Information Sheet

 

 

R         American Institute of Mining Engineers.

896                  War Minerals of the Joplin-Miami District, 1917.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

This is a booklet prepared for the Joplin-Miami portion of the annual meeting of the Ameri­can Institute of Mining Engineers, held on 11-13 October 1917.  It features a narrative report on the district by Otto Ruhl, with maps and data complied by G. B. Corless.

 

The American Institute of Mining Engineers (AIME) met at St. Louis for its annual meeting in October 1917.  For the last three days of the meeting the participants entrained for the Tri-State Mining District of southwestern Missouri, southeastern Kansas, and northeastern Oklahoma.  This “Joplin-Miami Session” included visits to mining and processing sites, a “technical session” de­voted to papers, and social activities.  This 37-page booklet was published by the AIME to serve as a program and provide background information on the district.  Of particular interest are fold-out panoramic photographs of the mining operations at Webb City in Jasper County, Missouri, and Picher in Ottawa County, Oklahoma.

 

The centerpieces of the booklet are a report, “War Minerals of the Joplin-Missouri Dis­trict,” by Otto Ruhl, and two large maps of the area by G. B. Corless.  The report provides an ex­cellent brief summary of the development of the district, and how it had been revived in support of the war effort.  Included are charts providing production and cost data by mining camp, with an evaluation of future activity in light of rising or declining prices.  There are also several photo­graphs of production facilities and a map of the “Oklahoma Mining District.”  The maps include Crawford and Cherokee counties in Kansas, Ottawa County in Oklahoma, and Jasper and Newton and portions of Lawrence, Dade, and Barry counties in Missouri.  The maps are identical in geo­graphical coverage, with one showing “belts of mineralization and other geological features,” while the other indicates “the location of some of the larger land holdings and their relation to the major geological features.”

 

 

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