Mohave County miner., 1900-06-09

full.
The board Of supervisors refused to
comply with the prayer of petitioners
for the disincorperation of the town
on the ground that majority of the
taxpayers of the town mad not signed
the petition.
The town of Chloride is full of news
to the effect that the we'll known Ten
nessee mine has been sold, and that
the new purchasers are the stockhold
ers forming the Elkhart company.
Nothing very definite or certain can be
heard of this gigantic sale, further
than that there are many strangers in
town who are said to be here in con-
nection with the purchase, and num-
Der of others who are said to be mining
experts, whose presence is for the pur-
pose of making examinations and re-
ports upon the property. The amount
of the sale Is not known or even ru
mored, but if a sale has been made, or
if there is one in course of consumma-
ton, it can not be for any small sum
of money, aud one that may go half "A
million or more dollars. The Ten
nessee is one of the best equipped and
paying mines in the district, and one
that has not been brought out to any
thing like its full value of great possi-
bilities until within the past eighteen
months. Since then it has paid large
and regular dividends to its stock
holders, aud everything has moved
along in uninterrupted smoothness.
The Tennessee i in close touch with
the Elkhart mine, only one mine aud
claim separating them, and all three
I are on the same ledge and rich vein
| matter. The report goes on to say that
! the consolidation of the two mines into
one company will cause new and vast
improvements TO be made in further
ances and preparation for the uninter-
rupted and economical working OF the
two mines, aud one of these will be the
erection of large company store OF
general merchandise of mining sup
! plies. This will be located on Ten
nes,ee avenue, midway between the
town proper aud the place OF opera
tions.-Weste Miner aud financier
The Yuma Sun says: John G. Good
win, superintendent for the Uric Ma
chinery Company of Kansas City, com.
mepced work last Tuesday with a large
force of men on the hull of big dredgt
boat for the Advance Gold Dredging
Company of Colorado Springs, which
corporation owns large deposit :"
gold bearing gravel in the Pothole'
. district. twelve miles above Yuma, OF
. the Colorado river. This dredge wheI
: complete will cost 55,000s and will b.
: the largest and most perfect machln
of the kind ever built in the Unite'
s States. Under favorable condition
I this machine will dig land wash 400
cubic yards of gravel in twenty-fou
hours. and as the ground upon whic
it will be operated carries an averag
r of fifty cents per yards in gold the ne
4 profits from its operation will be NOR
d than 100os per day. The company ha
"a ground enough of known values !
d keep this dredge at work for the mex
:. ten years. A force of prospectors al
ts now at work testing another iafe
" tract of ground and If the values CON
,e no to the expectations of the promo
m ers at least dozen more dredges
* the same capacity will be placed In Of
rs Grafton as soon as they can be col
b. structed. While gold dredging is
ly new industry in Arizona there is
OF reason why it should not be success
Id The gravel banks in many places aior
it the Colorado river contain immen
,h values in coarse gold with every co
djtiou favorable to successful oper
'r tion by the dredger process. unie
ss, ali indications fail Yuma county W
o. within the next three years be contri
er ntipg at least 5,n00,O0OS annually TO u
in circulating medium.