Mohave County miner., 1906-03-24

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 MURAL, 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 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 detached part of the
range in 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 2O0S 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 &c
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 O
I25 feet by cross country drift. The
ore in the outcrop of the massive weir
is said to average about los gold, but
large sections of the mine run high
e In the crosscut four feet of ore is saiC
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about to begin the extraction of ore
which will be milled at Pyramid.
The Tragedy group is combination
of big veins well situated for economic
work. The mines have been opened
by adit drifts to considerable deptl
and have on the dumps several hun
dred tons of fine mill ore. Sample:
! taken from the veins give big ASA!
= results. Specimens exhibited in King
2 man were very rich. The property il
/ owned by w. E. Sauls, o. D. NJ. Cad
dis and George B. Ayres, of Kingman
: The Richardson Brothers have man!
= splendid mining propositions on the
, west side of the range. At preSen
5 they are working on the o. K. int
which they have run drift, tappins
;. the vein at depth of about $50 feet
f A big vein of ore shows in place il
e this drift, the average value of which
is about POS to the ton.
0 The Union Pass mine is an immens,
:. body of ore, the vein rising to high
t of several hundred feet above the can
[ yon. A shaft has been sunk in tn,
e drift to a depth of nearly POO feet ant
Y a big body of milling ore opened up
+ A large volume of water was encoun
tered in this mine last week, whicl
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