Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-16

] probably, De OUO IeeJ or upward.
But this report of Professor Owen we
will not permit to go to the world as
even satisfactory to ourselves. Here IS
one made four months since by Pro-
fessor Little, of Oxford, Mississippi, and
which induced him to join his fortunes
with ours, and become an enthusiastic
believer in the immense and inexhaust-
iDle wealth that we are about to rescue
! from the original mould Of nature. Pro-
fessor Little says;
LETTER FROM PROFESSOR LITTLE, OF
/ OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI,
! December 2, ls72.
DR.. e. woodward, Memphis Tennessee:
DEAR SIR submit herewith tne results oi
/ the examination OF the lead, copper, zinc,
and silver mine in Pulaski county, Arkansas
/ The mine is situated about one mile east OF
the Little Rock and BatesV1le ROAD, ana len
/ miles from Little Rock. on secs. Is and 80,
! in T. 3 n r. II w, and six miles from the
| Cairo and Fulton railroad, at point SIX
] miles from Little Rock. The mineral land IS
I owned partly By kellogg and partly by
] Pulaski mining and smelling company, rep
/ resented by Chamberlain, Jones and stod-
/ TudSe Brickev, of Batesville, Arkansas, who
/ had been engaged in locating mineral lands
/ in Missouri. when travelling through this
/ IDeighLorbood in lSf7. or IS4S, noticed the pc
culiar Surfuce OF the country, ana tOlu benJa-
min kellogg, who owned the adjacent land,
/ L. = sec. n, I. 8, n X. L, W. 10 look OUT
y Kellogg i soon after found some galena in a
/ branch. and on digging into the hillside
| found a vein extending some sixty feet INTO
! the hilI horizontally TO shaft No. :, and he
and Dr. Sprague entered the lana IN lS5s, :.
W. a sec. 19 t. I, \; r.. II ", W: q n. W, ~ Z
see 80. T. 3, y. r. IL w, W. y \. W. a Sec ~
| T 2. X. r. II W. Sprage's 40 acres portion
was bought in 1883 by ;. W mining COM
pany, consisting Of Merrick, Moulton, and
Hunt etc, who advertised for prospectors,
ana young man found vein, which was
sold to Joshua for Sl2Og-
This company leased from Kellogg Tor three
years, and they gave two-thirds of all gotten
From SO 10 $50 tons were obtained from No.
/ shaft, and taken to Little Rock, where it
was piled on the street and shipped 10 New
Orleans BY Captain JnO j. Adams.
In 1873 the gold fever took all the miners 10
| California. Kellogg died, leaving three minor
. The property lay idle until the late war,
when General Hindman sent twenty wagons
from Arkadelphia, which took loads OF lead
- In M January. 1866, E. H. Chamberlain, of
Paducah, and Fosdick and Howells, OF Gin
cinnati, got twenty years lease OF so acres
| March, 1850. transferred the lease TO the Az
! kansas and Ohio mining and manufacturing
company, organized under a general 1neOr-
In me same wear this company bought the
! Sprague land, three 80 acre tracts, 4. = \. W.
= sec 90. L. u y. W. II sec. 2S and b. = ;. +.
= sec -. and in 1863 transferred land and
| lease to Pulaski mining and smelling
company, organized under Arkansas act
L. n Chamberlain, representing the Pulaski
mining and smelling company, showed me
the 0rk done by that company At intervals
during the last three yeaTS, which consisted
in the erection of two double-log cabins,
mineral house, blacksmith shop and stable,
and Il two-story double cabin OF hewn logs
and the digging OF flve shafts Nos. one, two,
] three four and five No. one is on the eighty
acre tract belonging TO the company, the west
half OF the northwest quarter OF section thlr-
! ty near the Kellogg land on the north, and
where the johnson diggigns were. II Is thirty
| eight feet deep,and near the DottOInls entered
| by two inclined shafts from two OF the old
johnson pits, meeting nearly AT flghI an sies,
/ A. shown in the accompanying sketch No.
one. Near the bottom two blasts threw on
| blocks Of quartz about eighteen inches cubic
each. In one Of these about the center was
calena four INCHES cubic, and in the other
/ about one-third Of the whole was galena.
! This quartz forms layers in the slate, which
/ form the country rock, and reaches here after
passing nine feet OF loose surface material,
I about twenty feet vertically free from quartz,
and for the remaining nine feet IS penetrated
bvveins and layers of quartz TO the bottom OF
| shaft, and is much distorted at this shaft as
/ shown in No. one lbi. SeYenty-nVe feet north-
/ west Of No. one i an OLD smart, one huhuIeo
4 feet deep in the shale, uniform without quartz
LAYERS; yielded no lead according 10 ChaIn Der
/ lain. No. four is an old shaft s1Xty-nNe 1eel
! southwest OF No. one, opened up by Cham ber-
/ lain. and in which he says he found lead al
/ thirty-five feet below the surface; is ore hun
| dred and fifty feet deep in the shale. No. three
] fOrtN feet Oeep,lS ABOUT three huuuTeu ieet NSol
| OF No. one, and is known as the copper dig
| gings: Welded quartz containing copper pyr-
/ ties. No. Eve is three hundred and hfty yards
south OF No. one, on Kellogg leased lanu, ana
/ sixty feet from the line Of the Sprague land.
