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W. II. TWENIIOl^^EL THE SILVER CITY QUAETZITES 



west ridge in the soutliem part of A\^oodson County. This portion of the 

 vidge forms the northeastern flank of a small anticline which for con- 

 venience may he given the name of the locality. 



Figure 1. — Index Map of the Locality of Silver City 



For assistance in mapping the strnctnre and A\orking out the geoh)gy 

 the writer is ind elated to two of his students, ^lessrs. Milhurn Stryker and 



farmer drove into Yates Center, then the largest town of the region, and exhibited a 

 piece of shining gray rock. The local anthority pronounced it silver ore, and when the 

 farmer stated that an entire hill of the snbstance existed a few' miles to the south the 

 exodus began, and within 24 hours the towns of Yates Center and Neosho Falls, the 

 two important towns of the region at that time, are said to have been deserted by nearly 

 the whole of their male population and a town of shacks and tents had been started on 

 the hill of the supposed silver ore. and there soon followed all the accompaniments of a 

 boom mining camp. There was intense and feverish activity until an assay of some of 

 the "silver ore" was received from Kansas City, and it was learned that the supposed 

 ore was merely worthless quartz. The miners "folded their tents and departed" and 

 Silver City became a memory and a pasture, with nothing remaining to mark its one- 

 tjme existence save the old prospect pits (compiled from newspaper reports). 



