Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-10-30
Attracts Attention.
The New Kansas Field is Being
Inquired About

The new hanSaS WluiuB HSAu
Just west and southwest of Bax
ter Springs is attracting a grea'
deal of attention from the out
side world. The News is in
daily receipt of inquiries from all
parts of the country asking about
the new discoveries, and we are
doing our best to answer all In
Iquiries.
The finds being made are sim
ply wonderful, and it will not be
very long until the whole country
out west of town is in a wonder
full state of development.
Two drill rigs are running on
the Foley land, and a rig is at
work on the Toovey land.
On the Foley land a big body
of ore has been penetrated, and
drills are now at work to deter
mine the area of the ore body,
to fix in the minds of the parties
interested the sort of formation
which lies over the ore, and the
kind of ground the ore is found
lin. The thickness of the ore
body seems to be plenty, some
thing like eighty feet of ore be-
ing penetrated.
The ninth hole is going down
on the Toovey land, and it is
bound to 60 into ore, as have the
other eight.
The parties who have the lease
on the Pros Chubb land, we un-
derstand, will resume drilling op-
erations very soon, and thorough
Ily drill out this land. Several
strikes have been made.
Ore has been found in two
holes on the Naylor land.
Ol. Youse has drilled the Scott
Jarrett land so thoroughly that
he is we'll satisfied as to the large
extent of the ore area there.
D. s. Chubb has leased his
land, and work will begin on it
right away. The lease calls for
lot of work.
]. M. Daugherty and Walt
Apple have gone into nice body
of ore on the Wright land, and
we understand will do a lot more
drilling.
Jim Barnes has made some
good strikes of ore at the south
end of Blue Mound, and is at the
present time drilling on the Lind
sey land, on the east side of Blue
Mound. He is confident of max
ing a good strike there, and his
judgment is good, or, it may be
his luck, for he has made a lot
of phenomenally rich strikes the
past few months.
At the Mcconnell & Barnes
diggings, on Tar creek, work is
being pushed on the concentrat-
ing plant, and within three or
| four weeks the mill will be pour
ing out a steady stream of high
grade ore, both lead and zinc.
The No. 2 shaft is going down
toward the ole body very rapidly.
The two shafts will be cut to-
gether. This is on the Kenoyer
land. Just across the road on
the Oscar Cardin land they are
sinking another shaft.
On the Wilbur land ore has
been found in about a dozen holes,
and we understand this land will
be equipped with shafts and mills
before many months.
Within twelve months a lot of
good farm land is going to be
ruined out in the new Kansas
mining field, the ruin being the
result of a lot of good lead and
zinc mines.
Mark oY prediction.
Jim Barnes has brought in an
other big strike in the new field
On the L. L. Cardin land he has
gone into lead and zinc ore at
22O feet, and at the time this
was written the drill was still in
good ore at $50 feet. The for
-mation is the same as that found
on the Kenoyer land, and proves
that bed of ore to be very extern
sive, as the drill hole on the Car
din land is about a mile from the
| .-oua. osa ,paa nf kba RarnyaP