between common and preferred 
stock, the treasury stock, which is sold for the purpose of developing and 
equipping the property, being preferred to the amount of 25 cents per share. In 
other words, the treasury stock is to receive dividends amounting to 25 cents 
per share before the common stock shall share in the distributions.

	The officers of the Anaconda Gold Mining Company are • Frederick H. 
Herhold, Chicago, president; Nels Nelson, Lead City, vice-president; C. L. 
Wallace, Chicago, treasurer; W. E. Hahn, Deadwood, secretary. The above, with F. 
Herhold, of Chicago, constitute the board of directors. The home office of the 
company is at 412 Merchants' Loan and Trust Building, 135 Adams street, Chicago, 
111.

RELIANCE GOLD MINING COMPANY.

	The properties of the Reliance Gold Mining Company represent some of the 
most valuable holdings on the northwesterly side of Bald Mountain, near the head 
of Annie Creek, and not far from the town of Portland. Along the northern end 
the ground is traversed by the two principal railroads of the Black Hills-the 
Burlington and Northwestern.  Adjoining on the north and northeast are holding-; 
of the Imperial and Dakota companies, both of which are successfully operating 
cyanide mills on their ores. The same character and class of ores exposed on 
these properties are developed in quantity on Reliance territory and form the 
foundation for great future possibilities. These ores are found in the upper 
Cambrian in the -hales and sandstones and are typical cyaniding materials.  To 
treat them the company has begun the construction of a large cyanide mill in 
close proximity to the ore developments. The plant will have an initial capacity 
of 300 tons per day, and will be so constructed that it may he easily and 
cheaply enlarged when occasion shall warrant. It will he built close to Annie 
Creek, from which stream the water supply will he drawn. The cyaniding of 
similar ores has been proved a success by other companies operating in the 
immediate vicinity, even though the low grade ore has in some cases been hauled 
several miles to Deadwood for treatment. This costs about 75 cents per ton. and 
with the mill right at the mine this handicap will be eliminated, allowing of a 
more profitable treatment of the ores. 

AN EXPERT'S OPINION.

	The Reliance Company owns at this point some 400 acres of ground, and John 
Blatchford, superintendent of the Golden Reward Company, was employed to make a 
private report on it in July, 1903, to General Olson, president of the Reliance 
company. He says he believes that from the then showing approximately 150,000 
tons of ore worth $8 per ton in gold may he mined from the property, and that it 
will also furnish 6oo,oco tons of $5 ore. Further development on virgin portions 
of the holdings, he says, should show large bodies of similar grade ore, while 
at the same time developments to a lower level or ore horizon will undoubtedly 
reveal still other treasure beds.

OF FIVE COMPANIES.

	The Reliance company is the consolidation of five incorporated mining 
companies-the Ak-Sar-Ben, University, Bunker Hill, Iron Duke and Monitor-with 
holding, extending from Cnstcr countv to Annie Creek.

	The water supply is abundant, and portions of the land are covered with 
timber, amply sufficient for all requirements.

EXPENDITURES TO DATE.

	There has been expended on the mines and in the acquisition of land by the 
different constituent companies and by the Reliance Company after the merger 
from first to last about $200.000 in exploiting, opening mines, building roads 
and general work, including tunnel excavations, cross-cuts, stopes, winzes, 
upraises, shafts. trenches and open-cuts, extending over a large area of ground 
now-developed and opened up and uncovering ore bodies or chutes of greater or 
less dimensions.

	More than 6,000 feet of tunnel work has been done.

	The quantity of ore is practically unlimited and the grand total average 
of all assays taken from time to time as development has progressed up to 
January 1, 1904, is $6.40 in gold per ton.

	The facilities for mining and milling are unequaled. Ore can be conveyed 
into the mill without hoisting at a maximum cost of 5 cents per ton.

	The Reliance Gold Mining Company has a capital stock of 5,ooo,cco -hares, 
each share having a par value of $1. The company has recently issued $250,000 
worth of 7 per cent gold bonds in order to secure money for the erection of a 
mill. The president of the company is General S. E. Olson, Minneapolis, Minn.; 
vice-president. F. W. Bower, Deadwood; secretary and general manager, F. W. 
Medbery, Deadwood; treasurer, E. E. Bennett, Lincoln, Neb.

GLADIATOR CONSOLIDATED GOLD MINES AND MILLING CO.

	Consolidation and expansion are the watchwords in the commercial world, 
while in mining the merging of many individual holdings and their systematic 
operation under one management are the favorites with the investing public. One 
of this class of the Black Hills is the Gladiator Consolidated Gold Mines and 
Milling Company, owner of 1,000 acres of mining land, in five different groups, 
in as many different localities in the Hills, the Burlington or Northwestern 
Railroad running across or adjacent to each group.

IN LAWRENCE COUNTY.

	The Gladiator group is located a short distance above Central City, on 
Deadwood gulch, adjoining the Homestake mines. Some 1,250 feet of tunneling, 400 
feet of open-cut and shafts, aggregating 160 feet, have opened nine different 
ore bodies varying from a few feet to over 100 feet in width. The formation is 
phonolite and porphyry-a class of rock- in which one might expect to find great 
veins of gold ore. The veins which have been already opened up show good average 
values, and the company has in contemplation a cyanide mill of good capacity 
which would undoubtedly greatly enhance the value of the mine. The mine is 
equipped with a suitable steam-hoisting and air-compressing plant for deep 
mining.

	The Red Cloud mine is the second property in the Northern Black Hills 
owned by this company. It is located two miles above the Gladiator on Deadwood 
gulch, and has in the past produced some good smelting ore. It is well developed 
by drifts, shafts and open-cuts. exposing ore bodies in the Cambrian formation. 
The ore is a typical cyaniding material, and the proposed mill on tins group is 
a cyanide of large capacity.

PROPERTIES NEAR CUSTER.

	A short distance from Berne, on the Burlington Railroad, is located the 
Gold Fish mine of the company. In the Black Hills it has the reputation of being 
one of the richest value mines. Ore from the Gold Fish shows fine values, and 
although extremely rich veins are small, on account of their values small veins 
yield large profits. The vein is a vertical in the slates, hornblende and 
quartz, embraced in granite walls 1,200 feet apart, the surface of which has 
been well developed. It is the intention of the company to immediately erect a 
10-stamp mill at this mine to treat the rich ores.

	The Ruby and Eva groups are located in the Hill City district, and aside 
from the ore bodies are valuable, especially for their timber, a most valued 
adjunct to successful mining. Such forests of virgin pine timber as are included 
within the boundaries of these mining claims are daily becoming of more value, 
since timber is becoming scarcer and scarcer in the Black Hills.

	Gentlemen from eastern Iowa are prominent in the management of the 
Gladiator Consolidated Gold Mines and Milling Company. The president is S. G. 
Hammans; secretary, W. N. McKay, and treasurer and manager, C. H. Crabtree. The 
company is capitalized for 4,100,000 shares, of which 1,900,000 shares have been 
set aside as treasury stock. The principal office is in Des Moines, Iowa, in the 
Iowa Loan and Trust building, while what is designated as the home office is at 
Deadwood, S. D.

ORO HONDO MINING COMPANY.

	The Oro Hondo Company controls a property including 1,100 acres adjoining 
the Homestake territory on the southeast, covering the central or mother lode of 
the Homestake belt system of ore bodies.

	The Oro Hondo acquired this vast territory by purchase and consolidation 
of the holdings of 50 individuals and companies, who had exploited the surface 
and constructed small mills for the treatment of the ore. They had scratched the 
surface outcroppings of the great lode, as it were, and proved its continuation 
for a mile or more through the ground, but lacked the necessary capital to equip 
it with the large plants of mining and milling machinery called for in the 
handling of low-grade ore bodies.

	Conditions were ripe for another stupendous gold manufacturing enterprise. 
The Homestake had paved the way, and had been 25 years in solving vexing 
problems. The unlimited extent of the fissure ore bodies, the most practical and 
efficient processes of ore treatment and the enormous profits in the business 
had been uncovered and laid open to the light of day.

	With the knowledge of the great company available as a criterion, and with 
a territory promising equally rich in resources and results, the Oro Hondo 
Company entered intelligently upon the great undertaking.

PITCH OF THE ORE.

