Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1894-08-09

Lead declining in price from five cts
a pound to two and half cents made
successful mining for lead here out
of the question.
Notwithstanding the decline in
value of the principal products, it is
reported that the bottom of the main
shaft showed so well that the miners
who had sunk the shaft and worked
in it over year, proposed to work
the mine at their own risk, being APP
parently confident of earning salts
factory wages, even with lead at only
two and one half cents.
The lead which was extracted from
these mines, being exceptionally soft,
was much sought after by manufac-
turers of white lead, they being will
ing to pay a premium over the mark
ct price to secure it.
The vein as shown in the main
shaft is from one TO nine feet wide,
and filed with vein matter consisting
of iluor spar, and less Gale spar,
the two constituting about 80 per ct.
of the whole; zinc blende perhaps 30
to 40 per ct, and galena 5 per ct. or
possible as much as 10 per ct. Ac-
cOrding to the best information OBJ
tainable, the percentage of the last
increased with the depth.
The Eureka vein has been opened
at number of points southeast of
the main shaft on the Columbia, the
shafts are all shallow, but fine look
ing mineral was struck in most of
them. What is known as the "whine
shaft is the deepest, and it is repOr-
ted that very large masses of lead
were taken out here; one mass, con-
sisting of an aggregation of small
galena crystal: and some nuor spar
is said to have weighed more than
400 pounds.
The LaRue vein, with two principal
openings, the first at the LaRue mines
situated ON the headwaters of Deer
creek, the second at Franks mines
three miles northeast, seems to be IN
Ii c. ntal respects like the Columbia
md Eur, "A veins. The vein matter
is practically the same, although the
limestone on the west side of the weir
is of the St Louis group, while the
Princeton limestone is the surface
rock at the Columbia.
| An open cut is being made on thu
vein just beyond the Franks shaft
The vein as exposed in this cut il
sharply defined, about six feet wide
and consists largely of blue fuo
spar with zinc blende and galena lib
orally distributed through the mass
| Tabb vein follows the line of :
strong fault running through The
southern portion of the county from
the junction of ClaylIck and AxIey
creeks, north 80 or 500 east, cross
ing the Ohio Valley II. r. a hall
mile south of AnOra. At the shafts
that have given the name to the vein
and from which, IN earlier days,
large quantities of lead was extracted
the vein and character of walls are
very much like the conditions noticed
at the Franks diggings. There is
however, one element in the vein
matter here that Is not noticed In any
of the other veins. i refer to Barite
or heavy spar, which occurs in small
quantities at the Tabb mines, but
becomes very abundant farther east
on the vein. In the Railroad cut is
well shown. Here it consists almost
entirely of massive, snow white
Barite, in thre divisions or veins,
aggregating total width of nearly
twenty feet of this mineral. This
ought to be a valuable deposit, since
it can be mired very eheaply, and
lies on a railroad.