The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-09-15

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only assured last week.. KANSAS
City, St, Louis, Chicago, Philadel-
phia, New lQIk. .Raslanzand eestsEn
authorities advised of every attempt
to adverse the Arkansas country
away from home; in each instance
there was added names. dates and
places necessary to make out case
against the offending parties. And
as further proof that it has had. a
different effect from what had been
expected oft, Arkansas in each in
stance, has been urged to speak for
itself, thus creating opportunities to
be heard for the cause of her north
ern territory, that might have meyer
offered themselves in the course of
the mineral history of the state.
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OF course, upon the principle of the
end instifying the means, the hope of
the Joplin operator, who is in the
fight to finish, is to cut off public
interest in the Arkansas zine field,
and to that end hazards the criti-
cism, that it is only a region of sur
face ore.
This criticism is plausible enough
at a distance, and for that reason
perhaps, it has been repeated over
and over again, until it has to some
extent become saying among peo-
pie who don't know what they are
talking about For when it, is put
to the test, in examinations OF terri
tory affected by it, instead of dispar-
aging its mineral resources upon the
score of quantity, it has invariably
led to the discovery of other ore
bearing members OF the series to
which the so-ealled surface mineral
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f Moreover, this is not all of it. The,
surface ore, so-called, is exclusive of.
underground ore, both in vertical
and horizontal veins, the presence of
which is established by means of drill
holes and shafts that show deep ore
to be present everywhere over the
country. And in consequence, odious
as it may be, the comparison having
been instituted against the wishes
of local miners and operators) it will
be found that the presence of sur
face ore is an advantage Nature has
added on the side of this state, with
which it is going to win out in the
battle royal that is being set in array
between the Missouri-Kansas and
Arkansas zinc fields.
The surprising fact about it all, is
the ignorance OF business methods
that govern business men which the
criticism, carries on it's tace, or with
which it is expected to slam the Ar
kansas country. For it is not posi-
bic, in face of the thousands of prae-
teal people who have bought miner
al territory in the Arkansas field,
that it is all mistake, its ledge,
lode and mass ores of zinc.
Nor is it possible, since the country
is accessible. that local miners and
operators would lend themselves to
misrepresentation, when the neral
character of north Arkansas is not a
question OF opinion, but simply the
fact OF deep seated and surface ores,
in quantity, brought to light
The only reasonable excuse for the
laundering attacks made on the coun-
try by anti-Arkansas Joplin opera
tors, if it means nothing worse, is
the failure to take in the fact, that
the so-called surface ore is really an
out-cropping mountain side ore,
which though it is exposed at the
edges of the vein, carries a cover
from 100 to 800 feet thick, measur-
ing from the highest elevation where
found. And on the other hand,
when there is an exception to this
condition and the elevation, above
the drain level, is sufficient to bring