The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1900-07-05
THE NEW
Lead and Zinc Fields
TANEY COUNTY, MO.
THE MINERAL BELTS.

THE MINERAL BELTS
You begin this article get a good map of the
United States Lay end of straight edge the town
ofGalena Kansas the Morning mine,
in Marion County Arkansas If will draw line
point point will have drawn line practically
through of the great lead and zinc belt of
Kansas Missouri and Arkansas mining prob
ably the richest mining d the world and which
producing more in value than the klondke
Within width of few miles either side of this line
lie greatest America stretching
all the from the big of Gaena in Kansas and
Joplin Webb City, Carterville, Carthage and Aurora in
Missouri, to the Morning Star of North Arkansas
will Taney County
the the center of the and out
the center of the south edge.
This together with actual demonstrations OF prospect
ng County the strike of mineral
which diagonaly through Missouri from Kansas to
Arkansas.
This strike is known the Ten O'Clock Run
There another lead of mineral which enters Taney
County from the north and joins the first mentioned lead
where enters Arkansas This is called the Eleven
Run, straford, Greene County,
through the Pearson Greek dggngs down by the Alma
and New Era mines of Christian County, through the
Turkey creek and Beaver creek country to Arkansas
Now such statements may vague to some readers
and the question asked. how do know these thingss
Simply by digging holes in Mother Earth at great
By prospecting labor, with many disappont
ments, ascertaned that lead zinc be
found abundance along these lines than at other
points, although it is found elsewhere in districts of more
less extent
W. B. Stephens writing the Globe-Democrat under
date September 49, 1899, has the following Interesting
statements concerning these great mineral runs
''Ten O'Clock Rum and eleven O'Clock RUM were
invented by the miners OF past generation They came
when compass and the dial of CONF
Without being able to the scientific explana
practical mining having located good prospect
continuation OF it to the northwest to the
point discovery If the OF the min
eral which the will throw by
oelcck, sthe 10 O'Clock If the min
along shadow line of hour later by the dia
it is described being ION an II O'Clock run.
in
lead forty these
phrases general They applied to the
discovery, They possess significance far be-
yond which attached to them when they first
used by the lead miners The theory they represents
being borne by the recent discoveries which esab
much wider extent of the mineral heds than was
formerly supposed to exist
who is interested in the mineral era of
will take map and with the Joplin and
Galena the starting point will prof ect 10 O'Clock line
southeatward the result will astonsh 1t will be
that this Ten O'Clock Run from Joplin will pass
through Aurora the of activity with forty drills
of discoveries only second to those of Jasper county
Mo. and Cherokee county, Kan. This Ten O'Clock Run
through the of Barry county, where some
prospecting indicated the probable existence Of
mineral Thence the run'' is through the heart of
Sone passing the county seat of Galena and the
southwest quarter of Taney
county crossed such
angle the into the heart of the Arkansas
attracting interest of the mineral world
City and Lead m centers of discovery and de-
veopment bsected by the straight extension
Ten O'Clock Continued the map, one
ssrun' passes through Marion county, Ark, and strikes
Morning mine and the other rich digs
river. Perhaps the way to impress Ten O'Clock
wildly mind is to take long ruler and
the edge of the that it will extend from
Joplin, Mo-. Buffalo City Morning Star mine, in Ar
kansas The mining who has kept informed on the
the few months will be amazed to
how many mineral districts located on the
run These districts make chain with fev still miss
ing links between greatest centers Of the Ozark
country.
O'Clock Joplin to Morning Star mine in
Arkansas Pine Hill In region three four
miles square, including Pine Hl there has been opened
months could be bought $3 90 has
jumped $1,000 under the influence of the dgent
prospecting and its results. Joplin men who sold out
county have taken hold
of some land and investigating it, They have found
enough encourage them, and refuse to SELL They
having shafts by experienced abund
all the down from the surface and zinc has
shaft body of carbonate of zinc has
been 1t is known be at least Is feet thick
side of Pine Mountain strata of fuor
both sides mountain and is supposed
through it, The thickness least feet
and may be more In outcrops Pine Mountain scate
Cristoi the name given to the workings M M
the highest elevation They struck mineral within feet
of the The frs: shaft passed through deep red
rock found and in this disseminated resin and
velvet jack zinc scate and lead The ore has grown
results.
'The north side of Pine Mountain is much broken and
from the Missouri and Kansas district
at the rich character of the outcropPings
which makes deep horseshoe the center of
Taney county 1t is Of chain of hills which stretches
county Ark mining district What the new zinc field Of
he NOw