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Show BEAVER COUNTY MINES HAVE GREAT FUTURE SAYS A. C. NEBEKER Beaver county offers rnre and good opportunities in mining. The prospects pros-pects of the districts adjacent to Milford Mil-ford are caJling out for nttent inn. ' Nature liiis dono her part In furnishing furn-ishing the ear marks and signs of !i dden wealth, uml there have been a few men who have profited by their i faith in this district, and many more will receive the rewards if they will' only give tho necessary time and i funds to do good legitimate prospect-J Ing. The district has responded well for the amount of money spent in real business-like prospecting and as compared to other mining districts of the country, Beaver county has not yet been scratched. It is true. there are many holes dug in the side of the hills, most of which was done for assessment work, and naturally done In the eas'est places and did not give the best results toward developing de-veloping the property. The district has suffered some from the "wild-cat propositions." which was made possible by a few good paying mines, a condition all good districts pass through, and if it were not for good s'gns in a district, dis-trict, coupled with a good shipping record from some neighbor mine, wildcattlng would be a difficult game and Beaver countv having the pos sibilities of real mines, has been .a i good field for the speculator. There , is at this time several good legitimate legiti-mate prospects waiting for money to develop and as soon as people with ' money learn these prospects, they j will be willing to take a chance with nature In this district. The west j half of the county has produced now J $52,000,000 of mineral wealth and! just the top of the ground, so to' speak, has been worked. The geological conditions that encourage en-courage prospecting, are; mineralization minerali-zation of the surface a b'g gossin or iron hat. showing signs of real me-talic me-talic value; formation that will form ore bodies by replacement, by con- tact, by impregnation and dissemination, dissemin-ation, and fissure veins; channels through which the mineral solution can find the way to the formation that is favorable to ore bodies; igneous ig-neous intrusives or dikes, that can he looked upon iis tile source of the mineral bearing solutions, such as the nionzonites porphyry, diorllies etc; a faulted, fissured and broken formation making easy circulation 'for the waters and mineral solutions These conditions the districts ad-lacent ad-lacent to Milford can show and produce. pro-duce. The rocks consist of sedimentary formation, the limestones, qtiartzites, the shales; the lava Hows and intru- J sivns. The intrusives have caused 'he faults and fissures through which the solutions can reach the favored '.pots where ore bodies make. These intrusives abo f lrnish the source of '!'c solutions so at their contact with the limestone ore bo;lies do form. The limestones are favorable to replacement re-placement so we get the replacement deposit in these limes. The shales act ns a dam for upraising solutions anil cause the replacement deposits in a lower limestone. The brecclated l'tne nt the Intersection of fissures is i r.nnthcr favored spot for the ores. ( The ores mined and shipped from thpse adjacent districts are the lead ores, copper ores, lral-siiver ore. zincore and iron ores. In lfilT the average of the shipments was $3n.-2".; $3n.-2".; the average in 1919 was $41. SS per ton. A few other important points to look at are the gool climate, cli-mate, making mining operations continuous con-tinuous the whole year, transporta-Mnn. transporta-Mnn. the railroad is within a few miles mil-es of all properties and one can have the choice of electric power, or fuel oils or gasoline, for mine power. Why go to Alaska, or Mexico, or South America when there is still a good, undevclored dlstritt to prospect pros-pect in the U. S. A. among law-abiding peoples. A. C. Nebeker, E.M. I |