Show man gets rich mining lead from skeet range SIOUX CITY IOWA an ingenious nebraskan is reaping a profit at sioux city through a new torm form of lead mining the lead in this case was deposited by man more than a third of a century ago it is in the form of pellets fired on the old soo gun club grounds the grounds were abandoned years ago the sandy soil on the missouri river bottom southwest of the cites business section never was planted to crops and grew up with weeds and underbrush A few weeks ago carl harvey of omaha neb came to sioux city inspected the grounds tested the soil for lead and determined to try his hand at mining he hail had done similar work at omaha and fremont neb he found the top several inches of soil filled with pellets fired by thousands of sportsmen at clay pigeons harvey rigged up a separating machine on the chassis of an old automobile A large tank was filled with water and in it was placed an agitator into the tank was dumped wheelbarrow loads of soil skimmed from the surface of the ground the lead pellets being heavier than the soil sank to the bottom and the soil floated away as water was added A crew of five men operates the mining outfit |