The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-02
KITTY GORDON is AN
ARDMORE COMPANY

The Miami mining district. located in
| the northeastern corner OF Oklahoma
| is the wonderland of the mining world
Words fail utterly in efforts to de
scribe this wonderful section that has
sprung, in few brief months, from an
] Indifferent farming community TO the
/ extreme front rank in the lead and zinc
| industry
In the very heart of this great dis
trict lies the Kitty Gordon Lead and
| Zinc company's holdings. presenting.
perhaps, the best opportunity for invest
ment to be had in mines.
| This property has been carefully and
| scientifically prosI.ected, and its ore
bodies fully outlined. There is no chance
or guesswork in the tonnage estimates
offered by the management. The cor
1 poration is organized under the excel
| lent Oklahoma laws and is composed of
business men whose standing is too
| high to admit of doubt as to their in
| tegrity.
The Kitty Gordon is an Ardmore com
pany with capital stock of 100000.
The officers are:
| l. NJ. Putnam, president.
$. A. Apple, vice president.
Writ Franklin, treasurer.
Fox Wood, secretary.
Directors: /. NJ. Putnam, Ardmore;
s. A. Apple, Ardmore; Writ Franklin,
Ardnore Fox Wood, Ardmore; +. Dun
, lap. Ardmore: c. O. Maddox, Ardmore
Sam Hooker, Oklahoma City.
Superintendent Sin charge. A.
Worley, Miami. Okla.
JTniuestionably the lead and zinc min
ing business is the surest money-mak-
| ing proposition now available to the
public.
The Miami district is the richest and
most profitable lead and zinc field in
the world.
Figures compiled by expert mining
engineers show that for the past ten
months il has steadily led the far-famed
Joplin Webb City-Carterville districts
both in the quantity and value as well
as in the quality of its mineral output.
| Comparison with the three Missouri
districts is made because they have been
! for years leaders in the production of
lead and zinc and are therefore consid
cred the standard of measurements
| Having produced millions in wealth
| they have occupied an enviable posi-
ton in the mineral world for the last
| forty years, yet the facts revealed by
the figures of 1917 show that not only
has the Miami field overtaken and pass
ed them individually, but has exceeded
| their COmDlneu production ana almost
doubled them in value of ore.
| a pleasing feature about present day
mining in comparison with the past, is
the rapid advancement in market prices
of both lead and zinc and the compara-
lively minute increase in the cost of
production of these ores. The latter,
of course, is due mainly to the employ
ment in the mining fields of more mod
edn and labor saving methods of min
ing.
1t has been suggested that the Old
World war was, in certain measure,
| accountable for the aforementioned in
crease in price. but this idea is entirely
dispelled when shown the almost incon-
ceivable number of advantages now be-
ing obtained through the use of min
! erals in the modern manufacturing
worl1 and the statements made by chem
lists and mining engineers, to the effect
| that prices on these essential commod-
tiles have only just begun their adj
vance is being seriously considered by
| the Industrial world.
The following table shows zinc and
lead ore prices for the past twenty