The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-06-19
For the Crescent,
Sm citing MILLS i'm New Orleans.
NUMBER III.


In my second article made an allusion to dis.
coveries Of argentiferous gaena on the south side
Of the Arkansas River embracing an area Of more
than hundred miles from east to west, and forty
or fifty north and south. More than hundred
discoveries have been made on the above area, of
Nod, silver, iron and copper but not one of them
~ ever been worked, nor is there in hun
$500 On entered land. 1t is Government ground,
pct to entry at 81 IS per acre. A practical
eoloRist and mineralogist could make valuable
Investments in the entry Of these lands and OPEN
ing mines; but should here remark, too much
land il the bansef an enterprise of this kind Be
sure you have the that is valuable, then enter
just enough to cover your discovery; eighty acres
10 generally enough for that purpose. / know Of
good mineral land II Saline Hot Spring, Clark
county, all unworked-besides Montgomery, Scott,
Yell, Polk and Sewer and, in all these not one
has teen found that does not yield forty ounces of
silver to the ton, and in many places native silver
epenrs. Among all the discoveries in these
nues but one mine is in operation, and that is
0e beilah Mine, in Sewer county. This mine
was discovered by accident, some time ago, by
M. John Bellah. This mine presented no better
prospect than hundreds of discoveries in that
county, and l doubt if il has any advantage over
many others that are idle, yet this mine, in sinking
shaft thirty feet deep yielded more than six tons
Of ore. The eut.cropping of this mine was sent to
Europe and assayed in May 1S49, BY Mr.. r. E.
Henry who reported seventy-fve per cent. of lead.
and one hundred and forty-eight ounces of silver
POI ton OF ore. Besides the argentifefous galena
Q. TINS NINE, there is vein Of copper, very rich,
also OF zinc. This mine is level, or fiat, of an
arglaclous formation. Beside the ores, large GUAM
ouss Of Lapss Aas1h, "the first ever discovered in
Anez'ca" are found, mostly crystalized, a perfect,
transparent blue. Specimens Of the ore and pre.
cious stones, from this mine, may be seen at P.
Smells Office, 80 Camp street, in this city. Be-
side the ores enumerated in the State of Arkansas
- we advance westward into the Indian Terri
tory, we see no diminution. In the Choctaw ma
ton the Hayard Mines are found, and more than
dozen discoveries have been made but as one onlv
has been worked, will speak of it alone. The
great Hayard vein is found imbedded in the meta.
morphic formation. The matrix is composed of
green stone, porphyry hornblend sohist calcarious
spar and argilaceous shale, interspersed with
cubes and octahedrons of antimonial silver ore
There are also found in this mine crystalized sui
phufet Of iron, copper zinc, cinnabar, and motive
mercury. Now no one, or even two, of these
mines' would pay for building blasts, cupels and
.e'ofts In the Forest and to build them in Arkansas,
could not be collected together without shipping
nsfe' and then from here up to the furnace-the
efe can never be hauled over the mountains but
wniie 81 Francis, Arkansas, Ouachita, and Red
Rivers al open direct communication to vour
city, in less than ten years you would reorire a
furnace sufficient to smelt from twenty five to fiftv
tonsper day. Besides all that Ia, e.. l.