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of the second, might DC uise
where proper conditions serving a.
a reservoir might exist. One great
exception is the remarkably prohhs
gas and oil territory OF Indiana ana
Ohio where these elements founa
Judgment in a dome, evidently altef
having assembled out OF three diner
ent basins which surround the deYei-
oped territory on three sides. IL
would be even more absurd to seek
tor zinc and lead wholly within the
bounds of the basins, that Is, III
areas marked number IA and higher,
for if it should barely exist there, the
depth would be too great for prohe-
able mining 1t would be difhcult
to delineate, in strict detail, every
divergence and conveyance IN con-
tour of the division between any
two adjoining surface formations;
reasonably correct approach to TINS
should prove OF great value.
A noticeable and seemingly para
doxieal feature shown on the map is
that of present course OF the Missis-
sippi river, which traverses, length
wise, No. 10 or the oldest and form
erly the most elevated portion IN
that section. 1t was the dividing
ridge that separated the great iiii-
nois and Northern Missouri carbon
ferrous and coal basins. The claim
has been made that in olden time
this river had a course continuous
in line with the portion northwest
erly from Savanna, ILL.,, and emptied
into the Illinois basin. This, more
than probably, is true and the
change in position is accounted for
on the same principle that the Miss
issippi, by sedimentary deposits, has
lifted it's own bed above the adjoin-
ing country level towards its outlet,
through Louisiana. Irrigating ditch
es, having slow currents, act in as
similar manner and if not provide
with higher banks would chang
their courses and even oceu
ground originally higher than theA
original channels. =
1t will also be observed that Just
north of Louisiana, Mo-, member No.
8 (Niagara) is exposed, which also
occurs again and continues from
Clinton to Galena, in the northwest
corner of Illinois, Here 1t is joinedHs
by No. 4. This is in the galena or
lead district of Illinois and Wiscon II
sin. If we now return to the centrs
or core OF this uplift. in SoutheastV
Missouri, and proceed eastwardIy
we find very narrow rim that sep
arates the Illinois basin from the old
Festfdry wfifch comprised ~thenorth-
ward extending arm of the Gulf of
Mexico, although No. 10 is the low
est member here exposed it, as could
be expected, is highly mineralized
and rs in all probability underlaid at
shallow depth by the Lower Siluro-
Magnetism limestones and those
of the Cambran period. 1t undcubt-
edly is here where the breach
was made that exposed to view the
rim portions of the ground plan of
the inland sea when the waters sub
sided. "a
That outside Of the granite and {
porphyry exposures in the Ozark Up
| lift, disturbances and uplifts occur
ed at different times and in various
places, is believed by scientific observ-
ers and by residents also. Such ev-
licences are presented in a number of
instances, and it can be shown that
those of greater magnitude are more
remote from granite and porphory-
tic presence. This can be readily ac-
counted for and is Just what should
be expected. Naturally the greatest
deposits of sediment went on in the
deepest places, which were more to-
ward the center of the basin
More remains of shale, and other
sea creatures assembled here to form
a bulk of the rock mass; more gas
there accumulated as the process of
decomposition and distillation went
on and, the latent energy contained
therein being finally aroused, dynam-
ically burst asunder the covering
and furnished the seed as it were
from which our minerals have grown
or were derived.
Regarding the details of this por-
tion of natures birth-giving power
we have no possible means of faith
oming, no more than to account for
the variety of fruits furnished BY the
same soil and other phenomena in
nature. Slowly, one by one, we ac-
quire direct knowledge through ex- Z
pertinent and imitation While it
can scarcely be questioned but that
the whole areas represented by num-
bers to 10, inclusive, contain zinc
and lead to some ex tent, it surely is
not equally rich in these minerals
and, more than probably a large
percentage does not contain them in
paying quantities, while on the 9TH
er hand, certain districts and locah-
ties rank among the richest in the
world. A careful study Of the whole
field, combined with a comparison
of possibilities with past results,
could scarcely fall short of final
conclusion that it has not been really
prospected to the hundredth part
aud that mining has only fairly be-