The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-09-15

their owners had heretofore lacked
the means to put down shafts, or
had lacked the necessary Transports
ton for their ore, upon which to CON
dition such expenditure; excepting
of course, cases of out-cropping hill
side ores in quantity.
sesassssssesssssssssssssss
Of proof in the case: While every
thing is fair in love and war, and
snap Judgment on the reader in or
derin this instance as in other things
OF life, 1t is yet the exception and not
the rule when a mere statement of
opinion, originating at home, is per-
mitted to do service in a discussieIs
of the Arkansas zinc regions. s.
To follow such a course is to adopt
IthsmethQd- pt its assailants an. ths
ARKANSAS miner is not so poor in ex-
pcrience and observation as to for
get What is due the public under the
circumstance, both in the matter of
evidence and in reasonings pertain
ing 70 the mineral resources of his
country. And it is therefore to the
end oi permitting the reader to chew
the string, as proof OF the pudding,
that sufficient data in tabulated
form accompanies this report to set
at rest-any question of deep-seated
ores in the Ark ansas country.
The tables also carry with them a
fact not generally known on the out
side. 1t is this: Added to the rea-
sons before named, the discovery of
deep-seated ore has depended upon
one of two things. Either because
there had been no out-cropping ore
veins to guide miners and prospec-
tors in localities surrounded by good
mineral ground; or because certain
miners and investors have permitted
themselves to be governed in their
operations, not by their experience
and observation, but by the ideas OF
outsiders, who, being accustomed
only to deep-seated ore, were wholly
at sea in their conception of the out
cropping Arkansas mineral torma-
ton. And the result is that, when
sifted to the bottom there is but one
conclusion to draw from the sitna-
ton: Facts in favor of the country
not only run counter to what is said
ignorantly of it, but they run coun-
ter to what is believed of it by peo-
pie whose personal interests lead
them to become credulous of adverse
criticism of mineral fields destined,
in the course of time, to rival their
own country,
This is of the case at bar If We
take it in the light of further effects,
it will be found that the evidence
presented contradicts not only the
anti-Arkansas idea of Surface ere,
(all OF the properties named being
well known and at all times accessi
BILE to those who wish to see them,
but il we take it as a pointer to 10
calities where situated, it is to bt
seen at a glance, that the end is not
yet by long sight For it follows
according to the geology and expos
IRE OF mineral where situated, that
other properties than those nance
also carry deep ore in consequence
Of which we have presented to us a
rwo-sided proposition, Of mountain
side and deep seated ores, likely tC
give the world new lessons in the oc
curcnce and production Of zine ore.
i End as all Of this result or the agi
IT, on Of the subject toapoint wher'
~. missihle To bring out oil facti
in DC base. is as unlocked for as it il
asobnding, we bavc in a few world
a. - a.. ...5..,.t.,,e,,,,, bcl,r,