Mohave County miner., 1908-12-26
Mines of the County

LesSees on the Santa Fe mine, six miles south of Kingman, have opened upa fine body of gold ore. Specimens from the mine, recently exhibited in Kingman, show gold all through them.
 H. E. Woods, of the Woods Invest ment company, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was in Kingman a few days this week. Mr. Woods has been look ing over mining property in the Silver Creek section and may conclude to in- vest.
 Several of the heavy shareholders in the Expansion Gold Mines company are here from Seattle, Wash, and are looking over the properties. The company has group of the best mines pect to see them worked in large way the coming year.
 J. F. Luthy and son came in from Albuquerque last Thursday evening and departed this morning to Salt Springs, where he has force of men employed in doing assessment work on his group of mines. It is MT. Luthy's intention to do a large amount of work on the properties the coming year and is now getting things in shape for future operations.
 The Arizona Southwestern Copper Company is getting it's big pump in place on the Siamese property, in Crow Canyon. Owing to the heavy storm of the past few weeks work on the property has been somewhat im- p ded, but it is thought that the mine will be unwatered and work resumed in sinking within the next two weeks.
 Charles Burlock and J. M. Farley went out to the Union Pass section yesterday to begin work on the prop. critics of the San Diego mining com pany. The company owns large group of mines in the Pass country and have some work to finish up the annual work for the year. A number of men will be put on and hurry up job put through.
 The Golconda mine is showing up bigger and better ore bodies with every foot of development. In the past three months the property has enhanced thousands of dollars in value of it's products and in the consequent value of it's stocks. Under the able management of John Boyle the con- pany has in this mine one of the best properties in the territory.
 T. J. Grant, superintendent of the Music Mountain mines, accompanied by Carl Holtzschue, of Goldheld, New ada, was in Kingman Sunday last Mr., Holtz,chue had just finished an examination of the properties of the WarLer-Stewa company and was re- turning to his home. He was more than pleased with the properties and it is probable that he will recommend many improvements at the mines.
 This week l.. Hoffman purchased a carload of lumber at Yucca, and shipped it to the Holy Moses mine, where it will be used in putting the shaft on that property in first class shape. The little holster will be at the mine shortly and as soon as gotten in place the work of sinking will be commenced. The mine shows splendid ore in the bottom of the shaft, at which depth the vein is five feet wide.
 The Arizona Gold Mines company made cleanup of a few days run of the Bi-Metal mill, this week, but we have not learned the result. From men who have worked around the mill we learn that the ore was plating nice- ly and that the cleanup ought to be a good one. The company is simply testing out the ores of the mine and the method to be employed in the re- covery of the gold. The vein is one of the largest on the coast and is sure to be producer for years to come.
 $. R. Porter came in from the Red Gap mine last Thursday and departed the following day to the Moss mine, where he made an examination of that old property. It is understood that at the Red Gap fine body of ore has been opened from the surface to a depth of 35 feet in the new shaft now