Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-08-04
BIG LEAD N ZINC N
The PesssyIvsnis Mining end MIL
iint Co.. who ewn . Large Trsct
Of Lead Il Morssn County
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While the Democrat has known for
some weeks that the Pennsylvania Min.
ing and Milling Co. had representatives
here developing their mineral lands in
Section ), Range 16, township al, south
Of the big Slower Coal Mines southeast
of this city and also in Section SO, Range
II, township AZ, We have deferred COM
ment upon their movements until We
were positively assured that the facts
could be verified by the parties person.
ally identified with the drilling Of the
shafts.
Last Saturday morning James b.
Small, General Manager Of the Pennsyl-
vania Mining Co. and William Heck
man of cofFeyville, Kansas, who have
been here several weeks looking after
the prospecting, walked into the Demo.
crat Office and laid on Ii table some of
the finest specimens Of rasin jack and
lead ore that it has been our pleasure to
examine in Morgan County. The lead
ore, according to good Judges, being
about IS per cent pure and the zinc
running about g. per cent. The zinc is
of a class that will probably bring IS or
s. on the ton more on the market thar,
the ordinary osr.
Manager Small stated that they had
not been drilling for coal, neither had
they been attempting to ascertain facts
with regard to coal, but they had been
making thorough investigation relative
to lead and zinc and could make af-
fdavit as to what they had actually
found, and this report is based upon his
statment and that Of James Crowder who
did the drilling.
At seventeen feet below the surface in
Section 5 where the crew were drilling
for lead, a vast strata of sheet lead was
found which can be mined in paying
quantities, but the drilling was continued
to thirty feet where the coal vein was
struck and below which the main body
of zinc is located. A. vein of graphite
was also found in thecourse of drilling.
In section thirty six at twenty.tvo
feet below the surface a fine. body of
lead was struck and the drilling vas
discontinued, with plenty of ore in
sight. Manager Small shipped 600
pounds OF the ore taken out to his COM
pany in Pennsylvania for the inspection
of the officers there. He left here last
Saturday for Jefferson City to secure a
charter for operating, as the land is
owned by the company and is not on
she market for sale. The company Is
composed Of Pittsburg and Leschburg
capitalists who know the value of good
mineral property and who will make
things move.
Mr.. Small stated that his company
would fully develop the find and pos.
sibly they would put in a amelter, the
crude ore being some distance from the
spur OH the Rock Island. A large tract
of land adjoining is owned by a Fort
Scott (Kan) Mining Co., and possibly
these companies Will proceed to develop
the section and operate the smelter
jointly. But we are in position to state
that the Pennsylvania Mining Co. will go
ahead with their mining anyway, and
as they have p'enty of capital to back
them their mining Developments will
be pushed on a scale which insures new
and substantial life in the lead and
zinc channels il. Morgan County. The
S,nailhas no hesitancy in advising his
company to so the limit in getting it OIL
the market.