Baxter Springs news., 1916-05-11
Great Activity.
The Baxter -Quapaw Mining
District Has Come Back.

The Baxter'Quapaw district,
which now reaches from a point
just across the Kansas Oklahoms
state line south of Baxter, down
to and through Lincolnville,
thence sweeping west and north
west, taking in a wide stretch oi
country and continuing into the
state of Kansas west of the Blue
Mound is today a great and exten-
sive mineral zone. 1t is one con.
tinual scene of activity-drill rigs
everywhere-shafts being sunk
all along the line-mills being
constructed and completed in all
directions. The field presents
one great and continuous chain
of mine development. 1t would
require days of persistent effort
to visit each individual mining
proposition in this wonderfully
rich mining section, and give an
intelligent account of the devel.
opments. Sectional reports are
necessary in order to report each
great individual interest.
The Lincolnville camp is a
Come Back, and it came back
with one great stride. Six months
ago there were only one or two
operating plants in this once act
i've camp. Today there are from
one hundred to one hundred and
fifty operating places in this
camp. The developments are be-
ing made mostly BY men of min
ing experience. This camp is
now being developed differently
from the manner of developments
which were carried on from 1904
to 1907 or a little later. During
that time it was a period of spec
ulation in Indian leases, chronic
mill building on a gigantic scale.
Most of the capital during that
period came from the north,
the northwest, west aud south.
The capital came mostly through
the hands of inexperienced men
and was handled and applied
largely through inexperienced
men in charge of the active de.
velopments. The Lincolnville
camp experienced its downfall in
1907 as a result of the panic, the
low price of ore and extravagant
and wanton mine management.
Conditions have changed. Today
developments are being made in
a busiuesslike, conservative and
miner.like way. Speculation and
plungiug are no more in evidence.
Men of long experience from Jop-
lin, Galena, Webb City and other
mining camps are making devel-
opments and are now producing
ores in paying quantities, and at
splendid profits.
Go south of Baxter, which is
now the center of the two big
mining regions, one on the east
and northeast, and one on the
south and southwest, about four
miles and you will approach the
first zinc mill. This property is
owned by DR.. Boswell, Ed Miller
and associates. It is a paying
property. These gentlemen also
own the Redeagle mill, one mile
south of the Mohawk. The Red
eagle is a hummer; the profits
are big. Mr.. Miller, the active
superintendent, is a miner of long
experience and his ability is un-
questioned.
Homer Scales, an active and
able miner of Webb City, has a
fine mill on the Abrams land just
west of the Mohawk mill. His
weekly sales reports show that he
is going to the good to the tune
i of about one thousand dollars a
week in clear profits.
Substantial recovery is being
made on the old Omaha property
southeast of the Mohawk.
DR.. Berryhill of Kusa, Okla,
is just getting into the ore body
in his shaft south of the Omaha.
The Big -Four northeast of Lin
colnville is showing up fine. The
ore body is rich and extensive.
Practical men are in charge and
its success is assured.
New derricks and smoke stacks
show continuous developments all
along the line for more than three
miles. It's an inspiring scene.
Mr.. Bash, on the Ewart land
east of Lincolnville, is complet-
ing 4 first class custom mill,
which will be a valuable addition
to the camp. Mr.. Bash is an ex-
perienced miner and knows what
the outcome of his investment
will be.
Mr.. Bnck Robson, a Joplin
man of great mining ability, is
re-opening the old Kramer-Morse