The Prescott daily news., 1914-03-26
CORRESPONDENT VISITS
 ARK KANSAS GOLD FIELD
Satisfied that There is Gold in Yell County. Assays From Six DOl- lars to Twenty Dollars
 Per Ton.

l lSluiDR JO luS luSI lOi BOAuB CiS Little Rock correspondent of The Prescott Daily News, last week made a trip to the mountains of Yell county accompanied by T. l.. Pound editor of the Danville Democrat, to look the gold fields over, and, to officially re- port upon the value of the discovery.
 Thirty miles back the editors drove; thirty miles of uninterrupted bliss. The road was knotty, bumpy, and in many places it was absolutely with out bottom, but Editor and Post master Pound was driving fiery steed, and he seemed to be absolutely without feeling. The horse was forced to trot in places where mon key would have found it difficult to climb. Eight hours of this put an eX- plorer in a sore condition of mind, body and soul, and he cared not whe ther Scott or Peary discovered the poles, or whether Arkansas was gold 24k fine, with diamond settings.
 A nights rest on the feather bed provided by prospector put the trail blazers in better state of mind and they wandered over rock and Till for several hours, looking at rocks with the sidewise glance of the minerolo- gist, and acted as though they knew the difference between gold and sill yer and thirty day note The con clusion was that they unanimously voted that there was gold in Yell county mountains, as claimed by the prospectors, but the question was, if it was to be found in paying quanti- ties. The anna teur prospectors then turned the head of the Pound horse back toward Danville and bumped it back home.
 That there is gold in the Yell coun- ty mountains is not questioned, and it should be mined at handsome pro- fit, but it will take big money to make the initial investment. The gold is in limestone and quartz rock. The quartz bearing ore is in great noun tains, as though pushed up by volcan- ic action. Dynamite is all that is necessary to mine it, and it can be carted to the stamp mills, if they are ever erected, in chunks weighing many tons. The surface ore has been assayed at from $6 to $20 per ton. Specimens taken from shafts, which have been crudely sunk in the hills, go as high as 800 per ton, so therc is no telling how rich the ore is con siderable distance from the surface.
 Gold in Yell county is no new thlng Old prospectors have worked in that section for years, and one ground up rock enough to extract the metal suf- ticient to draw $l7.50 for what he sent to the mint in New Orleans. Dardanelle jewellers are among those who are stalking out claims iu the Yell county hills, and they clain n to have ground some of the ore in cru cible, securing considerable gold
 There has not yet been req rush to the gold fields, for the lands are not open to entry, and it has not yet been established if the gold is there in paying quantities. The report of the government mineralogists will be awaited anxiously on this.
 Considerable of the land in the gold bearing section is owned by individ- uals, much more is in the national forest reserve, and the greater quan- tity is held by the Drummon Lumber Company, a northern concern. This lumber company acquired considera- ble of the Sante Fe railroad arid land claims, and after bill had been lobbied through Congress to permit an exchange for vacant lands in other section of the United States, to which the government 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. It is worth millions of dollars.
 It is the claim of mining engineers who have been working in the Yell county field that the lumber company did not secure the timber rights, and they have taken the matter up with the General Land office in Washing ton to secure a final answer. As the government did not surrender mineral rights to land granted railroads in