The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1901-01-26

powerful electrical current. Certain
members of the list have been forced
to state of gas while in other in
stances the purely gaseous have been
converted, first into a liquid and
next a solid. From what is already
been revealed through chemical and
electrical investigation, 1t is neither
improbable nor unreasonable to
suppose that all solid and liquid
matters, including the various min
erals, are convertible into gases and
that they once occupied the gaseous
states, some of which are so highly
volatile as to be, to our feeble senses
imponderable, intangible, and almost
incomprehensible. While such re-
Elections as to why's and wherciores
may betoo prosaic and philosophical
for this money-searehing age, they
nevertheless have value with the
subject of mineral formation, and
without some reasonable under
standing of natures laws and work
ings we might as well he living in a
world of chance. Nothing could
have SO successfully guided the early
Spanish and French miners in the
Ozarks except well founded princi-
Piles and outward manifestations
with which they had previously be-
come familiar in other lands.
Every well experienced miner
knows that where great bodies of
mineral exist there are sure to be
seen somewhere IN proximity the
marks oil former disturbance, such
as assures. dykes, faults or slants,
together with disqualification and
other exhibits that he so Familiarity
refers to as mineral blossom"
This IS northumberland .sa
narrowly as to include every space
where mineral is to be found, tor the
cause to mineralize was effected
through the various seams and po-
rous AVENUES to points remote from
the immediate place of great action,
so that in instances the larger bodies
of ore are proved to exist away from
where the greatest power was exer-
ted the disqualification and ore for
nation was subjected to a slower
process; the crystals were produced
in more perfect form, and larger, and
the mineral in greater body.
This being the practical observa-
ton, to what can we ascribe the
wonderful power which disarranged
the rocks that were formed from
sedimentary deposits at the bottom
of this inland, tranquil sea. We say
tranquil tor the reason that under
no other circumstances could such
| uniformity OF texture as possessed
by the country rocks alluded to have
been attained. There are to be OBJ
served really no distinct evidences of
a rapid current. For myriads of
years the waters nourished living
creatures without number, the re-
mains of which through lapse of
time are about obliterated through
alteration into the various lime
stones OF which they form the prin-
cipal part.
We have no ground, from evidence
furnished by the underlying crystal
line (granite) rocks themselves, for
an opinion that this upheaval and
disruption occurred or originated
within that body, or that the force
came from deep seated region near
err to the earth's center, the suppos-
ed interior Inferno. These aged pro-
trusions bear every mark of freedom
from an uplifting, downthrowing or
disloeating energy. speechless and
unsecured they point back, possibly,
to a time when the suns rays had not
reached our sphere. Because certain
investigators failed to find, in Ark
ansas, active VOLCANOES that belched
forth birthstone and fire, or the re-
mains of those that had ceased to do
so through exhausted energy, they
shook their heads wisely and pro-
nounced adversely Had they taken
the time and trouble there are num-
crous places they might have seen
where the Powers Of Nature played,
more probably at different times, in
a manner which would have render
ed it terrible if not very dangerous
for man to be a behoder.
| II this disruption was not due to a
power either in or beneath the gran
lite, then it must have been caused by
some contained element or force
within the everything sedimentary
formations. This unquestionnbly
was the case, and that the energy
was great is assured by existing
toults, assures and inclines given to
. The rocks, together with their har.
dered, Aintv and crystallized condi.
iiun. As a drill hand in an instance
expressed it, "the rock looked as
{ though il had been eaten up or barn.
ed"
Although the question OF the orig
! ir / petroleum was a mooted one
thcte who have given the subject
} thefloscst attention and thought
( arc. bout united in opinion ofits be-
J ina eproduct from the juicy or gas
J eoi po'dons Of both vegetable and