Mohave County miner., 1901-03-02

considerably and the camp of that
mine is expected to contain as many as
600 men in the spring. The ore of this
mountain is of low grade but such an
increase in the amount Of the work
done points plainly to the fact that the
mine is prosperous. This all neces ST.
tates an enormous increase in the
amount of supplies which should all
come from San Benardino, if there were
free mountain road to our city. As
it is the De La Mar Gold Mountain
company gain free exit by way of
Victor, where the train is met and
adequate supplies received from Los
Angeles. Such is also the case with |
the Rose mine. The loss to our city |
and especially our merchants from
these sources alone, 5y the non-exist
ence of free county road from our
mountains can scarcely be overesti- !
mated.-Times Index.
The Eagle Trail mining district is
| fourteen miles north of the springs in
Maricopa county and twenty -four miles
distant from Sentinel Station on the
| S. p. railway, sixty miles east of the
King of Arizona and eleven miles
southeast of the old Volcanic mine on
the south slope of the Eagle Trail
mountains. Seventy i've locations have
bsen made, of which seventeen have
been filed on by P. II. Connell and his
partners, Messrs. Fry and Blake of
Flagstaff These locations we're first
made little over ayear ago. Conneli,
eight claims, part of the sew enteen
claims, to Spokane and British Colum-
bia people, for 5),O0Os, first payment
in March, second in six months, bal
ance in one year. These parties have
six men at work on continuation of
development under the agreement.
1t is expected the operators will erect
a smelter at Aqua Caliente springs,
where water is abundant Connell and
his partners have opened fifteen holes,
varying from ten TO twenty eight
feet. The bonders are down twenty
two feet in black carbonates of copper.
Surface shows indications of copper
glance, carbonates and pyrites. The
ores have shown an average of 20 per
cent in copper, So to los in gold, lead
and silver nominal. The ore bodies
occur in lime and quartzite, trend east
and west three and one-half miles by
mile wide, dipping south. These bodies
are the same as those in the Ray and
Globe belt, and the formation is the
same.-Tucson Star.
Capt. John d. Burgess writes US that
he has several locations on the Dou BILE
Standard diorite dyke, one Of which,
he says, "is the old American Flag
mine, the dump of which we are clean
ing up and shipping ore from, prepar.
atory to sinking vertical working
shaft, the old encline being in an un-
safe condition" He says further: ave
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chutes on the two veins, and of finding
ore bodies below the old workings on
the one ore chute worked on hereto
fore, and we feel that we have prop
erty from which we can soon be taking
good dividends. The hundred or two
tons Of from 60 to 1o0 ounces silver ore
we will assort from the old dumps will
bring profit sufficient to outfit the
camp and sink and timber the new
shaft to the vein, where he will be in
profitable ore." The old American
Flag mine, referred to above by Capt.
Burgess, was worked years ago by a
: com pany of limited means. At that
= time the cost of installing machinery
in this country was almost prohibitory
except in rare instances where extern
= siye ore bodies of phenominal richness,
like those of the old Silver King, we're
encountered. Hence, when the Ameri-
can Flag company reached water level
and tim bering and pumping became
necessary, the expense was greater
than they could stand and they went
under. In the meantime they had
taken out and shipped considerable
. high grade ore. Soon afterward the
} slump in silver came and the mine has
remained idle from that time until
, now. The dyke upon which this mine
J is located is known, locally, as the
, American Flag dyke. 1t cuts across
: the strip of country along the eastern