	The great ore body is known to pitch downward, going southerly from the 
Homestake workings. The plans of the Oro Hondo were fully considered and 
matured. The trend of the lode and pitch of the ore were well known. It was 
believed that great depth would be necessary, perhaps, to reach and then to open 
up levels in the ore body from which a supply for big mills could be drawn. The 
Oro Hondo's three-compartment shaft, with a full equipment of modern machinery, 
was located 1,600 feet southerly from the Elli-son shaft of the Homestake mine, 
and in a position calculated to squarely penetrate the big lode on Oro Hondo 
ground. Results have fully demonstrated the wisdom of the well-laid plans.

	The Oro Hondo shaft entered ore near the surface, which developed in 
solidity, quantity and value in its descent, and at a depth of 900 feet the 
character and value of the massive ore indicate the proximity of the ore body of 
the great mother vein.

	The ore, apparently in quantity and carrying values fully up to the 
Homestake average, has been found at a depth that was anticipated, and further 
opening up with levels and cross drifts will place the Oro Hondo Company at the 
mill building stage.

MILL SITES AND WATER.

	The Oro Hondo Company has options on mill sites and water for large 
milling operations at three different points, with railroad facilities for 
delivering the ore from its mines to the mills. The Burlington railroad passes 
over the Oro Hondo ground within 200 feet from its main shaft. The company will 
construct a large and modern milling plant, with cyanide attachment and all the 
approved appliances dictated by 25 years' milling practice on the belt.

	The Oro Hondo is one of the great mines of this famous region. If doubts 
ever existed they have been expelled by the stern logic of events-development of 
pay ore in depth and quantity. It is on the threshold .of mill construction and 
will pass in due time to the productive stage. Its friends should not be 
impatient of results, but remember that large outlays of money and time are 
necessary to place such a vast enterprise on a dividend basis; for when it gets 
there a great manufacturing business will have been established of the most 
permanent and profitable nature.

DEPTH OF SHAFT.

	The shaft, now a little over 900 feet deep, is being hastened with all 
possible dispatch. Three shifts of miners, working eight hours each, with the 
aid of compressed air drills are rapidly deepening the hole.  Not a moment's 
time is lost. All energies of the company are to-day devoted to bringing the 
property to the mill-building stage.

PRESENT IMPROVEMENTS.

	In the shafthouse has been installed first-class mining machinery. 
Hoisting engines, capable of raising 1,1000 tons every twenty-four hours from a 
depth of 2,000 feet, an air compressor of size sufficient to furnish power to 
operate underground drills, a battery of heavy boilers and an electric lighting 
plant for the mine and surface works comprise the machinery.  A well-equipped 
blacksmith shop, where the necessary work required around a mine is performed, 
and a carpenter shop in which timbers are made for placing in the mine, complete 
the surface equipment. In the mine, at the 600-foot level, there has been 
installed a mammoth pump, capable of caring for any water that may be 
encountered. Three hundred feet from the hoist the Burlington railway has put in 
a sidetrack where coal and other supplies are unloaded.

THE COMPANY'S PERSONNEL.

	The Oro Hondo is controlled by a responsible, reputable and energetic 
management, and financed with large capital for all purposes of developing its 
great resources and placing it on a going basis.  Men connected with it have 
served an apprenticeship of many years in the mines of the Western states. The 
president is a man practically born and raised in a mining camp, and besides 
giving the property a great deal of his personal attention, has money to put 
into execution any of the plans.

	The Oro Hondo Mining Company has a capital stock of ten million dollars, 
in a similar number of shares of a par value of $1.00 each. The president is B. 
H. Tatem of Helena, Montana. The secretary is Henry J. Mayham, one of the 
shrewdest mining operators of the West.  W. L. Tatem, son of the president, is 
assistant secretary and treasurer, and has charge of the offices at Lead City. 
W. A, Mears & Co. of Philadelphia are the fiscal agent, and Mr. Mears has taken 
an active interest in the work and has expended freely the large sums necessary 
to bring the mine up to the mill-building point, which it is felt is now at 
hand.

PLUMA MINING COMPANY.

	Surrounded on three sides by territory of the great Homestake, and running 
to within a few feet of the big mills, hoists and surface workings of that 
company; a tract embracing no acres of the choicest of mining ground at Lead 
City, directly on the strike of big veins of the easterly side of the Homestake 
system, such as the Caledonia and others worked at Terraville in big open cuts; 
equipped with a complete forty-stamp mill, abundance of water for large 
operations, excellent sites for enlarging the mill capacity, tramway connecting 
mine and mill, first-class machinery installed in all of the surface and 
underground workings; as a whole, spoken of often as "the cream of the Lead City 
district:" such are the possessions of the Pluma Mining Company.

	For the past three years this progressive corporation has been acquiring 
ground in the vicinity of its first purchases, until it now owns the Pluma, 
Oella, Tenbroeck, Blue Star, Robert E. Lee, Merrimac, Capital, Lark, Willie 
Fraction, High Lode, Gold Finch, Little Monitor, Flower of the Hills, Golden 
Dream, Excelsior, Clara Nevada and St. James claims and fractions, all patented, 
together with the Pluma Mill Site and Sheckel Placer, at Pluma, covering the 
site of the reduction works and water supply. The property extends up to within 
a few feet of the Amicus mill of the Homestake, only a couple of rods east of 
the Old Abe hoist, 400 feet east of the Ellison hoist, 300 feet from the 
Caledonia open cut; it covers the major portion of that part of Lead City known 
as Highland Park, or Washington, extending across the gulch to Cyanide No. 1 of 
the Homestake; in fact, right in the heart of the rich mineral area on the 
easterly side of the big vein system. Four of the main Home-stake veins are 
traceable through the properly.  The Caledonia. Monitor and other lodes are 
known to be among the richest of the Homestake Company, and have been opened up 
on Pluma territory.

	The principal developments on the big veins consist of open cuts, pits, 
tunnels and shallow shafts at various points, big ore showings in railroad cuts 
of the Northwestern railroad, in wells in Washington (of which mention will be 
made later) and in the Tenbroeck shaft. This shaft is 500 feet deep, with a 
twenty-foot sump. The largest development is on the 300-foot level, where some 
600 feet of drifting has been done. The formation encountered was for the most 
part in a hard hornblendic schist, showing values up to $2 per ton, the assays 
running uniformly from $1.20 to $2.  This is a good indication, since the 
mineralized zone is certainly in proximity, and the pay streak may be expected 
to be encountered at almost any time. The bottom of the shaft assayed $3 per 
ton. Dr. Floyd Davis, a consulting mining engineer of Des Moines, says he 
believes the Monitor vein (one of the big ore bodies of the Homestake) will be 
encountered in this drift at about 650 feet from the shaft. The shaft is 
equipped with a first-class steam plant, containing boilers. hoisting engine, 
air compressor, etc. all in first-class condition. From the shaft to the upper 
terminal of the aerial tramway, some 200 feet distant, a grade has been made for 
a small track over which the mine cars, loaded with ore, will be conveyed to the 
bins, and from there transported to the mill.

	The vein exposed in the Northwestern railroad cut is some 140 feet wide, 
showing assays of $2 per ton-a good average for surface ore. In the Minnie 
tunnel, about 150 feet from the entrance, a strong vein, assaying $4.50 per ton, 
is opened. On the Flower of the Hill claim, just east of the Ellison hoist, the 
main Homestake vein outcrops, showing good values and width. In numerous wells 
in Washington good ore has been found. The wells were sunk by tenants of the 
Pluma company, who only recently told of their finds, since they were afraid 
their surface rights would be forfeited, they would be compelled to move their 
houses and vacate so that the mines could be opened up. Some of these wells are 
as much as 80 feet deep, and in nearly every one a good grade of free milling 
ore has been found. The width of the ore body cannot he exactly estimated, but 
it probably approximates 200 feet.

	At Pluma, 4,000 feet from the mine, and connected with it by a Bleichert 
self-acting wire rope tramway, is the forty-stamp mill of the company. It is in 
good condition, and contains boilers and engine for double that number of 
stamps. The company will at once begin the work of adding to this mill a 
complete cyanide plant of 300 tons daily capacity to handle the tailings from 
the amalgamation process, thus pursuing the milling method which the Homestake 
has found so profitable. Then, at some future time, forty more stamps will be 
added to the mill, giving the company a complete 300-ton daily capacity stamp-
amalgamation-cyanide plant, modern in every respect. The Pluma company's water 
supply conies from Whitewood creek, from a large well just in front of the mill, 
and could be drawn from Gold Run by settling the water flowing down that gulch, 
which comes from the Homestake mills at Lead City. However, this is a problem of 
the future, since Whitewood creek and the big well will furnish water for more 
than 100 stamps. In many features the Pluma company has excellent physical 
facilities for mining and milling. The ore will be transported over the aerial 
tramway, which is downhill from mine to mill, requiring no power to operate. 
Water is abundant, facilities for delivering mine timbers, fuel and supplies to 
the mine and mill excellent (the Burlington and Northwestern systems both 
crossing the ground), and with careful management the Pluma should become one of 
the big dividend-payers of the future.

