Mohave County miner., 1901-03-16
Mines of the County

| Mines of the County
....,...,.s.",ss..ss.ssssss..ss
The Kingman oil company will soon
begin sinking on their land in Monte
rev county, California. They have one
thousand acres Of land upon which
there is strong indications of oil.
The boiler and the hoist for the
Schuylkill mine was taken out to
Chloride last Thursday morning The
boiler is of sufficient horsepower to
handle other machinery besides the
hosting plant.
IL is expected that parties having
lease on the lands of the Coarse Gold
syndicate, in the Chemshuevis valley,
will make selection next month and
begin the sinking of a we'll with the OBJ
ject of developing an oil field
j.. p. Gideon, Win Morris and j. G.
Potts came in from the De la Foun-
taine mine yesterday afternoon. They
report the mine to be looking all right
aud that there is good ore in the breast
of the 800 foot tunnel.
There are several mining sales in the
river country on tapis. Several big
companies operating in the San Fran
cisco district would give that section
an impetus.tha the present mine own.
ers could not give it in years.
The Cerbat mining region is soon to
receive an impetus by the investment
of considerable capital. The big veins
of that region are gold bearing and
some of them carry good values in
copper.
John Lynch, one of the owners of
the G. o. ID. mine was in town from
that property last Thursday. He be-
lieves that the present management of
the mine will make complete sue
cess, as the trial run was very salts
factory.
Some of the mining papers of the
county are looking mp the long pay
chutes in the various mining districts.
The essee-Schuylkill Elkhart, at
Chloride, is no slouch, with it's 3,220
feet already developed.
Oil for fuel purposes is now coming
into the county quite freely and the
mills aud boisting works are all work.
ing full time. At Chloride more men
are now on the pay roll than at any
time within the past two Years.
J. w. Geri.itt is in the Blue Ridge
mountains on prospecting trip. lie
will prospect the range west of the
Burns Ranch and down to the Color
ado. Mr.. Gerritt believes that there
will be found some of the richest gold
mines in the world in that range.
1t is reported from Chloride that q
saving is effected over coal by using
crude oil that means from twenty t'
forty per cent in the pockets of th'
mine operators. 1t looks like the day
of coal burners for the mill and con
centrators 10 Mohave County was |
thing of the past.
Owen Men eely is in Kingman from
his Paymaster mine in Paymaster Bas
in. He says that the mine is looking
4 fine, but that his hoisting machiner.
is inadequate for the work of hoistin
both water and dirt and that it will b
n necessary to put in larger boiler be
fore sinking can be done.
n C.G. Davis came In from the Sheep
trail mines the other day and report
y that the machinery for the new plan
d is now in place and that sinking on th
d Boulevard mine will be resumed a
soon as the pumps are in place. Th
mine will now be operated with Blu
leigh drills and the shaft will be drive
downward as rapidly as possible.
Charles Metcalfe and Mr.. Barthol
NEW, mining man from Colorad
visited the mines of Chloride this wee
and they express themselves vel
much pleased with the outlook. III
mines are working large forces of mt
aud are outputting more ore than
ans time in their history.