Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-05-03

lHlS COuHtis' ihV S""'N
ouri Electric Railway Company,
which has line from Carthage,
Mo-, 10 Galena, Kansas, Is going to
build from the latter place 10 Co
lumbus this summer, and the road
will come through this city. Work
ON the survey is now being done,
The road will connect at Columbus
with the road OF the Pittsburg Elec-
trio Company, which Is now being
built from Pittsburg TO Columbus.
Baxter cprines is going to grow.
There Is nothing In the way, now.
With the best agricultural country
on all sides, mineral all around the
town, good railroad facilities, good
schools, good churches, good society,
modern conveniences, and u desirable
townsite. Baxter~Springs offers III
ducements to parties hunting 4 de-
sirable place to live all that can be
asked.
The Baxter Springs mining dis
trict, which has sprung into exist
ence within the past three years, Is
busy place. No less than 10 differ
ent companies are operating In the
camp. and they are almost UNIVERSAL
~ successful. The ore Is found
from 10 to 81 feet in blanket forma-
ton, and inside of the proven area
Is found in almost every drill hole
put down, except where ribs" or
"bars" are found. These things are
found in every lead and zinc district,
but there seems to be less OF them
here than anywhere else. The roy
alties In the Baxter Springs district
are very low, as compared with 9TH
er districts, and this accounts for
the very rapid development OF the
camp. Tie mines are all on Indian
lands, in the Quapaw reservation.
The Indians are allowed to lease
their lands, and in most instances
have done so. The Quapaw Indians
arc destined to become the richest
Indians in the world. The royal
ties from the minerals mined OH
their lands will make them so.
In the Baxter Springs mining dis
trict seven modern concentrating
plants are now in operation. and
work is being pushed on three others.
Before the end of the present year
there will be at least ten more mills
built. This will make, by the end
of the year, twenty modern concen-
trating plants in operation in this
camp. And there are numerous
hand jig plants. Not less than 100
shafts are now going down, and in
every one of them ore will he found.
The ground is first drilled, and
where the drill penetrates a body OF
ore there a shaft is sunk. Over the
ore is a solid limestone roof, some
thing very desirable from q mining
standpoint. The solid roof makes
timbering unnecessary, and Is q
great protection to the workmen In
the ground. In the past three years
there has not been fatal accident
in the district. This is something
unusual in mining camp.
Lead and zinc mining is now look
ed upon as legitimate business, and
capital is investing in such busi-
ness. The ore market Is good, and
has been for long time. The out
put of zinc ore is not keeping pace
with the demand, and 1t Is because
of this that the Baxter Spring camp
is going to make a wonderful devel-
opment, and lots of men rich, with
in the next few years. The proven
area is big one, and we predict
that with the work already done
there is enough ore in sight to last
for the next fifty years. Being a
new camp, the Baxter Springs dis
trict is one to tie to.