Mohave County miner., 1906-03-31

the case with all the other mines,
with the exception of the Moss, Ben
DOran and Leland, in which the values
are in quartz and too coarse for eva
mic action. With few exceptions the
ores are ideal cyaniding, the gangue
being nutral, no free acid being pres
ent. With cheaper methods of hand
ling ores and the introduction of big
water system this section of San Fran
cisco district would become one of the
richest sections of the Globe. The
veins of low grade ores are immense,
but the cost of mining and reduction
are too great at present to leave
profit to the owners. The introduction
of electric power and the opening of
mines below the water level is sure to
solve the problem for the mine owners.
The little railroad that now runs to
Vivian should be electrified and pushed
on to Gold Road, Silver Creek and
other sections of that great gold bear
ing region. When this is done the
whole world will be amazed at the
flood of gold that will be sent out from
the mines.
In the north part of the San Fran
cisco district is the Union Pass Sec
ton. This section of the district has
opened up a number of promising min
ing properties, notably the Sheeptrail
and Katherine. The Sheeptrail group
has been exploited to depth of 200
feet and hundreds of tons of rich gold
and silver ore extracted. On the Col
orado river a twenty stamp mill and
cyanide plant is in operation on the
ores from these mines. The Sheep
trail mines is in a detached part of the
range in a broken country traversed
by great dykes and mineral bearing
veins. The Bulevard mine, one of the
principal veins of the group, is now in
process Of development. The ore from
this mine is quite rich, running in the
neighborhood of 200S to the ton. From
the Minnie mine, of the same group,
ore was taken than ran thousands of
dollars to the ton. The Katherine
mine is owned by the same company
and is being worked. 1t is close to
the river and is easy of access. The
vein is about 20 feet in width, the
greater part of the vein carrying pay
ore.
The Bonanza group lies south of the
Sheeptrail and shows bodies of rich
ore wherever the veins have been cut.
These mines are owned by Hughes,
George and Miller, of Kingman.
To the north of the Sheeptrail is
the Tyro group, owned by Russell,
Davis and White, of Kingman. The
Tyro is one of the largest mines in the
district and is opened at a depth of
lbs feet by a cross country drift. The
ore in the outcrop of the massive vein
is said to average about los gold, but
large sections of the mine run high.
In the crosscut four feet of ore is said
to run SOS to the ton. The owners are
about to begin the extraction of ore,
which will be milled at Pyramid.
The Tragedy group is a combination
of big veins well situated for economic
work. The mines have been opened
by adit drifts to a considerable depth
and have on the dumps several hun
bred tons of fine mill ore. Samples
taken from the veins give big assay
results. Specimens exhibited in King
man were very rich. The property is
owned by w. E. Sauls, o. d. NJ. Cad
dis and George B. Ayres, of Kingman.
The Richardson Brothers have many
splendid mining propositions on the
west side of the range. At present
they are working on the o. X. into
which they have run a drift, tapping
the vein at a depth of about $50 feet.
A big vein of ore shows in place in
this drift, the average value of which
is about POS to the ton.
The Union Pass mine is an immense
body of ore, the vein rising to a hight
of several hundred feet above the can
yon. A shaft has been sunk in the
drift to a depth of nearly 200 feet and
a big body of milling ore opened up.
A large volume of water was encoun-
tered in this mine last week, which