The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1901-02-28
FORSYTH MO-, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY %. 1901

from the top, the refuse of it resolves
itself into the different kinds of stone,
in this country greater part of it
being lime. This is beautifully illus
trated by the formation of stalagmites
in caverns.
Mr.. Powell had spent probably two
months in the coal regions. He says
we do not find anv pure carbon in
the coal. If it could lie for thou
sand years longer, the coal would be
better.
Then, speaking of the Arkansas
zine field. he said: 81 believe, when
approaching White river from the
breaks of those creeks running into
it such as Buffalo aud it's tributaries
Rush Greek and Buffalo to Big Flat
you might say down to Butord, in
all those bills reaching across, forty
miles this side Of Batesville, up as far
as Buffalo, the streta of zinc are mex
haustible. I believe it is mixed with
enough Of galcna that it is an invit-
ing field for the industries of smelt.
ing. Below the breaks extending in-
to Douglas county Mo-, and south in
to Baxter county, Ark.-I believe
there is plenty of gold there. Buford
seems to me to he about the center
oc IIsn T cnrnricoh
A man that was plowiDg in a field
near there said, 4 can show you
where they dug lead for bullets l
found it to be true. There in the
mountain it was nearly pure.
"After crossing on this side OF
White river, leaving Protein, I no.
ticcd there evidences of mineral. l
find there is galena in those hills.
The presence of porlhyry on top OF
| the ground is an indication Of MINER
al in the interior. When find large
bunches Of flint, porphyry and tiff
mixed together it indicates the pres
ence of zinc"
The speakers attention was called
to some massive specimens from near
the surface, supposed to contain zinc,
which called for the following COM
ments: "There are on top of the
ground a number of stones very por-
ous that have been down into the
ground. They have been changed
by the action of water. The watef
will decompose one or more compo.
nents Of the rock and leave the
others. All Of these rocks on top in
the zinc district have more or less o1
the zinc in them" He was then ask.
ed, "Is there any large deposits of zinc
in the lime formations?" He replied
by stating that it is difficult to find
anywhere zinc that there is not more
or less lime, and for illustration re-
terred to the mining camps of Joplin
and CRANKY, stating that on the edges
of the prairies near there the forma-
tions are of limestone. He said
where the zinc is found in large de-
posts in the lime, you will Away
find pack-sand and flint.
! The rest Of the speakers discourse
consisted principally of random re
marks concerning specimens that HI
would pick up from the collection Of
, to which his attention would be call
ed by members of the audience. HI
spoke of the plumbago aud pyrites il
number of the specimens. lie not
), ed the presence of more or less sill
yer in the Tancy county ores. Speak
/ ing of specimen from DePew's lant
: he said: .'lt is q formation from th'
, top, mostly sand; there is little sill
t YER in it, but it is very small pc
8 cent" Then referring to a specimel
3 from the Anna Lee, he said, eel woul,
. rather look for silver here than ther
i. there is better per cent Of silver il
g this" But the King Solomon or
l seemed to attract Mr.. Powell's atten
J. ton more than the others as regard
f Ell the presence of silver. He sale
8 .'rhere is certainly enough silver i
: this to pay for extracting it. Their
d is silver all through that" Bein
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