How a Greet Mine Was Discovered.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 30 April 1892, Page 3 (Supplement)

How a Greet Mine Was Discovered.

A walk over the mountain to Friedensville, Pa., one spring d;iy when the farmers were plowing their fields, brought the late Dr. Roepper, well known to mineralogists, to where a teatn was dragging a plow near the road. A talk with the driver brought out the fact thai- his farm was cursed with more than the usual amount of stones, and a sample was tossed over the feuce to the doctor as evidence. It was recognized as a mass of quartz carrying calamine— a silicate of zinc. The fence was climbed and the two followed the plow forward and back across a field covered with similar masses. Had the doctor been a sharper he would have bought tha farm and died a rich man. As ho was only an honest lover of nature he said a few words to the plowman that transformed an exhausted Pennsylvania farm into the seat of the Ueberroth mine; that set in operation the extensivo zinc works of Bethlehem, Pa., and built the "President"—a pump that could raise 17,000 gallons of water per minute. This chance shot at a fortune is but one of many, and a dozen volumes would ill suffice to noto tho salient points of the record. 11l so much can be done haphazard it is evident that a systematic training in economic geology will furnish a means for a livelihood, as well as an aid in the consideration of economic questions in mining.— Engineering Magazine.