Mohave County miner., 1902-11-15
Mines of the County

IuIilSo Va NiAS NoSlIIl Y
O.D.M. Gaddis, G. W. French and
Il A. J. Doran returned from the Mock,
II ing Bird mine Saturday evening last.
\ Alex Dryden and John Schemmel.
n pfennig are at work on the Altats
H mine near Chloride, aud are getting
\ good copper ore.
O W. w. Ross sent out big load of
supplies for his mining camp in the
Walapai mountains this week. He
will make a comfortable winter camp
below the American Flag.
No report has been received from
the San Francisco mine this week, but
it is known that sinking is in progress.
The shaft will be driven one hundred
feet deeper before drifts are run off.
James Ros borough and o. f. Kuen
Ger departed yesterday morning for
the Copper Prince group of mines on
the Bill Williams Fork, where they
will make an examination of that prop
erty,
Rates we're asked for at this station
Yesterday on ores ranging to 5,0y0S per
ton in value. The rate was given at
llS per one hundred pounds. We were
unable to learn where this class of ore
was coming from.
". f. Schee went out to the New
London mine this morning. We
understand that patent will soon be
applied for for that property. In the
meantime some work is being done on
it for the year.
Several carloads of pipe for the Gold
Road pipe line was received in King.
man this week and is being hauled out
to Little Meadows. The new line has
been surveyed out and the pipe will be
laid at once.
In the Silver James Mulligan has one
Of the best mines in the Union Basin
country. Although nearly thirty feet
of crosscut has been run there Is no
signs OF wall and it is thought that the
vein is more than one hundred feet
vide. The ore in the osscut gives q
good milling value.
The old Mineral Park mill is being
converted into a concentrating plant,
new concentration machines being put
IN aud the ores from the Queen Bee
mine handled. The mine has large
bodies of good ore in sight that can
readily be handled by this method.
When the road Is completed from
the A. Il U. railroad to the Nighthawk
mine milling plant will be shipped
10. The road is being built down the
canyon to the Ark mine and from that
point will follow the Ark road to a
point near Mineral Station. Quite a
force Of men are at work.
The Elkhart will soon have a COM
pact mill below the collar Of the old
shaft and all ore can be run from the
mine to the grizzleys by gravity. The
new plant will be a labor saver and
will turn out more concentrates for
less money than the old mill.
Prospectors by the hundreds are
getting into the mountains of this
county and before spring opens up it
is expected that several new camps
will be located aud big mines brought
to light. Mohave county has been but
scratched over and rich mines yet
await the prospector to bring them to
the front.
Splendid ore Is being obtained in
the Eldorado mine, in Gold Basin. For
years the mine was thought to be a
blanket, but lately it was ascertained
that ii went down at an angle Of forty.
five degrees and that the ore was better
than that f0Dnd on the surface. The
mine is under bond to William Grant
aud Minneapolis people.
Pay day at the mines in the Gold
Road, Leland and Snowfall camps dis
tributed great deal of money this
week among the miners. There are
now about five hundred men employed