Crittenden record=press., 1907-02-21

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Of this district, as this Is known to
be one of the best undeveloped prop
critics IN the county and could, with
little push, grit and greenback, be
listed among the shippers.
The Schoolfeld.Spees mines will
open for the 1907 season April
l. They are in better shape than
ever before, and expect to make
good progress in the developement
Of their property this year.
There has never been a time when
there was so small amount of huor
spar in the yards at Mexico as there
is just now. There are three tons
of unwashed gravel spar; five ton Of
lump spar, No. 2, and one ton of
No. lump spar, making a total
of fourteen tons. There usually
about 1000 tons.
One can not look over the report
BY H. Foster Balm of the Fluor Spar
Deposits of Southern Illinois without
concluding from the amount of space,
to say nothing Of what is said in that
space, that Hardin county has the
greatest amount of spar in the entire
spar section. 1t also has the best
quality. In his report he says there
two entirely different ways by which
this mineral may have been concen'
trated, One is by the action of the
normal meteoric waters of the region
which may have gathered the scat
tered particles into the veins. The
other is by the action of the heated
waters, either originally meteoic de-
rived from the intruded igneous rock
or in the part from each source. He
further says that 10 the indications
are that the chief agency was heated
waters in segregation and that an es-
sential portion of the load Of these
mines was obtained from large mass
of lower-lying intruded rock, of which
the dikes are the offshoots. What.
ever may have been the origin Of
spar or the other mineral of our coun'
ty does not concern the land owner
so much the indications that lead t
the finding of those minerals. Blu
even this does not concern the Har
din county owners because the min
erals are found on the surface.
This has been done by nearly ever!
owner of 40 acres of land in our coun
ty. spar and lead are found in man!
places on top of the ground. 1t ma.
be we'll to learn what some of tine
minerals are SO they may be know
when found. Fluorite or Fluor Spa
is one of the most beautiful of min
erals, occurring in cubic crystals ant
groups of crystals. Sometimes yer.
large and Of variety Of colors, from
colorless to green, yellow, brown re'
and purple. 1t is common to fn'
angles Of the cube projecting from
the face of another. A very fin
specimen of this kind can be seen ol
table in the Era Office now, whicl
came from the Lead Hill District
These crystals may be cut in variou
shapes by very light stroke Of an edg
ed tool. They yield only when tn
strike is made line with their cleav
age. Fluorite is common minea
in lead veins and is then to form tn
"gaugue'' Of the ore. GaIena. o
Lead Sulphide, is found the Spar
: 1t has cleavage. Much galena car
: ries a small amount of silver, ant
when this is sufficient in quantity t.
justify its being worked for the pre-
cious metal, it is regarded as a sill
verore and called argentiferous galena
! In the Miller mines Of Lead Hill
, quite a little quantity Of silver is be
ing found. 1t now appears that
one can find lead duor spar he is ap
to find lead and silver.-Cave.in
Rock Era.
3 j. N. Boston and Robt. Henr
, Moore bought of Mrs. Nj, G. Alyis