Mohave County miner., 1906-02-17

John Boyle came in from the Van derbilt mine last Saturday evening and departed the following evening to Needles, where he is experimenting with his motor. He reports that it is the intention of the Cerbat Mountain mining company to put a mill on the Vanderbilt mine within a short time for the purpose of concentrating the ores from that property. In the lower level of the Vanderbilt large bodies of ore have been opened up.
 County Recorder Thomas McNeely went over to Chloride last Tuesday where he completed arrangements for the sale of the Argo mine to George Johnson and Felix Vasquen. The terms of the sale called for payment down, the balance to be made in deferred payment, and total of 5,OOOs. The mine is situated near the summit of Sherum's Peak and is said to have val uable ore bodies ready to be extracted. Messrs. Johnson and Vasquen are pre- pairing to go to work on the mine and will be shipping ore to the shelter within the next few weeks. In the past few years Mir. McNeely shipped large tonnage of ore to the Colorado smelters from this property.
 Last Saturdays Los Angeles Times contained an article stating that the big power plant for the Gold Road mines was to be operated from Needles and that company was already plan ned to put in the generators and transmission lines from that place to Gold Road and intermediate points. Inquiry at the company's office in this place disclosed the fact that nothing whatever is known of the proposition, although the matter has been under consideration for several months, the majority of the board of directors fla voring Kingman for a power station. No matter where the plant is estab- lished it will mean big things for Gold Road, as it will increase the ef- ficiency of the mill and enable the handling of a large tonnage of ore.
 The exceptionally low rates on ores to the smelters has stimulated mining in this county to a great extent. From every camp comes reports of more and more miners going to work on leases and on their own property. Chloride is showing more than any other camp the effect of a reawakening in the mines and as consequence the weekly shipments have more than doubled in the last month. In that section are many lead bearing veins, upon which leasers can make big wages without taking the slightest risk. The lead streaks are rich in lead and carry sil- yer all the way from ten ounces to several hundred ounces to the ton. While the unworked streaks of ore may be small at the same time they are easily extracted and make tonnage fast. In other sections miners are at work and will soon be shipping large quantities of ore. No one need now complain of lack of facility for the working of the mines, as in many in- stances the smelters have been aiding the miner to get his ore to market. Let everybody get to work and not only make themselves wealthy but add largely to the wealth of the county.
 The Prescott Journal-Miner reports that preparations are being made for the reworking of the old Planet mines, on Bill Williams Fork. Why, bless your heart, honey, these mines have been hard at work the past three years and have immense bodies of ore block ed out and have been figuring on put ting in smelling plant. The mines are owned by Kansas City people, who purchased them a number of years ago from Olaver Augdahl. For more than three years the mines have been under the management of H. L. Me Carn, a mining man of large exper- fence, and by him put in an excellent state of development. These old mines were worked by San Francisco people in the early days of the territory. A smelling plant was constructed at Au- brey, on the Colorado river, and the low grades of oxide and carbonate ores smelted. The higher grade of ore was shipped to San Francisco by way of the Colorado river and the Gulf of Mexico. Owing to the fact that only the ores carrying low values in copper bapdla1 ba