THE 



WESTERN REYIEW OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



A MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS IN 



Science, Mechanic Arts and Agriculture. 



VOL. 1. ■ SEPTEMBER, 1877. NO. 7. 



MINERALOGY. 



The Mineral Region of South-West Missouri and Soutli-East 



Kansas. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



The recent discoveries of lead and zinc in South-Eastern Kansas havin'- 

 created an ahnost unprecedented rush of adventurous and wealth-seeking 

 people in that direction, and the correspondents of the city papers having 

 written them up in so extravagant a manner that the reality could but fall 

 far short of their descriptions, the writer hereof recently made a trip to the 

 Short Creek diggings for the purpose of satisfying himself of the actual con- 

 dition of things there. (About two years since he visited and cai-efully 

 examined the diggings in and about Joplin, Mo., about eight miles East). 



The mineral wealth of Eastern Kansas, as developed by the building ol 

 the Missouri Eiver, Ft. Scott & Gulf E. E., running from Kansas City to 

 within about eight miles of the diggings, is remarkable in the extreme, and 

 probably can hardly be equaled in the country for diversity of soil and 

 mineral Avealth, along a line so short. 



Wyandotte County, besides her rich soil and a topography especially 

 adapted for the raising of fruit, furnishes a number of quarries of white 

 magnesian limestone, similar to the Cottonwood Fulls stone: al-^o an abnc- 



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