Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-05-21

ration and will be published by
the survey in late summer.
In the grand clean up that will
be made in the hereafter. there
will of course be a large represen-
tation OF mining men; at least We
hope there will be, as some of US
will need their services badly to
do a little mining for water. There
will be one class of miners, how.
ever, who will probaly have to
stand the heat. It's the ones that
are always and eternally finding
fault with other peoples property.
For instance, on the Columbia
mine a contract has been let for a
first class 80 ton daily separating
plant; The parties letting 1t have
been in the business of mining
and smelling the class of ores pro
duced here for a decade. 1t is to
be presumed they know their bus
mess. at least up to this time no
one has ever questioned that fact,
yet we are told by one OF these
"knowalls" that a bucket of ore
occasionally is all that this great
property will produce, and that IL
is foolish to erect a separating
plant.
In the deep shaft on the Mem.
phis grounds, belonging to the
Kentucky Fluor Spar company,
zinc blende made its appearanc e
at 160 feet. The Mineral Point
Zinc company, through an arrange
ment with the Fluorspar people
for taxing over their zinc show.
hinge in their various properties
commenced work here. At l84
feet in this shaft galens lead ore
and fuor spar came in very heavi.
ly with but little, IL any, zinc. Az
il is zinc and not lead that the
Mineral Point Zinc company de.
sired, they having large zinc
plant at Mineral Point, Wisoon.
sin, they notified the Fluorspal
company, who are already taking
out great quantities Of loaded auol
spar from the same ground, thai
they would commence work on the
holly instead, another shaft that
shows strongly in Jack and now
the party tells US that the Mem
phis mine has pinched out on ac'
count of the Mineral Point people
stopping work.
| But about the worst is the Fife
tower lie regarding the "Old jim
mine. The owners of this prop
erty have probably been at more
trouble and expense in procuring
and disseminating knowledge re-
garding our various ores than any
one else in the field, and il we re.
member rightly the very people
who would gloat over falling off
in revenues of the Old Jim were
the very people whom Blue q
Mum took especial pains to teach
the A, B, G, OF the mineral king.
dom; and not only that, but in va.
rious ways, and in ways that only
a large, broad minded, established
concern could do. to forward their
interests. In the deposition Of
zinc ores in the Old Jim mine ma.
ture was in an extraordinary liber.
al mood; no other property in the
world can duplicate it. Still ma
ture took her usual course, and
where there was a crevice 60 feet
wide she filled it with zinc as she
did the openings of but "a inches
still, wherever there was the slight,
est cavity it was filled to the brim
In the natural order of events
thousands of tens of zinc have
been marketed, other thousands
are being marketed, and other
thousands are being mined fol
market. The Old Jim mine today
shows the most remarkable ton
mage of both carbonate and Jack
that it ever has had at any time
during its entire workings; and
vet we are told by these individu-
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