Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-12-08
THE MINES.

Mission mine 10 IN WORKING Oroei
and both the mill and mine are
lighted.
Mr.. ]. G. Howard, who has a large
block of leases across the river, will
within a couple of weeks begin
drilling. He expects to systematic
ally prospect his holdings.
The Baxter Mining Company has
let contract for ten houses, to be
built at the Mission mine The
houses will be used by the work
men, and will be rented to them at
a very low rate.
Isiey & Co., who have lease just
north of the Sun burst mine, are just
getting into their ore. The ground
has been very hard, but they have
persevered and are now coming in.
to their reward.
A good strike was made with q
drill on the Sullivan land, about a
mile north of the Sunny Side and
Dark Horse mine. The Sullivan
land 10 under lease by the Baxter
Mining Company.
The Sunny Side and Dark Horse
people have made q deal whereby
the Sunny Side mill will clean the
Dark Horse ore. The Sunny Side
will run it's dirt through in the fore
noon and the Dark Horse dirt in
the afternoon of each day.
Mr.. E. T. Mccarthy of the Baxter
Mining Company, tells US he 10
making arrangements 10 have a
shaft sunk on the Opperman land,
just south of town. Eight drill
holes have been put down on this
land, and in every one of them good
ore has been found.
Last week the turn-in from our
new mines was az follows: Mission
mine, 109S60 pounds of zinc and 49,.
$50 pounds of lead; Peoria mine, H..
$50 pounds of zinc and 2,26O pounds
of lead; Dark Horse, 1880 pounds of
zinc and LILO pounds of lead. Value
Zinc, s., 800; lead 81 100; total $1,000.
At the Sunburst No. the dirt is
getting richer, and at the Sunburs'
No. .. formerly known as the Post,
three hand jigs have been Installed
and the ore, the major per cent Of
which is free, will be cleaned on
them. The ore is steel jack, in soft
ground, go soft, in fact that drills
can be driven into it.
The Tennessee and Indian Terri
tory Investment and Mining Com
pany, incorporated under the laws
of the Indian Territory, with a paid.
up capital of $4,000, is a new factor
in our new mining field. This com
pany has leases on several hundred
acres of the best mining land in
the Quapaw agency, including the
Max Mirage View Farm, on which
big ore has been found at 30 feet.
This is about three miles south of
the famous Mission mine. The
company is composed of Tennessee
and Georgia people, and it is the in
tention of the company to fully de-
velop its holdings. The officers of
the company are as follows: ]. P.
McNaughton, president and gener-
al manager; J. G. Cummings, vice
president; W. z. Dozier, secretary
and treasurer. The directors are ].
P. McNaughton, J. 6. Cummings,
w. z. Dozier, E. C. Rice, W. A. Ellis,
Oliver F. Gill and B. B. Smythe.
Other parties interested are L. ].
Warren J. p. Dwiggins and ]. G.
Smythe. The parties interested all
live in Tennessee and Georgia, ex-
cept Mr.. McNaughton. The latter
named gentleman held about 1000
acree of leases which have beea as
signed to the company. The com.
pany has drill at work and pro-
poses to prospect the ground thor
oughly. Since the first part of this
item was written we learn that the
ore in the drill hole on the Max Mi
rage Farm has continued from 30
to 20 feet, and is still Ia ore.