Arizona republican., 1897-12-16


 ing Position in Mining.
 tKinglnan, Ariz., Dec. 14.-(Special correspondence of The Rapu5lican.)- A few scattering notes on mining in the big, but sparsely settled county in the extreme northwestern part of Arizona will serve as an appetizer be- fore entering upon @ detailed pen il- lustration of the famous White Hills district; i'm fact it is possible that mau go SO far as to arrange my re- ports to occupy space in four issues. Yavapai Graham, Pinal, Gila, Co., chise Pima and Yuma have been pic tured to the readers as the greatest of Arizona's mining counties but far off Mohave wants the Republican to give it a show On this visit, whi'e I expect to tell a great deal, which in volved a ride of fully 115 miles be hind a spanking team, it may be as- stunned that much is left unSaid. Ac- cording to J. R. Halsey, who has handled large shipments of ore in this county at his two sampling works, one of which is leased from w. H. Lake, the ores brought Ito Kingma1 for treatment, and shipment to Pueb- 10 and Ell Paso, average equally in gold and silver with a small percentag ga of lead. @From December 20, 1896, to date, 7500 carloads of high grade ore, in value $250,00O, is the record of shipping through my works, these ores being equal relatively in gold and silver" said Mr. Halsey, who re ceives London and New York quota tions daily. An October lot of 901 pounds of ore from the Cedar Valley, forty miles south of Kimgman, showed $1 ,422.57 in gold and $S2.22 in silver total $1 ,504.79. This was sent to Hal sey's by the Cedar Valley Gold and Silver Mining company, a corpora- tion of Philadelphia capitalists who operate a ten stamp mill. This com pany sends a carload of concentrates to the sampler every month. While the Gro Plata (near Csrbat d;stric) sends Halsey part of it's output, they ship to Pueblo. Gold predominates in the OrQA Plata ore. J. w. Garrett of Kingm6 owns the Gro Plata It costs $20 per ton to handle ores through the Kingman samplers and ''umpires" (samplss) are sent to Colo rado assayers if the seller of ore so desires. Gasoline engines are operat- ed at the samplers. Aside from Hal sey's plant, L.J. La Selle and John Lynch conduct assay offices here.
 Before proceeding further it will be well to say that County Recorder Abe Le Fevre and the undersigned took a two hours lay off in order 10 deter mine the number of locations made since 1896 in this county and the num- Der of patents issued by the United States. We found the former to be 10,129, of which 2,112 were made in the nineties. Patents granted to for ty-tmee.
 Ex-Sheriff James Roseborough started last week with a six horse wagon, load of supplies for his copper mining camp in Planet district, fifty miles south of the Cedars or ninety miles below Kingman. The ex-sheTiff has been operating over twelve months and is opening good pro p5cts
 The Cedar district is forty miles south of Yucca station. A fifteen stamp mill is opera. ed by an eastern company of which P. T. Baker is su- perintendent. The company is work ing the old Arnold property, which has bsen open twenty years past. They have several gold and silver claims. Concentrates are sent to 
 ployed-
 Hon. W. G. Blakely, district ahtor- ney of MohaNe county, is superin-en- dent for am eastern company which is operating in the Cedar district. A five stamp prospecting mill has been working since last December
 Typos Latin and De France are still hunting for nuggets in the sands in the Chimhuevas southwest of King man with varying success and there are a few others Klondyking, minus an allowance of snow.
 The Santa Maria district lies part ly in Mohave, the major portion in Yavapai There is little doing in this section, which is not far from the Colorado, and is accessible from Pres colt and Congress.
 Some work is going on in the Ch1m- hueva mountains, but I have no re port as to names of parties or the number thereof. This covers the southern end of Mohave, not emitting mention of Signal, a supply point.
 Mention of northern mining dis tricts to be followed by a letter cov- ering tihe White Hills, will come next.
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 NUGGETS FROM THE HILLS.