A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . at indus-tries of the commonwealth. The history of the lead industry in Missouri coversmore than two centuries. The first important mines wereopened about 1725 by two Frenchmen, Renault and La Motte,who came to find silver and staged to mine lead. The earlymines were in what are to-day Madison, St. Francois, andWashington counties. These counties combined with Frank-lin, Howell, Jefferson, and Crawford, still produce nearly75% of Missouris lead. This is called th
A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . at indus-tries of the commonwealth. The history of the lead industry in Missouri coversmore than two centuries. The first important mines wereopened about 1725 by two Frenchmen, Renault and La Motte,who came to find silver and staged to mine lead. The earlymines were in what are to-day Madison, St. Francois, andWashington counties. These counties combined with Frank-lin, Howell, Jefferson, and Crawford, still produce nearly75% of Missouris lead. This is called the southeast Mis-souri lead field. It lies south and west of St. Louis and is80 miles wide and 85 miles long. It is one of the greatestlead fields in the world. There were settlements in this dis-trict over a quarter of a century before St. Louis was found- (283) 284 History of Missouri and Missourians ed in 1764. Lead mining soon became an important industryin Missouri after Renault and La Motte opened the south-east field. Lead became an article of commerce, could bereadily sold, and was used to pay debts. In fact it took the. OLD TIME METHOD OF MINING LEAD AND ZINC ORE WITH AHORSE HOISTER place of money just as furs did. Lead was mined by miners,farmers, and even Indians. It was as necessary as powderto the pioneer, trapper, and soldier. Missouri lead was usedthroughout the Mississippi valley, it was shipped to NewOrleans, and it was used even in Europe. Missouri lead wasused in the Revolutionary War and Missouri lead helped winthe battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. It addedwealth to Missouri, helped develop such cities as Ste. Gene-vieve, St. Louis, and Potosi, and aided in bringing settlers tothe pioneer Territory and State. The early methods of lead mining and smelting werecrude. However, the industry was profitable since the ore A Century of Mining 285 was close to the surface, was very rich, and was easily re-duced, or smelted. Improvements began with the coming o
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