Mohave County miner., 1903-08-29

claims under location, upon many of
which location work is now being done
and which work may show up great ore
bodies.
Along the river or Blue Ridge range |
are many gold properties that are prov
ing up splendidly with work. Notably |
is the case In the Weaver and Mime.
sofa districts. The Great West is in
stalling machinery, both hoist and mill,
and it is said they have big showing
of milling ore in their mines. Near by |
this property recent discoveries of rich
gold ore has caused considerable ex.
citement and many mines have been
located. Ores from the new find of
Alger & Co. have run as high as Al ,000S
to the ton, while the whole vein will
average very high. The Ramrod, of
the Klondike group, has just installed
mill and will be producing bullion
within week or two. The mine has
been developed to depth of 200 feet
and has a nice showing of mill ore.
Throughout the Minnesota district
there has been found wonderfully rich
gold ore, but the scarcity of water has
made it almost an i'm possibility to do
extensive work. The Gold Bug, one of
the old time rich producers of that
worked. In its day it produced some
of the richest ore ever taken from a
mine.
At the Dempsy .O'Dea mines twelve
men are at work sinking three shafts
and at depth of thirty feet these
shafts are in splendid ore. The mines
are to be taken over by Chicago par.
ties should they prove as good at a
depth of lv0 feet as on the surface, or
if they maintain an average value OF
los throughout the openings. So far
they exceed this requirement by far.
Surrounding this property there are
} dozens of others with excellent pros
, poets of opening into good payers.
J Over in the White Hills country
, there are many excellent gold bearing
, veins that have been extensively
worked, in fact all the mines of the
White Hills company carry big values
3 in the yellow metal. To the east of
I White Hills are the districts of Gold
D Basin, Lost Basin and Music Noun
t tain. All these districts have mines
r carrying mill values in gold. In Gold
! Basin are the Cyclopic, o. K, Eldora-
!. do and other mines. The Eldorado is
v just now being operated by the Min.
: nesota and Arizona Gold Mining com.
o pany with good results. Lost Basin
e has a nun Der of gold and copper mines
i notably the Scanlon and Grigg groups
e In Music Mountain the Grounds and
e Mum groups of mines are among the
It best of that section. A great deal oi
IS work has been done on these mines
e and much ore has been shipped to the
}. smelters from them.
= The Chemehuevis Mountain country
; has for fifty years been noted as one
is of the richest placer sections of the
D, territory and has produced thousand,
e of dollars in gold. Far up in tn,
a mountains are many veins carrying
e gold, but so far little ore has beer
d shipped to the smelters on account o.
Ie the heavy transportation charges from
l. the mines. The great placer field Is t
a. the west of the mountain and in de
rs tached hills or buttes. The deposition
'e is evidently of glacial origin and of
d su distance foreign to the locality. Thi
p deposit covers large area and wa
ID evidently solid mass of concrete wheI
Is unveiled by the melting of the ic
t. pack. Erosion has carried big masse
es of the deposit far down the canyon
te and hillsides of that section, and il
ID later years as eroded out the Mexica
Mt miner with batea and pan came upo
at the scene and extracted many thou
n. sands of dollars. Later the whit
ye miner arrived with dry washers an
I'd again the old mines we're busy seen
es until the greater part of the free
ct gravel was worked over. Year by yea
Id as the elements erode away the bi
ly deposit the miner looking for a pros
Va pect stake goes in there and takes ou
a the necessary money and hies hir
ed away to prospect for quartz. Sample
20 taken from this great mass gives n
of suits of from 3.20s to 30s gold and
Id ounces silver to the ton, and is SUI