	Overlying the big veins are the horizontal Cambrian deposits- 
conglomerate, quartzite, shale, etc.  The conglomerate beds have been worked, 
and to-day 100,000 tons of $5 ore are in sight in the workings. The quartzite 
ores are fairly well developed, showing large bodies of $4 to $5 ore, while on 
the Capital claim late exploitations have disclosed a body of siliceous ore 
assaying $37 per ton, average. The company intends as soon as the shoot is 
opened sufficiently to make regular shipments to smelters of this material. 
Mining, transportation and smelting would probably cost $10 to $12 per ton, and 
the treatment of forty tons per day of $30 ore would mean the accumulation of a 
neat treasury reserve. Undoubtedly the company will realize a large amount of 
money from this source alone, since large bodies of the same character of ore. 
though lower in value, are exposed at different points on Lockout mountain. 
Approximately, l,300,000 tons of this ore worth $4 to $5 a ton are explored. 
Estimating the mining and milling at $2 per ton, a conservative figure, there 
should be a profit of over $2,000,000 in this deposit alone. But the long-lived 
vertical veins of the Homestake system, mentioned first in this description, 
will be the great producers of the Pluma company's wealth, and will be worked 
for generations to come.

	The Pluma Mining Company has a capital stock of 5,000,000 shares, par 
value, $1 each. The president is G. W. Marquardt, Des Moines; secretary and 
manager, T. A. Harding, Des Moines; superintendent, A. Fillion, Lead. Offices 
are 304 Good Block, Des Moines, Iowa.

DOLPHIN & COMSTOCK GROUP.

	The peculiar geological formation known as the Homestake "Belt System" is, 
technically speaking, a mineralized or enriched zone in the Algonkian slates. 
Its lateral extent covers a belt of territory a mile wide and a couple of score 
of miles long. It is dotted along its course or strike by numerous mines, some 
of them in the embryo stage, and others fully developed paying properties. The 
ores of the Homestake are to the trained eye of the expert almost an open book. 
They are different in appearance from anything else in the Black Hills. They 
are, on the surface, pinkish to reddish chloritic schists, iron-stained quartz, 
decomposed and altered hornblende, etc., and covered on the higher hills by 
"caps" of porphyry.

	Leaving Lead City, the home of the Homestake, and following along the 
course of the veins toward the southeast, the first prominent outcroppings are 
noticeable in Yellow Creek, a mile from the southerly end of the big company's 
holdings.

	The Dolphin & Comstock group is situated on Yellow Creek and adjoins on 
every side the holdings of energetic and vigorous companies. It is the property 
of Willis Malkson, who has the largest coal and transfer business of Lead and 
also interested in the hauling of mining machinery, and James Halloran of Lead 
City, a miner of wide experience, who was a prime mover in the consummation of 
the Hidden Fortune and other large sales of mines; H. J. Mayham of New York, and 
other small owners. The group includes 75 acres of land to which United States 
patent has lately been secured, joining the Wasp No. 2 on the west, the 
Minneapolis on the south and the Oro Hondo on the east.

	A great deal of development work has been done on the ground in the way of 
shafts, pits and tunnels, and one of the big veins of the Homestake system 
opened. That it is the same character of ore has been proved time and again by 
assays and analyses. The gold values from $i to $10 a ton, with an average of 
about $4.50.

	In 1878 two tenderfeet discovered ore on the property and milled about 
$10,000 worth in a crude plant near the present site of the town of Pluma. The 
material handled was a good grade of tree-milling ore, and notwithstanding the 
excessive and almost prohibitive costs of mining, transportation and milling, 
the two partners made money enough to satisfy them, and they left the country 
with their spoils. The ore must have been worth $15 per ton, as labor was high, 
the road to the mill was not of the best, and hauling to the plant by teams of 
oxen cost at least $5 a ton, while the owners of the mill were not treating ore 
for a mere song. This portion of the early history of the ground is well known 
to many of the pioneers of the Black Hills, who recall with smiles the departure 
of the operators after they had cleaned up their modest "stake."

	The ground is admirably located as regards transportation and milling 
facilities, the main line of the Burlington Railroad being not more than half a 
mile distant, with a survey for a proposed spur running across the ground. There 
are excellent mill sites on the ground, with a living stream of water which 
would furnish enough of that necessity for a large plant. Apparently it is only 
a question of a short time when this ground will be secured by capitalists, who 
will develop it further and erect big mills for the reduction of the ores. Mills 
are all that are needed to make the mine a dividend payer, as all the geological 
and physical conditions are present that go to make a valuable property.

MAGNOLIA MINING AND MILLING COMPANY.

	Incorporated under the laws of South Dakota. Capitalization, 1,250,000 
shares; par value, $1 each. Principal office, Deadwood, S. D. Officers: F. M. 
Gants, president; P. T. Baird, vice-president; O. U. Pryce, secretary and 
treasurer.

	Owns 90 acres of mineral land, mill site, and water-right along Burno 
gulch, one mile east of Carbonate Camp. A cyaniding ore is exposed which carries 
from $4 to $12 per ton gold. Developed by shafts and tunnels. There is a heavy 
growth of pine timber upon the property.

MORNING GLORY MINING COMPANY.

	Incorporated under the laws of South Dakota. Capitalization, 1,250,000 
shares; par value, $i each. Principal office, Deadwood, S. D. Officers: William 
E. Tew, president; Dr. W. E. MacLaughlin, vice-president; A. C. Johnson, 
secretary and treasurer. The above officers reside at Willmar, Minn. O. U. 
Pryce, general manager, Deadwood, S. D.

	Owns 60 acres of mineral land at the head of Falsebottom Creek, in the 
phonolite belt. The formation is phonolite and porphyry, and the property is 
traversed by well-defined veins of blue quartz. A tunnel, which has reached a 
distance of 234 feet, is being driven to intersect these veins at right angles. 
Assays from these veins show good gold values and the ore carries some silver.

GOLDSTAKE MINING AND MILLING COMPANY.

	Incorporated under the laws of South Dakota. Capitalization, 1,250,000 
shares; par value, $1 each.  Principal office, Deadwood, S. D. Officers: O. U. 
Pryce, president; Captain E. P. Mitchell, vice-president; Charles F. Galloway, 
secretary and treasurer; George W. Wilkins, mine superintendent. Principal 
office located at Deadwood, S. D.

	Owns 150 acres of mineral land and a valuable water-right along Elkhorn 
gulch, and between Elkhorn and Falsebottom creeks, immediately west of the 
Penobscot company's holdings. The ground is in a direct line with the Homestake 
and Columbus properties, and it has been demonstrated that the great veins of 
the Homestake traverse this territory.   It has several well-defined veins that 
prospect well so far as they have been developed. The Homestake free-milling 
veins can be traced by the outcrop to the Columbus mine, the same extending 
across the Goldstake for a distance of 1,800 feet. The main tunnel will 
intersect these great veins at a depth of over 500 feet from the surface, 
developing the property in the most economical manner possible.

OHIO BEAVER CREEK MINING, MILLING AND DEVELOPMENT CO.

	In the Nigger Hill district of western Lawrence county, one of the 
favorite mining camps of the Black Hills, the Ohio Beaver Creek Mining, Milling 
and Development Company owns 1,076 acres of mineral land, adjoining the Golden 
Empire and Tinton Company's holdings.

	Apparently the mines are in one of Nature's favored spots, for both gold 
and tin are found in paying quantities. The Tinton Company, adjoining, is 
operating a 100-ton tin mill with good success, and the Golden Empire Company is 
profitably working the placer deposits near by. Gold is found in veins and 
blanket formations and in the placers, and the tin occurs in veins near the 
granitic rocks and in the placers as well.

	Flat bodies of ore are found at various points on the property. They are 
shale deposits of low gold value but of immense proportions, amenable to 
cyanidation and giving great indications of becoming producers of wealth. In 
fact. the company is considering the immediate erection of a 300-ton cyanide 
mill to handle this class of ore. Two shafts have been sunk about 40 feet and an 
open-cut 100 feet in the brown shale, showing values as high as $30 per ton. A 
200-foot tunnel has been driven through green shale to a porphyry dike, 
disclosing values in the shale of from $2 to $5 per ton gold.

