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how great the results produced cannot be determined. No 
marks are found on the surface, and it is certain there was 
no considerable vertical displacement. Regularity in the 
stratification of the entire surrounding area is found which 
precludes the idea of any considerable disturbance. Here 
we have alternating beds of limestone and shale, so that 
faulting or displacement of any kind could be detected more 
easily than in localities where only one kind of rock exists. 
We are in ignorance of the amount of ore produced during 
the first period of prospecting. During the second, accord- 
ing to Professor Mudge, about twenty tons of lead ore were 
sent into the market. During the third period a small 
amount of zinc ore was produced, and about fifteen tons of 
lead ore, galena, from a depth of sixty-five to eighty-five feet, 
which ore was shipped to the Argentine refinery, at Argen- 
tine, Kan. The galena was of a high grade of purity, was 
not weathered or oxidized in the least, and produced bril- 
liant surfaces on the crystalline faces, approximating in 
brilliancy fresh cleavage surfaces. This implied recent 
deposition, or at least a total absence of an approach toward 
disintegration or weathering. There was no indication of 
spring water or artesian water rising in the ore chimney, but 
everything implied that the water present was surface water 
working downward in a normal condition. 
LEAVENWORTH COUNTY. 
A sufficient amount of zinc ore has been found at different 
places in Leavenworth county to excite considerable interest 
at different times. During the summer of 1901 a number of 
pieces of land were leased lying a few miles west of Reno and 
a little prospecting done by inexperienced parties. Zinc ore 
was found, usually in calcareous concretionary masses em- 
bedded in the shale. These disk-shaped concretions varied 
in size from six to eighteen inches maximum diameter. 
They had been crossed with many fissures, as is frequently 
the case with similar concretions, and the fissures literally 
filled with zine blende. The ore was found also to a limited 
extent in the shale itself, but always in small crystals and 
close to concretionary masses, or to interbedded limestone. 
