Mineral Kingdom. (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1905 Page: 3 of 4
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March 9, 1905
MINERAL KINGDOM.
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John "Pearson and George Joce-
lyn drotfe in through the rain last
Tuesday to look after business per-
taining to mining.
S. S. Remer was in the city last
Tuesday and Wednesday looking
after matters pertaining to the re-
pairing of the smelter.
We notice on the streets the
smiling face of our former moun-
taineer, J. E. Nance, who has con-
cluded there is no country like Ok-
lahoma and no county like Coman-
che.
0. A. Woodman, of Ft. Sill, was a
caller the first of this week. He
expressed himself as very highly
pleased with the present mineral
outlook, and also as having faith
that the Wichitas will be developed
into a very rich mineral field.
Dr. S. J. Hardin, of Meers, left on
the noon train last Saturday for
Shawnee, where he goes on busi-
ness pertaining to his mining inter-
ests. The doctor is more enthusi-
astic than ever over the future out-
come of his properties, and even at
his age is as young as a boy.
J. L. Power, of Joplin. Mo., who
has been in the mountains the past
three weeks, left for his home last
Saturday. He did considerable as-
saying while here and went away
more firmly convinced than ever
that the future of the Wichitas is
almost beyond human comprehen-
sion.
The rains of the past few days
have tended to retard development
work to some extent, but when the
sun shines all hands resume their
work with a will which knows no
stop, no hindrance until he welkin
rings with the bustle and activity of
the richest mining camp known to
man.
Mr. Purcell, a former Wichita
Mountain miner, who is now selling
fruit trees with the idea of making
a stake sufficient to develop his
property, was a caller at this office
last Saturday. He is still very ju-
bilant over the mineral interests,
and as he has some good property,
he will some day be rewarded.
Mrs. Lena Thompson and Allen
Street, both of Oklahoma City, were
in the city this week in attendance
at court, and paid the Kingdom a
friendly call. IV! "s. Thompson se-
cured a divorce from W. N. Thomp-
son this week. She was formerly
a Meersite, and is now stooping
with the Street family in Oklahoma
City.
W. D. Earl, of Taupa, made us
a call last Monday, and informs us
that in all probability he will have
some good news on tap in the near
future for the Wichita Mountain
miners. While as yet he had noth-
ing for publication, yet the condi-
tions under which he is working
look good, and we doubt not but
that he will soon have some sui-
stantial work going.
Dr. F. A. Starbuck, of Meers, has
left for McComb, Okla., where he
will practice medicine. The doc-
tor has only made this move tem-
porarily and leaves his family at
Meers, and of course he will visit
them occasionally. We regret to
see him leave the hills, but expect
to soon see him back developing his
mining properties.
A part of the. people interested in
the Mexico land which has been ad-
vertised very extensively the past
three months, left for Tampico,
Mexico, last Wednesday, among
them being Eugene Deacon, J. B.
Underwood, and Dick Cooper. Mr.
Deacon carried with him a camera
with which he expects to make
some views of the country, and as
the camera never lies, we shall <ip-
on his return be enabled to have the
country before us in black and
white.
Prof. E. M. Tucker, the veteran
assayer. and mining engineer, came
down from Roosevelt where he has
in charge the erection of the smel-
ter, last Wednesday. Mr. Tucker
knows more of the Wichita Moun-
tain formations than any man who
has ever been in this country, and
from the fact that he has made our
mineral a special study for the past
ten years, hence is qualified to treat
our ores correctly and successfully.
The smelter will be erected at
Roosevelt just as soon as the ma-
chinery can be placed on the
ground and will be blown in at the
earliest possible time.
T. B. Newton and H. Holbrook,
both of Kansas City, were in the
city last Wednesday enroute to the
mountains on a tour of investiga-
tion. Mr. Holbrook is a man of
wide experience in mining, has done
a great deal of prospecting in the
Klondike, and has visited nearly
every mining camp of any promi-
nence in the United States and
Mexico. He is a very interesting
conversationalist, and to hear his
description of Alaska and the hard-
ships incident to mining there,
makes one more enthusiastic than
ever regarding our own district.
These gentlemen will remain in the
mountains four or five days, when
they will return to Kansas City.
In the blast furnace coke reduces
ores by combining with the oxygen
in them. In the cupola furnace it
is used simply to produce a high
heat. The objects of coking are,
to get a fuel rich in carbon by ex-
pelling volatile constituents—a fuel
that gives no gas or smoke to inter-
fere with the finer metallurgical
work--an infusible fuel, since a
fuel that softens and swells on heat-
ing prevents the charge in a blast
furnace from sinking evenly; to re-
duce the sulphur present in coal, in
organic compounds, or combined
with iron. In blast furnace opera-
tion charcoal and antharcite coal
have been almost replaced by coke,
as in 1872 the blast furnaces of
the United State? consumad 91-7,-
000 tons of coke ani 1 jO^.OOC
tons of anthracite. In 1903 the
blastfurnaces consumed 13.000,-
000 tons of coke and about the
same amount of charcoal and an-
thracite as was used in 1872.—Min-
ing World.
BUSINESS LOCALS.
HUBBARD'S, comer F6urth and
D, Lawton, "is there with the
goods" in the dry goods line.
Watch the Kingdom for their spe-
cial offers.
NOW is the time, Chase is the man.
Highest cash price paid for hides
and furs. Third Street,block
south land office.
FOR NEW HARNESS and there-
pairing of old ones the Cache
Hardware & Harness Company
takes the lead.
CACHE HARDWARE & HAR-
NESS COMPANY for dynamite,
powder, dtc. In fact everything the
miner use^,
DON'T throw away shoes, but get
them repaired at the Cache Hard-
ware &i,Harness Company.
Cotton seed oil is used to a con-
siderable extent in taking the place,
of whale and lard oils in miners' lamps
GO TO
I G. H. BLOCK |
Cache, OKIa.
FOR |
Lumber |
Hardware,etc. |
% We are headquarters for $
Miners' Supplies ''
^ We also carry the celebrated
| Johr} Deere
Implements
Wagons aod
Buggies
SNo trouble to show you goods.
Prices to meet competition
Gome in and get acqi nted
I W. K. Miller, Manager |
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REDFIELD I
HAND-POWER
ROCK DRILL
M^ers,
Attention!
Get a Redfield
Rock Drill and
go down after
that fine ore four
to six times fast-
er ,than you are.
This drill will
outdrill any two
hand - drills on
9 the market in
5 soft rock, and in
hard rock it will
outdrill any four
hand-drills.
Send for cata-
logue to
E. W. Allen
Agent
O Indahonja, Ok'a
THE PLACE TO STOP OVER IS THE
ROOSEVELT HOTEL,
e. a. coultkk. propribtok.
ROOSEVELT, OKTjA ITOMA.
Rates, $1 and $1.25 per day. Board by day or week.
Livery in connection.
Most People Kqow
That my horseshoeing and general blackcmithing is all first-class
work, done at reasonable prices. Mining tools a specialty.
S. A. GLOVER, Roosevelt, Okla.
Get Ready for tf)e Boom!
Get your claims surveyed and platted by
B. F. THOMAS, Cache. Okla.
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Davis, Frank C. Mineral Kingdom. (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 9, 1905, newspaper, March 9, 1905; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc227054/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.