Show LONG LOST COPPER MINE IS STILL MYSTERY Y IN L MISSOURI no trace of rich vein worked by slater in 1813 has been found eminence mo missouri h has as n lost c opper copper mine it Is located in tile the southeast section of the state and 18 19 known to be very rich but though it lias has been searched d for almost as frequently as has the mother silver lo 10 lode de of the west it r remains mains lost the tradition of it comes irom from N new e w orleans the latter part of the eighteenth century when ahen missouri was still part of the Loul louisiana stana territory and under the french a man named slater sinter from missouri url appeared ut af new orleans every spring with a raft loaded duan ii with rich copper matte and sold said it there tile the record of the sales still being preserved and showing howl ng very rich ore matte Is ore that thai has been partly refined in a erode way slater made ills his last trip in 1813 and then disappeared it Is provable pro lable he was killed by indians with ills his disappearance passed all human knowledge of the copper mine he be had find w worked d for so long there luna been ninny many searches ac nrc lles for it but in miln along in the isloa the state made a geological ecological survey hurvey and reported finding copper indications indication in shannon county near the headwaters 0 of f the current river soon after this report letson ilet now it ii mining engineer of nevada interested chicago capitalists i in the lost copper mine of missouri and a party of six men starting from kansas city nt by rat rail to willow springs they wandered through the hills and hollows of considerable territory but failed to find the slater sinter store of copper and tills this Is only one of the many expeditions that have been vlade to the tha ozark region re glon to locate the lost mine mille without success |