Mohave County miner., 1900-06-02
MINING IN
MOHAVE COUNTY.

"o AAo'e auu rsoiid SIacR snip
ped ton Of ore from the Retort mine,
Mineral Park, to the sampler this week.
c. s. Lawrence and DIR. /. B. Hamil-
ton we're in Kingman few days ago.
The gentlemer are interested in mum
Der OF mines in Mineral Park and Todd
Basin, upon which considerable work
has been done.
The tunnel that was being driven i'm
on the ledge of the De la Fontaine
mine, Stockton Hill, has reached the
shaft and connection made. Ore was
found all along the vein and in places
was exceptionally good.
X. c. Fisher and Henry Lang are
preparing to go to work on Mr.. Fishers
Rico mine, in the canyon above the &.
0. ID. The mine has big body of ex-
cellent ore in sight aud the boys ought
to ship lots of ore tn the sampler.
Greedy Clack came over from Chlor-
ide Wednesday last. He has been
looking over the mines of the Mineral
Park country with leasing PROPOSE.
tion in view and will now look into
several propositions in other parts of
the county.
c. E, Gregory and g. w. Dutton, of
Sioux City, Iowa, arrived in Kiugmau
early this week and have been driving
out daily to the surrounding mining
camps, where they have been exsmin-
ing mining properties. They went out
to Chloride yesterday.
NJ. d. Rockford has just placed a
whim on the Pinkham mine, south of
Chloride, and the work of sinking the
shaft ha- begun. NJ. q. Burns il su-
perinteDdent in charge of the mine,
which is guarantee that the work on
the mine will be well done.
Fred Brawn and Fred Coolidge have
bonded their Turquoise Queen mine
to Clarence Stewart and 4 Mr.. Mackay,
of Boston. A force of men are now at
work on the property. The turquoise
mines are situated in the Big Bend Of
the Colorado river and are -aid to have
produced many magnificent gem
stones.
The Wanda mining company, com
posed of j. II. Holmes, JEFF Lane, Chas.
Peterson and w. q. Carleton, had five
tons of ore worked at the sampler
Thursday last. The ore gave much
better return than expected. The main
shaft on the mine stands at depth of
eighty feet, aud from the bottom drifts
have been run of on the ledge for
quite distance.
Kean ST. Charles and Charles Met
calfe visited the Great Eastern mine in
Wallapai mountain last Sunday. The
Great Eastern Is one of the big lead
properties of the county and Is being
developed as rapidly as circumstances
will permit Messrs. Metcalfe d Tyr
rell, the owners, are building road
from the mountain divide to the mine
and will soon begin the shipment of
ore.
A.G. Grossman came in from Chior-
ide Wednesday evening last. He has
just returned from trip to Search
light, Homestake and the Sheeptrail
mines and is of the opinion that the
river country is soon to be great pro-
ducer of gold. While at Searchlight
prospectors brought in rock from re-
cent discoveries near that camp that
was very rich 10 gold. Copper rock
that looked exceedingly we'll was also
found between Searchlight and Ell
Dorado Canyon.
J.H. Northrup, of Tusten, Califor-
mia, and c. E. Longfellow, of Gardiner,
Maine, went out to Ell Dorado Canyon
Monday last to look at mining prop
erty. They are we'll pleased with the
mining properties In and around the
canyon and may conclude to invest.
The mines of Ell Dorado Canyon are
among the best properties on the coast
and the ores are easily worked by the
cyanide process.