The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-05-19

NO. 40,
and the ore, according to large spec
linens submitted for Identification
principally a crystalline oxide, Of
clean and marked character.
A second property visited in Kim,
bell Hollow was that of the Evening
Star mine, section 10, town 16,
range 10.
The ore bearing magnetism rock,
in sight, is in this case so feet thick,
the cap to which-(coming in imme-
diately under the sandstene) is a
carbonate ledge of both its own
ground and that of the Star mine,
the shaft and opening of which is in
sight of it's own drift. This is of its
carbonate outcrop.
A few hundred yards west of this,
on the same level, is supplied an ex-
ample of dissimilar mineral occur
renee under, apparently, similar con-
ditipns. For instead of a carbonate
ore it is sulphide or jack outcrop.
AS mine it was found in poor
shape, but the ore is present, in dolo-
mite, in quantity, and needs only to
be gone after Systematically, to
bring back the color of things in gen
eral. For it is a matter of history
that it is the Evening Star mine
which in 1898, became an inspira-
ton to the North Arkansas mineral
boom now in progress. And indeed
the idea of which was successfully
carried to an issue, notwithstand-
ing North Arkansas itself, nor the
public were ready for it, starting off
as it did during the closing days of
the American-Spanish war, and press
and public preoccuppied with mill
tarv glory instead of business,
The visit to Rock creek, or rather
to a system of rami6ed gulches Of
that name, was to the same end as
the visit to Kimbell Hollow, that OF
tribute a railroad might draw from
a locality situated in territory
known to carry mineral or in terri
tory to which also belong the Red
Cloud and Silver Hollow mines OF
Marion county, distant from the
mouth of Rock creek four miles
But it was a surprise wholly out
of the common with coming upon
che Rock creek system at a point
known as the Big Buffalo or Cuba
Lode and Placer mine, section 2,
town 16, range 10. For while it is
property of which, in the outset Of
its discoveries, much was perhaps
rumored, nothing can be conceived
of it as a jack mine, without a visit
to the scene in person.
1t is an occurrence of sulphide ore
in the floor or at the water level Of
the main canyon of Rock creek, the
extent of which as a mineral system
is shown in the fact, that all neigh
boring property, and all ramihcatior
of Rock creek carry jack. And while
at the Big Buffalo, the work done
in trying for ore, discloses a big body
of mineral, it was followed into the
bank of the stream with remarkable
results, 25 to 80 tons of ore, exclu
sive of the covering and waste hav
ing been taken out of an opening o
7 feet depth, 8 feet width and 16 feet
in length.
1t is an exceedingly bright, light
colored jack, which on the top OF the
ore bed occurs in a green, copper
stained saccharoidal sandstone, i'm
posed upon brecciated dark mag
nesian rock, with nothing different
in the quantity and character of the
ore of the dual containing rock
This is for-say a thickness of feet
in the ore-bed, for it had plainly
grown richer as the opening descend
ed. And since it is present in al
parts of Rock creek, and the condi
tions uniform with those that sur
round the opening, the conclusion
will hold good, of the locality being
dominant one in the Arkansas
field, and the occurrence of so big al
ore body near the surface, without {
parallel unless it is that of thu
Canton mine, Mill creek valley New
ton county.
1t is, the mine, not only most re
markable discovery, but there is NJ
doubt of its place in the list of sucl
highly characterized jack mines a