	Quartz veins in the slates are opened at numerous points, showing good 
average grades of milling ore, amenable to amalgamation, followed by 
cyanidation.

	The placer deposits of Beaver Creek, Potato Creek and Idle Creek have been 
worked for years by the former owners of the property, and would to-day prove 
handsome producers if equipped with new and first-class placer machinery.  The 
gold occurs in uniformly heavy particles, nuggets worth several dollars often 
being encountered.

	The tin veins on the northerly portion of the holdings are not being 
worked to any extent at present, as the company is confining itself to operating 
on the gold deposits. The tin. however, is destined to become an important 
factor in the company's future, since the deposits have been opened sufficiently 
to show percentages indicating commercial value. The ore occurs in large 
vertical veins, extending to great depths.  In all the placer operations on the 
company's territory tin has been found with the gold.

	Dr. Lentz, president of the company, has introduced a complete assay 
outfit into one of his offices in Columbus, Ohio, and has a competent man in 
charge of the furnace. A cyaniding outfit is also installed to test all the ores 
sent from the mines. This gives a clear understanding of what is going on and a 
perfect comprehension to the eastern stockholders. A representative is already 
on the ground erecting a permanent experimental cyanide plant, and the purpose 
of the company is to erect a 300-ton mill in the near future.

	Abundant water and timber for mining and milling as well as waterpower for 
generating electricity flow in the creeks on the property. Spearfish Falls 
station on the B. & M. R. R. is six miles distant.

	The company has a capital stock of $1,000,000, the shares having a par 
value of $1 each. Dr. T. C. Lentz of Columbus, Ohio, is president and treasurer; 
Frank L. Stein of the same city is secretary. Among the directors are Dr. Lentz, 
David dark and William Watson, who live on the property; Sebastian Hitzel and 
Dr. O. N. Ainsworth of Spearfish, S. D. The principal office is at Columbus. 
Ohio.

[Photo collage - FOUR VIEWS OF THE OHIO BEAVER CREEK.]

MINNESOTA MINES COMPANY.

	The fact that the cyanide process as applied to the treatment of raw ores 
has worked a revolution in the metallurgy of gold is demonstrated every day in 
the Black Hills, where new companies are constantly being formed, having in view 
the erection of cyanide plants to handle the immense bodies of low grade for 
which the section is justly famous.

	The district in the neighborhood of Maitland is, in the parlance of the 
geologist, "highly mineralized," or, in other words, exhibits upon underground 
development great quantities of ore well adapted to handling by the cyanide 
process. This district has forged rapidly to the front in the past two years, 
and seems destined to become one of the best and richest sections of the Hills 
at no very distant date.

	Ever since the Maitland mine was opened, the camp seems to have taken on a 
new lease of life, property in the section rapidly advancing in value until to-
day it is held at fancy prices, and hard to secure even at that. Among the new 
companies owning property in the vicinity of Maitland is the Minnesota Mines 
Company, an organization composed principally of Minneapolis capitalists.

	Their property adjoins the Maitland mine on the south and west, and covers 
a portion of the town site of Maitland. The same ore formations run through both 
properties, and when the Minnesota Company completes its cyanide mill, we may 
expect to bear good things from it. A great portion of the property was 
purchased from the Garden City Mining Company, practically a defunct 
organization, and the balance from individual owners.

	As an indication of the value of the property, it may he said that the old 
Garden City Company, long before the introduction of the cyanide process, and 
before it was known of in the Black Hills, built a crude chlorination mill. It 
was operated for a short time and closed down, as the process was not applicable 
to the ores. Now, at the Maitland mine, adjoining, the cyanide process is 
applied to similar ores, from the same mineral formations, with eminent success. 
The Maitland mine is producing gold at the rate of $25,000 to $30,000 per month. 
Had the old Garden City Company known of cyanide before it made a failure of its 
chlorination mill, and had it erected a plant of that character instead, it is 
safe to say that it would have been paying dividends to-day, instead of selling 
its holdings to a vigorous new concern.

	The Minnesota Mines Company owns 150 acres of land, and in the dozens of 
openings shows immense deposits of low grade cyanid-ing ore. Four tunnels and 
two shafts (40 to 80 feet deep, respectively) all show commercial ore. The 
company intends to erect a 100-stamp mill with cyanide vats, for the treatment 
of the ores, and judging from the experience of the adjoining property, it 
should be a payer from the start.

	The Minnesota Mines Company is capitalized for $1,500,000 in shares of par 
value of $l each. The president is Frank E. Little of Minneapolis, a well-known 
mine operator; vice-president, William Rowe, the present mayor of Eau Claire, 
Wisconsin, and Henry M. Little of Minneapolis is secretary and treasurer. The 
company's office is at 615 New York Life Buildings, Minneapolis.

WASP No. 2 GOLD MINING COMPANY.

	When the property now owned by the Wasp No. 2 Company was discovered and 
located in the early nineties the mine was a great producer of high-grade 
smelting ore from the Cambrian formation, and after producing over $500,000 it 
was believed that the mine was worked out. It practically was, in so far as the 
high-grade shipping ore was concerned, and that was the only kind of siliceous 
ore that was considered valuable in those days. But with the advent of the 
cyanide process, and under an able and conservative manager -the present 
incumbent, John Gray-a miracle was performed. Gray's partners told him that he 
was crazy to attempt the handling of $4 and $3 rock (it seemed poor after 
shipping stuff that would assay $100), but nothing daunted, he built the mill 
and put it in operation. Within a few months the mill was paid for in full, and 
a good surplus was being accumulated. The Wasp No. 2 immediately achieved fame 
as being a pioneer in the handling of the quartzite by the cyanide process, and 
having reduced the cost of mining and milling to a sum so small as to seem 
insignificant, the mine and its operations were closely watched. The mine was 
run two months on ore that was not worth more than $1.60 per ton, and a small 
dividend was paid, at that. It is doubtful if there is any mine in the world 
where the treatment of the raw ore from mining to production of bullion is so 
cheaply done as at this plant.

	Owing to the peculiar occurrence of the pay stuff, its character, etc., it 
can be most easily mined. The ore is nothing more nor less than the Cambrian 
quartzite, occurring in blankets eight to 20 feet thick, over which lies a few 
feet of shale ore and on top of all from two to six feet of soil. The soil is 
removed and vertical holes drilled in the ore from the top downward. The hole 
which was drilled in the middle of November was 19 feet deep, drilled with 1 1/8 
inch steel. The bottom was enlarged or "chambered" first with five sticks of 
dynamite, second with 15 sticks, third with 75 sticks, fourth with 200 sticks, 
fifth with three kegs of black powder, and lastly with three and one-half kegs 
of black powder: The hole was then ready for the charge, which consisted of 40 
kegs of black powder. The fuse lighted and the blast let off, the men return to 
find 3,000 tons or more of ore broken. The big blast had cost in labor and 
powder about $550-or 13 cents for each ton of rock broken. In all departments 
the costs are reduced to the minimum, not alone by such wholesale operations as 
the blasting just mentioned, but by close attention to detail. Only in that 
manner can the low-grade stuff be successfully handled.

	The mill is of the ordinary dry crushing cyanide type, capable of 
extracting the gold from 120 tons of ore every 24 hours. It is located close to 
the mine. tlie ore being transported to it in small cars drawn by mules. One of 
the most valuable products of the property aside from the gold is wolframite, a 
material selling for $280 per ton in Philadelphia. The wolframite on this 
property is of a very queer character, inasmuch as it contains gold, some of it 
assaying as high as $150 per ton.

	The Wasp No. 2 Gold Mining Company is capitalized for $500,000 in shares 
of a par value of $1 each. The president and treasurer is D. A. McPherson, 
Deadwood; vice-president, John Blatchford, Terry; secretary W. L. McLanghlin, 
Deadwood, and general manager, John Gray, Terraville. M. E. Hiltner is mill 
superintendent, and Adolph Holstein, mine superintendent. The mine and mill are 
situated at Flatiron, S. D.

PORTLAND MINING COMPANY.

	The Portland Mining Company is credited with having made the first 
concerted attempt at the reduction of the Bald Mountain siliceous or refractory 
ores. It was in 1880, before the birth of the cyanide process, before matte 
smelting was attempted and before chlorination had been tried. In that year this 
company completed a small pan-amalgamation mill at its mine, near the present 
town of Portland, and after exhaustive tests found that but 30 per cent of the 
gold and 50 per cent of the silver could be saved by this process.  Everything 
known by the metallurgists of that day in connection with the process was 
attempted, but the result was a failure.

