Mohave County miner., 1883-04-29
OUR MINES.
A Visit to Todd Basin.

The great Wallapai district is divided into
 a number of sub-districts, each represented
 by it's lit tle mining camp and it's particular
 set of miners. As rule the inhabitants of
 these camps are firm believers in their own
 camps and will argue by the hour on its
 distinctive merits, and claim that their
 mines are the best and that that particular
 portion of the Wallapai district in whici ! they live is the best and richest. In nc
 case is this spirit more marked than in the
 sub-district commonly called Todd Basip and in which we will include the neighbor- ing basins called respectively Bobtail and Union. The miners who own most of th claims in the vicinity of these three basin
 have right to brag about them for man. reasons, though the simple fact that th, rich ores produced here have supported some of them for the past ten or twelv, years, even with the exorbitant millinf charges and the correspondingly high prices charged for merchandise, should be reasol enough. Capt. J. P. Layne claims the dis tinction of being the oldest inhabitart of Todd Basin and the fact that he hal lived there on the product of hls mines fo the past twelve years shows that he has haC faith in his particular camp and it mines. and that he is right in staying with his claims for that long period will soon bt proven by the amount of ore they will pr, duce in the next few months and the amoun of money he will make thereby. At his ir vitatiOn and taking along our good nature, Under-Sherif for protection, in case of ne cessity, we paid visit to some of his claims first visiting the
 PRIKEEosA.
 This claim was located by the Captain o1 which time he has done considerable worl l on 1t at different times and has shipped l large quantitieG of the ore to the mill Mineral Park. The lodge is strong an, 1 well defined one averaging from eightee inches to two feet wide, all of winch tL | Captain claims is pay ore. The formatic, l is in granite and the ore is very base su' phuret, carrying copper, zinc, lead silve and gold. Some of the ore carries as higj as twenty per cent. copper. The first clas ore obtained from a streak about ten inche wide carrles 24G ounces in silver to the tor balance of the ore will average about ounces. Twenty eight tons of the best or from this mine milled at Breon $ Spear l mill went $200 to the ton, aId two separat, lots amounting in all to thirty two tons o the second class ore milled respectively $8 and $93 at the same mill, no allowance bt ing made for gold at these figures, the mil people claiming that they could not save it The mine is opened by shaft some twelv feet deep, in which work had to be stoppe on account of tho large amount of wate coming in. There is now some four fee of water in the shaft and Captain Layn tells us that it takes two men on the wine which of course does not pay, He has ru, in tunnel on the ledge about forty fee showing good two feet of ore in the face He has also opened out quite large cut ol the vein from which hs has been taking or the past few days. He has fifty sacks o ore from this mine already hauled down the road for shipment to Chamberlain ,ampling works. From this pro1nisin nine the Captain kindly escorted us to tn.
 PRosPERrTY,
 Jwned by himself and Caldwell Wright This ia comparatively & new mine, havin~ ,een located as late as March 30th, 1880 For the amount of work done on this clair Te think it shows up better than the Prime 'osa, the ledge being more even and solid The ore body in this claim is fully two fee vide, the orc being the regular blue sul ,huret, so common in Wallapai distrioj Two tons of this ore milled at the Minera Park mill as a sample went $146. Thor. Ire several prospecting shafts on this cIaiu rom ten to twenty feet deep and 6 GU bout fifteen feet long, and there arc eigh, IT ten tons of ore on ths dump which sill probably be worth from $80 to $lN with little sorting. Another and an sd oining claim on this ledge is called the
 PENNsYLvAN1A
 nd shows the same character of ore anc he same width of ledge as in the Prosper ty, aItn0ngh tne ore ls someWnat rlcner Thirty-eight sacks of ore from this clam nilled at the last run of the Mineral Psrl mill gave result of $310 per ton.
 These three claims are but few ot those 'wned by Captain Layne in Todd Basin. ut our time was too limited to allow us t. -isit any other during this trip, but VI hall take occasion at an early day to pay more extended visit to the mines of thit ,articular locality. ,