Baxter Springs news., 1919-07-18
LEAD AND ZINC IN
KANSAS IN YEAR 1913
Large Increase Lead and Zinc Shipments Due Entirely to Mines
in New District.
From N. S. Geological Survey, July 1919.

From N S. Geological Survey, July 1919
The value of the recoverable lead and zinc from ores shipped
from Kansas 1913 amounted 10 ~OOzoOoo m cle"Se u ~
than $1,S74,OOO
AS was clearly indicated in 1917 the mining district Blue
Springs which is the nOhery extension OF the
% output however large had been expected for
many of the properties not developed rapidly as tne
last half of 1918 and the high Of supplies and labor did not
encourage development Many shafts were sunk and some
csnac M proved area Of the district was extended toward the
north northwest and mines were opened near ba4ser
Springs area increased from 005 tons of gaen
and tons Of sphaerte 1917 to 1925 tons of gaena and
tons Of sphaer in 1918 This district from which the
first shipments were made 1917 yielded 81 cent of the
lena and 2 per of the phaete shipped from mines Kan
EaS nsSnd iS Bs Weber Southern Early Bird Nayr Silver
Fox KansOu Kan0ma and Redsn west OF Blue ouno; an4
the Lucky k Queen Esther Kansas Line Lucky Jennie and
others, east Of Blue Mound.
The mines at Lawton made much smaller output in 1918
than in 1917 those the Kansas side Of the new Waco dis
trc made larger % SP td sn se s Rs 6 q Ha sGe district The
total output of the district in 1913 including that OF
tine rev aSS ss tons Of spSae The principal ship
pes in 1918 were the Kansas Mines Co.. the Union Metal
Mines Co. and the az y Gas ono bnt onv
quantity of concentrates was marketed
The output of the old district including that
few prospects Pershng was 2S4 tons OF gana ana
I'm 1917 new mill built by the Badger Mining Develop
Co. and considerable drilling and shaft sinking were done on
there win probably be large increase in the output OF the district
The Gaena district experienced 1918 the dues OF recent years
The steadily decreasing price of zinc coused nearly all the larger
mines to close down. until the end of the the Andayer
inc Co was the only plant in operation The output declined from
tons of gena and TIA tons of sphaee 1917 to llSS
tons of galena and $685. tons of spalerte in 1913
Production
The quantity of galena concentrates sold from al districts in
Kansas in 1918 was 983 TONS valued at S25O an increase OF
quantity and Of l6 in value over ha IN lS
The sales fsphaerite concentrates increased from
TONS valued at in 1917 to 55S7S TONS valued at $
in 1913 the recoverable zinc content OF all znc con-
centtes in 1918 amounted to S0197 TONS valued at $595S54
against 2O2 249 TONS valued at $4, 4,130796 In 1917
The quantity of ore ( treated increased about 122 0OC
toms and as the ore from the new districts of much higher
GRADE than that mined at Gaena the OF conce
increased from 2 cent in 1917 to 6S4 per cent 1918
The average zinc content sphete sold at Gaena 55t
per cent but that from the Blue Mound and Waco camps was
more than so per cent that the average zinc content OF all Kan
sas paerte about sos cent against 6S per cent
1917.
The gaena concentrates from Blue Mound contained NOR
than so per cent lead and the lead content OF all gena sold
mines IN Kansas averaged 799 per cent in 1913 against ~ pc