Mohave County miner., 1908-07-11
Mines of the County

Walter Brown, who is interested with George Lockwood in mining prop erty near Treasure Hill, went out to look the mines over yesterday.
 A larger force of men than ever has been on the water ditch to the Me- Cracken, It is expected that the ditch for the big pipe will be completed within two months.
 O. B. Amsden, general manager of the Goldbug mines, in the Weaver dis trict, returned from Colorado Springs last Tuesday evening and departed Thursday to the mines.
 M. E. Josephi, one of the old timers of this county, has just received pay ment of 6,000$ on sale of mining property in the Cunningham Pass sec- tion of Yuma county. The sale is to be for 50,0O0$.
 M. Hoffman and wife are visiting relatives in Kingman. MT. Hoffman has been in charge of the mines of the Arizona Southwestern Copper Con- pany the past year. MT. Hoffman has concluded to take rest for a week or two.
 Work on the Holy Moses shaft is progressing. The shaft is being wid- ened out and made two compartment in size and will be sunk to depth of two hundred feet. At the present depth the ore shows good values in gold.
 J. c. Potts and T. F. Hogan went out to the Golden Glance group of mines, near Thumb Butte, few days ago. They will look the mines over and get things in shape to start up work as soon as the weather moder- ates.
 A station has been cut on the 500 level of the Victor Gold mine and a crosscut run to the vein 47 feet. Drifting is now being carried on at this level, but so far the ore body has been found to be much broken and low in value.
 c. J. Hutchison, general manager of the Expansion Gold mining company, reports that fifteen thousand gallons of water is now being produced by their water shaft and we'll at the mines. With a little more work sufficient wa ter will be developed to supply big cyanide plant.
 A carload shipment of ore has been made from the Connolly lease on the Flores mine this week. The ore is said to carry good values in gold. The Flores is one of the old mines of the Cerbat section and was considered one of the best properties in that region.
 Two carloads, comprising the Sun cloud mill, passed through Kingman this week to Chloride, whence it will be hauled out to the camp of the Ari- zona-Utah gold and copper company It is the intention of the company to erect the mill at the mines and begin the reduction of ore as soon as possi- ble.
 John F. Jones, at one time superin- tendent of the White Hills mines, un- der R. T. Root, was in Kingman a few days this week renewing old ac- quaintances. Mir. Jones went out to White Hills Tuesday last, where he will get things in shape to start up work on the mines. It is probable that under Mr. Jones' management the mines of the White Hills will be again producing largely. This great group of mines has hardly been touch- ed, although an immense amount of bullion has been produced.
 Several new wells are projected for the Virgin River oil companies. close proximity to the lands owned by number of Kingman people. The striking of oil in and around Virgin City has aroused considerable interest in the field throughout Utah and New ada and before fall there will be forty or fifty wells producing in the field. H. H. Clark, who has a well down over 1900 feet near Antelope Spring, is