Mohave County miner., 1906-03-17

Road NJ. & E. company has one of the
most complete cyaniding plants in the
world. The camp is electric lighted,
has A water works, a modern and up
todate hotel and will soon be supplied
with electric power for all purposes.
Four miles to the southwest OF Cold
Road is the town of Vivian. This camp
is in a fourishing condition. Two
mills are now ready to handle 100 tons
of ore daily and many mines are being
pushed rapidly toward the producing
STAGE. Within year the camp ana
the contiguous country will be large
SINNERS of bullion. 1t has mercan-
tile establishment, boarding house ana
two saloons.
From Vivian northerly, through San
Francisco district, are many gold bear
ing veins, notably the Silver Creek
and Union Pass sections. The veins
through that section are large, regu-
lar and well defined. In Silver Creek
a great deal of work has been done on
the mines.
The county is traversed by three dis
tinct mountain ranges from the Colo
RADIO river on the north to the Bill
Williams Fork on the south. No part
of this vast mountain area Is void OF
mineral bearing veins. The Blue
Ridge mountains are ribbed with veins
of gold and silver bearing ores, while
the Cerbats, Wallapais and Bill Will
Jams ranges carry gold, silver, lead
and copper. The broken and detached
ranges known as the Peacocks, Music,
Cottonwood and others have produced
nearly all the metals. In the Aquar-
Jus mountains rich wolfram ores have
been mined for some years. In the
south end of the Wallapais veins OF
molybdenite ores have been found IN
combination with copper. The two
steel hardening metals are very val
liable and bring high price In the
market.
At Mineral Park the turquoise gem
is mined in large quantities and ship
ped to New York, where it is worked
up into jewelry. On Burro Creek
some of the handsomest amethyst In
the world has been found. In the
north par. of the county are deposits
of cop, er. mica and tourmaline.
The Wallapai mountains is the only
wooded area in the part south of the
Colorado river, but in the northern
portion there is an immense section OF
pine forest The timber from this
forest is shipped into Utah, where 1t
is used for all purposes. On the Wall
apai mountains there are some splen-
did stretches of big pine timber suit
able for lumber and mining timbers.
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado
is one of the attractions of the county,
the deepest gorges of that great chasm
being within 20 miles of the Santa Fe
railroad, north of Peach Springs. To
the northwest of Kingman is the great
gorge known as Black Canyon. In
these canyons more electric power
could be readily generated than would
run every piece of machinery and rail-
road in Arizona territory and have
thousands of horsepower for sale to
the outside sections. From the same
source enough water could be obtained
to irrigate millions of acres of land in
this territory.
Along the valley of the Colorado
and in the inland valleys can be found
the best land that Gods sun ever
shone upon and upon which, by proper
irrigation, every known fruit, vege-
table and cereal could be grown. The
fruits raised on these lands are the
best in the world. On the Colorado
river six crops of matured alfalfa is
raised every year and strawberries are
always in season.
In future issue We will review the