Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1889 — The Largest Gold Mines in the World. [ARTICLE]

The Largest Gold Mines in the World.

Harper's Magazine. At Lead City, near Deadwood, Lawrence County, are located the largest gold mines and mills in the wor d—the “Homeetake.” The ore bodies mined by this company show a working face from 200 to 400 feet wide, sinking to an inexhaustible depth. Six hundred stamps, crushing 20, < 00 cubic feet of rock every twenty-four hours, drop incessantly, day and night, in the mills without an intermission even for the Sabbath. During the ten years in which the mines of the Homestake combination have been operated they haver produced about -*25,0(>0.0i oin bullion, and paid over $6,00e,000 in dividends to stockholders.