The Newark Journal
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NEWARK, INDEPENDENCE COUNTY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1921
VOL. 31 MO. 15
FIRST TRAINLOAD
GASOLINE SHIPPED
Full Trainload Arkansas Pro
duct Goes North -From
El Dorado Field
El Dorado, July 23.—The
first trainload of gasoline re
fined in El Dorado from El
Dorado crude was shipped
Friday, July 22. The train
consisted of 17 tank cars con
signed to a distributing point
in Michigan, where it will be
routed to its final destination.;
The Union Pipe Line and
Refinery Company gets the
credit of making this ship
ment of 136,000 gallons of j
gasoline, all of which was re-|
fined at their refinery. The
gasoline is strictly up to the
navy specifications, water
white and testing 63-64 grav
ity. The consignment will
be handled through the Gus-j
tafson Spencer Corporation
with its head offices in Chi
cago.
Besides this train load of
gasoline there was a train of j
29 cars of crude oil shipped
by the same company con
signed same as gasoline ship
ment.
The refining plant of the
Union Pipe Line and Refin
ing Company has a capacity,
of 4,000 barrels of gasoline
per day, all of which is ex-|
tracted from El Dorado
crude. No other products
are extracted from the crude
except gasoline, the crude
running about 25 per cent
gasoline. In addition to their
refining plant, this company
has the largest loading rack
in the field, with a daily ca
pacity of 50 cars.
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YOUNG MAN IS CAUGHT
WITH A STOLEN AUTO
Youth Who Took Batesville
Bankers Machine Caught
at Evening Shade
Batesville, July 25.—Au
brey Hailey, Batesville youth,
stole a seven passenger Chal
mers automobile, the proper
ty of John Q. Wolf, of the
First National Bank of
Batesville, from in front of
the Baptist church Sunday
night during the evening ser
vices, and with it attempted
to make his escape from the
county.
He was seen driving the
car out of the city by Roland
Merrill, a boy, who recogniz
ed the car and reported the
matter to Mr. Wolf. As soon
as the church service was
over Mr. Wolf, being advised
of the direction Hailey had
driven, called up the officers
along the route he had taken
and a deputy sheriff of Sharp
county arrested the boy at
Evening Shade about 10:30
p. m. Hailey and the car were
returned to Batesville.
Haiey was arraigned before
a justice of the peace this
morning, and pleaded guilty
to a charge of grand larcney
and was returned to jail in de
fault cf bond. Hailey is of a
good family and his parents
are highly respected people,
but he is said to have beer
keeping fast company of late.
FRENCH-BEVENS
B. A. French and Miss
Ruby Bevens of Magness
were married at the Baptist
church last Sunday, Rev. J. F.
Cossey officiating.
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a SAFE place to put your money.
Progressive MEN of high character and known
financial .responsibility conduct our National Bank,
and we are a member of the FDERAL RESERVE
system of banks, which stand together like one vast
army for the PROTECTION of our depositors.*
We can get money when we want it on our secur
ities. You can get your money when YOU want it
when it is in our bank.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Newark, Arkansas
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $75,000.00
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Gold Mining Will Become
Reality in This Section
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Company With Capital Stock of $160,000.00 Will Start
Work on Sanders Farm on Big Scale in Near Fu
ture and Expect Big Paying Proposition
Prospecting for gold and
various minerals in this sec
tion has been going on for
several months, and the near
future may see a realization
of the hopes of some of these
prospectors with the digging
of gold and platinum in com
mercial quantities which
seems an assured certainty
for the field located about
four miles northwest of New
ark on the W. C. Sanders
farm and vicinity.
Company is Organized
W. T. Barr and John Puck
ett returned from Little Rock
Tuesday night where they
completed the organization
of a company to be known as
the Independence Mineral
Company. The incorporators
| are W. T. Barr and John T.
Puckett of Batesville, Jno. P.
[Streepey, J. E. Watson and
Clay Stewart of Little Rock
! and Roy M. Watson of Chica
go. The company is incor
porated under the laws of
1 Arkansas and is capitalized
' at $160,000.00.
Begin Work Soon
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With the completion of the
organization, plans are now
being made to put machinery
on the ground as soon as pos
sible and actual work of dig
ging is expected to commence
about the 10th of August.
Work of building sheds and
other preliminaries at the
mine will probably be started
earlier.
The company plans to work
on a big scale according to
information given out by
parties who are interested in
the project. The company
has quite an acreage in the 1
vicinity of the Sanders farm,
and where they have leases
on two forty acre tracts ad
joining each other a small re
ducing plant will be located,
and it is expected that eight
of these small plants will be
bought and placed in opera
tion.
A large finishing plant will
be located near the main cut
of the company on the San
ders farm, within sight of the
Sanders residence, and all the
mineral from each of the
small plants will be worked
here again and prepared for
shipment.
