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where to be of great theoretical importance, and to excite 
people to prospecting in many places. 
OUTLYING TERRITORIES. 
Discoveries of both lead ore and zinc ore have been found 
in small quantities in almost every county throughout the 
eastern fourth of the state. Ore in Linn county, at Pleasan- 
ton, has already been referred to. Traces, or ‘‘shines,”’ 
have been found in many places in Crawford county; in 
Labette, Montgomery, Neosbo and Wilson counties; in 
Allen and Woodson counties; in Coffey, Anderson, Frank- 
iin, Miami, Johnson, Douglas, Leavenworth, Jefferson and 
Atchison counties; and a sufficient amount of zinc blende 
was found in Osage county to cause considerable talk in fa- 
vor of organizing a mining company to operate in that county. 
In Atchison county both lead ore and zinc ore occur associa- 
ted with coal, which for a number of years was mined south 
of town about two and one-half miles, on the west bank of 
the Missouri river. 
Sufficient discoveries were made in the northwest part of 
Bourbon county a few years ago to cause the organization of 
a mining company which leased thousands of acres of land 
in that vicinity for lead- and zinc-mining purposes. [Even at 
the present time, summer of 1904, a company is organized to 
prospect for lead in the vicinity of Garnett, in Anderson 
county. 
Farther west a small amount of both ores has been found. 
This is particularly true throughout the Flint Hills region, in 
eastern Cowley and western Chautauqua counties ; and to the 
northward. Occasionally pieces of ore have been found two or 
three inches in diameter which have excited interest in dif- 
ferent circles, resulting in the expenditure of small sums of 
money in prospecting. One instance of this kind occurred 
in the northwestern corner of Greenwood county, where four 
or five different shafts were sunk to a depth of twenty feet or 
more. Shines, likewise, have been found to a less extent 
farther west, in some cases reaching out almost to the middle 
of the state. 
These occurrences of outlying small ore bodies are exceed- 
