Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1905-06-22
MOHAVE COUNTY
The Weeks Mining News as Reported
by the Miner

by the Miner
Drifting in good ore is still carried
on at the Vanderbilt mine on the IT'S
foot level 1t is estimated that there
is great deal more ore in sight than
will pay for the property and all work.
0. f. Kuencer, superintendent of the
German-American mine reports that
the mill is approaching completion and
will be dropping stamps about the fif-
teenth of next month. The mines are
showing up nicely and large backs of
ore are being blocked out.
T.. S. Osborne and others, of Los
Angeles, have organized mining com
pany with capitalization of one mil
lion dollars for the purpose of operating
mining property on Bill Williams Fork.
Owing to complications Ben Blanchard
has had to release his bond on the
Mack mine, situated near Parker, Ari-
zona. The mines show good bodies of
gold copper ore From the lower work
ings ore was recently taken that ran
as high as forty ounces gold to the ton
and the body was quite large. Mr.
Mack is now working the mine himself
and getting good results.
A contract to sink shaft on the J.
F. T. group to the 2O0-foot level has
been let to j. r. Jordan, the work to be
completed within three months. The
vein is one of the largest in the coun
ty and carries values in gold and cop
per.
Jack Flynn and Robert Ferguson have
opened up a fine body of ore in claim
near the New London In doing dis
covery work they opened up eighteen
inches of rich lead ore. The boys will
soon begin shipping lead TO the smelter.
The mine was worked number of
years ago and several carloads of lead
taken from the outcrop.
Frank Durham, who owns the old
Fay mine south of Kingman, reports
that at depth of 10 feet ore shows
value of about Sl35 in gold and has
width of ten inches. The ore body
shows for length of 600 feet in the
outcrop and is easily mined. 1t is pro-
posed to build mill and handle the
outcrop of the mine on the ground.
Another shipment of wolfram ore
was made this week from the wolfram
mines in the Aquarius mountains, owned
by Williams and company. This ore
is said to be the highest grade of its
kind in the world and nets the owners
over $400 per long ton at Kingman.
Oswald Stein, who has been unwat-
ering the Tennessee mine, at Chloride,
reports having opened up fine body of
lead ore on one of the outside claims of
the Elkhart group and is working
force of men on it, The claim showed
little indications of an ore body on the
surface, but at a superficial depth
a streak of ten inches of solid ga
lena showed up. This streak has
widened out as work progressed until
now it is nearly two feet
j.. p. Ryan is in Kingman from Cedar,
where he has a contract TO sink 100
feet below the 500 level on the San
Francisco mine. He reports that he
and f. B. Frederick have just com
pleted 50-foot contract on the mine
and that a fine body of ore was opened
up. The ore vein is 30 inches in width
and of high average grade.
j. C. Noble received a telegram on
Thursday last informing him that the
Climax and other properties in the
Cerbat section had been sold and that
he must come at once and settle up the
deal. He departed on the flyer for
Denver yesterday morning and will
make the transfer of the properties.
The mines are situated near the divide
separating Cerbat from Todd Basin
and are said to be good properties.