The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1902-02-06
LIVINGSTON AND
CRlTTESOEN COUNTIES
Are Also Suffering from the Great
Sleet Storm.
MORE NEWS ABOUT SPAR MINES.
The Two Counties are Attracting Foreign
Capitalists BY Their Great
Mineral Resources.
MATrooN. XIV. Feb. 3.

by the people OF this county. Tele-
graph and telephone lines are down
and broken all over the county. 1t
is reported that there is not tele-
phone line In operation in the city
of Marion. 1t Will cost the Illinois
Central Railroad Company several
hundred dollars to repair the tele-
graph line along the road. Orchards
are ruined, and worse than all, the
timber is damaged beyond estima-
ton. Should a person unacquainted
with the circumstance pass through
here after this he would think the
country had been visited by disas-
trous cyclone.
Miss Rosa Kevil closed her school
at Bordley, Union county, Friday,
and returned to her home in Marion.
Examination for common school
diplomas was held last week in Ma
rion by County Superintendent
Paris.
There is not case of smallpox in
Marion. About 1000 people have
been vaccinated since Nov. /, and
there. is no material left for the dis
ease to work on.
Mr.. Guy Griffith left this county
last week for Mexico City, where he
has a position as a teacher in one of
the schools of the historic old city.
His sister, Miss Alice Griffith, has
been In Mexico two years engaged
in missionary work.
Mrs. Rebecca Grissom, an old and
highly respected lady, died at her
home in Marion last Saturday eve
ming after an illness of several weeks.
The funeral services were held at
the residence Sunday, conducted by
Rev. w. r. Gibbs. The remains
were laid to rest in the family grave
yard at the old Grissom farm.
Mr.. J. J. BoytOn, of Princeton, KY,
who has been boring for oil for some
time on the farm of w. +. O'Hara
four miles from Princeton, this week
brought to town some pulverized
stone. The stone was taken from
the bottom of the well at depth of
800 feet. 1t has the color of crude
petroleum. The prospects of oil in
Caldwell county are flattering and
Mr.. Boyton thinks it is matter of a
few days until he has oil in abund-
ance.: 90 NeAH8e@1eknewhAfs
NeedmOre ~ Yes, NeedmOre, that
used to be the name of the little
hamlet in the southwestern part of
Crittenden county that now bears
the euphOnious name of Frances,
and was so called in honor of the
wife of EX-President Cleveland. A
representative of the tale of Two
Cities" made a tour through the
spar fields surrounding that quaint
little hamlet last week and was as
tonished at the developments that
are taking place there in mining
fiuOr spar, the valuable mineral that
is now revolutionizing the manufac-
turing and working of iron and steel.
Nineteen years before the same pen
cil-pusher was at the same hamlet,
and when he asked the name of their
little town and was told that it was
"Needmore," and when he took a
look at the impoverished soil he be-
came thoroughly convincedthat the
name was no MISSIONER, and was the
most appropriately named town in
the United States.
The town has undergone quite a
change. Several business houses
and residences now adorn it, and the
only hotel is kept by Judge Pogue,
father of the Hon. Marion Pogue, the
popular representative from Critten-
den and Livingston counties. From
almost a dreary waste, that section
of the country surrounding Frances
has become veritable beehive.
Miners, prospectors and capitalists
all come in a rush to better their fl
uancial condition by developing the
spar mining business.
Almost within stones throw of
Frances is located the Ashridge
mines, which were opened about two
years ago. This mine is worked by
four or five men, and it was learned
that the profits on the spar taken
from that mine last year were over
$1,000. The vein is almost mex
haustible, and it is claimed can be
worked profitably for the next fifty
years. Within eighty feet of the
Ashridge mine is the McClelland
nine, which promises to be even a
greater producer of spar than the
Ashridge. The mine has been OPEN
ed since the first of December by Mr..
f. A. McClelland, who represents All
! Eddyville company. He has leases
and options on some very valuable
mineral lands and opened SIX or
eight small mines or prospect holes.
two or three becoming paying mines
from the second or third day after
beginning. MIR. McClelland is an
experienced mineral man, having
been engaged in the mining business
in Indiana for a good many years
before coming to Eddyville. He is
an expert on spar and is already
quite familiar with the location and
course of the various spar veins.
Three kinds of spar are found in
seemingly ineXhaustible quantities
the sand, the gravel and the rock
spar, which sell at from So to $18 per
ton. This spar is considered very
high grade, and is hauled to Mexico,
a station on the o. V. branch of the
| Illinois Central railroad, four and
One-half miles from Frances. 1t
costs only 20 to 40 cents ton to get
the spar mined and from So cents to
$l.25 to haul by wagon to Mexico.
The Hodge mine, said to be the
largest and best paying spar mine in
the world, is only one and one-half
miles from Frances. 1t puts ou.
from 40 to 60 tons day. Mr.. John
ME Hodge, upon whose land this
mine is located, it is said gets $4,000