The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-06-18


In my former communication, promised to find
the ores, tell their qualities, and point out their
localities. To begin, would call your attention to
the mines near Little Rock, in Arkansas; in a
very small area there have been about dozen dis
ceveres made Of outcroppngs, all highly argen-
tlferous ranging from forty to two hundred ounces
OF silver per ton of ore. But regular lode has
been found there but from the outcroppings, the
practical geoogist would not hesitate to pronounce
IT. as fine metallic region any portion of the
earth. At the mine best known as 1.-THE Com
panys Diggings," the outcrop was very large, pro-
ducing over two hundred tons of ore, which was
shipped to Europe from this city, for the want of a
suitable smelling mill in. this country. Had the
company sunk their main shaft below the dip Of the
outcrop, instead of the upper side, long ago they
would have been sending off, at the ratio of half a
million tons per annum which will be accom-
plished in another season. Several lodes will be
opened in due time in that vicinity. As remarse
above, but one lode had been discovered here
repeat, and identify it, by saying it belongs to
Prof b. Lawrence 81 Co., and is situated about
one and half miles north of The Company's Dig
glngs. These mines situated on the north side
OF Arkansas River, opposite Little Rock Ore is
also found on the south side, extending forty or
fifty miles above and as far below In Drew coan-
ty ore has been found we will next visit White
River, where we will find oucroppings of galena
IN Carroll, Marion Van Buren,, and Madison eoun-
ties, in great abundance also in Washington
county and in the Cherokee Nation No country
presents greater depository of argentiferous gale
ma, and all very rich, averaging from forty to two
hundred ounces of silver to the ton of ore
little capital properly directed, would send
from this vast area to this city-for it can 20 no
other way-more than million dollars worth of
ore And shall all this vast store of wealth pass
through this city to other markets, with no other
benefits than the commission fees to few commits
sion houses, while the proceeds of smelling, sep
arating, and refining are going by thousands into
the Golfers OF the energetic operators in the North
or OF Europe? Reader, think, already have |
pointed out ore enough for your mill Will you
enrich yourselves by industry, will you suffer
the golden fleece to be enjoyed by another people
1t has become proverb, "that there is no enter
prise in the South" Is it true, or is it a base
libel? gentleman said to me few days since
he North is the place to go there you can form
companies to mine and build smelling mills" My
God, what an expression for Sourhern man to
use We have now suffered the North to engage
IN all such enterprises, and we have been dormant
so long, that they have taken our trade-grown
rich at our expense, through of enterprise.
We are raising great noise about the exactions
OF the North, their entertainments upon insti-
tutlons, the dissolution of the Union, etc., etc.
Now, as republicans and patriots dear to all,
and we all desire to the Union and perpetuate
our institutions, it behooves to awake from our
slumbers, convince the world that we are not
drones, but have the power and manly courage to
do our own business, and sustain our own rights.
And we shall have done more to save the Union,
and strengthen her bonds than can be accomplished
by any other process. When we shall have our
country checkered with railroads-our mills spin
ming and converting into fabric our raw material
good furnaces erected, where can smelt, sepa-
rate, and refine our precious metal-and are in all
respects self-sustaining people, we shall be be-
loved by all the world, for our WISDOM and feared,
in consequence of our power. In my next, | will
examine the South side of Arkansas. .
PRACTICAL MINER