Mohave County miner., 1884-02-24
MINING IN MOHAVE.
WHAT OUR MINERS ARE DOING IN THE DIFFERENT DISTRICTS OF THIS
 COUNTY.

COUNTY.
 John McEwan, John Grandeld and R. M Jones are working on the Poverty claim at 1 Cerbat, a new location, and have some six or eight tons of ore out.
 Ed. Smith and Kennedy are working on a galena claim belonging to the former above Ccrbat.
 P. Hach has a carload of ore sorted ready for shipment from tho Infallible mine at Stockton.
 HIS. Carpenter will soon commence ship ping ore from the Rattler mine at Chloride, fine galena claim. Twicgs and Carpenter wall soon have carload of galena to ship from one of their claims near Cerbat, as a sample.
 During the months of December and Jan uarv last seventv-two carloads If Cre were shipped from Kingnan, which, including the shipments from Blackberry, will make the total amount shipped from this county in the last six ty days about one thousand tons.
 Mackenzie and Hach will start up work on the Infallible mine at St oektuh on the first of the month.
 The miners on Stockton Hill are very anxious to have a siding put in opposite their camp, and have sent in a petition to the railroad authorities for that purpose. Parties are offering to haul ore from Stock ton to the proposed siding for three dollars per ton, whetsas it now costs twice that to haul to Kingman. One Kingman firm receiI ed twenty tons of ore in one day last week for shipment to Benson.
 We want to See thaS Blackberry smelter assume moro tangible shape.
 The McCracken mill IS running on tail ings for the present. They are banning out well.
 Eugene Pannenberg, the deputy L. $. Surveyor of Prescott, is surveying the four mines belonging to the Lester mining con- pany, preparatory to obtaining patents for them.
 r Go to work, boys, and get out that ore you have been bragging about all the win ter. You are losing money every day that you are idle.
 There will soon be quite feree of men at work on the Elkhart mine at Chloride. A carload of ore was received at the King man sampling works last Tuesday from Golf station, on the California side of the Colorado. Itassayed well up into the hun dreds and the owners will soon send ill some more of the same kind. W. F. Geiman, formerly assaYeT for the Howell smelling company of Yavapai coun- ty, is now in Blackberry, assayin2 for the Indian Queen mill and mining Company.
 L.J. Lassell has neat assay office at Kingman and will make you any kind of an assay in short order.
 There is prospect of some of th 10 best property ill the San Francisco district ch lnging hands very shortly at handsome figures.
 We ht.r that the steam wagon which lS Doing used by the Lester mining company for tke purpose of hauling ore from the MoCrackin mine to their mlll at Signal, q distnce of nine miles, IS workin4 10 per lection. This me ms of transportation has been successfully used in Scotland, and We sco no rols,n why it should not bs just as effective in Arizona.
 The Matilda mining company are putting ! up their thirty toit smelter aboAt six miles above Planet on Williams FJTk. There is considerable stir in the old An brey and Owens districts at tke present time, and a great many new claims are be- ing discovered. Considerable mining prop erty is changing hands at very far prices, and some of the boys have made small for- tunes by recent sales.