Mohave County miner., 1905-01-07
The Chloride Section.

Chloride, has just been equipped with a plant of machinery consisting of holster, air compressor and hammer and column drills. The plant is one of the first of the kind ever brought to the county and great deal of interest has been exhibited by mine owners regarding the working of the new drill. Last Tuesday the MINER editor paid visit to the mine to personally observe the working of the plant and came away convinced of it's success. l.. Hoffman, superintendent of the prop. erty, showed us through the mine and explained the working of the new ma. chimes. Three of the drifts are being driven with machines and rapid pro. gress is made. In all the levels ore has been opened up although stopes have not yet been opened. The ore bodies lie on each side of the shaft and show width of from eighteen to thirty inches of clean ore. The ground has been opened up systematically and shows the ore body to be 800 feet in length without break. Above the adit drift the ore was extracted and yielded several huusand tons of shipping grade. Below this adit drift the ground Is virtually virgin and the body shows considerable increase in width and value. The vein is quartz and the country granite, the ore being lead and iron sulphide, carrying good gold and silver values. The com pany owns a group of claims, which will eventually be tapped by a cross drift at depth of about 50) feet This drift is now in about 180 feet and lacks but little of reaching the Samoan vein. The work of sinking the shaft deeper will soon be commenced, but at pres ent the drifts will be continued into the ore bodies. Owing to the lack of railroad facilities the mine has been somewhat handicapped because of in ability to ship ore to the shelter, there being 175 tons of fine ore at the station awaiting the resumption of traffic over the Arizona & Utah rail road. Seven men are now employed at the mine and this nun Der is being increased.
 F. H. Griffith, superintendent of the Minnesota Connor mines, arrived from the east last Saturday night and was joined at Kiugman the following day by D. R Bush, of New York. a we'll known mining man. The gentlemen are making thorough examination of the mines of the Philadelphia & Ari zona mining company and it is rumor. ed the properties will be taken over by large eastern syndicate, which they represent. The mines are excep- tionally good ones, the veins being large and carrying high values in gold and silver. A l rge milling plant with up to date machinery is on one of the mines and it is prob able that this plant will be still further modernized and put in commission.
 Fred Stnll and George Johnson, who have been leasing on the Lucky Boy mine for some time past, have twenty three tons of very rich silver gold ore at the station at Chloride, awaiting the reconstruction of he railroad. At the mine they have a fine showing of ore and as soon as they get returns will probably have another shipment ready to go ont. For week past they have been exploiting fine looking ore streak in the Payroll mine.
 Tuesday last Fred N. Chandler was exhibiting samples of ore from a new find recently made near the Dempsy. O'Dea mines. The vein is reported to be large one and the sam ples show values of about forty dollars to the ton in the horn spoon. The find is owned by MT. Chandler, Henry Bell and Hugh Wilson. Mr. Bell is at the mine doing the title work.
 Preparation is being made for active work on the New Jersey mine, two miles east of Chloride. This property was recently taken up on bond by Los Angeles people. A drift has been driven in oo the vein several hundred feet and fine body of sulphide orc
 opened up.
 Hughes & Mitchell are taking out {