The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-03-25

the general information possess in re
gard 70 these very productive and very
valuable minos. N
Reporter What do you think OF Thu
feasibility and propriety Of working thes,
mines, which you say on your judgment
| and experience as q chemist and miner
alogist, for q long series of years are very
valuable2
DIR. Boil (smilingly); l should GER
tainly say that they should be worked
and most carefully worked, because l can
answer you that it is my candid opinion
founded on evidence that is indisputable
and patent to my own eyes, that these
mines we are now talking about are the
most valuable that l know of IN the
whole world They are certainly superior
| To those OF tho Tyrol mountains ia Boz
hernia, or the celebrated mines of Corn
| wfll in England. The Kellogg mines
will average larger per cent. Of silver
than any lead mine heretofore discovered
in the world. Tho mines of the Tyrol
mountains give about from seven TO eight
per cont only Of silver, while tho Kellogg
mines will run from twelve TO fifteen per
cont. of pure silver, and will pay from one
hundred and forty to one hundred and
nifty dollars per ton in the assay.
Reporter DIR. Bell, | wish 10 ask
whether you know about tho amount of
money that will be required to commence
operations at the Kellogg mines, and get
everything in good working order DO
you think two hundred thousand dollars
would be sufficient, and prove n good in
vesimcnt2
DIR. Bell: | certainly do think that two
hundred thousand dollars would be quito
to make good commencement
with, ms with that sum the owners could
procure their cupolas, smelling furnaces
and build their internal railroads under
ground, and purchase everything necessa-
ry for the due prosecution of tho work
Reporter: Lave you made any assays
Of tina products of these mines, and, il So,
wall you be hind enough to give the re-
suits OF these assays and your opinion re.
sarding them2
DR.. Bell | will do so with the great
,st(ple asure. l have made assays of the
products of these mincs, both chemically
and by smelling, and l generally found
fully thirteen per cent. of silver, besides
tho lead. ! wish also TO inform you that
all the refuse Of what is known as the
quartz is simply oxide of zinc
md lead, which can be extensively brought
INTO use, and will make the best paint
1ver made in the world. This
'reiuse' alone would pay all tho cx-
penscs Of working and operating the
mines, even if their owners were TO throw
away all the silver and lead they took out
Of the mines. In regard to the Kellogg
mines | have only TO say 10 you that l
consider the metal which has been taken
already from them to be the finest in the
world. This is not my opinion alone, for
can assure you that when specimens
were sent from these mines over 10 Eng
land 90 DO nssayed, tho assayists thought
that some kind of trick was being
played on them-thc metal was so fine.
They could not believe that any mine on
tho continent OF America could produce
such very fine metal. The fact, however,
S noted in Ovens survey of
eleven counties in the state of Ar
kansas. That is all can say about these
productive and valuable
mines, except that ] am given to under
tand that work will be commenced on
hem early in the ensuing month, and
hen, Mr.. Reporter, you will hear and
earn moro about them.
The reporter thanked Mr.. Bell for the
Information he had impaired TO |
him, and took his leave. with cordial |
,hake Of the hand and kind invitation to |
,all again.