Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-16
The Abandoned Kellogg Mine to
be Worked by a Memphis
Company with $780,
0G0 Capital.
Details Rivaling the Story Of
Aladdin-The Richest Silver
Lead Mine in the World
Geological Facts.
Assays Of its Mineral Products by
the First Assayists in the COun-
try-The World has Nothing
TO Compare with it.

TO Compare with it.
RumOr, always busy, has recently
been more than ever so with the names
of many leading gentlemen Of Mem
phis in connection with a mining COM
pauy of two hundred thousand dollars
capital, and of mineral resources that at
first blush seem fabulous, but which
have been fully established as fact and
verified by the careful scrutiny of geo.
logical surveyors, practical miners and
assayists.. SYe had heard so much OF
this company, of its purposes and re-
sources that We determined, if possible,
to break through the reserve which it
had hitherto wisely imposed upon itself,
with view to enIghtening the public
as to an enterprise that we think,
and practical men everywhere are of
the opinion, viii be Of immense advan-
tage to Memphis particularly, and the
surrounding country generally. We
We're not until the end of two weeks sue
eessful in penetrating the purposes OF
this corporation, known as the Kellogg
mining company; but finally, on aseer-
tanning who some of the leading men,
bers We're, we Interviewed them and
prevailed over their scruples, with
results satisfactory to ourselves and that
will no doubt prove satisfactory to the
readers Of the APPEAL Our first in
quiry was, ''Who are the Stockholders
This question we deemed Of more i'm
pOrtance than the pictures of silver in
frames Of lead that had been held up to
our mental vision and expatiated upon
with tempting particularity. Tell Us
The names of the stockholders, and we
wiz tell you approximately its value,
before We know all that you have to say
touching your mine. The gentleman
thus inteuogated, proud Of his associ-
ates, said be had no hesitancy in giving
them TO US as follows: W. L. Vance, F.
s. Davis, Napoleon Hill, n. Fontaine,
J. H. EdmondsOn, +. Woodward, /. d.
McKisick, J. NJ. Cox, R. V. Vredenburg,
w. D. Holden, A. Woodward, D. c.
Herndon, A. A. Patton, J. H. Erskine,
and Professor George Little, of the uni
versity at Oxford, Mississippi. GLOW
did you come to have Professor Little?n
we inquired. The answer was,
"He is a stoekbolder at his own
particular request, made after he had Of
ficially surveyed the mines and deter
mined Their value. knowing what they
are, he solicited and was allowed by his
then employers 10 take an interest and
become identified with the company -
"Hour capital?i' as two hundred thou
sand dollars" "And your purpOse?"
ssIs to work a mine, a silveT-lead mine,
long since abandoned, and known as the
kellogg mine, located eight miles from
Little Rock aud six from the Cairo and
Fultsn railroad, which, as you know
brings it within easy distance
of ST. Louis, now one of the leading
metal-manufacturing cities of the
United States, and sOon to be the
largest and most important, unless, in
deed, Memphis shall assert herself, as
she is, the center of q mining fegiOn OF
unsurpassed richness.n "And why en-
bark in the working Of a mine that has
been abandoned? 1t seems to me that
what one sensible miner gives up a.
used up, or for any other cause, no
other would take up.n "Well, you are
like the rest Of the world on subjects you
have not studied. The use Of the word
abandoned does not necessarily i'm
ply that il was given up as used
up; that il was abandoned because
there was no mineral To reward
the labor and toll of the miner.
Far from il. This particular mine was
drst opened in 1878, and was worked
until ISL, when the marvellous stories
of auriferOus yield in California
seduced the woTkmen, and the mines
were for time abandoned. This was
the case in every part OF the United
states in those years Of gOld-hunting and
gold-fever. Professor Whitney, in his
Metallic Wealth Of The United States,
published in 1854, says: "At present we
are importing a larger quantity LOf lead
than We produce, although the price OF
the metal is nearly double what il was
when We We're exporting most largely.
The fact that so great an increase in the
price Of lead has not stimulated its pro-
duction IN this country, but that,
on the contrary, it has continued
10 decline, is due partly to the
superior attractions Of the California
gold fields, bat still more 70 the exhaus-
lion of the western lead deposits, which
from their nature can never again attain
the importance which they once had
We must now look 10 the mines g the
eastern States, or 10 other deposits u
In
in the farthest west, 10 make up the de-
ficiency thus caused But this is moi
all. Tire same professor, on page three
hundred and sixty-hve,quO the twice
abandoned mine OF LOgaulas, in Germ
wall, England, and which richly repaid
the second and third succeeding parties
so, You can see, il is with mines as Will
everything else IN the world. A hun
dred men fail at what an A. Il. Stewart
makes a colossal fortune. But as K
our particular mine, abandoned like
tnat of LOgaulas, l prefer that othen
shall speak than myself. Here are ths
answers OF Mr.. Shepherd Brown, o
New Orleans, Of the firm of Brown 4
Johnson, made 10 inteTogatOries pre-
pared with view 20 elicit all the inform
alton they, as former lessees OF tni
mine, were in possession of. You vii
see that he more than sustains th'
statements you deemed fabulous, anC
that he is of opinion that in the possess
ion Of this mine he deems Us proprietor
of an almost El Dorado. The questions
put to him were a. follows:
IMPORTANT INTERROGATORIEs.
The following interTogatories were pat 4
Sheppard Brown Of New orleans, BY Di
First-How long and in what years, dl'
Brown a johnson Work tho hellogg hilhea
Pulaski county, Arkansas
Sec0nd-.. hat amount Of ore was raises
during their lease, or partnerships
ThiId-re what point shipped ana WHAT ol'
they realize per ton?
FOurlh-Did they contain any hhosua
amount OF silVert s
Fifth Was the work carried on Ds any SCI
entinc engineer OF miners
These, you see, are leading questions
Here are the answers:
Mr.. BROwN9s ANSWER
Mr Shepherd Brown. who was formerly
member OF the dTm OF Brown q Johnsonl 9
New Orleans, responded 10 the above a. lol
lows
First-The lead mines kellogg - Of Arllansa
1850. 1881, on and on. ! don't know what pax
tculAr claim They worked. They We're no
worked continuously, ana ire4oehh.
changed.
and Brown and tohnsOn shipped to Washing
ton. Jackson q company Of Liverpool, an
others shipfied 70 other Persons IN Eng land
Third-iaserpooi, England, and other point
Ia ENGLAND. The books of Brown Johnsol
and Burg being destroyed Curing the Wal
FouTJh-Yes What Brown ( johnson