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Excerpt from Papers Read Before the Black Hills Mining Men's Association at Their Regular Monthly Meetings, on the Mining and Metallurgy of Black Hills Ores, Together With a Brief Outline of the Mining Industry of the Black Hills, and Some Statistics Relating to the O
The Homestake Mining Co as it exists today, is a consolidation of the Father De Smet, the deadwood-terra, the Caledonia, the Highland and the Homestake Gold Mining Companies. The property comprises some 350 locations with a total area of acres.
The ground upon which mining operations are being carried on at pres ent lies between Deadwood Gulch on the north and Whitewood Gulch on the south, covering about feet along the strike of the ledge. The princi pal works and the offices of the company are located almost in the heart of the town of Lead, which has a population of about The town is built on either side of Gold Run Gulch, which is a tributary of Whitewood Gulch and which passes through the company's property from west to east a little south of the center.
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