The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-03-03
MONTHS REVIEW OF THE LOCAL
SITUATION.
Development of Mines and Mineral Prop.
critics Under Full Roadway, with
No Idle Labor in the CAMPS.

The certainty ofthe Eureka Springs
Railway extension is having the eff
feet expected Oft,
Railroads projects galore hold
the boards for week at a time, on
| " to give way the following week to
a rush of mining investments and
the capitalization of mining COM
panies, with the pace of the one or
the other nothing slackened as spring
approaches; and the end is not yet,
If it is imagined that there is not to
be a general business and mining
upheaval throughout Northern Ar
kansas.
But the best business omen OF the
two, is the mining activity manifest
ing itself everywhere over the zinc
field. This means that the country
is showing itself equal to the new era
OF railroads and of mines. And it is
certainly acting in good faith with
the Eureka Springs Railway people,
when our miners and mine owners
meet them more than half way, in
the development of their properties;
thus making business ready for them,
that will fully Justify their invest
ment from the day the road is put in
operation.
What that business will amount
to, can be Judged from the extent of
the approved ore bearing territory,
which is already greater than our
local authorities would get credit
for, if so stated to outsiders not ac-
auanited with the country. But
while the extent of the whole is suf-
hcient to stagger the common belief
of men upon the subject ofmines and
minerals, there is a compensation to
be taken account of, which mining
investors are receiving from their ex-
penditures upon the development of
their properties. For it is no longer
the rule but the exception when the
new work on mining properties, and
the opening of new mines, does not
show deep ore, plenty of it, and the
ore present in vaults if not in verti.
cal veins.
All this, of course, is having a most
inspiriting influence over both the in.
slider who had cast his bread upon
the water, and over the outside in.
weston who must have exercised
some faith in the future of the coun.
try, along with his judgement of its
merits. And sill, truth to tell, in
nothing is the rapid change so notice
able as in the common people of the
country who, for the first time in
the course of the boom, realize that
there is an actual demand for their
labor and their lands, and therefore
the humbest of them assured of en-
ployment and of a place in the march
of events.
Hence, this latter condition it is
which more than anything else tells
the true story of the Arkansas min
ing field at the present time. For it
is true measure of all successful
business industries when the COM
mon man can find plenty OF employ
ment And there will be more and
more Of il as the year progresses,
until the dream of the visionary"
shall come to pass: OF Northern Ar
kansas Aourishing into a great min.
ing camp, of many railroads drawn
across the face of the country, and
of large industrial cities growing up
in its midst, the consummation OF
which will follow in shorter time
tlian has marked the history of any
mineral country of the Western Con
tinent, next in order to the Pacific
Slope
M. l.. DEMALHE9.
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