Word: graysonia
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...German geologist named Norton who was traveling through southwest Arkansas lately, Farmer J. L. Cox of Graysonia showed a hunk of red rock. "Cinna-bar," explained the geologist. "Put it in a fire pot. It will run quicksilver." That is one version of the start of a current rush to mine mercury in the Ozarks. Another version is that railroad laborers exposed a valuable vein of cinnabar near Amity when they blasted out some sandstone riprap...
...matter how the lodes were discovered, southwest Arkansas was booming in minor key last week. A lumber company at Graysonia, which had finished clearing all the available timber in the district and was about to move, turned hands loose at mining cinnabar and transformed its sawmill to a mercury refining plant. Amity also has a mine and refinery. Murfreesboro is another centre. All around farmers are melting red rocks. About 1,000 strangers are in the neighborhood. They want mining rights and whiskey, raising a pretty problem for the hearth-tenders up the creeks-whether to distill moonshine or quicksilver...
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