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The Baxter Springs City Council by Ordinance 42 enacted provisions that greatly limited any mining within city limits. Their actions protected the land in the city; nearby towns have suffered from mining-related environmental degradation. [16] Baxter Springs certainly benefited from the business and revenues generated by regional mining activity.
He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced practice in Lexington, Missouri, the following year. [2] He moved to Baxter Springs, Kansas, in 1873 and resumed the practice of law. He moved to Leadville, Colorado, in 1879 and continued the practice of his profession. He was also interested in mining.
This is a list of Superfund sites in Kansas designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
But receivers were appointed for the railroad in 1926, [1] and on April 27, 1939, the Baxter Springs-to-Picher segment was sold to NEO, with the tracks east of Baxter Springs abandoned and torn up. [1] [7] NEO got 5.556 miles of mainline and 4.17 miles of sidetracks, for a total of 9.726 miles of track. [7]
The Frisco, and its affiliated Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railway, also leased locomotives and rolling stock to the MMBR. [1] The line traveled westerly, northerly, and northeasterly from Quapaw, Oklahoma through Picher, Oklahoma and on to Baxter Springs, Kansas, 11.05 miles, forming a loop through the Miami and Picher lead mining areas.
During the Baxter Springs incident, Eli Crawford killed the mother of his child. His daughter was shot by a sniper, and Crawford took his own life. A lawsuit resulted in a $1.5 million settlement.
The Tri-State district was a historic lead-zinc mining district located in present-day southwest Missouri, southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. The district produced lead and zinc for over 100 years. Production began in the 1850s and 1860s in the Joplin - Granby area of Jasper and Newton counties of southwest Missouri. Production was ...
Keira Knightley’s number one reason for having no more kids isn’t the pain of childbirth or the endless nights of disrupted sleep.. On Monday, Dec. 9. the actress, 39, gushed about her two ...