Mohave County miner., 1907-04-20

Col Thomas Ewing was in Kingman Tuesday and Wednesday making con- tracts for the hauling of three hundred tons of mining machinery to the Vic- tor mines, where large tube mill is to be put in shortly. The change of plans from Needles to Kingman was compelled by reason of the rapid rise of the Colorado river, which is now at night that makes soft and impossible the roads from the ferry landing to the high ground of the mesas, over which supplies will have to be hauled. Col. Ewing informs us that the big power plant at Needles, which is to generate and transmit power for mot i've purposes at the big pumping plant in the valley and at the mines and mill, is fast nearing completion. The trans mission lines over the river have been completed. Sixty foot towers have been erected on each side of the river and anchored in solid concrete. These towers consist of a nest of twenty-inch poles, set deep in concrete close to the river and another nest of poles twenty feet back from the banks, all tied to- gether with steel and wood. These towers are again reinforced by heavy steel cables anchored to heavy con- crete deadmen one hundred feet back from the towers. The cables are car ried across the river on these towers and heavily anchored, which carries the wires high above the water, al- lowing the passage of steamers at any stage of the stream. Five miles of wires have been strung through the low valley land and the balance will be strung within the next forty days. The mill is to be one of the first tube plants ever put in in Arizona. It is to be automatic in every detail. Anal. gamation and cyanidation are to be the methods of extracting the gold and silver from the gangue and it is expected to make saving of fully ninety-five per cent. The ore is to be crushed to two-hundred mesh fne- ness and the pulp is to be automatic ally sized, the shines going through different automatic filters. These filters have capacity each of I6O tons of ore daily and the pulp is to lie in solution from eight to ten hours. Re- ferring to Needles, Col. Ewing says that it is becoming one of the busiest mining towns of the southwest. The big shelter is handling thousands of tons of ore monthly from the mines of Arizona, Nevada and California and big weekly shipments of bullion are made to the refneries of California and Colorado. The Copper World, which was abandoned few years ago, is now shipping from 800 to 700 tons of good copper ore to the shelter every month. These shipments will soon be increased to 1000 tons as soon as teams to haul the ore can be obtained. The copper shelter is working successfully and turning out fine product. The two mines of the shelter company at Cerbat and Stockton Hill are furnish ing almost enough ore to keep the lead stack in operation. The shelter has about thirty thousand tons of ore on hand and several carloads are be- ing received daily from the mines of the surrounding country. He believes the mines in and around the Needles are destined to become big producers and that Needles will become one of the richest mining centers in the southwest.
 The tide level route of the Santa Fe railroad, which is to pass through or