Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-10-25
UNITED STATES
CE0L OGICAL SURVEY
Mr.. C. Z. SiebsnfhaI, Assist
ant 0soIogisf Here
20 Make 10.
An Arss 20 Niles Lsng by - Miles
Wide 70 Dsing Mapped.

ing the attention of others thar
investors and is taking high rank
as a mining area is evidenced by
a movement now on foot by the
government at Washington in
sending a corps of engineers into
this locality to make geological
survey of the camp and contigu'
GUS territory and creating a new
mining quadrangle.
Mr.. C. E. Siebenthal, Assistant
Geologist of the United States
Geological Survey, has arrived at
Baxter Springs to begin a geolo-
gical survey of the Wyandotte
quadrangle which includes the
Baxter Springs mining camp in
the Quapaw Reservation south OF
this city. This area reaches from
the Kansas line on the north to a
line six miles south of Grove on
the south, and from two miles
west of Alton to, and including
a strip five miles wide in Mis-
souri,, and is thirty miles long
north and south and twenty-seven
miles wide east and west. That
portion of the quadrangle includ-
ed in the Cherokee Nation was
surveyed and geographically
mapped in 1897. The remaining
portion is now being accurately
mapped by a United States Geol-
|ogical Survey topographic party,
in charge of Mr.. c. G. Anderson.
The larger, northern portion OF
this area has already been COW
cred, and the party is now
camped in the Seneca Reserva-
ton. 1t is expected that the
whole area will be completed by
the middle of December. Special
maps on double the usual scale
have been made of the regions
where mining is or has been in
progress. In addition to the fea-
lures shown on the general maps,
such as topography, drainage,
roads, houses, ETC., these special
maps show the mines, mills and
shafts, together with the topo-
graphic features in greater de-
tail.
The geological work will in
clude the investigation of the
whole area, the areal mapping OF
the different formations, and the
gathering of specimens and fos-
sils to aid in the accurate lithol-
ogic description and age deter
mination of the formations, as
we'll as the mineral contents.
In the regions where prospect
ing and mining have been en-
gagged in, a special economic
survey will be carried on. The
preliminary description of the ore
deposits of the region will pro-
bably appear in the Economic
Bulletin, a volume published by
United States Geological Survey
! in June of each year, giving the
: advance results of the previous
years work. Complete geologi'
: cal description will appear as the
Wyandotte Geologic Folio. The
mining geology of the area viii
: appear in the general report
dealing with the ore deposits oi
the Joplin district which is now
in preparation.
Of almost equal interest with
. the geologic survey of the Wyan'
dotte quadrangle to the inhabit'
ants of that region is the geologic
folio of the Joplin district by the
United States Geological Survey,
, This report prepared by W. s
! TanRier Smith and c. E. Sieben'
thai, is now in press and will bt
ready for distribution about
January. On account of thu
: similarity of geologic conditions
: in the Joplin district to those in
I 1.-THE Wyandotte Quadrangle, the
principles of ore deposition and
) Ioccnrrence worked out for the
. former area, viii probably apply
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