Baxter Springs news., 1918-11-08
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By Frank d. Hills,
in Miami Record-Herald


The Alexander Lead and Zinc COM
pany and the Miami-Ada Lead and
Zinc company have formed consoli-
dation and will be known as the Alex
ander Lead and Zinc Company.
The officers of the new company
are M. F. Bayless, StratfOrd, Okla,
president; G. M. Ramsey, Miami, vice
president and general manager; ]. M.
Taylor, Ada, vice president; Orville
Snead, Miami, secretary and treas
urer.
Material was purchased by the Al
exander people Friday for a black
smith shop and tool house that is to
be built at once and q mill will be be-
gun in about two weeks at the lease
of the original Alexander Company a
mile northwest of Cardin.
Two shafts arc down to the ore and
drifting has been done in one of them
showing splendid stuff. A large boil
er has been bricked in and other i'm
provements have been made but air
for operating in the ground has been
rented from the Lyon Mining Com
pany.
The lease was developed several
months ago by L. P. Buchanan Of
Joplin. Twenty-six holes were drilled,
23 of which showed an average face
of ore feet high ranging in value
from 6 to az per cent. 1t joins the
rich Anna Beaver No. 2 on the west.
Operations are being carried on at
the Alexander under very pleasant
conditions as there is no water trouble
as has been the case at the Quapaw
lease of the Miami-Ada Company.
The new company now has three
leases, one at Cardin, one at Quapaw,
and another at Yellville, Ark.
The Dorothy Bill Mining company
has just opened most phenominal
lead strike in their Tar Creek mine.
The find is called a mammouth cave
but the cave has been filled with lead
so far as can be seen except little
runways large enough for man to
crawl into them for several feet.
There is no way of knowing how
far the deposit extends as there is too
much lead in the way of the miners
to be able to get any estimate for sew
eral days but as far as one can see
with a miners lamp lead, solid Jumps
of it, from the size of ones first to
nuggets weighing several hundred
pounds.
The Dorothy Bill has been famous
for mineralized caves from the time
the shaft went into ground so open
that it appeared to have been worked
out by the hand Of man.
In other parts of the diggings
lodges of jack are found that almost
equal the new lead deposit but it is
dodbted if lead cave has ever been
found that excells the new one.
The richest strike that has ever
been made at the Federal mine at
North Century, and possibly one OF
the richest in the field, has just been
made in a drift from the mill shaft
What is thought to be ledge OF
almost pure jack rs feet wide and 30
feet high has been opened up but only
25 feet is being worked, the other hav-
ing been showed by the drill holes
below the floor of the mine.
A number of great strikes have
been made in the Federal Of late but
the last one overshadows them all.
A splendid recovery is being made
at the Federal mill but only one shaft
is being worked. AS soon as the 9TH
er shaft is in operation, which will be
soon as an air drift has been cut be-
tween the two, the mill will be work
ed to capacity and a great record is
promised.
The Marine Mining company began
operating the new 250-tOn mill on
their lease mile east of DOuthat Fri
day.
As soon as the plant is tuned up it
will be placed in operation regularly
ON the rich dirt that is being taken
from that mine.
The Marine is just across the creek
from the Greening and the Wilson and
Is believed to be in the same class
with those two rich properties.
The Victory Mining company began
operating the Republic Mine and mill
N the south part of THY of Picher
Tuesday.
n has been announced in these col
umns that the change Of management