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

systems or localities named. And
secondly: In studying any new min
eral country it is the next thing to
an impossibility to see the best there
is If it is conducted in the company
of those who have properties to sell
in other parts of such fields, unless
parties own properties that are
among the best. This is the reason
or cause of the hesitation of railroad
promoters, and the reason or cause
of the misunderstanding sometimes
honestly reached by outside prospee-
tors. And to overcome the two, it
enough interest is at stake, the man
ner of doing the Arkansas field must
be one that is especially eonformed
to a prospect of the Buffalo basin
country, where the forces of nature
had cut down the surface of the
country to level, which in other
parts of the field it is only possible
to reach by means of drills and
shafts, and the formation of the
country, for that reason, no more
than simply guessed at by miners
and prospectors, whereas it is, in eft
feet, an open book in the valley of
Buffalo river,
The adjoining territory on the
north side OF the river, includes the
Rush creek, Clabber creek, Cedar
creek, Boat creek and Water creek
systems of Marion county, and the
Maumee, St. Joe and Tomahawk
systems of Searcy county. And, on
the south side of Buffalo river, it in
cludes the Silver Hollow and Red
Cloud systems OF Marion county,
and the Kimbell's creek, Rock creek
and Spring Greek systems of Searcy
county.
But it is not all there is in it for
prospectors and railroad promoters,
the grouping of the systems cited.
For it happens that these systems
or localities lie along feasible routes
for railroads, known as the Walker,
Van Frank, Cary Wilson. Steadmau,
Daugherty, and Henry Martin sur
veys. And in the aggregate equally
as respects ore in sight, mining
properties opened at the present
time, and a geological column that
shows an ore bearing formation at
a lower depth than encountered in
other zinc fields of Arkansas and
Missouri, never will prospectors and
railroad promoters look upon more
open pages of a mining country, or
from which they can draw muse
intelligent deductions, than is exhib-
tied in that particular country no
ticed
But it were safe to say, that rail
road promoters have no such CON
crete idea of the country as given,
Notwithstanding any one of the
routes named would command, for
the time being, all ten OF the systems
and in the end leave, at least, three
lines all of the business they could
handle, if they are to take in other
parts of the Arkansas field. And, in
turn, it were equally safe to say, in
general, of miners and prospectors
WHO have visited the Arkansas field
that not one in twenty, had carried
their Investigations into the terri
tory of more than one locality out
of theten systems described. not.
withstanding mines and mineral To-
calities, like the stars, are supposed
to differ in magnitude the one from
the other; and therefore it is, that
such miners and prospectors are nc
more assured of the mineral resour
ces Of the country, as a whole, thar
IL the North Arkansas field had never
been studied by them in person.
All this, of course, does not near
that visit to the Morning Stai
mine of Marion county and tn,
Tomahawk mine of Searcy county
are not worth the attention giver
to them. They are in kind. stai
properties Of the Buffalo basin. auC
in "a pursuit Of the single idea, Of see
ing with ones owheyes- "A grqat~si' 2
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