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Show FIELD POP POOR MEN. Anjon. )lr Oat lllch In the llloertl Kit ot UK HnuthittiU As a Held for poor men who desire , to wriwt n fortune, from the Otirk hills, this part ot tho United Btatcs I uncqualcd by any mineral region In tho world, writes a Koraytho (Mo.) correspondent. While, ot course, the greatest returns will coma to thoso who cngago In tho business on an ex-tcnslvo ex-tcnslvo ccalo and employ machinery tho fact remains that n man may get , rich hero In a few years with no capital capi-tal but bis hands and his willingness to work. Ono way In which, .Jills, ran be dono Is ns follows': Oulsldeol ijf j Joplln district, whoro most of pi mines nro now conducted on a srlri- title basis, nearly all tho mining hits-crtn hits-crtn dono hereabouts has been It s slipshod, careless way. When n btirW of mineral was brought to tho surfKs only ths biggest lumps worn plcktl out, tho rest being cast aside ns too small to bother with Tho consequents Is that every tall heap In Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas Is full of lump of lead and sine, ranging In arlto froi tho alio ot n pea to that ot a plum peach. I .cad la worth I0 a ton at tU mine, and rlnc a great deal more. Tbi right to work over them tall heart mny bo secured on n 10 per cent row altr. and on this basis any Industrious Industri-ous man can easily make from (13 t (SO n day. Ills only equipment Is s garden rako and n spade. Ilo will have to camp out and live on frusal fare but ho will grow hardy In health and ' mnko money. , Those with n little capital may take leases on ground, either for a cash rental or for n royalty, nnd open fluffs on their own account. It takes from two to thrco men to operate a shaft ons to do tho digging nnd the others to hoist up the buckets of soil containing con-taining the mineral. In many Instances In-stances lead and zinc deposits are struck six feet from tho surface; In others the digger has to go down fifteen fif-teen or twenty feet, the richness of tho And Increasing with the depth of the hole. From ono to thrco tons ot metal n day Is not nn uncommon yield from tho host of theso shafts. |