The Harrison times., 1915-05-01
ALMY MINES NEAR ZINC
ARE MAKING GOOD ORE
Owner Became Convinced of Mining
Possibilities Quarter Of a Century
Ago and Has Stuck II Out.
Joplin Globe)

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fields, probably the best way is to
90 nrst to Zinc. Harrison is the
county seat of Boone county and
Zinc is a little village of about 100
or 200 persons, ten or eleven miles
northeast The road between is
good compared to most Arkansas
roads and the trip may be made in
automobile
About a mile north of Zinc in a
deep ravne, are located several
mining properties, They begin, in
fact, right at the outskirts of the
town in the form of little carbonate
"gouges' and continue most of the
way to Lead Hill, several miles to
to the north, The most important
of the properties along this route
are the Almy, the Jack Pot, the
Coker Hollow and the Frisco
Twenty-Five years ago W, H. Almy
became convinced he had large
quantities of zinc ore on his eighty
acres OF land about a mile north of
Zinc and he has been trying ever
since to get it developed, with only
partial success One of the first
complete concentrating plants ever
built in Arkansas was constructed
on his land some ten or twelve years
ago, but there never was enough
dirt to operate it and it has not
been run since a short time after it
was started up
/ Just at present, however Mr.
Almy has one of the money making
mines in Arkansas, Like practically
all the other mines in that district,
it is a short tunnel into the side Of
the mountain, about fifty feet above
the creek bed The mine really con.
sjstS Of three tunnels and in each
there is a good showing Of both free
and mill Silicate with some Jack
Along last fall Mr., AImy engaged
George c, Miller, n local mining
man, who has picked up all he
knows about the mining game, but
who made one trip TO joplin and
worked here several months just TO
learn how things were done in q big
zinc camp, That Miller is making
good is cvidenrd by the fact that
during the last three or four weeks
the AImy has shipped two ears of
high grade carbonate concentrates,
one Of high grade free ore, and there
now is now another car of concen.
tratcs ready for shipment,
Mining operations there are in
teresting, The ore is found in
broken formation very close to the
surface Of the ground In fact in
some cases it actually protrudcs
from the ground The principal
tunnel being worked has not been
driven in more than fifty feet
altogether and the free sieilate aud
the mill dirt are holding up well
Miller wants to make someimprove.
meuts on the mill, bnt he is not
willing 70 go TO the expense Of doing
so until assured there is plenty of
ore to keep the plant going for quite
q time ahead
The mill might bc termed al
"kcwpic' of It's kind, 1t is Of about
fifty tons capacity and looks little
larger than a coal house but it has
erusher rolls and rougher, There is
no iig built into the plant however |
and the ore is finally cleaned by u
hand iig, 1t is this that Miller in.
tends to get away from Just as soon |
as possible Wood is used for fuel
which is the ease with practically |
all The Arkansas mines
The free silicutc from this mine
runs from 10 to ~ per cent metallic |
zine while the concentrates run from
10 TO 1850, Most of the ore has
been sold 20 the Edgar Zinc Com.
pony through W. K Willct, the
Ycllvillc buyer but the last car was
sold direct TO the CRANKY Mining
and Smelling Company
The selling Of the ore Of the Ark,
ansas district deserves special com
mcnt Mr. Willct buys the big per
cent Gift for the Edgar Zine Com.
pNny and seems 60 have little
competition, The producers grnm'
ble some about It, but Ia the few
specific eases investigated 1t appear.
ed there was really little for them
to kick about They received APP
proSimately the same basis price
paid in the Joplin district for
ealnmne the same week
At the Jack Pot mine Just u little
up the rayinc from the Almy mines,
things are at u standstill awaiting |
the result of sinking one of the few
shafts in the district, The mine