The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-03-24

owned in this state by the CRANKY
Mining and Smelling company and
for which, it is understood, they
have refused the cost price OF the
land and improvements originally
made upon it, with the interest for
25 years added, at ten per cent per
annum. |
In the case of the Bill Scott mine,
16O acres, N. E. of section 3 town
IA, range 10, the showing in the
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crystalline oxide of zine beginning at
six feet below the surface, and the
remaining depth of the shaft filled
with broken ore.
This is plain statement of facts
in the premises, with no references
drawn of the farther extent of it.
For it is a development, and most
extraordinary discovery of high
grade of oxide ore, which has merely
| followed in the course of the assess
ment work required by the govern
ment as one of the conditions to a
patent. And therefore, the locker
on. almost beside himself in the re-
gret that no attempt was made to
drift into the big ore body forming
the walls of the shaft
The shaft has been put in the low
est pointin the lead or break where
the zinc outcrop marks the surface.
The same ore body crops out 20 feet
higher on the slope of the Lost
Mountain ground, and above this it
is exposed, at intervals, higher up
tor 60 to 70 feet additional, or to a
point where begins a thiekly studded
lead bearing quartz formation 20 to
80 feet thick in sight, aud which last
formation will be recognized, by
those who have seen its prototype,
as the lead bearing quartz of the
Ben Harrison mine, Monarch dis
trict, Marion county.
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~, The great ore bearing lead of the
t 7s,ioe, Tor rather it's null
Dill Scott min- ,s,A--is, simplE
plicity of leads form
great system of ore bearing 81
or faults in the formation O
, country is also a characteristic
the CRANKY properties.
1t is shown at a number of point.
where mining had been actively il
Operation until the sudden shut
down of the Boston Mountain Min
ing Company in 1874, whom the
CRANKY people succeeded. But it is
especially noticeable at the old dig.
gins, east of Sam Stephens home in
the Hall branch basin, situated in
the S. w. of the N. E. section So
town 10, range 10.
In this case, Smithsonite and OK
ide-carbonate ores ofzinc are present
in great masses on the dump and in
an old shaft, six feet below the sur
face. With other heavy outcrops of
the two ores traceable, without in
rerruption to the bed of branch, or
to the foot OF a hill on which the
shaft was sunk, thus showing the
ore bed to be 60 to 20 feet thick.
And nothing known definitely of a
greater depth beyond this than
might be inferred from statements
of those who had worked in the
shalt; while mining for lead, of the
zinc having staid with them, along
with the lead, as far down as the
shaft was carried, probably 90 to
100 feet.
The analogy of the two properties
will not only hold good, but it is,
from all appearance, a question
whether the Bill Scott does not carry
the most ore to the acre. For since
it is true that the lead before de-
scribed, as 20 to 80 feet in thickness,
is in place, and the zinc in sight 60
to 80 feet above it's shaft, with all
of its ground broken, what better
conditions, (according to mining ex-
perience in a dual lead and zinc field
could there be to make oft a great
repository of everything lead and zinc
ores that have disappeared from
their places?
Here is where another advantage
over the CRANKY enters into the com