Production According to available data up to 1925 approximately 91,474 long tons have been removed from Arkansas. Probably not more than a total of 500 tons have been taken from the west central Arkansas district. 1. American Steel Foundries, McCormick Bldg., Chicago, Ill. 2. Central Iron & Coal Company, Holt, Ala. 3. Miami Metals Company, Tower Bldg., Chicago, Ill. 4. Mississippi Valley Iron Company, 6500 Broadway, St. Louis, Mo. 5. Sligo Furnace Co., 915 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. 6. Southern Manganese Corporation, Anniston, Ala. 7. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Company, Birmingham, Ala. 8. Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company, Birmingham, Ala. CADDO GAP AND DE QUEEN QUADRANGLE 1. Arkansas Development Com pany's mine 2. North Mountain mine 3. Still mine 4. Fagan mine 5. Nelson mine 94. Cave Hill mine 95. 96. McConnell mine Klondike mine 97. W. A. King mine 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Bibliography of Manganese in Arkansas 1891 Penrose, Richard, “Manganese, Its Uses, Ores, and Deposits."-Report of the Arkansas Geological Survey for 1890, Part I. Now out of print, but may be consulted in public or scientific libraries. Penrose, Richard, "Origin of the Manganese Ores of Northern Arkansas, and Its Effect on the Associated Strata."-Abstract from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Tr. 39:250-252, 1891. 1894 Williams, H. S., "On the Age of the Manganese Beds in the Batesville Region of Arkansas."-Bulletin of the American Journal of Science (3) 48:325-351, 1894. American Journal of Science, New Haven, Conn. 1910 Harder, Edmund S., "Manganese Deposits of the United States, With a Section on Foreign Deposits, Chemistry, and Uses."-U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin No. 427. U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C., 40c. 1917 Miser, Hugh D., "Manganese Deposits of the Caddo Gap and De Queen Quadrangles, Arkansas."-U. S. Geological Survey, Bulletin 660:59-122. Obtainable from U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C., 40c. 6. 1920 Miser, Hugh D., "Hausmannite in the Batesville District, Arkansas."Washington Ac. Sc., Jour. 10:1-8, 1920. 1921 7. Miser, Hugh D., "Preliminary Report on the Deposits of Manganese Ore in the Batesville District, Arkansas."-U. S. Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 715:93-124. U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C., 40c. 1923 8. Miser, Hugh D., "Deposits of Manganese Ore in the Batesville District, Arkansas."-U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin No. 734, 45c. MINERAL WATERS There are many hundreds of free flowing springs of excellent water to be found in the hills and valleys in all sections of Arkansas. In the limestone region of north Arkansas these springs are especially abundant. The majority of these springs do not contain a large amount of mineral matter, but are valuable principally because of their great purity. For instance, the Crescent Springs at Eureka Springs, Carroll County, and the Elixir Springs at Elixir, Boone County, contain less than six grains of mineral matter to the gallon. Some of the springs are of great size, such, for instance, as Mammoth Spring, which has an estimated flow of 900 cubic feet per second in the springtime, and generates a maximum total of 1,220 horsepower from two hydro-electric dams located on the Spring River; Loster Spring, six miles west, and Big Spring, six miles northwest of Batesville. There are also large springs on Mill Creek, Stone County; at Marble City, Newton County; on Rush Creek, Marion County, and at Silver Springs, Benton County. Other springs which are not so large but still come in the classification of especially large springs, are at Big Flat, Lone Rock, Harrison, Bellefonte, Valley Springs, Western Grove, Yardell, Marble City, Bear Creek, Berryville, Whitener, and Spring Valley. The Hot Springs of Arkansas are known the world over as health springs. Uses. The uses of the Arkansas mineral waters have been discussed in the Arkansas Geological Survey Report on "Mineral Waters," published in 1891, and are as follows: "The Use of Mineral Waters—It is a popular belief that mineral waters are 'nature's remedies,' and that as they are good things the more one has of them the better. The analyses of Arkansas mineral waters show that some of them contain large quantities of Epsom salt, Glauber's salt, and common salt. The habitual daily use by a healthy person of large quantities of these waters would be injurious, as Epsom salt is Epsom salt and its physiological effects are the same whether one takes it from a sparkling spring in the mountain or from the bottles of a drug store. Some of the mineral waters of the State are highly charged with such ingredients. Every gallon of the Potash Sulphur water contains 33 grains of Glauber's salt; every gallon of the National Spring water at National, Logan County, contains 33 grains of Glauber's salt and 46 grains of Epsom salt; every gallon of water from Howard's mineral well, Independence County, contains 160 grains of Glauber's salt and 115 grains of Epsom salt. Such waters should not be used without some reference to what they contain. It is not meant to imply that these and similar waters are dangerous, but simply that they have important medicinal properties, that they should be used as medicines with discrimination, and that those who have no need for such medicines should not use them. It should be remembered also that whether a water is a good or bad one for general use depends, not on the amount of matter it holds in solution, but rather on the quality of that matter. The waters containing carbonate of lime and the chalybeate waters are generally good, but the habitual use of magnesian waters is injurious to most persons, in spite of the fact that they may be beneficial to the same persons at times when they stand in need of such remedies. And because one can advantageously drink large quantities of the waters of Eureka Springs, Elixir Springs and Hot Springs-waters containing but little mineral matter in solution-it must not be inferred that he can drink like quantities of strong magnesian water with similar effects." Hot Springs-The waters of Hot Springs claim the place of first importance in any consideration of the medicinally valuable waters of the State. For a great many years these waters have been used by people from all parts of the country with results that merit serious consideration. According to Prof. Bertram B. Boltwood of Yale College, who was employed by the Interior Department of the United States Government in 1905 to test a report on the radio-activity of the waters of Hot Springs, the following conclusions were reached : "The waters of the Arkansas Hot Springs are radio-active to a marked degree. The radio-activity of the waters is due to dissolved radium emanation (gas)." The cold waters of Hot Springs, Ark., are well known, both as medicinal and table waters. They are drunk in connection with the baths, especially in affections of the kidney, bladder, stomach, and rheumatic conditions. In his circular for the guidance of the officers of the United States Army in sending patients to Hot Springs, Surgeon-General G. H. Torney of the United States Army, in 1909, enumerated the ailments for which the sick should be sent to the Army and Navy Hospital at the Hot Springs of Arkansas. It says: "Relief may reasonably be expected at the Hot Springs in the following conditions: In the various forms of gout and rheumatism, after the acute or inflamatory stage; neuralgia, especially when depending upon gout, rheumatism, metallic or malarial poisoning; paralysis, not of organic origin; chronic diarrhoea; catarrhal affections of the digestive and respiratory tracts; chronic skin diseases, especially the squamous varieties, and chronic conditions due to malarial infection." There are forty-six hot springs discharging over 800,000 gallons daily. The springs are owned and controlled by the United States Government, and the operation of the baths and charges are regulated by the Government through a superintendent of the reservation appointed by the Secretary of the Interior. The Government has spent large sums on the building of roads and parks and other |