Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1887 — White Malleable Iron Ore. [ARTICLE]
White Malleable Iron Ore.
A-writer upon the products of Arkansas, says- “The most remarkable and interesting mineral of all this region is the white malleable iron ore, regarding the existence and malleability of which a great deal of skepticism is said to exist. It is fonnd in the corner of Howard County, adjoining the frontier of Montgomery, Folk, and Pike,” — Exchange. The Erie Canal was opened in 1825; the old Middlesex Canal had been in successful operation for over . twenty years at that date.
