The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1899-10-07
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HARRISON, ARK, Sept. 25.-NortH
Arkansas is no place for the promo
ter who salts A stranger came
into the office a few days ago. He
was recently from the North and
was supposed to be looking for a
place to invest in zinc property. He
showed some ore which had been
given him by an acquaintance he had
formed soon after his arrival. This
ore was alleged to have been found
in new mineral locality south Of
Harrison. As soon as the stranger
exhibited the specimen and stated
what he had been told, he was taken
to the collection of mineral which
occupies the entire front of the TIMES
office, shown exactly similar ore, and
informed that it came from a we'll
established property in another part
of the county from that to which his
attention was being directed.
Every mine, or at least every min
ing locality in the field seems to diff
fer in some notable respect from all
others. As soon as a bit of ore with
the accompanying rock formation is
shown to one of the well-informed
mining men of North Arkansas, he
will tell the name of the mine or OF
the three, four or halt dozen mines
which might have produced it.
Editor Newman has given up the
best part of his Newspaper office to q
display of the varieties of zinc ore
found IN North Arkansas. He has
withdrawn his editorial reservation
into one corner The printers have
been crowded to the rear until the
next move will set the cases and the
steam press into the back yard. The
front and center of the spacious room
is filled with the specimens effectively
arranged and grouped according to
the mines they represent. These ores
in small pyramids rise tier above
tier. They present comprehensive
view of the richness and the wide
range in character of these North Ar
kansas deposits. Even the old resi-
dents are surprised when they see the
collection the first time. Here are
on exhibition the forty-four different
kinds of zinc ore found in the Arkan-
sas field. In color the scale is run
from dense black jack to a snow
white hydrozincite. Ruby Jack, re-
sin jack, pale blue salmon colored
jack and the AZ carbonates go to
make up an array in which there are
all the colors of the rainbow. And
every specimen came from a North
Arkansas mining locality, the name
of which is conspicuously shown.
When former Gov. Pierce, with
three other Rhode Island capitalists,
was in Harrison last week he exam
ined this display with care and said
to the newspaper people:
"If you could take this collection
East, you would sweep New England
with interest in the Arkansas zinc
field"
A six months tramp over North
Arkansas covering a distance of l.
200 miles, is represented by the ar
ray of specimens. 1t was made by a
man over 20 years old, who carried
the most of these pieces of ore, some
of them weighing half a dozen
pounds. That man is Col. NJ. l..
DeMalher, who conducts the miner
al department of the HARRISON
TIMES. Without a single claim of
his own and without dollar invest
ed in the outcome, DeMalher walks
and talks and prospects these awful
hills of the Arkansas zinc field from
the Unborn love of seeing a big thing
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Nobody's individual interest is per-
mitted to dominate in the display.
No sales of mineral lands are made
in connection with it No business
is done in the presence OF the collec-
ton. lfany violation should be at
tempted Of the rules the violator
would be fired out of the office, for
Editor Newman is a man with a san
uuiuorv shade If hair The sbovy Of