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


Springs Railway Extension.
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: is taken, being one, with its entranc,
! at this place, where the fault of mos
conspicuous upon which the presenc,
Of mineral, in quantity, is depended
sand hence, If all this does no
show that it is worth while, the
building OF railroads into the terri.
tory, because OF its feasible routes
and its valuable territory, then
nothing will do it short of the miIlen.
mum. But, not to slip cog in the
grinding out of business prospects
and of good cheer the situation ar
lgues, what is better still, it is all
having its influence upon the right
men. who are sawyers of wood and
not junketing promoters fishing for
suckers. They have, as their guide,
the ideas of those who figured on the
boards in the earlier days of western
railway construction, with unlocked
for prospects of local business only
guessed at during a former day.
And on the part OF miners and pros
pectors, outsiders and natives, the
hall is not conceived If it is surmised
that they are not making the shots
fly everywhere over this mountain
country, in the endeavor to meet
railroad enterprises on halfway
ground.
OF the Roaring Hollow or St. Joe
Mineral system, simply as such: To
miners ahd mining engineers of Col
orado and other Rocky Mountain
mining states, not acquainted with
the st. Joe country, it may be of in
terest to say, that it is, without ex-
ception the locality of the elearest
defined and most extensive vertical
exposure of strata, directly in the
Arkansas field, to which it is posi-
II''sisss1 rrrsrrc me presence or orc IN
quantity.
1t is, in fact, for the reason of its
exceptional dislocation or disturb
ance of strata, that the ST. Joe or
Monkey Run country had been
known to miners in general for
nearly a half century, but who, in
stead of baser metals, were in search
of gold, silver and copper, and there
fore the discovery OF zinc ore of no
value to them whatever. And in
consequence, however it is upon the
whole, no easy task for strangers,
familiar with other formations, to
to settle upon opinions that will
hold in the Arkansas field, in this
lease they will find themselves at
home, with good mineral and plenty
OF it, to help them reach definite con-
illusions.
The greater axis of the vertical, or
along which the dislocating energy
of the local disturbance is displayed
most conspicuously, is northeast
and southwest. And, indeed the ar
gument of which departure from the
rule of the "ten o'clock range" con-
forms to a theory entertained by
David Dale Owen, pioneer geologist
of the Wisconsin, Missouri aud Ar
! kansas zinc fields, that, when work
! ed down to facts in the case, it would
) be found that a second mother lode
, traverses the northern part of this
state, the direction of which would
: be northeast and southwest.
In this case the tilted strata i:
,4piteheA-st an angle of 80 degrees
with the dip to the southeast; anC
lin the case of properties carrying the
: biggest ore, it is found that thu
: closer they approach the vertical OF
: the west side, the better the show
ing. This condition, Of course, i
: impossible on the east side, owing
a to the resulting accumulation o
: drift following the breaking down o
: strata, but, this point passed, tn
occurrences are similar to those OF
f west side, which fact is exemplhe'
t in the description of typical proper
a ties of the system which follows fur
Il Their on. And hence rather thai
c mines. without its influence, but sti
n in the St. Joe section of the Buffal
ie Basin, all types of properties notice
e in this report conform to the Roar
y ing Hollow vertical. The propertie
r are by name as follows; Ronrin
It Hollow, Garvin, Excelsior, ROM
d Mountain, Gaines and the Dav
IS Crockett.
, asss.