Mohave County miner., 1901-02-02

few hours before taken down a check
of nearly l5OOs for about sixteen tons
of ore that showed an average of 40
per cent copper, in addition to some
silver, and with that to cheer the own
ers, the decision to increase the force
and throw a little more dynamite into
| the campaign was arrived at. The out.
look for Savanic is indeed an assuring
one.-Copper Era.
! The difficulty encountered by the
Advance Gold Dredging Company in
getting its big dredger at the Potholes
through the sandbar which shuts it off
from the gold bearing gulches where
the main values are, has not yet been
surmounted, though progress is being
made. The Yuma Sun says since the
Inauguration of operations the river
has fallen greatly, and the water does
not come through the sand rapidly
enough to keep the dredger afloat.
However, it is thought another fort
night will find the machine at the head
of one of the gulches where the gold
treasure is lodged. In the meantime,
considerable prospecting has been 60
ing on in the sandbar through which
the dredger is slowly working its way,
and the result of the prospecting is
exceedingly gratifying to all concerned
in the enterprise. Though the sand
being raised so far above bedrock and
contains little gravel, gold is found in
every pan, often showing as high as
fifty "colors" to the pan. Henry Linn,
the uperintendent, has decided to
place the gold saving appliances in
operation for the purpose of saving the
gold contained in the sand. The lad
der will be lowered and greater depth
reached in the digging, which will
serve the double purpose of securing
values in what has been considered
barren ground and permitting the
easier working of the dredger.
Frederick Herndon, of San Bernar-
dino, was in Los Angeles last Monday
and was interviewed by a Record re-
porter, who thus prints the result: 81
have just returned from pros pecting
trip to the mining district north Of
Daggett, and have located three fine
claims there. One of them, an iron
claim, is almost solid ore over seventy
feet wide and very fine looking ore.
There are hundreds Of new locations
being made there now, and it is going
to be great producer soon. DR.. Rhea
of Barstow, has recently made several
large sales of iron properties near my
locations to Colorado syndicate, who
are buying largely in that locality, and
are patenting the claims and allowing
them to lie idle at present, but say they
are going to operate them on an ex-
tensive scale. | have been engaged ia
mining for over thirty years, but have
never in my life seen such rich iron
deposits as those which are opening up
in that locality. Other minerals, es-
pecially gold, are also found in paying
quantities, and we feel confident that
rich returns are awaiting prospectors
in that locality"
Messrs. w Bates and w. H. Smith
have returned from the Santa Maria
country, where they have had a gang
of men doing assessment work on
group of placer claims on the Bill
Williams Fork of the Colorado, about
twenty miles below the point where the
Santa Maria enters the Bill Williams
Fork. Mr.. Bates represents a New
York company, which proposes put.
ting in dam at the point where the
work was done, and hopes to begin ac-
tive operations this spring. 1t is pro-
posed to construct large reservoir on
the Bill Williams Fork, which will be
capable of irrigating about 100000
acres of fine land lying below the dam,
and the water power will also be used
in mining operations which the com
pany has in contemplation. The pro.
| ject has been under consideration for
the past two years, but it has only
been within the past two months that
Mr.. Bates has been able to bring it to
head. 1t is said that 100,OOOS has al.
ready been subscribed to carry out the
preliminary work and the nam capital
is ready to be put up when called for.
The cost of dam and improvements will
be about O0000S.-Prospect.
The sale of the Red Rock mine has