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

tent OF the property, advantages OF
water supply, water power, fuel and
timber for mining uses supplied in
its unbroken forest, the idea was to
prepare the reader for the business
opportunity the great property car
ries in connection with its approved
mineral character.
The business side, at all events, is
the inducement it offers to miners,
mining and railroad capitalist. And,
in consequence, when it is regarded
in this light. it will be found that
the collective advantages named fa-
vor the operation OF at least twenty
mines, of forty acres each. Thus ar
guing an extra earning capacity for
the property, even though the COM
pany reserved 800 acres for its own
mining operations, grounds for
plants and townsite included Or if
the property were so equipped the
company could erect milling plants
of sufficient capacity to grind all
output of the mines, and from their
toll and royalty, without mining
themselves, control one of the best
things in the history of zinc mining
These are the logical deductions to
be drawn from the situation, and to
the proof OF it, the following facts
need only to be cited: The property
is in territory central to a Marshall
and Rush Greek, Marshall and Wa.
ter Creek, Marshall and Tomahawk,
aud a Marshall and ST. Joe route
for north and south railroads. The
alternative of a waterway outlet
offers itself in something over two
miles river front along Buffalo, a
tributary of White river. 1t is in
reasonable distance of east and west
surveys through North Arkansas,
and together with other territory OF
the county north of the Buffalo
would supply enough inducement to
command short line connections.
Though only in the transition stage
and it's ore bodies located for purpo-
SEES of subsequent development, out
OF sixty mine openings distribu-
ted over the property forty of them
show ore, with Others coming in as
called for in a business like manage.
ment of the property. The matrix
of the ore on the top run of the prop
erty is a dolomite characteristic Of
the Mill creek valley of Newton
county, while at a level $50 to 25C
feet lower down, or on the floor lev.
ell of Buffalo river, the ore occurs in
a dark, coarse grained magnetism
rock identical with that of the Sum,
nit Home mine of Marion county
And to cap the climax, by reason Of
proximity to the copper region, and
by reason of discoveries near at hand
and at home, it is not yet settled
that the Maumee will not also mine
copper.
Upon the score of the Maumee for.
nation; 1t will perhaps interest
miners and prospectors to know
that the great property explodes the
theory of outcropping mountain side
mineral, in the Arkansas field, being
the survival of ore bodies once pres
ent in the gulches the outcrops flank
and the disappearance OF which
would be accounted for in the actor
of surface water upon zinc, in the
course of which process the resulting
sulphuric acid would, of course, eat
away the walls of ore chambers.
For if the theory is true, it follows
in the case of the Maumee, that there
had been present in an intervening
gulch to three of its mines, the Mau
NEE, Let Her Be, and Chattahoo
chez, a single body of ore that must
have been millions of tons in extent
And this fallaey being knocked out
by conditions surrounding the three
mines named, (aanking the same
gulch and the shortest distance the
one from the other 400 yards il
only remains to say upon this score
with all due Difference to the author
tiles, that it only requires halt an eye
to discover the fact, of the Maume'
people haying barely become aware
of the great body of mineral theii
property carries.
For instance; At the "big shaft
on the Maumee mine, the first run o
ore bearing material, IS feet thick
was struck at short depth below
the surface, and a second run,
feet thick, at a depth of 26 feet. Ii
the latter case they have drifted to-
a distance of As feet without any
change in the thickness of the orr
bed. Mind you, this is at an eleva
ton of 100 feet above the floor leve
of a gulch which it TANKS, and 20S
feet above the ore bearing rocl
comprising the floor level of Buffalo
river. While to add certainty tc
the case, the ore in quantity has
been uncovered on two sides of tn,
same elevation at levels 40 to 81
feet below the top of the shaft.
In another case, that OF the Chat
tahooehe, the ore crops out on thu
side of mountain $50 feet above tn,
floor of the gulch, or half way up Z
mountain side. This is on the cas-
side OF the gulch, and while it is, il
the parlance ofthe Joplin miner, only
"surface ore" some idea OF what il
behind it can be conceived from tn,
fact that while it's outcrop, as pros
pected by the company, extends TO
a length of one-half mile, it is We