	Then for over ten years practically nothing was done by the company, as no 
process was known by which the gold could be saved. In the early nineties, when 
matte smelting was introduced and proved successful, the mines were again 
worked, shipping the ores to the smelter in Deadwood. Shortly afterward the 
chlorination process was introduced to the Black Hills, and the Portland company 
erected a mill embodying that treatment method at Deadwood. After several years 
the plant was destroyed by fire, and the company again found itself without 
suitable reduction works. Finally in 1900 the company leased a stamp mill at 
Blacktail, on the Northwestern Railroad, transformed it into a wet crushing 
syanide mill, and successfully operated it until the summer of 1002, when by 
purchase the Columbus Consolidated Company came into possession of the plant, 
compelling the Portland company to vacate the premises.

	At present the ores are shipped to the Lundherg, Dorr & Wilson mill, at 
Terry, one of the most complete and modern wet crushing cyanide plants in the 
Hills. Ores running from $8 to $35 per ton are handled, and an average saving of 
75 per cent of the values effected by the process. A steady output of 30 tons 
per day is maintained, the ore coming from the upper contact in the Cambrian 
formation, and from the lower contact, some 560 feet below.

	The Portland Mining Company has a capital stock of $250,000, the shares 
having a par value of $100 each. It owns 75 acres of patented land in the Bald 
Mountain district, including the apex of Green Mountain. The total production to 
date amounts to practically $1,000,000. George M. Curtis of Clinton, Iowa, is 
president; W. M. Thompson, of Jackson, Midi., treasurer; H. W. Seaman of 
Clinton, Iowa, secretary, and H. S. Vincent of Deadwood, superintendent.

CLINTON MINING AND MINERAL COMPANY.

	This company owns 36 acres of patented land adjoining the Portland, and is 
operated in conjunction with that company. The ore is all mined from the upper 
contact, values running about the same as the Portland, and 30 tons daily are 
shipped to the Lund-berg, Dorr & Wilson mill, at Terry.

	The Clinton has been operated since January, 1896, and has produced 
$240,000 from ores shipped to Deadwood and Omalia smelters.

	The Clinton Mining and Mineral Company has a capital stock of $100,000, 
the shares having a par value of $10. The president is G. E. Lamb; vice-
president, Charles F. Curtis; secretary and treasurer, H. W. Seaman, all of 
Clinton, Iowa; and the superintendent is H. S. Vincent of Deadwood.

POTSDAM GOLD MINING COMPANY.

	In the latter part of 1902 there was organized among the successful mining 
and business men of Deadwood the Potsdam Gold Mining Company. Its purpose was to 
develop 550 acres on the Ragged Top Plateau, and to construct mills when the 
mine was opened to a point when such action would be justifiable.

	The property of this company is well situated, adjoining the holdings of 
the Spearfish and Deadwood-Standard companies on the west and south. These 
companies are both dividend payers, operating their mills on the same character 
and practically the same value of ore as is exposed on the Potsdam ground. The 
ore is a silicified lime, running from $4 to $6 per ton on the average, while 
assays as high as $30 and even $50 are occasionally obtained. The experience of 
the two companies proves that this class of ore can be successfully treated by 
the cyanide process. The Spearfish mill handles 300 tons and the Deadwood-
Standard 125 tons a day.

	The ore occurs in shoots six to fifteen feet in thickness, lying near the 
top of the ground. It is easily reached by open cuts, affording the cheapest 
kind of mining. Stripping off a foot or so of the soil exposes the ore. A 
splendid mill site and water right are owned on Spearfish Creek, immediately 
below the mine. A short distance from the mill site the tracks of the Burlington 
Railway afford excellent transportation facilities.

	The Potsdam Gold Mining Company is capitalized for 2,500,000 shares of a 
par value of $1 each. Three-fifths of this stock was placed in the treasury for 
obtaining funds for development and mill construction, the balance being used to 
purchase the property. William Lardner, a miner of over a quarter of a century's 
experience, is president; John Gray, general manager of the Wasp No. 2, is vice-
president ; W. L. McLaughlin, general manager of the Horseshoe, is secretary; A. 
J. Malterner, of the firm of George V. Ayres & Co., hardware, is treasurer, and 
R. N. Ogden, of the law firm of McLaughlin & Ogden, assistant secretary. The 
general office is at Deadwood.

ECHO GOLD MINING COMPANY.

	This is one of the new mining companies operating on the northerly strike 
of the Homestake and Columbus Belt in the vicinity of Maitland. Its ground 
contains a series of free-milling lodes in the regulation Belt formation, namely 
quartz veins in chloritic and talcose slates and hornblendic rocks. The 
formation is traversed by numerous eruptives of the porphyry family, which 
conform to the strike of the lodes and stratification of the schists. A later 
intrusion of phonolitic dikes cuts the latter transversely. Exploratory work 
indicates deposits of telluride ore in contact with the phonolite and porphyry 
dikes, as well as free-milling quartz veins.

	The Echo holdings adjoin the territory of the Beltram Mining Company on 
the west and lie between the Columbus and Penobscot companies' possessions. The 
company is incorporated under the laws of South Dakota with a modest 
capitalization of $300,000, divided into 1,200,000 shares of the par value of 23 
cents each. The mines were purchased and paid for by Dr. John P. Thorndyke and 
associates, business men of the New England states. The branch office is located 
at Manchester, N. H., and W. L. Mason of that city is secretary; Dr. W. C. 
Tillotson, of Rockville, Conn., is treasurer, and Major A. J. Simmons, of 
Deadwood, S. D., is general manager of the company.

	Systematic development work has been inaugurated and the mines are being 
opened up with prospects highly satisfactory to the company.

THE MOWEE MINE.

	One of the most unique properties of the Black Hills in so far as the 
character of the ore is concerned is the Mowee mine, owned by Aaron Dunn of 
Deadwood. It comprises no acres, two miles southeast of Deadwood, on Spruce 
Gulch. A variety of base metals is found in the ore, including lead and zinc, 
with occasional pieces of native copper, cadmium and nickel. The ore is found in 
the Cambrian measures and the particular contact from which this material is 
mined is 40 feet above the quartzite. The shoots have a regular dip of about one 
foot in four to the northeast and are from 18 to 20 feet thick. The ore from 
analyses made from smelting shipments contains approximately 10 per cent of 
zinc, 10 per cent of lead, 5 per cent antimony, 48 per cent iron, a little lime 
and the balance silica. The precious metal content shows $2 to $4 per ton gold 
and two to five ounces per ton silver.

	Rich streaks are encountered, carrying excellent values in gold and 
silver. In fact, shipments were made which gave returns of $58 per ton at the 
smelters. Competent authorities state that the ore can be concentrated and the 
zinc and lead separated from the iron at a nominal cost per ton. The Mowee joins 
the property of the Lexington Hill, and the same quartzite the Lexington Hill 
Company is working evidently underlies the Mowee group. On adjoining claims 
included in the Mowee group there are 2,000 tons of ore in sight assaying from 
$8 to $12 per ton, which would net well if treated by the cyanide process. A 
great deal of development work, both in shafts and tunnels, has been done on the 
property and it is well opened up.

	Mr. Dunn is now giving the mine his personal attention and making 
experimental tests which will determine the best treatment.


	The balance of the most notable properties of Lawrence County follow 
alphabetically:


	Argonaut Lode Claim.-Consists of 10 acres patented, owned by E. McDonald 
and Mrs. Joe Treweek. Siliceous ore bodies of good size and value are exposed.


	Bald Eagle Group.-Owned by J. W. Fowler and A. C. Tippie of Deadwood. 
Consists of 150 acres. Three veins of free-milling ore in the slates are capped 
on the higher elevations by siliceous deposits of the Cambrian. A thousand feet 
of tunneling has been done on the veins and some shallow shafts develop the 
siliceous measures. Water enough to run a small cyanide mill flows in Lost 
gulch, which has its head on the property.


	Bear Gulch Group.-Consists of 600 acres owned by Conners Brothers of 
Spearfish, surrounded by the Golden Empire mines, near Nigger Hill. Veins show 
tin, gold quartz and siliceous ores. An incline shaft 100 feet deep shows good 
pay values in a large body, as well as some copper. Good placer grounds in the 
vicinity of the vein have been intermittently worked.


