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Strangely, but little outside capital was brought into Galena 
until the spring of 1899. The unusually high price of ore at 
that time was responsible for an extensive advertisement of 
the whole Missouri-Kansas area throughout the Kast and 
North, resulting in a great influx of capital and promoters 
who would buy property here and there and sell it to newly 
formed companies. This style of development was carried to 
a great extreme during the year 1899, and well into 1900. 
Many properties sold for from two to five times their actual 
value, and a great deal of outside money was so poorly in- 
vested that it was entirely lost. These bad results were due 
partly to the promoters who paid such large prices, and partly 
to a lack of proper management by the new companies. 
Frequently young men, sons or relatives of the leading steck- 
holders, would be sent into the mining region to have a 
general superintendency over the property bought at a large 
price. Too often such superintendents discharged their 
duties principally by hotel corridor conversations, with an 
occasional trip to the mine during the day. Such inatten- 
tion was more largely responsible for failure than any other 
one cause. Yet, with all these hindrances, the lead and zinc 
mining territory of Kansas and Missouri prospered, and to- 
day is counted among the richest mining property of the world 
for lead and zinc ores. 
About two and one-half miles southeast of Pleasanton, in 
Linn county, a small amount of lead ore and zinc ore have 
been found under such peculiar circumstances that it is worthy 
of attention here. The earliest white settlers in that part of 
the state were told by the Indians, it seems, that lead ore 
existed here. An examination showed that certain mining 
operations had been conducted in the past, but by whom and 
at what date no one has been able to determine. On the 
banks of a little stream only a few miles in length unmistak- 
ably an old mining dump pile may yet be seen. Professor 
Swallow, in his report on Kansas geology in 1866, refers to it, 
and at different times a new company has been formed to 
operate the mines. The last one began new prospecting at 
this place in 1901, and actually marketed about 30,000 pounds 
