The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-12
FLORIDA's FULLER's EARTH.
The Discovery of Large Vein nnG
Its Great Value.

Tallahassee, Fla, April 1.-THE most
striking feature Of Florida's Industrial
development during the last decade has
| been the discovery that the state Is very
! rich in mineral resources of considerable
variety. There has just been brought TO
light near the Ocklockonee river, fourteen
miles west of this city. what is believed
by experts to be one of the most wonder
| full pure veins of Fuller's earth ever dis
| covered in the known world.
This newly-found deposit is so pure that
il bears one hundred per cent. virtue"
1t is free of foreign matter. such as rock
flint. gravel, sand, etc, and for this reason
1t is more valuable and more profitable
90 handle than any other Fuller's earth
deposit ever yet discovered in America
Some ten or twelve miles west of the new
deposit there are being operated two Ful-
ler's earth mines, one known as the
Ward mine, and the other owned by the
STANDARD Oil Company.
The deposits comprising these two older
Mines however, are not so pure and are
less economically operated than VIII be
possible with the new discovery because
in them the deposits are in pockets, and
mixed with rock, gravel and other foreign
matter. Hitherto, the Standard Oil and
Ward mines have regulated the supply.
and the price of Fuller's earth in this
country, and enormous profits are said 10
have been realized from them. Until
now they have been regarded as the only
Fuller's earth deposits in America OF
any considerable degree of purity. but it
Is said to be beyond question that the
undiscovered deposit near Tallahassee
IS, owing to its remarkable purity and its
compactness, far superior to either the
Standard oil or the Ward mines. 1t il
estimated that the F'uller's earth found
in this new vein can be put on the mar
ket ready for commercial use al one-third
the cost possible from any other mine.
Mr.. A. Rosedale of this city, who is
| an old mining expert, and who, with Mr..
Alex. Jacobs and Hon. John A Pearce,
also of Tallahassee, has secured posses
| sion of the new deposit has been at work
on the new vein for the last four weeks.
| He has sunk four 22-foot shafts, all curb
| ed and reports that each shaft shows
| splendid deposit of a uniform thickness
of nine feet.
From the examination thus far made.
| 1t has been ascertained with certainty
that the seam, which maintains a uni-1
| form nine-foot thickness, is at least $50
| feet wide and 260 feet long. The experts
| who have been making the examinations
| assert that the entire deposit contains
| certainly not less than one and a half
million tons, and they describe the bed as
! wonderfully and Unusually valuable.
because they find every spade full taken
out is pure.
This Fuller's earth deposit is found
eight feet below the surface. 1t is located
| half a mile from water transportation,
and four miles from two railroads.
The Standard Oil and Ward mines have
| for several years, supplied the greater
portion of the F'ullers earth, used in this
! country, and it is believed that the de-
velopment of the new discovery will make
| Florida one of the most important sources
of the worlds supply of Fullers earth.
Some of the more important uses to
which this material is now put. with eX
| cellent results, are the following:
| First. In making baby's powders Of
great healing properties for the skin.
| Second. In refining all kinds of crude oils.
Third. For distilling whiskies and brew
| ing beer. Fourth. In the manufacture
of all kinds of vaselines. Fifth. Packing
houses use it for refining lards. oleomar-
| garines, butterines and cottolenes. These
| commodities cannot be made without the
use of Fuller's earth. Sixth. AS a found
alton for manufacturing all kinds of laun-
| dry and toilet soaps. Seventh. A new
use recently discovered for Fuller's earth
| is that the wool manufacturers wash old
| wool with it, as it is a great absorber of
ell oils and refuse matter found in raw
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