Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-09-14
ZINC BELTS FUTURE
SAID TO Be BRIGHT
Good Outlook for Grant and
Iowa County Mines.
Information Concerning the Workings
Of Number of tina Best Proper
ties in This Section.

Mining experts of the Wisconsin
zine belt say that this section has a
prosperous future before it, despite
the fact that many of the large pro
ducers have been idle for months.
SeveralprOperties in Grant and Iowa
counties that were abandoned O.
year ago are to be reopened with
better equipments and railroad facl-
lities. The steady improvement in
the market conditions has furnished
a new impetus to the zinc mining
industry and the ''old reliables",
such as the Empire and Enterprise,
are proving their ability to do some
thing that a certain white pugilist
could not do.
The Empire is recovering car Of
ore daily. New workings have been
opened up and proof is being furn-
ished every week that large deposits
of ziuc are to be found under the
old workings.
There is theory held by many
experts that great wealth will be
brought to the district by eastern
corporations who plan to carry on
their zine mining operations to some
extent below the clay bed.
Hitherto work has usually been
abandoned at this level 1t is said
that eastern capital will make bad"
ore pay good dividends.
In other districts the low grade
of the zinc ore has not hindered
operations to any great extent I'M
less the deposit were too small to
warrant the development of the
mine.
The Big Four. the Homestead,
the Kohinoor, Blonde and the Grant
County are to be opened with new
equipments and good financial back
ing.
Ten practical miners have leased
the Enterprise and intend to make
good money out of the old property,
if hard work counts for anything.
The Klar Piquett has bright pros
poets and is planning for season of
unusually heavy production. The
st. Rose and the Foresight are ship
ping large quantities of high grade
ore.
The O. p David at Montfort is a
mine in which Lancaster citizens
are especially interested. It now
ranks with the big fellows and shows
no inclination to play out IN the
very near future.
Near Livingston and Miff1in are
the COker. Ellsworth, Slack, B. M
q b.. Peni and Peacock mines in
all of which Lancaster people are
more or less interested. All look
forward to a prosperous season.
Hazel Green has two steady pro
ducers the Kennedy and Mills.
Development work seems to indi-
cate that in the near future there
will be others added to the list Of
the famous old mining town.
Cuba City is represented by the
folIowing-al good ones: Baxter,
Dali. Henrietta, Sampson and Peace
f1l Valley.
When the fact that most of the
above named properties are already
steady producers is considered 1t
will be seen that Wisconsin mining
men have good reason to be Opti-
mistic. The eastern corporations
that have recently discovered"
Southwest Wisconsin are fnan-
cially able to introduce modern me-
thods of mining, to develop new
properties, to make ore pay that has
hitherto been considered worthless,
and to carry on their operations at
a lower depth than ever before. If
the ore market continues to improve
in tone and the fasteners do what
is expected of them our mining
towns can look forward to bright
future.