Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-12-27
means MUCH FOR
BAXTER SPRINGS
START A DEVELOPMENT
THAT MAY SURPASS
RICHER ACTIVITY
Take N BIG TERRITORY
Includes Several Properties Al
ready Proven Mill Sites
Several to be Opened
In Near Future
By B X. BAGHDIGIAN


The recent sale on $500 acres Of
land from the Baxter Springs city
limits on the west to the Blue Mounds
and from the state line on the south
to the Chetopa road on the north
and q few tracts north Of that road
by the Miami Zinc Syndicate to the
Chanute Spelter Company has more
than a passive interest for this city
when ID is analysed by the number
Of valuable strikes on the different
tracks evolved in the lease.
The lands evolved in the sale in
cludes the R. F. Hartley, etal, tract;
the C. w. Daniels estate; r. Hartley,
A. Hartley, E. Hodgkins, A. S. Hold
en-, P. o. Hartley, D. Treat, w. Hart
ley, R. H. Hartley, etal, Rakestraw,
S. M, Hartley, W. Swalley, A. Har-
vey, L. Bishop, R. Hartley, r. Moore,
J. Simmons, ]. Luckey, A. Swalley, S.
7. Coe, M. Livingston, C. NJ. Clark,
J. H. Ballard, M. Turner, ]. Banning,
A. Swalley, M. Livingston, W. Swal-
ley, L. Rucker, E. Coe, C. Coe, W. B.
Fancher, ]. W. Chapman, o. Coils,
VIM. Collins, R. Collins, E. Peters, F.
G. Hapeman, A. R. Kane, ]. W. Lind
sey and R. Pigg. The tracts north
of, the Chetopa road included in the
sale are the A. Swalley, W. Swalley
and E. Swalley lands.
A strike on the Hartley land west
Of the city limits was reported early
in March. The drill penetrated into
the ore body at the 204 foot level and
at 225 the report indicated that it
was. in dirt which was thought to
assay nearly eight per cent. Another
strike reported on the Hartley land in
March %, indicated q shallow form
alton. The drill encountered the ore
body at 1856 foot depth and at PIP it
was still in ore when the work was
halted for the purpose of casing the
hole. This ore was reported as be-
ing rich enough to assay from fifty
to sixty per cent jack.
A strike on the R. Hartley place
west of the Hunter land, was report
ed in April. The drill cuttings indi-
Gated the presence Of 70 foot face
Of rich ore.
On one tract of land evolved in
the sale there were twenty-six holes
drilled and every one of them showed
paying ore. The ore bodies were in
dicated at lower formations than
!. were found elsewhere. This was ex-
planned by the shallower formations
running through the edge OF the
tract, while at the center of the tract
they found the lower formation as on
some other tracts south Of this land.
A tract northwest of the one which
showed ore in twenty-six holes had
nine holes drilled and there, too, every
one of them indicated rich formation
Of ore by the drill cuttings. Another
tract south of the last piece showed
q few blank holes, while the big or
chard, adjoining the rock road to
Picher on the south, where two mill
sites have been blocked and the first
concentrating plant is now being
built, every one of the holes showed
rich formation that has been shown
elsewhere in many of the tracts on
which big concentrating plants have
been built.
The only strike of ore in three diff
ferent formations, in our knowledge
was on q tract of land also included
In this sale. The veins of ore indi
Gated by the cuttings are so thick ant
rich that they add material value II
the sale.
There are only a few Of the strikes
mentioned here and our files SHOW
more of them, but it is sufficient h
point out few of them. The worl
of actual development started by tn
new company is a sufficient proof il
itself of the land as a mineral invest
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