The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1899-10-07
what the North Arkansas mining

benefit that the Counties embraced in
the zinc field may gain. 1t includes
several specimens from over 10O
mines. and is growing as develop
ments are made. Col DeMalher
will not be satisfied until he has $50
mines or groups of mining properties
represented in the collection. When
the statement is made that there are
now over 600 mines and mining
properties in the North Arkansas re-
gion some conception may be form
ed of the magnitude of the claims
which it presents for the eonsidera-
ton of the industrial world
When it comes to looks there are
few specimens from the North Arkan-
sas field which are more attractive
than the lola, or white SATIN ore,
from the Dodd City district. 1t is a
beautiful combination which the in
expert soon learn to identify 1t is
resin jack carried in a tiff which is as
delieately colored as satin. So far
as known the extraordinary eombi-
nation is not found outside of this
mineral field, and in very few places
here.
The Panther Greek neighborhood
is a comparatively new group ofnine
or ten properties in Newton county.
1t is in the southwest part of what
is known as the North Arkansas zinc
field This Panther Greek ore is dis
tinetive, so much so thatit is readily
selected and named when placed with
a large number of specimens from
other mines. 1t is very high grade
of pebble jack. Practical miners
from the Missouri-Kansas district
show an instant appreciation of this
ore. They Immediately want to
know the extent to which it has been
uncovered.
From the Morning Star region, in
the southeast part of Marion, the
oldest and most developed of all of
these North Arkansas districts, come
carbonates in bewildering variety.
One of these Morning Star carbon
ates is called the bird 's-eye, and it is
well-named. 1t was found on the
Smuggler claim, where the develop
ment at Morning Star began. A
gray carbonate is another striking
zinc ore at Morning Star. 1t is
found in a gray mass. The smelter
people hardly knew what to think of
it at first, but its value has been es-
tablished.
Morning Star abounds in blende
as we'll as carbonate. A striking pc
culiarity is that large chunks OF jack
in this mine as a rule have an envel-
ope of crystallized carbonate
In the Dodd City neighborhood is
a place called Pilot Rock. There is
found what the biologists and min
eralogists pronounce an anomaly in
their science. 1t is a Jack or blende,
using either the miners name or the
scientific term for zinc ore in the
most natural form. The anomaly
consists in the surrounding material.
This Pilot Rock jack is found in sac
sandstone. The forma-
ton overlays all of the Pilot Rock
property. 1t is 10 feet thick. Be
tween the jack and the sandstone is
a very thin matrix or covering of
limestone. scarcely more than line,
which the newcomer may overlook
unless his attention is invited to it.
Some sixty or eighty tons of this re-
combination of jack and
sugar sandstone has been taken out
in the effort to develop the extent of
it. Some OF the same formation is
found in other parts of the Dodd
City district, but the largest extent
so far discovered is on Pilot Rock,
therefore the name Pilot Rock ere
passes current to identify this par
ticular variety. North Arkansas has
several kinds Of zinc ore not classii
ed in the books. 1t also has several
kinds of ore-carrying rock forma-
tons which are peculiar to the field.
One of the latter is Pilot Rock ore.