Mohave County miner., 1908-08-08
Mines of the County

M. Force is home again from the tungsten mines, east of Yucca, upon which he has. done the title work. He says the mines look good and that there are big bodies of ore in the various locations.
 P. McCardell, the we'll known civil and mining engineer, returned Mon- day evening last from the mines of the Arizona Southwestern Copper company in Crow Canyon, where he has been making survey of group of claims for purpose of patenting.
 Work is progressing on the power plant, the roof trusses being put in place and within week the covering will be put on and interior work finished up. AS soon as the plant is completed a transformer building will be erected and then will follow the office building and other necessary appurtenances.
 Tom Sickels and Lon Wells came in from the IXL mine, in the high WallapAis, last Thursday. They have made strike of rich ore in the mine and intend returning to still further explore the vein with view to taking out shipment. The entire vein, which is more than three feet wide, will pay to mill.
 G. w. Gibson and J. D. Jordan were out to Cerbat few days ago looking over the mines of that camp. Mir. Gibson is very much impressed with the mining outlook of this section of Mohave county and will undoubtedly invest in the mines. He was called to Denver last Tuesday morning, but in tends to return within month.
 George and Hubert Smith are at work on the old Lookout mine, about four miles south of Kingman. In for mer years the mine produced a large amount of immensely rich ore, but of late years it was allowed to lie idle. It is the intention of the owners to run a drift below the old works and after timbering up the old ground sink the shaft to depth of one hundred feet. Considerable milling ore is opened up in the bottom of the old shaft and be- low the caved ground.
 Manuel Ruiz came in from White Hills Tuesday evening. Owing to the defection of his partner he was unable to take over lease on the big silver mines, although he intends to soon re- turn to the camp and make arrange ments for work. He reports several of the boys already doing we'll in their leases and believes the camp will soon assume it's old time appearance. In the years gone by many leasers clean ed up nice fortune out of leases on the Prince Albert, Daisy and Norma mines.
 The rich ore in the Great Eastern vein, in Wallapai mountains, contin- ues to hold out. It is thought that this vein will improve largely with depth, much of the surface rock show ing considerable teaching of the min- eral content. It is probable that the property will be taken over by com- pany and operations inaugurated on a large scale. The mines are among the best properties in the pine clad section of the Wallapais and has a fine stream of pure water close by sufficient for all milling purposes.
 Lew Bechtel and son Ross came in from Wallapai mountain last Thursday morning. They have been at work several months past on the old Mari posa mine and recently found the rich streak of ore from which so much money was taken in the early days of this county. In endeavoring to get to this ore body MT. Bechtel, ST., nearly lost his life two weeks ago. He was overcome by the heavy gas in the bottom of the old shaft and but for quick work of his son and Stuart Yer Mehr he would undoubtedly have been asphixiated. When taken to the surface he was a long time regaining consciousness.
 Frank Dudek was in Kingman this week from his hubnerite claims, twelve miles east of Yucca. He and