The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-26
HUMOR OF THE LEAD MINER.
IL Crops Out rs Soon ns the PrOspec-
tor Makes IA Discovery.

From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The zinc and lead miner of Missouri
is as original and as humorous as his
brother of the Klondike or any other dig
g.ngs in naming his mine. He waits only
to see the jack or the shine, and then he
is ready with his title. He seldom selects
the name of man. There isn't a "Bry-
an mine in the Joplin district Nor, for
that matter, is there a Mckinley" mine,
although there is a Mckinley company
There is Mark Hanna" mine. so called
by d!scoverer who braved the unwrt-
ten code of mine nomenclature. In the
Carterville neighborhood a camp has been
chrlslehed Prosperity which might be
sald 10 be the next thing to Mckinley
The mining district was fun of free silver
men last fail and it is a little singular
mat there is no william J. Bryan mine.
Fafson Gather Is kind of populistic
apostle, but when he laid out a camp
a while ago. he called il "Ragvine." Near
~ all of the Ragville miners are farmers.
somebody who struck Jack when politics
was under consideration chose the name
Of yellow Dog" An impression of fit
ness has something to do with the selec-
ton not infrequenty. Mr.. Zook, the au-
thority on the statistics of production, was
",
and came to a claim on which the pros
pectors had sunk a shaft 10 feet deep,
and We're stil going down with the bucket
and windlass.
Have you got any name for your mine"
he asked
mo, by thunder" replied the man at
the windlass, YEARLY, but when we ketch
1t Wen cali il Sweet Relief"
Near Webb City is a group of mines.
The first is named 'Ino." Next to it is
"Uno," and then comes "Damfno," and
after that Madeline Pollard" which Is
adjoining Hell Upon Earth" These
are located in Leadvine Hollow. 1t is
evident that the zinc miners keep up with
the general mining news. The latest of
the camps in the Joplin district is the
"Klondike," which embraces two forty
acre tracts. 1t was opened thirty days
ago, and has eighty shafts now going
down. very good indication of the ac-
tivity prevailing. North of Belleville, once
a famous locality of the district, is a new
camp, which has taken the other Alaskan
name of "Circle City" The De Crafts
started IL, and their experience makes the
camp worthy of the name The De Crafts
used to mine in old BelleVlle and were
lucky. Oscar De Graft invested his sur
plus in farm. Charley put his back in
to the ground in the form of more claims
and lost IL. Some time ago Charley De
Graf began work on an abandoned shaft
where nothing had been done for such .
period that much debris had fallen in
Among the things taken out in the reopen
ing was sucking bride and part of the
calf that had worn it, The bride hangs
in Mr.. De CRAFTS mining office now. In
eighteen months the De Crafts, Oscar hav-
ing rejoined Charley took $500 900 out of
that old shaft. They bought eighty acres
leased eighty acres more and started Cir
Gle city. Now they have sold a lease of
forty acres and a concentrating plant to
a syndicate for $4,000. The mines which
change hands in this deal have been net
ting 5000 a week. When such accounts
of fortune finding comes from the Alas
kan Circle City the whole nation is ex-
cited.