The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-08
COOLIES OF ORE.
Additional Proof that Maj. Ed.
wards and His Partners
Have. Struck 1t.
Their Mines Said to be Planning
Out Even Beyond Their
Expectations.


Abe Furst, of st. Joseph, who had
Just returned from tour of inspection
of the mining property in Texas and
Old Mexico, in which he is directly
interested with Major Jno. N. Ed
wards, Gen. Bacon Montgomery and
Capt. Plattenburg, also of st. Joseph.
The glowing account given by Capt.
Furst, of the splendid development of
these mines, is fully verified by the
following from the New Era, an ex-
cellent little weekly newspaper just
established last week at Maria, the
county seat of Preside county.
General Bacon Montgomery has
been with us for few days, a guest
of Mr.. r. B. Kelly. The general
has, with his partner Capt. Platten-
burg, during the year past, been bust
ly engaged in developing the mineral
resources of the Chinati mountains.
Their labors in San Antonio Canon
have resulted in the uncovering o.
several mineral deposits of no mean
value. One drift in the side of the
mountain one hundred and forty-five
feet in length uncovered vein eleven
feet in width upon which they COM
menced sinking a shaft, and at a
depth of forty feet from the head of
the tunnel ,he vein does not pinch
and shows body of ore from five to
six feet in width, that runs from $50
to Sl87 to the ton. Some of the other
holes sunk by the general 60 high in
silver, and IN addition thereto give an
assay of one ounce of gold to the ton,
a feature hitherto unknown in the
Chinatis, as no gold bearing ores were
supposed to exist in the Chinati noun
tains. Captain Furst of ST. Joseph,
Mo-, met the general here and accom-
panied him on a tour Of inspection
through the mines, and if his exami-
nations proves satisfactory We may
soon hear the music of another stamp
mill in the old Chinatis.
Presidoi county has long been noted
as one of the best grazing districts in
the far famed state of Texas, but it is
now being demonstrated that she has
a latent wealth lying buried in the
bowels of her earth which will far sur
pass the richness of her grasses and
the productions Of her alluvial valleys.
A New Era reporter has just held a
lengthy and interesting interview with
q miner and prospector who has de-
voted nearly thirty years TO his pro-
fession, and who has during that time
visited every prominent mining camp
on the Pacific slope and in the western
territories. He says that during all
his pereglinations he has never seen
rs good and as strong surface indica-
lions as he has witnessed In the
Chinati mountains. + urther than this
he has gone down upolN these out
'roppings, and asserts that In no coun-
ny has he ever seen the surfac, III
iicatons improve SO fast and so steao- .
". He further predicts that the
chest silver mines ever discovered in
he United States will be found in the
angeof mountains referred to that
he Gibole mine, rich as it has proven
o be; viii sink into inslgnifcance in
comparison to other mines now being
developed.
accepting ..ne statements of this
the New Era representa-
i've propounded the interrogatory
xhy if such remarkable inducements
existed on the surface that the coun-
try was not flooded by prospectors as
less favored districts are. The reply |
was that this was question easily an
swered. That prospectors as class
are men of limited means. whose cap
ital consists mainly in GRUB stake"
Such men care oaly to prospect In
such localities as where they can en-
low a s'free for all" opportunity of OBJ
tanning title to what they can discov-
er. These privileges do not obtain in
Texas, and especially in Presidoi eOun-
ty. where there are few who know
where section lines exist, and in fact
where few have been established.
Where it costs from one to two hun
dred dollars to determine this matter,
where every other section belongs to a
railroad and many of the intervening
sections to land sharks. Under such
q stale of affairs can any prospector be
expected to ply his vocation? He is
just as apt to be developing the land
of railroad or shark as that upon
which he could hope to obtain title
under our laws.
A "new era" is now coming to pass,
however. Men are coming here with
means, who can have the lands sur
veyed, learn where state lands lie and
locate and develop thereon. The
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