	Beltram Gold Mining Company.-Incorporated under the laws of South Dakota.  
William Sauntry, president, Stillwater, Minn.; H. J. Mayham, vice-president, 
Denver, Colo.; A. Z. Conrad, secretary, New York, N. Y.; Beltram Sauntry, 
treasurer, Stillwater, Minn.

	The property consists of more than 700 acres of ground, adjoining the 
Columbus on the south, the Penobscot on the north, and the Wells-Fargo group of 
Golden Reward ground on the east. It is a consolidation of several large 
interests, one of the principal being the Golden Gate Company.

	This ground produced $253,000 from 16,000 tons of ore taken from less than 
three acres of ground. Other sections of the ground have produced a great deal 
of shipping ore. Development work consists of seven shafts and fifteen tunnels 
which open up large bodies of free milling siliceous ore.

	The proposition is an enormous one and will require an amalgamation-
cyanide plant of great capacity to in any way encroach properly upon the veins. 
The personnel of the company officers shows financial ability to do this.


	Big Four Mining and Milling Company.-Incorporated under the laws of South 
Dakota and capitalized for 2,000 shares at $500 each.

	The company owns forty-two acres of mineral ground located along Deadwood 
gulch, one and one-half miles above Central City. The main shaft is now about 
200 feet deep and is equipped with a steam hoist. The formation is porphyry and 
phonolite. Some excellent values have been found in the latter, which leads the 
owners to anticipate large bodies of ore and rich values as greater depth is 
reached.

	The property is in a good ore belt, the ore body shows up well in 
character and values and the equipment for the mine's development is very 
complete. The stock is held mainly by Iowa capitalists.


	Big Bonanza and Buxton Mines.-Owned by Lundberg, Dorr & Wilson, who have 
an improved cyanide plant at Terry, the first in the hills run by electricity. 
The ores handled were thrust aside years ago by the former owners of the mines 
as too low grade for profitable treatment; the present proprietors are reaping a 
harvest by the new methods.


	Big Hill Consolidated Gold Mining and Reduction Company.-This company owns 
260 acres of land on Bear Gulch, near Nigger Hill, eight miles from Spearfish. 
Cambrian quartzile and shale ores are disclosed in numerous workings. One shaft 
has been sunk 69 feet and another 60, with numerous others shallower. Among the 
tunnels one 160 feet penetrates good ore. Two shaft houses have been erected and 
machinery is now being installed. The company has $1,000,000 capital, in shares 
of $l par value. Principal stockholders are John Wolzmuth, A. S. Gates, Henry 
Leppla, D. O. Craig, Perry Whaley, Otto Craig and O. N. Ainsworth, all of 
Spearfish.


	Break of Day Group.-Consists of 300 acres on the east side of Spearfish 
canyon, six and one-half miles from Spearfish, and owned by Henry Leppla, Capt. 
Wm. McLaughlin and M. D. Edgerton, of Spearfish. Ores are verticals in the 
Cambrian and veins of phonolitic character, requiring smelting. Tunneling and 
cross-cutting amounts to 275 feet and open cuts measure 60 feet in all.


	Branch Mint Mining and Milling- Company.-Owns 200 mining claims, amounting 
to 1,800 acres, of which 1,500 acres are patented. The property has in the past 
produced some $800,000, and is at present being equipped with an immense cyanide 
mill. more adapted to the ores than the processes previously employed by former 
owners. This plant will contain 180 stamps, and will start by July 1, 1904, with 
120 stamps. When completed it will have a capacity of 900 tons per day. Ore will 
be treated from the Hoodoo and Union Hill veins, the former 125 feet wide and 
developed to the 600-foot level by some 2,500 feet of tunnels and shafts, and 
the latter a 50-foot ore body in the porphyry which has produced $150,000. A 
railroad three miles long costing $50,000 will connect mine and mill. The 
company has a capital stock of $10,000,000, in shares of $1 each, par value. 
James D. Hardin is president and general manager; Charles S. Hardin, vice-
president, both of Two Bit, S. U.; I. C. Hartman, Lancaster, Pa., secretary and 
treasurer, who, with N. T. Nelson of Deadwood and Frank Rupert, Wilmington, 
Del., form the board of directors.


	Carrie Group.-Two full claims (forty acres in all) in the Garden City 
district. Located by Mrs. W. A. Quimby in May, 1902. She later sold to a 
company.


	Castle Rock Mining and Milling Company.-Located nine miles southwest of 
Spearfish. Consists of 200 acres. Quite well developed by open cuts, shafts and 
tunnels, making in all several hundred feet of work. The ore is amenable to 
cyanidation, as has been determined by tests, and shows in small stringers $8 to 
$40 per ton, though on the average it is low grade. Incorporated for $1,000,000 
capital, shares $1 each. President, J. W. Driskill; vice-president, G. F. 
Stebbins; secretary and treasurer, M. D. Edgerton; superintendent, Hiran Dotson, 
all of Spearfish.


	Cleopatra Gold Mining Company.-Incorporated under the laws of South 
Dakota. Capitalized for 1,000,000 shares of $1 each. J. M. Lawson, president, 
Aberdeen, S. D.; A. S Reed, secretary, Aberdeen, S. D.

	The company owns 180 acres, of which 100 are patented, on Squaw creek near 
Maurice station, on the Burlington Route. Its property is developed by 1,000 
feet of tunnels and a shaft 100 feet deep. The company owns a fifty-ton cyanide 
mill which ran for fifteen months on ore from an upper contact which averaged $6 
per ton.


	Dakota Mining and Milling Company.-Incorporated under the laws of South 
Dakota and capitalized for 300,000 shares at $1 each. John Hunter, treasurer; T. 
J. Steel, manager, Dead-wood, S. D.

	The mines of the company, consisting of the Gold Standard. Lucy Rehl, Jack 
Pot and Gunnison groups, are located at Bald mountain. A wet-crushing cyanide 
mill of 120 tons daily capacity is in operation at Deadwood. It is proposed to 
erect a mill of larger capacity at the mines in the spring of 1904, should 
investigation prove that a sufficient supply of water can be had.  While 
considerable high-grade ore has been mined and shipped to smelters, the average 
grade is low. A run of 40,000 tons through the present mill gave a bullion 
recovery of $138,095. The company is owned almost entirely by local capitalists.


	Deadwood Standard Gold Mining and Milling Company. -Owns 212 acres of 
patented ground adjoining the Spearfish mine at Ragged Top, and a 125-ton 
cyanide mill. The ore occurs in blankets in the limestone, averages $5 per ton. 
Treatment by cyanide leaves a fair profit, and the. company, besides making 
permanent improvements, accumulating a treasury reserve, etc., has paid $6,000 
in dividends after fourteen months' work. The company has a capital of 
$1,500,000, in shares of $l par value. The president is W. O. Morrison : vice-
president, Ed. Hanschka; treasurer, S. B. Morrison; and secretary, J. S. 
Morrison. Principal office is at Deadwood.


	Dizzy Mining Company.-Own 200 acres on False Bottom creek, below the 
Penobscot. Shaft 100 feet to quartzite discloses ore body of good grade. 
Capitalized for $500,000 in shares of one dollar par value. Herman Ullrich of 
Chicago is president and H. H. Francis of Custer, general manager.


	Florence Group.-Consists of 31 acres of patented ground near the head of 
Big Strawberry gulch, and known as the old "Hewitt ground." It produced, from 
ore shoots on the Cambrian quartzite, some $12,000, principally in silver. Since 
the slump in the white metal the mine has not been worked. Owned by A. L. Reed. 
L, D. Bailor, Thomas Neary, A. E. Dyer and S. H. Sweet, all of Lead.


	Gilt Edge Maid Mining Company.-Incorporated under the laws of Illinois. 
Capitalized for 1,000,000 shares at $l each. G. A. Duncan, general manager, 
Deadwood, S. D.

	The company owns 100 acres of patented ground on Strawberry gulch, two 
miles west of Galena, including the famous Dakota Maid and Gilt Edge mines. Ores 
are refractory in character and contain good values. Arrangements have been made 
for building a 150-ton cyanide plant on the property.


