Mohave County miner., 1884-08-31
OUR MINES
And What Is Being Done On
Them.

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both in the greit variety and richness of it's
ores, as well as in tie aumbsr and ~ tent Of
its mineral bearing ledles. Here are found
VEINS Of gold, silver, lead, copper, an.imony,
zinc and other minerals, only needing capi-
tai and labor TO enable them TO add their
hidden stores to the wealth Of ths country.
Tlee are nov some fifty men engaged 10
mining ON Stockton Hill. while more are
being added every few days. reporter of
the NJ NER visited this fouris hing camp A
fes ays since with view If picking up a
few items that might he of interest to it,
readers Accepting a seat in tiapt. Hardy's
cirriage We soon found ourselves at the foot
Of Stockton Hill. where wo saw large pile
of ore from the Dictionary mine, stacked up
e'dy for ship nsut to the Pa eblo smelling
works. Still further ON up the grade We
came to another pile Of heavy galena ore
from the StSndby and Rocky Point mines
at Csrbat. owned bvJ. ). Hyde which we're
marked for the Benson smelter. Arriving
at the summit Of the hill we found another
pile of some 800 sacks owned by the Ora,
Bros., who own some Of the best slams on
The hill. This ore was also destined for
ineblo. Leaving our earriase std mount
ing his own two-iesged steed the reporter
first visited the
FRANKLIN NINE,
owned by VIM. Engls and Caldwell
Wright where thrss men were found at work
stoping oat pie,s Of ground lying between
two shafts. and taking out .ome very fns
ore. whinh was sorted up into two classcs,
the irst OF which assays in I Q neigbbor-
a,od Of SD t. the tom in SILVER, while the
SECOND cla-s ore runs sb ,ut 100 ozs. Numsr.
ous improvements have been made IN this
claim since Or last visit, some mouths ag.,,
among which may be mentioned fine
blacks aith shop and platforms for sorting
ore. VIM. Eng!e, one of the oldest and bssf
known mine in tho coupty has charge Of
the woik on this clam nd be informed
oar reporter th,t soms extr men wo1id be
.put on in fex days Tas next ell was
made at the
MOONBEAM NINE,
owned by J. NJ. Gale d Co. Here five mon
were found hard Mt work. extracting the
precious metal, and the metal from this
haim il indss1 prscious. seeing that the las
carload Of ore from the mine sampled 337
ounces in silver at the Cerbs mill, while
tbs ss,ond oi,ss ore runs about 90 ounces.
Mr.. @ No Is at present 90 o,apisd in both
sinking and stop:ng and with Ave men is
taking out sboa; tons OF irst-eitss ore and
i've tons of se,oal cins, ore per weak. He
certainly deserves his go,d fortune, for IL
is only few months since t'.at he came
here and purchased the mine which vas
then supposed 10 be o1 little yalus. by good
hard work and the expenditure Of little |
money, Mr.. Gale b. made the Moonbsam |
one Of ths best ptying IN nes on the hin, !
nd he cert iinly deserves all the money he
is MAKING opt Of il.
Our scribe next paid visi. to the adjuin-
ing claim. the old
CUPEL MINE,
which has contributed a larger amount than /
say other claim to the sum total Of tie
wealth extracted from the mines OF S;ock.
t,n Hill. In esrly days chloriders took out
as much as $4,000 fiom this valuable
lsim, the sarf,cA Of which is at present en-
tirely boneyoombsd with old workings.
This claim Leeds 50 be SINK TO n depth of
at least 5O0fees before il can be again put
on paying blsis. At pr sent there are two
or three neii sorting "y the old dumps
which thay have purchased Of Mesars. Sprn-
sncs Stanley a Co., owners Of the mine, and
they appoar to be making good thing out
Of it. Up to date they have shipped two
carloads Of ore TO Pueblo. and have some
s20 sacks more, ready for shipment. Mr..
Reilly. who Is experimenting the job, essi.
mates that !. will tak- him six or eight
months to finish the work Of sorting over
Ike dumps. While an the Hill our reporter
visited several ether cl,ims which will form
he subject II future article