Pocahontas star herald., 1914-03-27


provided by a prospect put the
blazers IN a better state Of mind,
and they wandered over rock and
rill for several hours. looking At
rocks with a side wise glance Of the
mlnerhogisi, and acted as though
they knew the difference between
gold aud silver and a thirty day
note, The conclusion was that
they unanimously voted that there
was gold in the Yell county noun
tains, as claimed by the prospectors,
questions was, II II was TO be found
IN paying quantities. The amateur
prospeetors then turned the head Of
the Pond horse back toward Dan
vile and bumped IT back home.
That there is gold in the Yell
county mountains Is not questioned,
aud Il should be mined at n hand.
some profit, but 1t will take big
money TO take the initial invest
ment. The gold is in limestone
and quartz rock. The quartz bear
ing ore is in great mountains, as
though pushed up by volcanic
action. Dynamite is all that Is
necessary to mine IL, and il can be
earted 10 the stump mills, # they
are ever erected, in chunks weigh.
ING many tones. The surface ore
has been assayed at from SO % $40
per ton. Specimens taken from
shafts, which have been crudely
sunk IN the hills 60 as high as $40
per ton, so there Is no telling how
rich the ore Is considerable dis.
tlnoe from the surface.
Gold IN Yell county Is no new
thing. Old prospectors have
worked in that section for years,
aud one ground up rock enough TO
extract the metal sufficient to draw
sl7 so for what he sent to the mint
in New Orleans. Dardenelle jew
elers are among those who are
stalking out claims IN the Yell
county hills, and they claim TO have
ground some Of the ore in cruci-
BILE, sesuring considerable gold.
There has not yet been real
rush to the gold fields. for the land
are not all open 10 entry, aud 1t
has not yet been established il The
gold Is there in pagaug quantities
The report Of government mineral
ogists will Be evaltei anxiou,ly On
tins.
Considerable Of the laai in the
gold hearing sec'ion /. owned by
much mora Is in the
forest reserve, ana tbo
groiiee qna'iiy IS held By the .Drom-
mon Lumber Company, nofthern
coueeru. Thi lumber company &c.
qnirei considerable IF the Santa Fc
railroad arid laud claims, and after
a bill had been loob.ed through
congress to permit an exchange Tor
vacant lands in other sections Of the
United States, 10 which the govern
ment had title, they settled on the
Arkansas land, choosing a strip
fourteen by thirty six miles in Yell
county. On this land Is the finest
pine timber in the state. 1t is
worth millions Of dollars.
1t Is the claim Of mining engineers,
who have been working IN The Yell
county field that the lumber com
pany did not secure the timber
rights, and they have taken the
matter up with the General Land
Office in Washington TO secure a
final answer. As the government
did not surrender mineral rights to
land granted railroads in Arkansas,
il Is thought the same system was
in vogue in New Mexico, where the
Santa Fc was entltled to lands, and
which the government lated wanted
for forest reserve. Resting as
sarod that thcY will be upheld in
lhsir claims for mineral rights
many are fling claims ON tbe
Drammond lands and Uill oppose
efforts 20 the lumber company TO
iepose them.
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