Mohave County miner., 1883-08-26
Mining Matters.

J. E. Boss of Socorro has been out on visit to the Hualapai and MoiaNe Indian
 and returned to Albuquerque yesterday O 3 hls way home me.-Albuquerque Journal, At : gust 19.
 New strikes sre reported from Minera Park district, and private letter state
 that men are arriving daily, ore bodies ar
 being exposed and the coming winter vii
 be known as the beginning of Mohave coun
 tvs output. Mine owners are prepared t
 turn out ore, and by the 1s$ of October ship
 ping will begin in earnesg.-AlbuquerquC
 Democrat.
 The Grant smelting works of Denver and the Omaha smelling and refining company
 have been consolidated. The capital stock
 has been fixed at &, ,5OCO 900. The name of the new company is Omaha & Grant smelt- ing and refining company.
 The Billings smelting works at Socorro are now almost completed and will blow ir shortly. There are two furnaces already erected, having capacity of sixty tons each and it is proposed to erect four more at once. There are already 1000 tons of ore in the bins and more arriving daily. These reduction works are the nearest of any to Mohave county, being only 75 miles from Albuquerque south. We expect that great deal of the ore from Mohave county will go to these works.
 William Calver has sold the Great East ern mine to James J. H. Gregory, of Mar blehead, Massachusetts. The consideration expressed in the deed is oae dollar.
 L Davidson and F. Hach have disposed of one of their many claims, called the Vic tor No. to B. Moses of Albuquerque fOI one thousand dollars.
 There are about ten men working on the Cupel mine at Stockton, and the work ot development so S bravely n under the di- rection of Superintendent A. c. Springer
 In company with H. S. Carpenter wG paid visit to the R ttier mine now owDet by hIm. This claim lies about half mi, north of the Connor mine. On our arriva We found MeSsrs. Twiggs and Chadwick work sinking new shaft. It is designed [, sink shaft to the depth of about 50 fee and from thence to lUn a drift to come; with sn old shaft sCne :0C feet south. L. ore streak IS about four feet wide and avr ages from SIS to S65 IT gold and silver b, sides carrying q large Terae-ts a of C |, about IS inches f lie vein l. Le " al assa wing 6 10 A0 uzs n silver ;rd tr-ni ; to 7O per cent. iead. lLe ledse Ii be dI. tinstiy traoed t. C wtc,e length of rhe claii and in sCne r Gc, s crcps out tl4reo or four feet hiGh nd fitetn feet tu;.Oss. goOo deai of work Las Leen dCle cn tllis claim II: years GCre by aId we are pleased to note that it h. LOW fallen into tLe hands of :. gentleman wko is Lot only ble but anxiou to deyeiop Lis property. We expect to heal of some big shlpnents of ore from the Rat | tier nline before maI,y months.
 W. J. Eelden is ct blcriding on the DistafI mine at Chloride.
 Steve Smith is taking some rich ore out of mine called tLe Sunday School near 
 Those of our miners who own ten or twenty claims are be- ming to worry about thelr assessment work. It will be safe to beT sGat every claim will be juinped next January upon which tho assessment work is not properly done.
 Tine Keystone mine has been bailed out and seGl operations will be commenced on it in earnest.
 The X L mine in WalIapai moHntains has had considerable work done on 1t this month and shows up splendidly.
 Considerable ore IS being shipped from the Music mountains to Eastern reduction works.
 It is rumored that the McCraGken mine and mill will start up in short time.
 Two carloads of ore from tine Infallible mine at Stockton will be shipped to the Selby smelting works in San Francisco in a short time.
 Two tons of ore from the c. Q. D mine was sampled at Chamherlain's works at Kingman last week.