Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1906-11-29
|UR WONDERFUL
MINERAL DEPOSITS
Iesting Report by Albert Phenis Published in the Man.
ufactuTeTs' Record Of Nov 22nd, 1906, ON The
Lead Zinc and fuOTSpar Of this District

district before the waroperated by
charcoal fuel aud BIS slave labor. and
Ia Lyou county there are still Two
or three charcoal furnace. in opera
ton g. thi, day.
There O.. d lack OF railroad trau,po-
tatiou here. however aud ia compc.
tition with modern method. the iron
minc- % thi- disrict have hule
show 30 recent YEAR. There are
however hn, boilr. pf hematitc ore.
m Cuucuden, Lyon and Living
countic- aud while exact definite
data are Vet 60 boz compiled. il d, thc
belief here that very important
irou-orc deld NAV Vet be- demon.trat-
Cd 60 exist "a thi. section. With
lime. hpur-par aud coal ~ the im.
mediate vicinity. with The inevitable
construction ~ railroad, to open up
the whole district. aud with three
great na,icable streams ,kirtiug the
district the Ohio. Cumberland and
T.uuc,.c, rycr, ia D. DECLARED that
a more favorable location Tor iron.
making ear hardly b, iound
The only notable effort that has
been made - develop che ,rou indus.
uy here on q hig scale Was fu,ilc
undertaking made some is years ago
bl Thomas " I.aw,ou and Boston
associates The fine touu of
Grand Rivers vas laid out at point
where the Tennessee aud Cuubcr
land riyet. come within mile aud
ahslf 81 each other Plans Tor u
great industrial ccuter at Grand Kiy.
~. we're made. q blast furnace was
built aud houses were constructed,
among them = business house for
Lawson made 81 the iron ore % the
district Numrrou, reason, are Civ
cu tor the failure % thi. project
The fact that although the town Wa
on a branch % the ll.inoi. Central
Railroad. 10 Sss - milcs away from
iron ore. Shich had tu b. hauled m
wagons. o. considered ~ an entirely
sufficient explanation " the failure.
10 20 40 iutbcr. although another
might be- suggested ~ the discovery
made quit generally 10 ,hc South
following che town boom era of IL
year, ago that even "a altogether
successful blast furnace II wholly
inadequate foundation IN which to
build a biz industrial center.
Although this mineral district.
composed on the side OF the Ohio
river. 81 the counties Of Crittcnden,
Caldwell, Livingston and lyon, is
at the present time under develop
mcut as to Auorrpar, lead aud zine to
an cKtcut aud on scientific basis
not before reached, II l. the belief that
merely beginning has been made,
and that the next succeeding years
will see u degree Of Development OF
vastly greater importance. In the
light OF what l. expected Of the dis
trict by tho-e Interested, II may be-
commented that nothing in the way
of the marvellous has been achieved
up to the present time. But 1t is
explained that the district ia plated
over with mistakes, aud IT /. declared
that if a man comes m here with
money aud experience OF with u dis
no-;t,ou ,o seek or avail himself of
expert advice as to conditions, geo
logically and mechanically, there Is
not more inviting field anywhere.
Some failures have been made here IN
the auor,par, lead and zinc lines by
parties who had little money and less
experience. aud who proceeded OF
the theory that profitable operations
could be conducted from the grass
roots On the other hand, there