The Marshall republican. [volume] (Marshall, Saline County, Mo.) 1899-1914, 1909-10-29

able suffering the rest of the day
and next night, but the mining peo
pie made up for it by serving an
elegant luncheon and we were
tempted to "drown our troubles"
in the wines served, but the o her
fellows seemed willing to do so for
US.
On our way out we learned sew
eral important facts. 1he roads
are all of the very best-macadem-
lied with finely crushed rock, OF
which hill after hill, and we might
say, mountain after mountain,
stretched on in endless array in
all directions. Enough to macad-
emize all of Missouri's roads and
then some. This rock is dug out
OF the ground and crushed in ex-
tracing the ore.
The Klondike with ali its gold
and reputation does not produce
the wealth Of this zinc mining dis
trict. AS an illustration o. H. Cen
try, familiar TO some of our read
ers said ne bought five acres of
ground in the suburbs of Joplin
about seven years ago, for $500.
Since then he has rented il 70
truck gardener at SIS per year
and is getting besides about SIS per
week mining royalty from a mn
ing company and expects that he
will realize nearly $4,000 from the
little tract.
Tho mine visited was az Webb
City and was said to be the larg-
est OF the district. Here We found
powerful hosting, grinding and
crushing machinery and while we
could not go underground for fear
OF getting our Sunday duds" dirty
We were very much interested in
the milling process. After the ore
is ground fine it is separated by
passing over a big platform in
flowing water. THE varying
weights of the minerals separat-
ing them by the time they cross
the platform and the sand falling
into the first receptacle, then the
lead, zinc, etc., on the same p:in-
ciple as a wheat separator.
Our Chauffeur Informed us that he
wanted to give us "thriller' on
our return from Webb City 20 Jop-
lin so we waited till the res. of
the machines were well on the way
[ home and made a dash TO: Jop-
, In. The spec dometer showed only
35 miles an hour but We were told
it was the swiftess car in Joplin
and had a record o. - niles an
hour-we were all from Missouri
but for once begged off as 35 miles
is all the thriller we could stand in
such wind as was blowing chat
day. The fine roads make auso-
mobiling pleasure She year
round.
Arriving az the hotel at five, we
again started GU: for the Picher
Lead Co. plant, the only plant of
/
one other on earth like l.. We
Were cordially received by It's
managers and shown through
courtesy seldom extended as they
are working under secret pro-
cess. Entering the enormous plan
We saw large heaps OF lead ore and
some seemed 10 be nearly pure lead
We were told that ulder recent
discoveries and new processes all
waste has been eiminated-even
the poisonous smCka that formerly
killed Vegetation and injured the
community's health being saved by
an ingenious device OF great pipes
and cloth tubes. Here we saw
great furnaces that have their fire
going night and day the year round
and the lead cast into "pigs" and
stored on heaps. Our guide told
us that We could see more than a
million dollars worth OF metal and
We took his word for it because he
Showed u.s."
Here we saw the process of turn
ing out white lead, blue lead anl
htharge. The blue lead room at
tracted special attention as the
blue dust had settled heavily on
everything and gave the surround
ing an unusual appearance. For
fear of giving away trade secrets
We are not going into details fur
ther!
After presenting all the visitors
with a souvenir pig OF lead, we
We're again taken to the hotel, with
the memory OF one of the most un-
usual sights OF years in our minds.
After social hour the time for
the big event of the occasion-the
ban1uet-arrived. 1t was the most