The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-05-26

pump is put in, already on the
ground, operations called for by the
body OF ore struck by them, cannot
be rushed as so much evidence Of
business awaiting the first road cap.
turing the ST. Joe route,
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The Round Mountain, or Copper
Claim mine, is property which ON
the TIMEsmap, of the four mineral
counties, of North Arkansas, is given
as the big Zinc" mine which title is
derived from 10 acres OF decided land
included in a total of 104 acres ap-
proved mineral property. 1t con-
sists in greater part of the following
territory: Ma of the NW14 of Sec
ton 3, and the NE of the NE of
section 4, town 16, range II.
1t dates its approved character, on
the one hand, from we'll known
body of oxide-earbonate ore, uncov-
cred 20 months ago, and celebrated
in the annals of the the Arkansas
Gazette, now the TIMES Expedition,
as Mariopite mine. And on the
other hand, it dates a character of
its own from that side of its history
whichis known as the Copper Claim
which means that in part of its ter
ritory it gives evidences of copper
ore being present.
The present. or additional interest
in the property, however, dates from
late developments made on the south
side ofRound mountain, or on the op-
posite side of a gulch to what is
known as the cooper ground. A few
shots had been put in on the rock
floor of the intervening stream with
the result, that, when followed up
by an entry put in at a level ten feet
higher, it proves to be instead of
carbonate proposition, Jack mine
which grows better as they drive |
their entry into the mountain.
1t is another locality of the system
from which great things may be ex-
pected. For it so happened in the
course of a study made of the prop
erty, that the TIMES Expedition was
called upon to identify an OVERLAPPING
black material to the ore bearing
rocks. Reasoning off hand upon the |
matter, and she-<lrret worn by the
day S ex ertion, an opinion was given
from S-1:-4~-..a- .la4 Il r.ra ,A-oha !
bly, gneiss. But it followed, upon |
critical examination made after
wards that it was found to be car
boniferous shale, in which a trace of
oil was present. And therefore |
drawing the same conclusion that |
applied in the Cave creek country of
Newton county, this state, and
which always applies in the Joplin
field, there is no doubt present on
the property the kind of ground in
which big ore may be expected.
The big ore idea of the ground is
already in fact verified by pebble
ore in cherokite. by finely dissent
mated ore in rim rock to the mouh-
tain, and i'll the masses Of oxide car
Donate ore higher up the mountain
from which the property has derived
the popular title of big Zinc mine
The rock in sight, in the floor Of
the gulch and in the entry, is that OF
the granular magnetism class and
granular dolomite spar combined,
characteristic of big ore bodies in the
Arkansas field, noted examples of
which are had in the Mill creek val
ley of Newon county, and in the
Maumee and Rock creek mineral ter
ritory of this county.
In the course of the study made of
the Roaring Hollow system an at
tempt was made by the expedition
to trace out the northern extremity
of the great vertical to some point
where the line of disturbance con-
tinued on the surface. The attempt
was only partially a, success, for
while it was seen to because which
contributes to the sum of what is
called the 'marionite BASIN" which
| includes the Round Mountain,
Adams, Big Zinc, Gaines, and the
Low Gap, Mckinley properties, its
final disappearance is uncertain un
less it takes place at the Gaines
mine.
The Gaines mine therefore became
an objective point, in which case the
result can only be conjectured, un
less the presence of its ore can be at
tributed to a general breaking dowt