Show LEAD LEADORE ORE VEINS ON DEPOT SITE JOPLIN Mo Drillers Drillers at work ork on the he site of the new union depot de de- is be built at the corner which to pot of f Virginia avenue and Broadway by bythe bythe the he Kansas City Southern Missouri Kansas Texas Santa Fe and Missouri struck North Arkansas railroads good deposits of bot both lead an and zinc ore re at a depth yf f twenty feet fe t. t The depot ae s' s site se e is in what is known as s the Kansas City bottoms which was he the first part Dart of the mining district ic to bo- bo bode eloped developed o de It was as noted for shallow deposits of both load lead and zinc and the small bottom is honeycombed with drifts rifts of abandoned mines The purpose purpose pur pur- ose of tho the drillers is to insure a solid pose foundation for the depot masonry The deposits encountered are considered unusually un un- usually good but no attempt will be I made to mine them for fear of delaying delay delay- ing in ng work on the depot building |