Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1906-02-28
(From the Kinginan Mincr.)

| hd'c shiu tnut tHc NINIdH Hill VIII Ut
in operation in about six weeks The
mill In to have ten stamps capacity and
In TO be one of the most up.to.datc
plants on the Pacific coast The prop.
erty has large amount Of rich ore IN
sight.
J. W. Prout, of Tucson, arrived IN
Kingman last evening, and will go out
to the Union Pass section, where he
will make an examination of the Tyro
mining property. The Tyro is one Of
the best big gold properties in the
Union pass section, and has been quite
extensively opened up.
Last Tuesday Sheriff Walter Brown,
accompanied by II. II. johnson, of At.
lantic City, New Jersey, came in from
Gold Road, with a big bar Of bullion
from the Gold Road MILL The ores
from the lower level of the mine arc
being handled in the mill, and are max.
ing big bullion showing.
The German merican mining con,
pany has purchased a large compressor
and will install il ut their mines. near
Vivian, in a short time. The company
is making an effort to obtain electric
power ut the mines, and if they sue.
coed, will have one Of the most up.to.
date plants in the territory.
J. II. knight and Fred Harter have
been operating the Champion mine, near
Vivian, and are getting good results.
The vein is about II inches in width,
all pay ore, the average Of which is
about three ounces gold. Several
sacks were taken from the vein last
week that ran $1,000 to the ton. Mr..
Harter has been prospecting the vein
for the past several months, and found
several places on 1t that carried big
values.
Word comes from Cedar Basin, near
the Mohnvc county line, in the Virgin
mountains, that work is progressing on
number of mines, and that the ore in
the veins is approaching in value as
work progresses. The mines were dis.
covered some time ago by people from
st. Thomas, Nevada, and some Of them
have been sold to outside people. Judge
Redman is interested in a group of
mines in that section, and has done
considerable work on the properties.
l.. NJ. Teale, who has been out at
Stockton Hill the past few days, re-
turned to Kingman yesterday. He re-
ports that the Infallible drift Is now in
about 1900 feet, and that splendid ore
Ia being developed in the breast. The
ore body Is now more than feet
wide, and scattered through IL is n big
streak Of native silver ore. The main
ore body is eighteen inches wide Of
solid galena. A stopc is being opened
fifty feet from the breast, and will
be carried up through the new ore body.
II is expected that the mine will soon
be outputting from twenty-five to
thirty tons Of fine smelling ore.
At the lie In Fountaine mine the
drifts are being driven east and west,
and good ore shows practically the
whole distance. Considerable lead ore
IL coming in both the east and west
drift.
Jonn Muiligan has men Mt work on
the Bunker Hill mine, near Cerbat, and
Ii getting out nice copper, gold and
silver ore. A shipment will soon be |
made to the smelter from this proper. |
~.
Felix Vasquez, one Of the owners Of
the Argo mine, is in Kingman on
business. He reports that he and part.
her have everything arranged for the
beginning Of work on the mine and will |
soon be shipping a large tonnage Of ore |
to the smelter.
McKesson 4 Burke have located n
gold bearing vein In the lone butte.
east OF Drake, and believe they have a
bonanza The ore shows free gold all
through II, and along the surface of the
vein there are many tons Of the same
kind Of ore. The vein outcrops along
a large dyke, and Is continuous for a
long distance.
j. ID. Jordan and the Clack brothers
departed TO the Mockina Bird mine, in |
the Weaver district last Monday morn.
inO The Clu ak iksss> . .~.l..A