Mohave County miner., 1883-05-27
MINING ITEMS.
What Our Miners are
 Doing.

Capt. Layne is working on the Pennsyl- vania in Todd Basin.
 James Jackman is hard at work on his contract on the Blue Pod mine.
 John O'Brien and Frank Smith are at work on the New London mine.
 Joe Quaid has finished his assessment work on the Stephen Girard mine at Cerbat
 Tom Mulligan is working on the Flag staff mine, and James Mulligan on the Fon. tenoy.
 D n. OIL cary and Chas. Maxson are pros pecting in the neighborhood cf Sacramento Springs.
 John Mulligan has struck vein of silver ore on the Wild Irish Boy 50 rich that it can be hammered into almost any shape. It is almost pure silver.
 J. H. Luthy of Albuquerque has recently returned from prospecting trip i'll the Lost Basin country. He has made several loca- tions which he claims are quite rich.
 R. G. Patterson was in town last Thurs lay looking for miners to go out to Gold B s;n and work on the Fl Dorado mine. He has eigLt men at work now and will soon plt OH more.
 Won. D wis. Jr., came in on Wednesday from the FAirview mine, where he has been working with John Styles and R. Arnold. Hs rep rts that they took out ton and a half of $500 ore as result of ten days work.
 Henry Lambert and Put Durgan are gc ing to take out ore from the Brother Jona than mine, across the river, for shipment to San Francisco. A great deal of work las been done on this claim in times gone oy.
 Louis Davidson has collected quite re- pectable number of specimens for the Santa 7e Exposition. He has already enough to ill four cases but is anxious to obtain more nd make as good showing as possible rom Mohave county.
 Specimens of ore intended for the Tertio Iillennial Exhibition at Santa Fe should De brought in at once as the exhibition Ipens on the first of July. They may be left at this office where they will be properly abeled and forwarded free of charge.
 Some Colorado partles have located the second north extension of the Fairview nine and have commenced work on it in ] good shape. They traced up and uncovered l the ledge, exposing two feet of ore of which l streak of four inches is wonderfully rich, ! showing wire gold everywhere.
 $. E. Fuller, John Lewellyn and B Mc- Leod Of Signal have bonded the Birdie nine to Alfonzo Tregidgo ;and Eugene de | Sabla of San Francisco for six months for | he sum of $25 GOO. The Birdie or. as it is 1 sometimes called, the Lewellen mine, is on he Santa Maria six miles from Williams ! York and four miles from Rawhide.
 We are informed that there is considerable ! excitement i'll the nei2hborhood of Sacra. | nento Springs, across the river from liar lyvlle, over the discovery of immense de- po5its of borax and that claims are being | st lked off in all directions. In addition to | ; ie borax fads ledge has also been found | ,rrying over S10J0 per ton ill sllver.- several tons of tLe ore have already teen | shipped to San Francisco. There are over | me hundred and fifty men prospecting in the neighborhood and a new town site has lready been laid eff.
 From Jerome Burns who has just returned l rom trip to Fl Dorado Cation we learn | that times are lively in that mining camp, md the place is full of miners and prospec- CTS. The Southwestern mining company's nill is running on full time on Ta0 ore from ihe company'S mine. They have about fifty men employed on the mine and mill. The Lincoln mill is also running on custom )re, though the company expect soon to ,tlrt Up work Gn some of their own mines. Most of the miners are chlor iding and all ippear to be doing we'll judging from the 11antity of ore they bring in to the mill. Mo it of the ore worked at this run of the Lincoln mill Las rked up to over $1OO per ton.