Mohave County miner., 1883-03-11
OUR MINE Information for Coming Pros
 peCtOrS. The Great Wallapai District. The Mineral Belt of the
 Cerbat Range.
The Great Wallapai District.

l IAlS CiStflGG was formed OcJO per %GU
 iS70 and is the oldest and best known dis
 tTiot in the county. The following old timers signed the call for the formation oi the district: James Fleming, Alonzo E. Davis, Benj. H. Spear, R. C. Todd, Geo Fisher, Dan. Ii. Smith; Samuel Todd, Geo. | Okey, Wm. Fee, ,James P. Bull, U. F. l DooIittle and others, The boundary line l of the district commences at Beal Springs and running thence along the Prescott and 1 Nohave toll road westerly ten miles; thence up the center of tue Sacramento Valley, northerly, thirty miles; thence easterly twenty miles; thence down the Wallapai Valley to the road and thence to Bsal Springs the place of beginning.
 l The district is bounded on the north by the Wallapai Valley and Gold Basin district and on the south by Maynard distsict, CD the east by Wallapai Valley and the range of noun tains in which the Peacock district is situated and on the west by the Sacra- meuto Valley.
 It contains some six hundred square miles of land and takes in nearly the whole of the Cerbat range of mountains. The min eral belt of this district lies in this range l and is some twenty miles in length and about eight miles in width, over the whole of which is found plenty of pine, pihon and cedar
 The district is dottedI IalI over with springs eV cry few miles in every direction, and the prosPeo5or will experience no difficulty OH that score.
 The Cerbat range of mountains is one vast accumulation of mineral, nothing more or less. On every hillside, in the washes and cailons, on the highest summits and on the lowest foothills, and indeed far out into the valleys on either side of the range, one cannot go fifty yards without finding a mineral bearing ledge carrying all the way from SIC or 500 up to $7,0O0 and $6, 900 per ton ill silver. This may appear exaggerated to parties who have never been in the dls- trict, but to verify tEe statement cue need only come and see tor themselves. The general formation of the district is granite, being either feldspathic, quartzose or mi cace ,us, according to location; the lodges varying ill width from two to fifty feet and the ore streaks being from six inches to if teen feet in width. It is impossible to enter into a general description of the mines of this district in the space allowed to this ar ti0le, and as the district is divided into numerous sub-districts or mining camps, which all have their own especial charac- teristics; we will devote few lines to each of them and will commence with
 Mineral Park
 As being the oldest and most thickly set tied of these camps: Mineral Park is sit uated in a basin, nearly in the center of the range, this basin being little over a mile in diameter, and obtained its name from the fact that when the district was first dis covered the entire basin was thiokly covered with cedars, making indeed mineral park" Of this park, however, only the mineral portion remains, all of the timber having been long since cut and used in cooking the prOspeGtOrs' beans and other purposes. Tn the country round about Mineral Park the formation is quartzOse- granite, the casing of the lodges being thick talcite; the silver ores being mostly free milling chlorides aid carbonates above water level and below it changing into blue sulphurets, all the sulphuret ores being more or less base and requiring to be roasted III their treatment, The richness of these sul- phuret ores, however, more than make up f5r the extra expense of reducing them. Some of the lodges about Mineral Park car " a high percentage of gold, notably the Kevstone and Lone Star and others in their vicinity. Ledges containing copper or ga!ena ore ara seldom found i'll the lmme diate vicinit; of Mineral Park. The mines close to Mineral Park ara prnbably the best known and richest in the entire district. First and foremost may be enumerated the Keystone, owned now by an Eastern syndi- cate, 5ut formerly owned and worked by Breon and Spear. We eare informed on good authority that over $200,Gc0 has been taken out of this mine, most of the ore be- ing nilIed at the mill i'll Mineral Park, which is now under the control of the com | pany owning tie mine. It is the intention of the company to start sp work on this mine immediately. Ali the ore out of this mine will average over $2O0 per ton at the mill.
 l Another prominent mine ill Mineral Park | is the Lone Star, owned by WeltOn and | Grounds. who have erected concentrating works for the purpose of working the Gre from 1t. This is claimed, and justly so, to ] be the specimen mine of the county, from the wonderfully rich specimens of native silver taken out of 1t. Specimens can be, seen from this mine carrying wire silver ! from the thickness of thread to the thick ness of the little finger; also native silver as 1 thick as a knife blade, In addition to the native, this ore carlies gilYer in the shape of black sulphurets and ruby. In taoi one cannot break up piece of the ore without i finding silver ill some shape or form. Ore from this nilae gi!l go from $50 to $1200 per ton in silver besides carrying ss high as $1OO in gold.
 Anot.4er prominent mine is the Fairfield
 owned by the Fairfield and Cincinnati min ing company, of New York. This is an eight foot ledge of pay ore, averaging about S65. This nliGe has one shaft POO feet deep besides tunnel 1900 feet long, but the pro pertv is involved in litigation, and no work | is being done at present. The largest body
 of pay ore in the Hejghborhood of Mineral Park is found ill the Starke & Ewing mine,