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

read situation IS a most perplexing
one. There is no end of railroads
projected, the backing of which is
vouched tor ON Wall ST., and, on the
other hand, roads under eonstruc-
ton give out no information as to
points or territory they are headed
for. Thus putting investors, pros
peetors and the local inhabitant up
on the ragged edge of suspense until
it is seen which way the cat jumps.
The situation, however, is not
without it's humor for there is much
about it that suggests a case OF
NOW you see it and now you don't
see it, with the trimmings thrown
in, usual upon such occasions
While as to the serious side of it,
there is nothing which so adds TO
the perplexity of the lookers-on as
the fact that the confusion among
projectors of new lines, and the hes
itation Of roads under construction
to name their destination, are due to
a misunderstanding OF the country,
or to a desire to preempt the most
feasible routes and the richest terri
tory, when of truth the trick could
not be worked, even though half
dozen roads were projected to that
end. And, therefore, it is largely for
the purpose of throwing light upon
feasible routes tor north and south
roads, and upon rich mineral terri
tory commanded by them, that the
TIMES Expedition has been assigned
to four weeks study and explora-
of Searcy county.
The result of the first weeks study
of the situation in that part of the
field is given, at length, in to,dav's
report dated at Maumee, Searcy
county, which is the postoffice and
mining headquarters of the great
property of that name; and, as seen
from the handling of the theme, it is
not the first brush the TIMES and
its mineral authority have had with
the subject of the Buffalo basin as a
mineral country. And, in conse-
quence, reasoning from a foreknow WI
edge had of the country, and from a
disqualification of conditions possible
in that territory at the present time,
it can be fairly assumed for this pa
per that it is not going to fall far
short of the objects toward which
its Searcy county explorations are
directed.
OF the Maumee property as an in
troductory chapter to the subject of
Searcy eounty's section of the Buffa-
10 basin, it were needless to say Of
the selection that it is justified by
facts in the case. 1t is the largest,
approved and selected, minerafprop-
erty in the North Arkansas field, and
it is, in its exposures of ore, in it's
great water power, and its geologi-
cal formation, conditioned to supply
the business of a dozen average
mines to railroads that will of neces-
sity conform their lines to the terri
tory stretching, inclusively, from
Rush creek in Marion county to the
st. Joe valley in Searcy county,
That it is property worth the at
tention given to it, is its own argu-
ment when it is stated that it is not
latter day, or boom discovery, but
dates back its original location eight
years, during which time it has
grown, through careful determine
tions OF the ground, to it's present
proportions of 100 acres; and there
fore the discoveries and locators on
ly encouraged to the accumulation
OF so large mineral property because
it was worth while, long before the
boom began. And it is in this light
that its extent gives us a greater
earnest of value than is common in
such cases, in which mineral proper
ties are too often thrown together in
large bodies simply for the purpose
of catching suckers.
OfFrank L. Hamilton, M. E., c. E.,
the leading spirit in the location and
consolidation Of the Maumee mine,
it were but justice to say of the gen.
tleman, as general manager for his
company-(in incorporated under the
laws of this state as the North Ar
kansas Mining and Investment Com
pany, of Van Buren,, Ark THAT his
handling and development of the
property is creditable to himself as
to his company. The TIMES has
been to some pains upon the subject
OF his administration, because it is
generally assumed OF men for years
local to our country, that they are