The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-03-12
MINING NOTES.

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Mill near Dodd City.
1t is reported that the Mcintosh
mill started up again this week after
several years of idleness.
The Beattie mine, Dodd City dis
triet, having passed into new hands,
is being Systematically worked
Concentrates continue to arrive
here from the Susquehanna, Dodd
City, although the mill is running
bht halfof its time while new drifts
are being made.
| The Searey county Jack Pot has
commenced hauling its concentrates
to Gilbert, eight miles distant, front
which point it will ship until better
facilities are afforded.
Manager w. n. Allen, of the Gil
MIX, returned from Kansas last
week and has again taken up his
residence at the mine which is to be
among the big producers of 1904.
! ID. Sims, of Monarch, was in
town this week, He reports extern
siye prospecting in his neighborhood,
the Binghamton, N. Y, and Parsons,
kars as, companies taking the lead,
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Visitors to the North Star and An
ma inines, on Crooked creek below
Harrison, are at a loss to know why
such mammoth dumps of fine ore
are permitted to remain unmarked
ed. We give it up.
Now that the Fort Smith & North
Arkansas Railroad is a certainty,
scarcely day passes that does not
bring a stranger or two to oureoun-
ty to inspect our timber and mineral
resources.-Jasper Leader
B. Magoffiu, of Duluth, MINI, left
Wednesday after a considerable tour
OF the zinc mines of our district. He
expressed himself as considerably in
terested by what he saw, and will
return shortly to make some invest
ments.
A partition of the Zinc Basin hav-
ing been accomplished giving to the
Uni ed Zinc Co. full ownership of the
north forty, adjoining the Hoodlum
and the Beulah, that company will
proceed soon to a complete develop
ment of their share ofthat promising
| tract.
The Arthur property, in the north
part of this county, will probably be
leased next week to a company
formed among the Frisco Immigra-
ton agents who visited us recently
1t has several tons of good ore al
ready on the dump, and is owned by
the United Zinc Co.
It is not a logical thing to COM
pare the working cost of one mine
with that of another. This can no
more be done, where mines are stu
ted IL. different sections and with
different problems to solve than can
reasonably be compared their re-
speetive yields. -Ex.
Ihlthe zinc markets this week ore
has remained steady, $3S being the
highest price. Producers look for
raise, however, shortly. The assay
basis has not been changed, remain
ing at $33. to $50 per ton of 60 per
cent ore, there having been no incli-
nation displayed to raise it.
AS no railroad system was built in
a day, so no mining prospect was
ever developed in day. If you be-
lieve you own in a good prospect
with competept management, don't
get scared because you fail to get a
dividend in the first six months or
even a year or so.-Mountain Echo.
Burt Bunch, who came up from
the Spears mine this week, brought
the TINES office a handsome speci-
men of the ore from the hundred foot
level, which is now sufficiently open
ed up to guarantee mill stuff for the
full time operation of the mill. Par
ties who have examined the Spears
recently consider it the most ponder
GUS ore body of the section, the
whole shaft side from the sixty to
one hundred foot levels being mass
of disseminated jack.
G. II. Vining, who came in Thurs
day from Kansas City for a visit to
his ranch at Wilmington, says the Ar
kansas Zine field is to be congratula-
ted upon two points which have re-
Gently been opening the eyes ofinves-
tors. In the first place several ofthe
best mines have been able to ship
large quantities of concentrates late
ly in spite of the fact that a wagon
haul is stiH necessary; and in the
second place these concentrates have
sold in the markets several points
higher than even the best grades of
Missouri ore. These facts are espec-
Tally valuable in meeting the chief
arguments of our critics who have
taken the position that our deposits
are superficial and ores of low grade.
The time is past when mere asser-
ton need be taken in these matters;