Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1905-07-13
MINING NEWS
There is a Bright Prospect for the
SchooIfeId-Spees Mine.
ZINC FOUND NEAR MARION |


Gated in Livingston couny, two aud a
half miles east of the town Of Cars
willie aud about one mile from the
Ohio river IN direct line. The vein
which this company proposes to de-
yelop runs in a northern direction
and j. the same vein the Fairyicw
Mining company is working in llli-
nois
The assure il 9 feet wide; the walls
are Limestone aud are vault, one
wall beginning at the surface and the
other 40 feet below the surface. On
the west wall (Which is the foot WALL
vein Of spar i inches thick adj
heres, and just outside Of the spar a
ribbon of sulphide zinc q to : inches
thick is formed, the spar aud zinc
cutting across the assure from wall
TO wall in many places being from q
10 IL inches thick
The company behind the venture
have met and overcome many obsta.
cles, sparing neither time nor money
in the venture. but they are deter
mined to pcrscyerc until success shall
crown their efforts. The venture H.
no will C. the wisp prospecting, but a
steady, stable enterprise, which when
carried 10 completion will not only
benefit the company but the commu-
nifty a. we'll.
The pcrmanency i not questioned
when We see what THE company has
ON the ground. They have a good
corrugated iron building, 25x5O feet,
which j. now filled with up-to-dste
machinery.
They have a good pair Of vertical
hosting engines, ose horizontal en-
CINE, one 30 light Croker Wheeler
dynamo, fan, forge. electric light
wire and other equipments, two up
right tubular boilers Of - horse pew
er capacity, Huston, Stanwood Il
Gamble makers, One Laidlaw Du,n-
Gorion duplex pump of 200 gallsns
per minute capacity, a tramway 300
feet Icing, with the latest improved
dumping car, together with several
hundred feet of iron piping, hose,
drills hammers and many other tools
aud parts which go Ia make up a con-
Plete mining outfit.
In fact the equipmeSa is comp =
in every detail and has cost the com
pany several thousand dollars and
President SchoolGeld considera-
Bile trouble and expense besides, to
collect aSd install this plant.
Blu, as this vein is certainly rich
in good mineral the company will in
the end reap abundant reward for its
persistence aud outlay in cash and
time. The people of the Carrsville
neighborhocd should be proud of the
Schoo6ed-Spees mines, for if by
their staying qualities this company
succeeds it will certainly be a great
advantage to all property holders in
this end of the county. So why not
this vicinity encourage in every
usy these mines to successful de-
& Felopment for in a sense their success
neans success to every farmer and
= Ind owner.
|I The outlook is certainly bright,
s aims aud money will win in the
Nj, and the way things appear now
ccess is much nearer than failure.
Besides the fixtures, ETC., mention
above, there are three deep shafts,
e main shaft being 100 feet deep,
+ other two merely sunk to inter-
the water supply. One has been
u y oented with concrete. so soon as
( r. ector Abbott returns from Coving
work will resumed and pushed
orously.
is again demonstrated by those
have been quietly working with
pitable perseverance among the
eposits of Claiborne county that