Mohave County miner., 1906-03-10
Big Lead Strike Near Needles.

from the mine covered the country
round about the vein for quite dis
lance, but owing to being coated with
lime and iron oxide was thought to be
volcanic rock. A wagon wheel crush
ed piece of the rock and was noted
by prospector, who made search fer
and found the vein. Needles was
nearly depopulated in the consequent
rush to the new field. In the same To-
cality considerable copper float has
been found and it is believed that a
promising district will be opened up.
The Signal Copper company has sold
to o. p. Posey and associates the Cop
per Prince mine, situated on Bill
Williams Fork, for price understood
to be 5OO,OOOS. The mines were re-
Gently taken over by Newton Evans
for the Signal Copper company for the
sum of 24.0OOS. After sinking shaft
about $50 feet on the Copper Prince
vein and opening up wonderful body
of ore the mine was placed with Mr..
Posey on short time bond. After a
thorough examination Mr.. Posey and
associates decided to take the mines
over. Col H. G. Hebron went down
TO Wendendale and drove to the mine
in a wagon last week, where he made
a thorough examination of the prop
erty and its surroundings. He believes
the mine is one of the largest bodies
of copper ore in the territory. 1t will
be equipped with a large hosting
plant and the shaft enlarged to three
compartments and sunk to a depth of
800 feet. From that point the mine
will be thoroughly exploited and if it
proves up in accordance with present
indications a railroad will be built to
a connection with the Arizona & Cali
fornia railroad and large Smelter put
in. The mine is situaten close to Bill
! Williams Fork. where an abundance Cf
water can be had. CJl. Heffron re-
turned TO Kingman yesterday and af-
ter arranging his business affairs will
return to the mine TO assume charge.
Some of the alfalfa mining news
papers are worrying themselves into
/ Mysteries over the amount of work
necessary to be done on a claim to
hold it for year. It is claimed by
some that where the location work is
done within the annual year it can be
placed to the credit Of the annual
work required by the L. S. laws. The
law makers of Arizona. and some of
the other states, in making the sink
ing of a ten foot shaft and the showing
of a vein of mineral bearing rock IN
place requisite of legal location,
did not take into consideration that
claim could be located in December
and the location work done in January
or February of the following year and
that claim could. be set up that this
location work might become part of
the annual work, nor was it ever in
tended that such work be carried over
into the annual work account. The
work of location is intend d to shutout
the fellow who is locating and holding
hundreds of claims in a district TO the
exclusion of the honest miner and
prospector and retarding the develop
ment of the county. When the claim
is located and the work done then, and
only then, is there legal location of
the property. After the making of
this valid location the mine owner is
compelled to do zoos worth of work on
the mine to hold it under the U. :.
laws for the year following the stalk
ing the claim. The doing of this
work is specific and must be paid for
by the owner or by some one for him.
Work done on the claim without the
consent of the owner and by parties
not in his pay cannot be held as assess
ment work under the law.
Col. Thomas Ewing, in an interview
in the Daily Mining Record, of Den
yer. makes the statement that within
short time San Francisco mining dis
trict will be one of the greatest pro-
ducers of gold bullion in the south
west. The district is situated conven-
iently for the economic handling of
gold ores and as the ores are ideal for
cyaniding high saving of values can
be made. He also states that the Wv
ian mining company is to install a
large pumping plant on the Colorado
river to supply the town of Vivian and
surrounding camps with an adequate