A Visit to the Mine
A Journal representative
went out to the Sanders farm
Friday to inspect the work
that had been done. We de
cided Friday was a good day
for the mine, we also decided
that today is a good day for
the mine, or that any day and
every day will be good days
for a gold mine, if the hopes
of these geologists who have
been working in this field pan
out. Some of the geologists
who have looked over this
field state that they have
never seen a field as rich in
their life. One fellow said
that he expected before he
came here to find a strip of
ground probably 25 feet
square where this mineral
could be found, but that the
outlook was the best he had
ever seen. Every geologist
that we have talked to is like
every driller of an oil well we
have ever read about. Every
driller has brought in a bunch
of wells in every field. Every
geologist has been in every
mineral field in the world.
But at that, we are not say
ing that any men of either of
these vocations are not telling
the truth.
The outstanding man in this
field, in our opinion, is W. T.
Barr. Mr. Barr is a fellow
who works, and does not talk
much. If he should lose out
in this deal he has made an
honest effort with the pick
and shovel and worked be
cause he had confidence.
Our knowledge of gold is
very limited and we do not
know for certain that we
could identify any of the min
eral were the American eagle
and “In God We Trust”
stamped on one side, so our
opinion as to the real mineral
being in the ground and the
knowledge of how to find it
would not be worth very
much. Mr. Sanders and Mr.
Barr who have been doing the
prospecting work, were not at
home on our visit to the mj^e,
and we went out to pass on it
without any of the company
members to express our opin
ion to. We found a deep
shaft, extending about forty
or fifty feet from the bed of
a little branch, and it looks
as if it took lots of hope and
pep to dig this hole. Much
of the findings taken from
this has been put through the
fire near the shaft and sever
al small pieces of mineral
were found on the ground.
Lady is Hopeful
After visiting the mine and
coming back to the Sanders
residence, Mrs. Fred Walker,
a neice of Mr. Sanders, kind
ly agreed to explain lots of
things we don’t know about
minerals, and gold and plati
num in particular. Mrs.
Walker says she has heard it
talked about and seen it work
ed with so much, and has
seen every new prospector
and their reports on the field
until she believes there can
not possibly be any doubt as
to the richness^ of the find.
Yet, strange to say, we know
^ lot of people who are not
interested either way, who
are knocking this thing with
all their might. A trip to
the Sanders farm and a talk
with Mrs. Walker might
change their opinion.
Mrs. Walker has two bright,
cheery little daughters, Cleta
and Christabelle, who also
took great delight in helping
their mother explain the diff
erent formations of earth
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MAKING CAMPAIGN
AGAINST SHINERS
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Fourteen Stills Located and
Destroyed by Officers in
the Past Year
Officers of the law continue
to make life miserable for
moonshiners and bootleggers
in this section, and in a raid
Saturday night and early
Sunday morning located two
more moonshine stills in the
Black river bottoms near
Lockhart.
The raids were coudncted
by Federal Enforcement Of
ficers W. R. Pasley and J. H.
Knowles, assisted by Sheriff
Noah Harris of Independece
county and Sheriff Hays of
Jackson countv.
The first stjll was located
in Jackson county and was of
55 gallons capacity, made for
an oil barrel with a crude
straight worm. The second,
in a houseboat belonging to
Will Means, was of 20-gallons
capacity, made with a galvan
ized can, and had been used
in connection with a stove.
One pint of wrhiskey was al
so found on the house boat.
Means had flown. The own
ers of the first still wTere also
away and no arrests were
made.
This makes a total of 14
stills that have been located
and destroyed in this section
during the past year.
FLOYD-THARP
Edgar Floyd of Pangburn
and Miss Viola Tharp were
married at the home of the
bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
G. E. Tharp, three miles
'south of town, Monday night
about 10 o’clock, Rev. G. L.
Fink officiating.
CAMP PIKE WILL
BE ABONDONED SOON
Men Will Be Removed to
Camp Lewis and Build
ings Salvaged
Camp Pike, the home of the
Third Division and original
hohie of the old 87th Division
in which there were thous
ands of Arkansas men, has
been ordered abandoned by
the War Department.
No definite date for the
abandonment of the Camp
has been announced.
It is announced that the
men now at Camp Pike will
be removed to Camp Lewis,
Wash., and that the greater
part of Camp Pike will be sal
vaged.
The land and certain per
manent improvements will be
retained for use in the event
of future appropriations per
mitting its use as a citizens
military training camp.
The government has ap
proximately 10,000 acres of*
land at Camp Pike, 3,000 of
which was donated by the cit
izens of Little Rock, through
the Army Post Development
Company. This land was
deeded outright to the gov
ernment no provision being
made for its return should
the camp be abandoned. The
land cost about $300,000 and
was donated to the govern
ment by the citizens of Little
Rock.*
Construction of Camp Pike
cost the government approxi
mately $10,000,000.
The camp at one time hous
ed approximately 80,000
troops. At that time the 87th
Division, commanded by Ma
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