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From: "Fran Warren" <>
Subject: [ARKANSAS] July 2, 1878 Van Buren Press
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:31:13 -0800


July 2, 1878
Van Buren Press
Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas

A GREAT DISCOVERY AT HOT SPRINGS
The Hot Springs Telegraph, of the 10th:

Dr. Gebhart and H. M. Woolman have struck on a bigger Bonanza than Diamond
Joe in his silver mine. They have found an immense slate mine, containing
four distinct colors of slate of the finest texture, viz.: red, green, blue
and black, within about ten miles of Hot Springs. This slate is equal to the
celebrated Scotch roofing slate mines at Edinburg, Scotland, and it is the
intention of the gentlemen owning the mine to open and work it immediately
as they have secured the ownership of the land. This is only one of the
inexhaustible sources of wealth that is bound to be developed at Hot Springs
in the near future. With the gold, silver, titanium, copper, nickel, emery,
tripoli, kaolin, and slate now discovered, no place on the globe has greater
promise in store than the neighborhood of the world's great future
sanitarium, Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Fran Alverson Warren

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