Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1901-05-11
A Country of Grand Posi-
b;lities.

al products of Mohave county has
never seemed so fully assured as at
present
With the new year, new and differ.
ent race of prospectors, from Cripple
Creek, Colorado Springs, Leadville,
Salt Lake, the Washoe mountains, and
other prominent localities, appeared,
and at once began thorough investi-
cation of the Gold Road country.
Some of the older and more expert
enced mining men, after gaining
knowledge of what had been accom-
plished in the past, determined to de-
vote their attention to the country
north of Kingman.
Beginning at Stockton Hill on the
east side of the Cerbat Range, and ex-
tending to Campbell on the west side
and across the range, they found rich
mineral country, from three to five
miles wide, and extending northward
to Chloride, some ten or twelve miles.
Included in this area, were found de-
posits of mineral, chiefly silver, gold
and copper, and after carefully inspect.
ing, covering the ground, securing
assays from average samples, and to
great extent satisfying themselves that
the mineral wealth at their feet was
not surface indication, these very
careful and thoroughly experienced
miners, became convinced that with
increasing depth they might depend
upon increasing richness.
Said one of those: don't think me
an enthusiast, I've seen too much of
the western mineral country to gush
about anything, but | am willing to go
on record as saying that l would not
exchange one square mile of the coun.
try north of and adjacent to Kingman,
beginning at Stockton Hill and run.
ming thence west and north for any
similar part of the Earth's surface with
which | am familiar, and say this with
full knowledge of what Leadville,
Cripple Greek, etc, have produced and
are now producing"
One great drawback to the proper
development o mines in Mob c,unty
is the dearth of fuel. To ue steam
power is to depend upon the coal
mines of Gallup, New Mexico, for au
adequate supply of coal, and after the
rigid exactions of the transportation
company for freight charges, the addi,
tional cost of teaming over steep roads,
without the properly constructed
wagons and good animals, is enough to
brighten persons of average courage.
Oil, the other alternative for the pro-
duction of power, is brought into
Mohave county in car loads, and to
handle it properly and economically,
involves the necessity for building a
tank near the r. r. depot, into which
the oil is pumped, after which it is
taken to its destination by wagons
specially constructed with "oil tank
accom- anyment." This, too, is very
expensive method.
of expenditure may be avoided? Wood,
As fuel, is out of the question, but with
in reasonable distance of the mines in
a radius OF more than one hundred
miles, the grand Colorado River,
second only to the majestic Colum bia,
hurries along on its journey from
Montana to the Gulf of California, and
with grand volume of water always
certain, at any season of the year,
rushes through the many canyons,
which afford it a narrow and seemingly
reluctant passage. The current is from
FIVE to fifteen miles per hour, and the
man, or men, or com pany, yea trust, if
you will, who first harnesses this cur.
rent to the electric wire, and transmits
power to the mines of Stockton Hill,
Cerbat, Chloride aud il necessary, the
White Hills district will obtain returns
and will become in very few years,
one of the best income producing
investments in the whole western
country. The cost of fuel for power
has been the deterrant, and with rea-
sonable charges for transmitted force,
the great deposits OF Mohave county,
no longer question in dispute, but
fully recognized fact will give her the
position she claims, (even in the face
of the United Verde and the Copper
Queen mines,) the greatest mineral
producing county in the great Terri.