Mohave County miner., 1891-08-29
The MoHAvE MINER.
INNING M AoHAgE COUNTY.

Matt Carr and his son, Win, are run
ming crosscnt on the Copper World
They have a contract on the mine thaI
will take them year to complete.
Henry Roberts has struck Il fiae streak
of gold ore in the vicinity OF Naw Yori
district. He has fine showing and II
taking out large amount OF ore.
William Patterson came over from The
Park few days ago and has gone on All
extended trip to the country in the yicini,
ty oi Cedar. lie IS an old time prcspeclor
and viii not fail TO find anything that
may be in the ground he goes over, that
is apparent to the naked eye.
The boiler at the Empire mine, Chic
ride, went to pieces last Saturday morn.
ing. No one was injured, but il necessi.
tates the shutting down of the mine for
some time TO come. THE mine has con.
siderable ground opened up, but the
wafer viii food the workings in few
days.
George Miller has an immensely rich
gold mine in Weaver district, in the west
ern part OF this county, and few miles
from the Colorado river. Specimens
from the mine are laced and scanned with
gold. The mine is said TO be the finest
gold property ever discovered In this
county.
Barney Mccall, who has been at work
on the north extension OF the Sunday
School mine for the past month, has
strnck "a fonr.inch streak of rich mineral
tie has one man working with him, and
together they are taking ont considerable
ore, the ground being soft and easily
worked
Hitchcock and Cross have suspended
operations on the Hancock mine, at
Chloride, being unable to han'le the
large volume OF water in the shaft A
good hoisting plant will have to he put
on the mine before any more work can
be done, as the water rises to within a
few feet OF the surface.
Mr.. Sc.lnlon, OF California, was in town
this week. He has some mining claims
in Old Woman's mountain in which our
popular townsman, l.. ]. LasseIl, is in
teres'ed. He made Mr. Lassell flatter-
ing offer for his interests, but Lew is not
yet prepared to sell, as the claims have
fine showing on top.
H. Graham, of Todd Basin, while
sharpening tools, the other day, was
struck in the eye by a piece Of scale from
the steel. Mr. Graham came TO town
and DR. Dean removed the scale, which
he found deeply imbedded in the outer
coating OF the eye. The eye is much in
famed but will be all right in few days.
AL Eaton has purchased an interest in
the Eli mine, at Chloride, OF Joe Labaree
and together these two gentlemen intend
TO work the property for all i: is worth.
they have now in sight a streak of ore
assaying away up in the thousands. A
specimen from the claim, shown MS the
other day, was almost solid horn silver.
The q. o. ID. mill made a trial run un-
der the supervision of B. M. Dodge, the
pateutee, and in three hours run through
eleven tons OF ore. The ore from this
mine is very hard and the showing made
by the mill was quite remarkable. An
other boiler will have 10 be moved into the
mill as the condensation of steam from
the old boiler was too great heretofore to
do good work i'm the mill.
The Prescott papers have for some time
past been Dragging OF their shipments of
high grade ores. The ores shipped from
this county are much higher in grade
and receive mere passing mention. A
thirty-two ton lot from Yavapai county
mine (the Armlet) gave return Of $l0,-
900, while a seventeen-ton lot from a Mo-
have county mine gave net return TO
the owner Of 1916 On last Saturday
the Kingman sampler sampled and paid
out s13, ,623 for ore frorn Mohaye county
mines. Some months ago fourteen tons
OF ore from the Nighthawk mine, sold to
the sampler, netted over $4,000 And
yet with the immense production OF the
precious metal this county is compare
lively neglected by capital, while hun
dreds Of thousands OF dollars are pouring
into otbar aacfions of the farritnrv II