. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. Geology. 420 W. II. TWENIIOl^^EL THE SILVER CITY QUAETZITES west ridge in the soutliem part of A\^oodson County. This portion of the vidge forms the northeastern flank of a small anticline which for con- venience may he given the name of the Figure 1.—Index Map of the Locality of Silver City For assistance in mapping the strnctnre and A\orking out the geoh)gy the writer is indelated to two of his students, ^lessrs. Milhurn Stryker and farmer drove into Yates Center, then the largest town of the region, and exhibited a piece of shining
. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. Geology. 420 W. II. TWENIIOl^^EL THE SILVER CITY QUAETZITES west ridge in the soutliem part of A\^oodson County. This portion of the vidge forms the northeastern flank of a small anticline which for con- venience may he given the name of the Figure 1.—Index Map of the Locality of Silver City For assistance in mapping the strnctnre and A\orking out the geoh)gy the writer is indelated to two of his students, ^lessrs. Milhurn Stryker and farmer drove into Yates Center, then the largest town of the region, and exhibited a piece of shining gray rock. The local anthority pronounced it silver ore, and when the farmer stated that an entire hill of the snbstance existed a few'miles to the south the exodus began, and within 24 hours the towns of Yates Center and Neosho Falls, the two important towns of the region at that time, are said to have been deserted by nearly the whole of their male population and a town of shacks and tents had been started on the hill of the supposed silver ore. and there soon followed all the accompaniments of a boom mining camp. There was intense and feverish activity until an assay of some of the "silver ore" was received from Kansas City, and it was learned that the supposed ore was merely worthless quartz. The miners "folded their tents and departed" and Silver City became a memory and a pasture, with nothing remaining to mark its one- tjme existence save the old prospect pits (compiled from newspaper reports).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Geological Society of America. [New York : The Society]
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