This Is thirty feet deep, and at twenty feet a
quartz vein passes up the Shaiei distorting
/ IL and near this band OF quartz, at the Dot
tom OF the shaft, a small quantity OF galena
was found. and in drifJ frOm anOther OLD
shaft, which comes within eight leet oL 80.
five, a mass OF galena was found, Whleh
Chamberlain reported AS weighing sixteen
hundred pounds
%o.2fS The shaft where the first lead ore was
found. From the branch horizontal adit
was dug TO feet following the vein, ami there
"A pit WAS sunk vertically29 feet Through earth
and loose shale Is feet, and then through hor-
izontal slale strata A feet, and from the bot
tom Of this the vein was followed at an angie
OF - degrees upward TO the surface, and then
down until il reached q depth OF IuZ IeeI, az
which depth two drifts were run, one 70 feet
east and the other 80 feet west.
Alta distance Of p feet On the inclined shaft
/ from the bottom ofthe vertical shaft, another
drift was run horizontally 40 feet IN The same
/ direction west, - degrees north and in the
same vein as the GO feet adIt. In this drift /
| found a vein OF lead ON both sides OF IL, near
/ the top on one side and near the bottom on
! the other, varying from one-half 10 SIX inches
/ in thickness, enclosed in broken masses OF
quartz shale indurated and talcose matter;
and this continues down the inclined shait,
increasing in thickness as it descends. The
upper wall is the slate rock, uplifted TO an
angle of - degrees, but smooth and regular,
while the vein material Is broken and con-
tOrted, and intermingled with blocks OF hard
No.2is SO feet from No. lin a direction east,
50 degrees north, and in IL the overhanglng
slate dips regularly TO the south, while that OF
No. dips irregulaTly 10 the north.
Although there has been great deal OF dig
ging and prospecting on this land, there has
been no thorough development OF IT. IN order
TO DO this il is advisable TO drift from the bot
tom of the one hundred foot shaft south 10
No. J. and from the bottom Of the one hun
dred and fifty foot SHAFT northeast 10 No l.
] n rfFfrr - Fgaff h
| feet in the second case, the dip and direction
and quality OF mineral found in the quartz
/ vein, which is already rich in mineral con-
/ tents at 40 feet, can be determined.
Al No. shaft should be sunk 50 as TO stake
| the inclined shaft at the bottom, about 40 feet
vertically, and continued down through the
I vein uhe upper surface Of which has been the
guide in sinking the inclined shatt), units the
mineral is found.
/ lowed east so rs TO determine its relation or
connection, If any, with that of No. i. As the
lead is found associated with the quartz, ana
| as this has penetrated OF nlled up the space
between the LAYERS of slate, il is probable that
/ as we 90 deeper these veins of quartz may
| prove more productive.
| Thus far only those veins have been exam
ined which lie near the surface go feetl, and
/ the ore has been found Immediately underly-
ing the slate. Respectfully yours; 9HS;; ,,,r,
This tells the story of the Kellogg
mines completely, but here is some
/ lAlluA Vi auHAlAOA4AA
lSOe TO 1879
From the Philadelphia sun. June s, 1891
! ARGENTIFEROUs GALENA FROM LITTLE
! Rock, ARKASsA sAs-MentiOn was lately made
! i'm the newspapers OF shipments of this ore
| from the above place II IS gratifying to learn
] that nearly ala OF these shipments are Tor
/ Philadelphia account, a small portion only
| being ON English account. Capitalists IL
/ Phiiadei phia have contracted Tor large
/ quantity, and furnaces for the smelling of the
| ore and separation OF the silver are TO bt
! erected either In Philadelphia or New \ ork
! Large bodies of this valuable mineral are
i found in Arkansas. Silver mines have also
! been recently discovered in that state, some ol
! which were worked by the SpaniardS prior u
the year lSO0. Gold mines appear recently tc
/ be found, aud iron ore TO an endless extent
/ from all which IL is thought Arkansas Will
perhaps, become the richest State in the
! Union, especially when its rich agricultural
of argentiferOuS galena are on the estates ol
the southwestern and Arkansas mining com
pany, situate about ten miles from Little Rock
The ore is exceedingly rich. Assays have
| exhibited as high as one hundred and forty
/ pounds of silver TO the ton of ore, the lOwes
| assays about thirty-three ounces, from which
| il appears the amount OF silver varies very
| much. The average Of silver TO a ton of ore
is supposed 20 be about one hundred and
| twenty ounces-a presumption from the pricS
offered for the ore IN England. The mportanet
1 OF even the lowest assay (thirty-three ounces
can be estimated from the TACT that m Eng
I land il is considered worth separating fol
! three ounces. The development OF the minera
| resources of the country is greatly on ths
| Increase at the present time; and, in view o
It, capitalists in the Atlantic cities should
turn their attention to the reduction o
/ metals erect furnaces, ETC., and thus retain
| here much OF this wealth, which, for want o
| means 10 make it available, viii have 10 b.
| prepared abroad.
1 ARKANSAS MINERAL On the thirty-firs
Il ultimo one hundred thousand pounds Of lea(
ore, estimated 10 contain, also, seven thou
sand dollars worth Of silver, were shipped
from Little Rock, the ultimate destination
being Liverpool.
This article gives a clear expose o
I the value of the mineral deposit
Of our mine, and ranks it far above tn
best in this country or in Europe. Thii
asfisanafa made In 1919. is fully SUD