The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-14
FORTUNES Made i'm Zinc Mining


little cities, each separate and dis
tinct from the other insofar as
corporate limits and civil govern
ment are concerned, yet located |
so closely together they appear al
most as a continuation OF each |
other.
Field Beehive of Industry.
In Just two short years, the |
great Miami district has grown to
be what it is. In this snort space
of time it has taken its place in the
mining world as one OF the coun-
try's greatest and richest mining
camps. What will it become in
another two years? Each passing
year its marvellous output Of lead
and zinc is being doubled, trebled
and quadrupled and mill after
mill, is being built here, there and
yonder to add to its already stag
gering production OF these two
minerals. As lar as tie eye can
see one can behold tremendous
structures with spider-like tres
things and runways dotting the
hills and valleys and gigantic
mounds of blue-gray chat or
crushed refuse rock and shale lie
piled up at their base like noun
tains of blue in the distance.
Wherever one travels along the
broad, white roadways Of the dis
trict, the chug chug Of mighty en-
gines, the splash of falling waters,
the hum OF lifting machinery, and
myriad of other sounds assail the
ear. In all directions can be heard
the dynamite explosions made by
the shaft shooters in drilling or
sinking new mill sites, and to the
new arrival in Miami it seems as
though a small war is going on all
about him.
The Miami mining district is
world wonder. Only by a visit in
in person to its wonderful fields
and It's bustling, throbbing bee
hive of industry can one obtain a
true conception Of what it is like.
The chiefest liar since the incarna-
ton of man could not in his most
vivid humor magnify beyond truth
its glorious panorama and its
wonderful mills and mines.
The Miami district punctuates
the horizon of a developed area
containing fifty square miles, and
its cNcavated caverns and channels
twinkle and sparkle like glistening
jewels in the yellow light of the
miners tiny lamps with the richest
and pureSt deposits of lead and
zinc ever uncovered by man. Re
lentlessly, diligently, increasingly,
its 1000 drill rigs dotting the land
scape in all directions are daily
pursuing a ccaseless quest for new
deposits OF the precious minerals
and extending outward the field S
expanding area.
Development Just Started.
And yet development has only
started. Miami is still a compara-
lively uneXplored district OF hid
den riches. While its proven
ground is yielding thousands of
tons of rich ore blende weekly,
and while scores have been made
fabulouSly wealthy by their opera
tions in the fields present limits,
there are acres and acres of its vir-
gin soil yet untcstcd by the drill
which beyond any question in the
opinion of experienced mining men
will in time come to be equally as
rich and as underlaid with riches
as are its present mill sites. Men
who have accumulated fortunes in
the district declare with emphasis
that more and greater fortunes
still are to be made there and that
the field is yet toddling uncertain
ly upon its baby legs. They say
that years may elapse before it at
tains the full blown glory and
power of complete development
and maturity. That they are right
no one will doubt or question who
comes to Miami and sees for him
self the fields wonderful progress.
Almost under his very eyes the
field is growing and expanding.
The stranger who arrives in Mi
ami today will awake the next
morning to hear of a new rich
strike that has been made since
his arrival the night before. Ev-
cry day the drills in some one spot
or another penetrate new deposits
and open up some new rich vein
of ore. 1t is truly wonderful.
Many Make Fortunes.
Many stories are told and many
examples exist of the fortunes that
have been made in Miami. The
Miami district has drawn numbers
of men from the wage class and
set them securely in the class of
capitalists and financiers. Labor
ers who in the early days welded
the pick and shovel down under
the ground now are themselves