Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-01-31

Company IN places is as much as
thirty feet, while a chamber in the
Hodge mine, operated by The
Fluor Spar Company is mined in
benches, a room of large extent
having already been excavated. At
the Memphis mines hundreds of
tons of first class huor spar were
obtained by open cuts on the sur
face, veritable Klondlke of tuor
spar. The prices obtained for fluor
spar loaded on cars on the line of
the Illinois Central railroad range
from six to twelve dollars per short
ton, according to quality. The
experienced miner can easily de-
termine the profit to be obtained.
Messrs. Postlethwait and Wat
kins have several most promising
openings of huor spar, as has also
Messrs. Blue q Num-, both of Ma
rion. A personal visit to Marion,
Salem, etc, on the part of the pro-
posed investor would be the most
satisfactory method of getting in
touch with the owners and les
sees of the mineral lands. Most
satisfactory arrangements Cal. be
made either to purchase lands or
operate on a specific royalty, and
probably at no other time in the
history of the county could a bet
ter time have beer chosen for OPP
Grating.
OUR LEAD AND ZINC PROPERTIES.
The Columbia mine on the Co.
lumbia vein, some six or seven
miles from Marion, the Cullen mine
at Salem, twelve miles distant. are
the two lead properties that show
the greatest development. The
Columbia was a strong lead produ-
Ger for many years, its shaft of
two hundred and ode feet being
directly on the veiu, and its pro-
duct being mined, concentrated
and smelted at that point. During
the panicky-years of the country
lead reached so low a point-some
two cents a pound-it is now more
than double that-it was decided
to be much more profitable to keep
the lead ores in their natural store
house than to mine and market at
the ruinous prices then prevailing.
During the past year an incorpo-
rated company named the West
ern Kentucky Mining Company
have taken over the property and
it will again be the scene as of old
of active operations. In connec-
ton with the lead veins in this
shaft there are strong feeders of
zinc blende, SO remarkable in assay
value that special concentrating
plant will be erected to handle this
product, which was for several
years thrown out as resuse-thou-
sands of tons of zinc being depos-
tied on the dump as of no especial
value, and this will now be crush
ed and concentrated, adding large
ly to the value of the property, as
we'll as proving of practical fnan-
cial value to the pocket books of
the Western Kentucky sharehold-
ers.
The Eagle mine at Salem, own
ed by the Eagle Fluor Spar Com
pany of Wheeling, West Virginia,
was operated during the first year
of the existence of the company
as a producer of huor spar, humid
reds of tons being loaded at Ma
rion and at Mexico station on the
Illinois Central railroad, or as it
was then known, the Ohio Valley
railroad. Capt, Haase, the resi-
dent Manager, and who has direc-
ted the mining work since its in
ception, became satisfied that the
vein was essentially one of lead
rather than that of huor spar.
Acting upon his convictions, he
has finally developed a magnificent
body of galena at the lower level
of the Cullen, the test drill show