Mohave County miner., 1883-01-28
OUR MINES.
Another Bonanza on Stockton Hill

! Having heard that very rich strike hao
 been made on Stockton Hill since the first
 of January we concluded to take a tramp
 over in that direction and lot our readers
 in other parts of sthe county know some
 thing about it. Stockton Hill lies about
 six or seven miles from Mineral Park and
 overlooks the great Wallapai Valley. Look
 ing across the valley quite beautiful view
 is obtained. To the right are the great snow capped peaks of the Wallapai Noun tains, towering 5000 feet above the sea level and containing in their depths hidden treasures of gold, silver and lead, whose value can only be estimated in the future when their wonderfully rich mines are more fully developed than at present. Looking towards the left one sees the Music Noun tain, or, more correctly speaking, the Tux ton range, far of in the distance, and right opposite the Peacock range, in which is situated ths Blackberry niue and many others tco numerous to mention.
 Standing on Stockton Hill and looking at ones feet, and on every side for couple of miles, one sees nothing but a perfect net work of tunnels, shafts, dumps and other indications of mines, while the piles of ore lying on the dumps tell good story of their depth and extent. On every hillside the eye meets nothing but mines and one is surprised at the amount of work done in and around the hill until he is told that the mmes of Stockton Hill have been worked for the past thirteen years, and by the richness of their orc deposits have sup ported many hard working miner for all this length of time when nothing less than $50 orc would pay to take out. This of itself should be sufficient indication of the value of the ores around Stockton. In sIite of the time that this portion of Walla- pal district has been worked, new discov- cries are being made every little while.-I During the present month claim has been located and few days work on it has opened up vein of ore that for size and ex- tent has made the old residents on the hill open their eyes and wonder what they have been about not to have found it aftefI running over it for the past ten or twelve years. The fortunate one to discover and locate this ledge was John Kennedy, one of the oldest miners on the hill, and he has named it the
 BLACK WARRIOR.
 Immediately after locating it Kennedy commenced work by stripping the surface ground of the ledge for about thirty feet and making good roomy dump. AS we saw it day or two since the ledge is stick ing up some four or five inches above the level of the dump for distance of thirty feet and the magnitude of the ore body can be seen at the glancf The vein is four feet wide ill the widEst place and three feet Ill the narrowest. In uncoyering the ledge some seven tons of ore has been gathered up, about one ton of which Kennedy calls his first class ore and which will go at least $50G to the ton. Numerous assays have been made of this class of ore, the lowest of which was $120and from that up to $12c0. This first class ore comes from rich streak in the vein which is about six to eight inches wide. The remainder of the ledge averages about $100. The first class ore is perfectly greasy with horn silver, in fact horn silver can be found all through the ledge. The owner being desirous of find- ing out whether the ore body continues down the same width as on the surface, is sinking four by seven shaft on the foot wall, which is easy working grounG. The shaft is down about twenty feet and as it is being pushed down at the rate of three or four feet day it will not take long to find out that this ledge has depth as well as width. It is the owners intention to sink this shaft to the depth of one hundred feet and to crosscut the ledge at fifty and one hundred feet, before he makes any prepar- ations for taking out ore.
 Kennedy has already been offered S2500 ill cash for this prospect, also $1000 for oEe- third interest ill the claim, both of which offers he has refused. As the claim looks now, the ore i'll sight IS worth more than those two sums put together, if 1t continues to be as rich as that on the surface. For the amount of work done on this claim, and 9s far as can be seen and estima ted at pres ent, this new discovery is one of the rich est ever made iii Wallapai district, and the only wonder is that it was not found before We know of no one who deserves this lucky find more than Johnny Kennedy, who has lived as long and worked as hard as any r,iuer oE Stockton Hill.
 The numerous otLer nlineswe visited iii and around Stockton will be noticed in fu- tare art 'cles.