Mohave County miner., 1901-03-09

lslng copper properties in the territory.
An expert has examined the mine and
will report on Monday. The mine is
about eighteen miles from the Santa
Fe railroad. Bluewater is the nearest
town. About ten more good claims
are grouped around the mine and the
district promises to be heard from ia
the near future as rich copper pro-
ducer,-McKinley County Republican.
The gilsonite mines of Utah are sit
uated in the eastern part of the state
in Emery and Wasatch counties. The
shipping point for the mineral is at
Price, on the Rio Grande Western rail.
road. The substance, which is some.
times called mineral wax" occurs in
vein'like beds in the sedimentary
rocks, and is composed mainly of car
bon and hydrogen. Other names for it
are ozokerite, elaterite, mineral ca
outchouc, etc. 1t is a material inter
mediate in character between petrol
cum and asphaltum, lacking the naph.
tha constituents of the former and the
oxygen of the latter. A very large
number of veins have been found
many of which are too small to be
worked at a profit. The gilsonite pro.
ducing region extends over into the
Uintah Indian reservation lands, and
the best deposits are said to be there.
Denver Mining Reporter.
Governor r. G. Powers went to
Kirkland during the week to superin-
tend the removal of large hoisting
and pumping plant, which he recently
purchased from Geo. Wood from the
Red Rock mine, to the Model mine,
of which he is superintendent. The
plant consists of a 35 horse power
boiler, 20-horse power engine, sinking
pump and hoist large enough to go
600 feet in depth. 1t is the intention
of the company, which consists of
Chicago capitalists, to Immediately de.
velop the property to the fullest ex.
tent, aud a large force of men will be
put to work under the formanship of
Wm. Wasson, as soon as the new ma
chinery is in working order. The
Model has been great gold producer
In the past, but has never been worked
below the water level, which is reached
at depth of 100 feet. With the ma
/ chinery now being installed IL Is ex-
pected to uncover the rich sulphide
ores below the water level and make it
big producing mine.-Prospect.
A late Cripple Creek dispatch says:
Additional facts regarding the dis.
covery of bonanza ore in the Last Dol
lar show that the shoot is fourteen
feet between walls, instead of five feet,
as heretofore reported, and it has been
followed to the north 56 feet. The
rich core runs from foot to eighteen
inches. The foot wall is granite and
the hanging wall phonolyte, which for
! fifteen inches carries value from one
and half to three ounces. II is ex.
pected that the hanging wall beyond
the phonolyte will be found to be of
granite also. Twenty-six sacks from
various portions of the vein were tested
aud the lowest assay went 886 ounces
or II, ,7205 ton. From this the values
run up to 30,000s. The lowest value
across the entire fourteen feet runs
305 a ton, and from that up to 3003
This is exclusive of the 1000 ounce
rock. The great vein has a general
north and south trend, and is a re.
markable strong and uninterrupted
fissure in the granite. The cross-vein
formation, which in the upper levels
was such feature of the development
is absent ia the granite, aud the north
and south vein is the only carrier of
values at 1,050 feet.
There was filed for record in the re-
corder's office, this week, deed from
Thurman Hedges to Mathew Dudley
Jones, of Pittsburg, Penn, for the
Christmas Gift mine located about
eleven miles east of Florence. The
consideration is 30,000s, one-half cash,
the receipt of which the deed acknowl-
edges. The remaining 15,000s is TO be
paid into the Consolidated National
Bank, of Tucson, on or before the l4th
day of February, 1902, otherwise the
property will revert TO the grantor.
The "Christmas Gift" mine transferred
by this deed is not mine, but simply