	Golden Crest Mining Company.-Owns 256 acres of ground on the divide 
between Two Bit and Strawberry gulches, three miles from Galena. A ten-stamp 
cyanide mill is kept in operation on ores from the Cambrian measures. A portion 
of this ore is mined from surface pits and open cuts, and the balance from the 
220-foot shaft. Management states that the company is making money, though no 
dividends have been paid.  Mill has been operated steadily for four months (to 
February 15). Capital stock, $1,000,000, par value of shares, $1 each. Robert L. 
Bailie is president and treasurer and Edwin Henderson vice-president and 
secretary. Both are of Detroit, Mich. Frank M. O'Brien is mine superintendent 
and F. M. Strout mill superintendent.


	Golden Reward Consolidated Gold Mining and Milling Company.-Incorporated 
under the laws of South Dakota. Capitalized for 1,000,000 shares of $10 each. E. 
H. Harriman of New York, president; Harris Franklin, vice-president and general 
manager, Deadwood, S. D.; William Letson, assistant secretary, Deadwood, S. D.; 
John Blatchford of Terry, superintendent.

	The mines of the company, consisting of 3,100 acres of patented ground, 
are located at Bald Mountain and Ruby Basin. The. company owns a matte smelter 
with a capacity of 500 tons daily (375 tons of siliceous ore and the balance 
pyritic and copper ore) and a dry-crushing cyanide plant with a capacity of 200 
tons daily, both located at Deadwood. The total output of the company to 
December l, 1903, was $16,500,000. The ores treated are from the mines of the 
company and custom ores. The smelting ores of the company average $20 per ton, 
and cyaniding ore $10 per ton.

	Much other information regarding this property is given in the general 
mining articles.


	Home Mining Company.-Owned entirely by A. W. Coe of Deadwood. The mine is 
on City creek, within the limits of the city of Deadwood, consists of 50 acres 
of patented ground. Two veins are disclosed, one 17 and one 14 feet wide, 
carrying 40 per cent of iron pyrites, making the ore valuable as flux for 
smelters. Carries $1.60 in gold and 50 cents silver to the ton, besides one-half 
of one per cent copper.


	Horseshoe Mining Company.-Incorporated under the laws of Wyoming. 
Capitalized for 10.000,000 shares, par value $l each. W. L. McLaughlin, general 
manager, Deadwood, S. D.

	This company owns 2,100 acres of patented ground, 1,000 acres of which is 
on Bear gulch and the balance at Ruby basin and Bald mountain. Large bodies of 
cyaniding and smelting ores are exposed. The company owning the property at 
present has been in possession since January 1, 1902. Previous to that time the 
Horseshoe Mining and Milling Company produced over $2,500,000 in gold, 
principally from a chlorination plant at Pluma. The Horseshoe Company owns the 
control of the National Smelting Company, which has a smelter at Rapid City, 
used to treat the higher grade ores from the Horseshoe mines.

	The Horseshoe Company also has a 500-ton cyanide mill at the Mogul mine 
near Terry. Last winter certain vicissitudes, attributed to alleged 
mismanagement in the financial department, brought about a change of officers, 
and the control of the company is now in the hands of Pittsburg capitalists, who 
seem to prefer to not give a statement at present. In a general way, however, it 
may be said that the properties of the Horseshoe are vast and rich in values: 
therefore, with conservative management, the company ought soon to be restored 
to a dividend basis.


	Iron Creek Mining and Development Company.-Owns 173 acres of land on Iron 
creek, three miles northwest of the Spearfish mine at Ragged Top. The property 
is probably on the same ore belt, assays show fair cyaniding ore similar in 
character to the Ragged Top ores. The company is capitalized for $1,500,000, in 
shares of $1 each, par value. The officers are: W. H. Disney, president: W. W. 
Quillian, vice-president; George Hendy, treasurer; B. A. Coleman, secretary and 
general manager; and C. A. Carlson, mine superintendent. All of these gentlemen 
are of Terry, S. D., which is the main office of the company.


	Jupiter Gold Mining and Milling Company.-Has 30 acres. in Black Tail gulch 
with a 100-ton cyanide plant on the ground; the ores are cement, lying on 
archaian slates, and average from $4 to $6 per ton. The company is organized 
under laws of Wyoming, with capital stock of $2,000,000, in $1 shares, of which 
$1,200,000 is treasury stock. The directors are F. T. Sanders, president; D. A. 
McPherson, vice-president; H. A. Wattson, treasurer; Burt Rogers, secretary, and 
John W. Sisson.


	Lida Group.-Owned by A. W. Coe and the estate of H. C. Smith. Consists of 
140 acres (20 acres patented) on north Bare Butte creek. Quartz veins carrying 
good gold values are opened. Tunneling on the property amounts to 600 feet, and 
300 feet of 
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 shaft work has been done in opening up the ore bodies. In all practically 
$10.000 worth of development work has been accomplished.


	Maitland-Keystone Gold. Mining Company.-Has about 44 acres, patented, 
located in the Garden City district south of the Penobscot mine at Maitland. 
Considerable development work has been done and an excellent equipment is on the 
ground. The ore is mainly of the low grade siliceous, calling for cyanidation, 
and high values are found in places.

	The company is incorporated under laws of South Dakota, with capital stock 
of $1,250.000, in shares of $1 each. The treasury reserve is 1,000,000 shares. 
Principal office is at Deadwood.

	The officers are Horace Jones of Minneapolis, president; J. Edgar Mills of 
Sioux City, vice-president; and O. U. Pryce of Deadwood, secretary and 
treasurer.


	Minna Mining Company.-Incorporated under the laws of South Dakota.   
Capitalized for $1,250,000 divided into 250,000 shares of $5 each. Otto P. Th. 
Grantz, president, Deadwood, S. D.

	The company owns thirty acres of ground located at the head of Strawberry 
and Two Bit gulches. The ore is siliceous in character. Shipments made to the 
smelter at Deadwood averaged $40 per ton in gold and silver.


	Minneapolis Consolidated Mines Company.-Has 375 acres (1 1/2 miles) south 
of the Homestake and now being patented. There is a blanket formation of high 
value ore on the property and a three-compartment shaft has been sunk 145 feet; 
this will be cross-cut at 200 feet in search of the Homestake vertical vein. 
Machinery for the hoist is arriving and being installed; also compressor, 60-
horsepower engine, derricks, etc. The ore is tree milling. The company is 
capitalized for $6,000,000, in shares of $1 each. A. C. Paul of Minneapolis is 
president, with offices in the New York Life Building.


	Monarch Mining- Company.-Owns 57 acres of patented land at Two Bit, three 
miles from Deadwood. The mine has been worked under lease for four years by 
George Bachman, the ore being shipped to the Golden Reward and Denver smelters 
for treatment. An average of all shipments to January 1, 1904, shows $64 per ton 
in gold. The ore occurs in small verticals in the Cambrian. These verticals are 
from three to seven inches wide. The company has a capital of $2,500,000, in 
shares of $1 par value. The president is A. D. Wilson of Deadwood; vice-
president, J. P. Haynes, Chicago; secretary and treasurer, A. W. Coe, Deadwood.


	Omaha Gold Mining and Milling Company.-Owns 120 acres on False Bottom 
creek, below Maitland (and adjoining the Penobscot and the Dizzy mines). Is 
being developed on the quartz-ite, where it is stated good values are found. The 
company has a capital stock of $1,000,000. Par value of shares, $1 each. William 
H. Schmoller of Omaha. is president; W. H, Ostenberg of Wahoo, Neb. is 
treasurer; F. A. Mathis of Omaha, is secretary; H. H Francis of Custer, general 
manager and Herman Reinbold of Omaha consulting engineer and director. 
Operations are about to start for the sinking of a shaft and a flat formation 
ore body is expected at 115 feet, as at the Dizzy mine.


	Omaha Group.-Consists of 40 (patented) on Blacktail gulch. Owned by E. 
McDonald of Deadwood, M. H. French of Denver and Mrs. Joe Treweek and Sam 
Woodruff of Lead. Siliceous ores are exposed in various workings.


	Pennsylvania Gold Mining and Milling Company.-Owns 280 acres of patented 
ground three miles west of Deadwood, in the Phonolite belt. Smelting ore has 
been shipped worth $46, $26 and $14 per ton in different lots, after deducting 
shipping and treatment charges. One vein is 16 feet wide, with rich stringers. A 
shaft is being sunk to open it at depth.   The capital stock amounts to 
$125,000, subject to change. J. Henry Cochran, of Williamsport, Pa. is 
president: A. P. Perley, of Williamsport, vice-president; C. E. Bennet. of 
Montoursville. Pa., secretary: A. B. Worlhington, of Muncy. Pa.. treasurer.


