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Title: The Black Hills, or, The last hunting ground of the Dakotahs : a complete history of the Black Hills of Dakota, from their first invasion in 1874 to the present time, comprising a comprehensive account of how they lost them : of numerous adventures of the early settlers : their heroic struggles for supremacy against the hostile Dakotah Tribes, and their final victory : the opening of the country to white settlement, and it subsequent development
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Tallent, Annie D
Subjects: Dakota Indians Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) -- History
Publisher: St. Louis, : Nixon-Jones Print. Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t is to make all theplans and surveys for the mines, an expert assayer, tokeep the management informed as to the value of the oresmilled, and numerous clerks, carpenters, machinists, black-smiths, etc. There are now about 1,500 men employed by the Home-stake Consolidated Company, who receive wages rangingfrom $3,50 to $2.50 per day. The wages paid underground employees are $3.50 forminers, $3.00 for mine laborers, and $2.50 for surfiicelaborers. Exceptionally skilled miners who supervise thework are paid much more, and perhaps poor workmen re-ceive less. However, it is believed that the managementregards a poor workman dear at any price and prefers pay-ing good WMges to skilled men in any capacity. A good,faithful employee can hold his position all the year round,and, what is better still, the company never misses a pay-day,— never. LAST HUNTING GROUND OF THE DAKOTAHS. 515 Improved facilities in the way of machinery are added bythe management as the business of the comi)any demands.
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The most notable, as well as noticeable, improvements ofrecent date are the magnificent steel building and steamhoisting works, erected over what is known as the Ellison 516 THE BLACK HILLS; OR, shaft, on the south side of Gold Run gulch, opposite themills; and the hue steel viaduct, 900 feet in length, con-nectino; the works with the mills on the north side. Athree-compartment shaft was sunk to the depth of 400 feet,and the 200, 300, and 400-feet levels of the mine connectedtherewith. The gold-laden ore is lifted by a powerful pairof hoisting engines from the unseen depths below, thenloaded onto small cars and carried across the viaduct to themills. During the year ending June 1st, 1897, 100 stamps wereadded to the old Homestake mill, and a powerful twincompound condensing engine to run the enlarged establish-ment. According to the statement of Financial Secretary F. G.Drum, in his annual report to the President of the Home-stake Company, the net proceeds for the year ending June1st,

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