Mohave County miner., 1883-06-03
OUR MIN ES.
MINNESOTADISTRICT.
A General Description of the Country and some of
 the Mines.

The Minnesota district was formed Dc
 cember 27th, 1880, and probably less ii
 known of 1t than any other district Tn the
 county. This is probably due to it's isolated
 position, lying as it does out of the ugua
 run of travel. The nearest settlement ol
 mining camp 10 the district is Fl Dorado Canon, which lies on the opposite bank oi the river from the district and about eight to twelve miles from the nearest mines 1 Mineral Park is som forty miles from the distrlot in a southerly direction. The dis trict is some twenty miles square and is bounded as follows:
 Commencing at Johnson's Rock on the | Colorado river and thence running east | twenty miles; thence north twenty miles:
 thence west to Roaring Rapids on the Col oradO; thence down the river to the place of beginning.
 The general character of the country may be termed desert in the truest sense of the word, the entire area included Ill the boun- diaries of the district being totally devoid of wood and water and containing nothing il the shape of vegetation but cactus and & little brush, except on the bank of the Col orado where plenty of cottonwood and mes quit is found. As to the mineral wealth of the district very little is really known so far. as very little prospecting has been done. | ell many well defined lodges varying in widtk from two to twenty feet and more do exist and that they are mostly of low grade some of them cont 4ining, however, punches of very rich ore. What little work has been done in the district has consisted in taking out few of these rich punches and taking the ore across the river to the Lin coin mill at El Dorado Canon for reduction. About the first location made in the dis trict was the old
 JENNIE MINE,
 which was located in December, 1880, by John Hewes, J. Baer and others. These parties took out some rich rock and had ii worked at the Lincoln mill The ore worked so we'll, that the Lincoln company immediately bough ht the claim, paying tht owners $1000 each for their interest. Tn, company at once put some men on the mint who sunk a shaft some thirty feet deep be- sIdes doing considerable surface work ano at the end of about two months had cleareC between six and seven thousand dollars. About this time the company became in. fy,l 4a1 bf closing down of the mill and everything connected herewith. Most of the ore takel from thIs claim during the short period ii was worked by the Lincoln company mile, about S425 per ton, the ore being rich il horn silver. There is two feet of ore at tht bottom of the shaft but it is of a low grade the rich pocket evidently not going down t. that depth. The company having becom' completely "busted,' to use homely bu; expressive phrase, this claim was neelectel until on January 1st, 1883, it was re-lOcatet under the name of the Ontario by J. Baei | and J. B. Barker, Baer being one of the original locators of the mine, who propose l to do gome work on it this year. This mint | is eight miles from Fl Dorado Canon over fair roads
 Another mine which ha produced consid- | erable ore is ths
 WEAVER, which was located few days after the Jen- | nie mine by John Weaver and others. Th' | work done on tIis claim consists of shaft | and tunnel from which some forty tons of | ore was taIke4 and hauled to the Lincoh i mill, distance of F miles, for reduction | This ore worked S12O per ton. The veil | from which it was taken averaged abour eighteen inches in width, tie ledge being | very spotted.
 On another location on the sams ground | another party took out nearly a ton of or which netted him over $500 per ton at tn, | mill, We believe that work has been kep | up on this ciaisn and that it is still in tht hands of the original iocators,
 THE aATTLER
 is another claim on which considerable | work has been done by the owners, Johl | Edwards and Pat Burke. This is tw, foot ledge and the ore milled $70 per ton.
 During the time work was being done oI the Jennie mine John Waters located ledge running diagonally 10 it and took Ou' d little less than ton of ore from which h, obtained in the neighborhood of $6OO Fron this it will be seen that the rich surface or lies in punches, and if the prospecto- chances to find one of these few daYs i work will net him handsome snm.
 There has been little or no work done II this district since the Lincoln compan! quit, some two years since, and at that time there were only about fifteen men at work theIe. The company got into diff culties through gtoss nismanagement anC their failure cannot be attributed to an. fault of the mines on either side of the river for. as will be seen above, all the ore frolr the Minnes sota district paid well. We hea. that new parties have taken charge of tn, mlll and mines during the past month an, that the mill is now running on custom ore We hope that this will be the means Oi opening up some of the mines in Minnesot; district and putting new life into it. w, think that some of our prospectors might find it to their advantage to take trip t. this district and they may rest assured tha' they will not find notice on every ledge they come across for there are not nor, | than dozen valid locations in the who'll district at the present time. The ores art all free and contain no base metals of an. |