The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-06-30
MINING NEWS.

last Saturday. night at NolnmDus
Junction, Iowa. for the purpose oi
Operating Zinc, Lead and Copper
Mining in Northwest Arkansas.
]. r. Paxton, who spent the winter
in Harrison will be one of the lead
ers in the new company,
]. F. VanVorhis, while disposed
to be conservative about it confirms
Town Cantrell's report of the late
strike on his, Van Vorhis property
The scene of discovery was visited
by him on Monday last, and the
way he puts it is, that they have
thrown down a great deal of ore.
The zinc ore market for this week
is yet uncertain, says the joplin
NeWs-Herald, Areport was brought
from Aurora to-day that the output
of that camp had been sold for $24
per ton, At this time it looks as
though the smelters are endeayoring
to hammer the prices still lower
than last week.
k. S. Nichols, secretary OF the
Eureka Investment Company of this
place, reports more inquiry from re-
sponsible parties this week. than
collectively since they opened for
business. This is in keeping with
information of the TIMES, of more
strong buyers being headed this
way than at any time since the pres
ent development began.
The installation OF machinery at
the Denison Mine, three miles east
from town. has been delayed by the
non-arrival of Contractor Chapman,
of Galena Kansas, who was billed
to arrive on the Goth inst. Build
ings arc up, machinery is on the
ground, helpers are engaged and
everything is in readiness for as
sembling the plant for practical
operations.
The Almy Mining, Milling and
Smelling Company, this County,
has closed contract with Webb
City parties for concentrating
plant, steam drills etc. 1t is to be a
standard mill, with the latest inn
provements, The deal was booked
for last week, and the final decision
in favor of Webb City builders is the
result of careful examination of all
Mills of modern make.
Messrs Bunch, Estes and other
owners of the property have decided
to prospect their Zinc Basin mine
with a drill, and to that end called
in the Tegarden Bros, of Yellville to
pick the territory in which to bore.
The property adjoins the Morning
Star mine, on the north, and is other
wise known as the Gentry home
stead" 1t comprises the E "a S. w.
and S. w. of 8. and N. W. S. E. of
10, Ills.
The TINES has received a hand
some pamphlet descriptive of North
Arkansas zinc territory published
by the 1900 Acre Zinc and Lead
Co., of Arkansas" which company
has its general Offices at South Bend,
Indiana. With 81, 900, 900 capital,
and 1000 acres of zinc land in the
richest field in the world, it may be
expected of this corporation that
big things are to come of it in the
near future.
"The Ozark Uplilt" is the title of a
new book just issued by the Frisco
Railway, which along with fine il
Illustrations of our section includes
republication of the famed Stevens
letters to the lobe-Democrat des-
criptive of the north Arkansas zinc
field. AS guide to those investi-
eating this country nothing could
be better. Copies of this valuable
work may be secured by writing to
the Gen. Pas. Agent of the Frisco.
Apropos of the subject of assures
and placers, it appears that an APP
plication of common sense to the
question has been persistently ignor-
ed. 1t is the idea of crystallized
placers, which, in as few terms as
possible, covers the ideas of blanket |
veins and the sedimentary crigion
of zinc. The coinage in this case is
in line with the term, "verticals,'
adopted by DR., Jenney; and is step
toward the exact limitation and use
of words when defining conditions
that obtain in zinc formations.
The ground taken in last weeks
first page article of the TIMES, covers
the situation in North Arkansas of
the present time. Investors are
merely looking around with the re-
suit that they have time to realize
that the development OF the country
cannot be staid any longer. And
since the Investor is the factor in
the premises, the situation at the
present time can be summed up in the
result, as it occurs to his mind, of
"things in the Arkansas field being
at a more satisfactory level than at
any time since the movement in min
eral properties began"