Mohave County miner., 1908-03-28
Mines of the County

GeOrge ii. laylOr came ln IrOm the Red Top mine Thursday to attend to business affairs of the company.
 J. $. Withers is at his mines, in the Union Pass section. It is said that the properties show handsome veins of ore.
 The old Fay mine near Gold Flat, has been sold to Col. James Morgan and is to be worked as soon as the company gets things in shape.
 F. E. Buchanan and F. R. Leonard have gone to Los Angeles to attend to important matters connected with their mines at Gold Flat. They will be gone only a few days.
 Work is progressing rapidly on the Expansion mines, at Union Pass. The b'g machines are fast eating their way ito the mountain, where the great veins in the property are to be caught up.
 Robinson & Company's lease on the Samoan mine is producing hand somely and this week about forty tons of high grade rock was sent to the smelter at Needles. On the Wright lease fine body of ore is being work ed on.
 A good body of ore is said to have been struck in the Tuckahoe mine, at Chloride, where John Barry, Jr., is working on lease. The lower grade ores from this property will be dressed up in a mill for shipment to the smelt- CTS, while the high grade ores will be shipped without asserting.
 The Tom Reed mining company this week received a large carload of tim bers and lumber for their mines below Goldroad. It is understood that u e company intends putting in new and uptodate mill, capable of handling at least one hundred tons of ore per day. It is prabable that this mill will have the cyanide process.
 O. B. Amsden is getting things in shape at the Gold Bug mine and the work of retimbering the main shaft of the property will be commenced as soon as the timbers can be gotten on the ground. It will be about sixty days before this work will be complet- ed, when sinking will be commenced. No miners will be employed until the shaft has been securely timbered.
 Considerable interest is being taken in the mines of the Gold Flat region. A number of mining companies have already been organized and work is being done on several of the groups of mines. At the Original Gold Find, Ingraham and Kent have shaft down about thirty feet and are getting some good gold ore. The vein has widened oit and now fills the shaft.
 The big power plant is gradually nearing completion, the second unit being partly in place. As soon as the structural material for the roof is re- ceived and put in place the big dyna- mos will be placed on their founda- tions. Orders have been received from headquarters to rush work on the building and assembling of the ma chinery.
 Work is progressing on the Red Top mine, of the Goldroad Red Top min- ing company, on the mountain to the east of Goldroad. This mine is on che great Gold Road vein and has a splen- did showing of ore in the outcrop. A shaft will be sunk to depth of 100 feet on the vein at once. Several crosscuts of the vein show it to be won- derfully large.
 J. L.. Witney, general manager of the McCracken mines, was in King man Thursday last. He reports that work on the properties is progressing nicely and that within a short time a still greater force of men will be put to work. The company has mapped out an immense amount of exploratory work on all the mines, which includes a large working shaft and a tunnel through the mountain to the west side, where the main town and works of the company will be established.