The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1901-01-03
The Mccormick Mineral District
OF Taney County, Missouri
Related System Of Mineral Territory to the Interest
ing Occurance Known to Minors as the
ssTen O'Clock Rum

in progress which may he at some
future time mean fine complete con-
southeast Missouri and north Arkan,
sas.
In the course Of weeks tour u
careful examination of the more inn
portant properties OF this section
was made, and reports upon their
character may be summed up about
as below.
The limited time at command in
fhis district prevented visit 10 ell
the prospects, so that, in Instances,
but one locality upou tracts of so
to coo acres receives noticr: these
localities have beeu selected however
with view 10 indicating the gcner-
FL formation.
The Anna Lee, ne NV 81, %, 21.
The surface in this case. is deeply
eroded bv drain arteries of the Caney
tork on Turkey creek: and i'll conse-
quence the result is an exposure of Il
mineral-bearing series, all ore bear
ing saicious limestone one hundred
feet thick in sight at tue eastern
boundry of the property. The open
ing on which its mineral character is
based carries lead and jack ussociat-
cd in a containing material which
will average 33 per cent, Tie con
tanning material. Il siiicaie Of zinc is
OF the Howell county character used
in the manufacture of oxide nj the
West Plains plant. Though sufficient
| work has been done, and the ore bed
twenty feet thick III sight, where it
has been reached without shaft
| the owners propose to expose the ore
| for many hundred feet exclusive OF
the big showing male at this time
| The owners are the McCOrfnick
Bros. OF Powers, Taney county, Mo
The first opening visited on the
| Clavenger property sw sw 81, 22, 2l
middle fork of Claveuger creek. is soc
! feet below the mountain top Of the
locality. Five shots have been pu,
into light brown magnesion rock
which appears to cap the mineral
series in this case as in other parts OF
the White river uplift, the southern
boundry of which is the Buffalo
river in Newton. Marion aud Searcy
counties. Arkansas. The exposure
is complex ore consisting of &
suiphide form of lead, carbonate OF
lead. and silicate of zinc known aS
DurhaiEitc.
The Mountain Lake properly, sly
sw 6, u, p, was prospected upon
The same grounds of other holdings
that of establishing the geological
column of the Clavenger basin. The
mineral series in This case was fOunt
lower down than on any property
visited in fancy county. The geo
l0glcal column Is as I0iiOWs: laFtnaSt
limestone. silicious limestone, chertA
limestoue, sandstone, silicious lime
stone, quartzite. mineral-bcarin+
limestone WHAT it lacks III heigh
is compensated for in the c,aracte!
of the mineral series. One point j,
particular, that OF the S.ramor'
Spring, will illustrate this, and is TIN
point at which it was suggested t.
the owner that prospecting stonl,
be done On an adjoining fractiona
forty quite an iron cap to tlie miner
al-bear;ng rock was seen. 1t consist
of ferro-magaDese, and occur
immediatls over the strata calling
for ore. 1t is quite All object lessor
iu view of It's appearance SO faI
down, and iii tracing the maganes'
it was found that In the outset i
must have consisted of quite a bod,
Of ore The presence Of which is &C
counted for by the cavernous charac