Arizona republican., 1898-08-17
MINING IN MOHAVE.


 quest of the editor of the Los Angeles Mining Review, contributed an interest ing article on the mining resources of Mohave county to that paper. ana it is in part reproduced here:
 Arizona is perhaps the most pro life mining region in the United States. This statement is calmly made after years of research in all parts of the country, and after nearly eight years study of Arizona under unusually favorable circumstances. It has always been the fashion to af- feet the belief that this territory is peculiarly cratic in the distribution and quality of its ore bodies. US mining history has, at times, been sullied by discoveries of fabulous riches which have not been supposed to have more than superficial lodg- ment, but really very much of the reputation for this feature has been wholly undeserved. The fault has been with the miners who have "gouged' their veins, leaving ore bodies which might be proftably mined on a large scale, or in a small way by averaging values, in such condition that made fu- ture systematic mining difficult or un- certain If there be any particularly which distinguishes Arizona from other mining areas, I should say it IS the large size of the veins, the per sistence of the ore bodies and the re- markable segregation of the minerals.
 There are many people who think the mineral districts of Arizona are haphazard in distribution and that a very few rich mines mark the eX- ception to the rule of general infe- riority. The truth is far from this. I am about to speak now more par ticularly of Mohave county, which is as much misrepresented and as little understood, probably by those who ignorantly boast of it's resources as by those who condemn them with but slight knowledge Let me begin by asserting positively that the causes which have produced the existing conditions in Mohave have operated almost in the same man ner in oher portions of Arizona Were I writing a technical treatise for the edification of geologists and engineers, it would be proper to be more explicit, but for the purpose of the ordinary investor and the general reader, it is enough to say that Mohave, Pinal. Pima and Cochise counties, in part, with portions of adjacent counties, are very similar in character, whereas an area roughly circular, exending about Flagstaff as center, but more or less plainly evident in the midrib of the first named counties, in proportion to distance from the said center is of a different type. Thus a considerable portion of Yavapai county, portions of Maricopa and of Coconino counties. are so distinctly different from Mohave and the southeastern counties as to make metallurgical methods appli- cable in one region absolutely useless in the other
 For instance, smelters Gas the term is commonly understood), have been advocated for Prescott without any shadow of reason, while the ores of the higher elevations in Mohave coun- ty are becoming very important sources of supply to the smelters, and there is every reason for predicting that this region will eventually become smelling center, as Prescott cannot become, in the nature of things (ex- cept through revolutionary changes in trade conditiOns.) This is not a guess, but hard, cold fact, for which the Almighty Ruler of the universe is re- sponslble and not your humble servant. the writer of this article Prescott and and Yavapai county have other oppor- tunities for development along lines Of their own, but. in stating this, only one-half of the fact has been presented Other portions of Mohave county, as the lower levels along the Colorado river, are still different These tracts resemble much of Yuma. Graham, Nav ajo and Apache counties speaking very generally. All this divergence, when understood clearly, is due to what geo. logists would consider simple modifi- cations of structure. They have all been traced to natural causes, which are plainly evident to those who can read them
 Many good mines in Mohave county south Of the railroad, some of which are yielding bullion at a profit, are demonstrating the value of the south ern part of that county, and, there are hundreds of excellent properties winch will produce heavily when systemati- cally worked with abundant capital.
 There are untold quantities of con- centrating ores, but only one mill has been erected to dress them. This is owned by the Security Mining and De- velopment company, operating the Elkhart group of mines This com pany has nearly 5000 feet of develop ment, and mines enough ore from de- veloDment work to keep the eigthy-ton plant running half the time Water is taken from the mine and a good flow is obtained which increases rapidly with depth. The Tennessee, operated by the Wallapai Mining company of Los Angeles with E. T. Loy as presi- dent and the Schuylkill, now idle, own ed by the Southwestern Mining com pany of Pittsubrg, Pa, superintendent F. " Theirs, are all on the same vein, The Security company owns nortt;- ward extension of the Elkhart and nine other claims adjoining. trhese are near Chloride and are better known to the writer than some others. It would be impossible to Lame all the