	Penobscot Mining Company.-On April 11, 1902. Alexander Maitland started 
work on a tract of ground near the old town of Garden City. He had undertaken 
the development of 1,200 acres of mineral land of which but little was known.  
Work on the 40-stamp mill was started late in the summer and the plant was put 
in commission January 1, 1903. since which time it has run continually.

	From the main shaft, which is 220 feet deep, a tunnel has been run east 
and west 2,000 feet long. Thirteen cross-cuts from this tunnel running north and 
south are all in ore. It is safe to say that at least one-half of the length of 
this tunnel is ore and that no cross-cutting of the same length in the Black 
Hills has shown so much pay material. The ore shoots are in Cambrian formation, 
are ten to twelve feet thick and have a general course of north and south.

	The ore which is taken to the mill, amounting to about 115 tons per day. 
is worth $10 to $11 per ton. Ore which is sent to smelters is worth $30 per ton. 
Up to the present time 25 to 35 tons per day of this character of ore have been 
produced.

	In character the surface improvements, which compose the town of Maitland. 
are second to none in the region. Mr. Maitland spent his money courageously at 
the start, and the mine is already one of the most productive in the Hills.

	The Penobscot Mining Company has a capital stock of 500,000 shares. 
Alexander Maitland, lieutenant-governor of Michigan, is president and treasurer, 
and his son, A. F. Maitland, secretary. The management of the mine is under the 
immediate control of F. R. Baldwin.

	John Gross is mill superintendent and Otto Peterson is mine 
superintendent.


	Piedmont Group.-Consists of no acres and includes excellent water right. 
On main Bare Butte creek, crossed by the Burlington railway, a 30-foot vein 
showing good values has been opened. Development consists of 150 feet of shaft 
and 200 feet of tunnels.


	Puritan Gold Mining and Milling Company.-Has 56 acres in Strawberry gulch, 
2 1/2 miles from Deadwood. The formation is a flat one and the vein 16 feet 
thick. There is a shaft 80 feet deep and a 600-foot drift at that level 
uncovering ore of lead and silver, running $26 per ton in value; this will 
enable concentration to $300 per ton and it is proposed to soon erect a 20-stamp 
mill and concentration plant.

	Capital stock $1,000,000, in shares of $1 each. W. J. McGoffin. president; 
C. S. Snow, treasurer; F. S. Hutchins, secretary.


	Seabury-Calkins Gold and Silver Mining Company.- Incorporated under the 
laws of South Dakota.  Capitalized for $1,250,000, divided into 250,000 shares 
of $5 each.  Otto P. Th. Grantz, president, Deadwood, S. D.

	The company owns .ten acres of patented ground at Carbonate camp. A 
hematite ore is exposed carrying from eight to twelve ounces of silver per ton. 
Verticals in the limestone formation assay as high as $200 a ton gold.


	Seim Mine.-Olaf Seim, manager, Deadwood, S. D.

	Consists of sixty acres of patented ground adjoining Deadwood on the 
south. A vein of pyritic ore suitable for flux at the matte smelters has been 
worked for several years. Two tunnels, one 560 feet in length and the other 530 
feet, show a vein 80 feet wide.


	Solo and Pine Groups.-Consist of no acres, owned by James Julius, et al, 
of Lead, S. D. Adjoined on north by Pennsylvania and Gladiator, on south by 
Globe and east by Homestake. A twenty-foot vein of ore is developed by two 
shafts, one 65 and the other 60 feet deep, showing values up to $20 per ton, and 
averaging a good grade of milling ore.


	South Homestake Mining Company.-Owned by Carl L. Price, J. B. Baker and 
others, Lead, S. D.

	This property consists of 140 acres of patented ground on the divide 
between Whitewood and Yellow creeks, adjoining the Homestake. Several large ore 
ledges show up on the surface. Capital is being raised to carry on extensive 
development work.


	Spearfish Gold Mining and Reduction Company.-Incorporatcd under the laws 
of Colorado. Capitalized for 1,500,000 shares of $1 each. W. S. Jackson, 
president, Colorado Springs, Colo.; O. N. Brown, general manager, Cyanide, S. D.

	The company owns 400 acres of ground, nearly all patented, at Cyanide 
postoffice, about two and a half miles from Crown Hill station, on the 
Burlington Route, in the Ragged Top district. It has a 300-ton dry-crushing 
cyanide mill. The mines and mill are worked very economically. Lime ores 
averaging only $7 a ton pay a handsome, good profit, and those of less value can 
be treated advantageously.  In the general mining articles a very thorough 
description is given of these ore bodies. The Spearfish is one of the dividend 
payers of the Hills.


	Star and Winchester Group.-Consists of 50 acres of patented ground at 
Englewood, owned by E. McDonald, Sol Star and R. N. Ogden, of Deadwood. Cambrian 
ores in good bodies and of fair grade are opened.


	The Tinton Company, operating at Nigger Hill, in western Lawrence county, 
has built a 100-ton tin mill. The vein, which is over 100 feet wide, and can be 
followed for miles on this and adjoining properties, has been well developed to 
supply the mill. The plant is equipped with late improved concentrators. A neat 
village, run on the co-operative plan, has been built. The president is Charles 
Waite, Chicago: secretary-treasurer. E. W. Noakes, Chicago; general manager, M. 
H. Lyon, Deadwood. As this book goes to press we learn that the company is 
already shipping its ore to Liverpool. England.


	Titanic Gold Mining and Milling Company.-Incorporated under the laws of 
South Dakota. Capitalized for 1,000,000 shares of $1 each; 500,000 shares set 
aside as treasury stock. H. P. Bartlett, president, Deadwood.

	The company owns 637 acres of patented ground at Carbonate camp adjoining 
the Iron Hill mine. Two thousand feet of tunneling has been done and a two-
compartment shaft, thoroughly equipped with hoisting and pumping plant, is down 
250 feet.


	Twentieth Century Electric Mining Company.-Adjoins the Spearfish company's 
mines on the north, and following up Iron creek on the opposite side of 
Spearfish canyon from the Spearfish mine. Lime and quartzite ores assaying about 
$4 per ton are disclosed, making a good cyaniding proposition. The company has a 
capital stock of $1,500,000, in shares of $1 par value. The president is A. W. 
Coe; vice-president, J. M. Fish; secretary and treasurer, A. G. Coe, all of 
Deadwood.


	Two Johns Mining Company.-Albe Holmes, superintendent, Deadwood.

	This company owns 140 acres of patented ground one mile from Crown Hill 
station. A shaft is now being sunk to quartzite, which is expected to be reached 
at a depth of 320 feet. Large bodies of low-grade ore, capable of profitable 
treatment by cyanidation, have already been opened up, and Mr. Holmes expects 
soon to put up a mill.

	There will be no lack of capital for the purpose, as the owners are 
Eastern men of great wealth.


	U. S. Grant Mining Company.-Owns 20 acres of patented land adjoining the 
Segregated Iron Hill on the south. Extends south onto Cold creek. Siliceous ore 
is opened in a tunnel on Cold creek, which has been driven 100 feet. There are 
numerous other tunnels on the ground and one 30-foot shaft. The company has 
$250,000 capital, the shares having $1 par value.  Stewart Thompson of Deadwood 
is president and John Baker secretary and treasurer. Principal office, Deadwood.


	Wauconda Mining Company.-Has 250 acres about two miles from Roubaix, the 
home of the Uncle Sam. Some of the claims are already being patented, much 
development work has been done and the company is installing a 15-horsepower 
hoist and a Cornish sinking pump. The capital stock is $2,000,000, in shares of 
$1. The company is working under the laws of South Dakota, with main office at 
Waukegan, Ill. J. R. Bracher is president; E. W. Brooks, treasurer, and J. E. 
Pratt, secretary. Sam H. Bradbury of Waukegan is the fiscal agent. The 
proposition is one of large bodies of ore and cyanidation.


	Wasp No. 3 Group.-Small tract of land at Yellow creek owned by McShane 
Bros. of Lead. About 2,000 tons of ore worth $20 per ton have been produced, and 
large amounts of low grade cyaniding material left standing. The mine adjoins 
the Wasp No. 2, on which a cyanide mill is successfully operating.


	Zulu Group.-Consists of 90 acres on the west side of Little Crow Peak, 
seven miles west of Spearfish, near Carbonate Camp. Is the property of Milton C. 
Conners and M. D. Edgerton. The ground extends from the apex of the mountain to 
Spearfish river, covering large bodies of low grade cyaniding ore. Developed by 
200 feet of tunnels and 60 feet of open cuts.