The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1901-02-02

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favorable to the ordinary branches
of agricultural industry. 1t must be
considered that the production OF
some of these minerals, as zinc. is
onl " in it's infancy when compared
with future possibilities. There are
other valuable mineral resources, in
Guiding elays, marls and. bauxite'
with which Arkansas is richly en-
dowed that are practically untoueh-
ed,
In rawing comparison between
the Joplin Mining District which in
cludes the territory where mining is
done in the counties of Jasper, New.
ton and Lawrence, Missouri, also
around Galena, Kansas, and the Zine
and lead region ofNorthern Arkansas
it is vastly important to make
certain explanations, without which
it would be impossible to properly
comprehend the true situation.
To lack of such information no
doubt is due much of the false
opinion that found existence respect.
ing the Arkansas mineral territory
as shared more fully by the Joplin
miner than any other. A human
failing, which seems to be character.
istic of the miner, is that of expert
ence limited to a particular district
in warh he has been directly in.
terested to the exclusion of whattvel
may be the peculiar characteristics
of another. Ores of different districts
with their modes of occurrence have
in some respects Municipalities as
we find in human faces.
The California miner was among
the last to believe in the value of the
Colombo gold bearing rock, the
early producer on Oil Creek per
sistertly maintained that the Brad
ford Oil field would never assume
Importance. Alaska was pronoune-
ed against fifteen years ago as gold
territory, and it was not earlier
than 1858 when one of the ablest
biologists Missouri ever had was
almost single handed in his claim
that the southeast Missouri lead
veins were more than false assures
and cash veins" and that southwest
Missouri would prove to be one OF
the riehest lead mining regions Of
the world.
Itwas not against the opinions OF
practical miners principally, that
this spacious geologist was obliged
to contend, but more especially the
claims that were made by some
pharisees of his own profession
Whether or not history is to be
implicitly repeated in the Arkansas
zinc country the near future nc
4doubt will tell.
1t is plain that except for the up
lifts which occurred these ores, if they
had previously existed, would still be
far beyond our reach beneath the bed
of vast interior sea. Upon The
occurrence of this upheayal we may
imagine the effect produced by re
ceding volumes of water as they
rolled back and down the inclines
thus tormed-grinding to earth thu
massive rocks and liberating tn,
contained ores, to be carried anC
dumped into numerous canyon:
crevices and caverns that had beer
hurriedly carved in the great rush o
waters.
1t is very evident that when tn,
upift took place there was heav,
drainage with corresponding erosiv,
effect toward the Joplin district, anC
hat conditions there favored tn
reception and retention of the or
thus milled out by nature. Sine
the accumulation there was, an,
ho doubt still is going on, a reor
kanization or reconstruction of orc
Hue to precipitation of mineral solu
tons carried by water charged OF
account OF tiowing through such
formation. We view it then, tina
most Of the ores obtained by shall
lower mining in the Joplin district
and above the formerly recognize,
bed rock to be those OF float whicl
proceeded from nearer the Ozarl
dome and ground out by mature
and also Of reconstruction, or waite
formation.