Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-05-06

 s,ads of investment, Kingman, the csssty seat of Mohave county and the sys4s centre of one of the richest min. ssNl districts of northern Arizona, to- gveAer with it's rich tributary mining esuntfy, is again attracting the atten. tssa of mining promoters and capital. -sssS looking for country of rich min vssa possibilities
 xingmAR is a live, progressive little efty of some 1000 eontented and pros. psseus souls, modem in its facilities ssA with a bright outlook and rosy flu. sure predicted for it by conservative sssiscss men acquainted vita the min. ssal resources of that part of Mohsve oSaaty in which it is located. The tSWA is well laid out, has a modern Asick school building, a two.story <Asse Elks' building, in which is locat - the theatre, a two-story court house, cd other public and business buildings WAich are credit to a city of its size. In business men and citizens, as a whole, are live, widcawake, busy busi ssss men who gre always striving for the upbuilding of q greater kinaman A 9S00,009 enterprise, whiea has for its object the erection of n modern power house, now in course of con. struetion, and the supplying 10 King DAa of electric lights and power. and electrical energy to the surrounding mining camps, is now under way and will it is understood, he rushed to cenpletion. lt needs only this to make kisgman the equal in facilities of any tsWn in northern Arizona.
 The Mining Industry.
 Kingman is essentially n mining town, being in the heart of some of the rich. est mining districts in northern Ari ssns, the surface showings of whica fAs surpass the much. talketof Nevada Esa1 6elds. Fifteen miles east of King. ns lies the wallapai mountains, one sf the richest mineral. l.bearing sections of Aohave county. Since the discovery of its mineral richness by Lieutenant humphries and party of surveyors, who were establishing route for rail. read, along the 35,h parallel, in 1852, tAere have been several mining proper. sisA developed into the producing stage h tast range, and as time passes, and the richness of this range of mountains becomes better known, its mineral pos. abilities continue 10 increase, for as yet, with the exception of the Gold Read, a we'll known producer, and the 0eCraeken mines, located in the south. ess part of the range, the country, in nising parlanee, has hardly been more than scratched.
 The wallapai mountain range is sit mated near the center of Mohavc coun. ", its peaks rising 10 a heignt of $500 feet sbove sea level. Throughout the entire range there are great veins of nineral'bearing ore, some of the richest veins of the county, in fact, having been discovered in its vast stretches or FockfiDDcd slopes.
 One of the first mines to make a name for itself in this district was the old American Flag claim, located In 1874, which, after paying it's diseoverers well, vas sold for t25,00O, the second group of owners developing the property to depth of 750 feet and taking from its inn ssly quartz averaging sl0O a ton being shipped The property is now owned by II. II. Watkins, Joan Penber,hy and associates, and is but an instance of the mineral possibilities of that DOT. tion of Mohaye county. In the i'm. mediate neighborhood of the ot Ameri. can Flag mine are many valuable prop, critics which are being held by their locators, the majority of whom have not the necessary capital with which 70 develop them into producers, tnis section. thereby, presenting to the cap. itaiist and mining promoter n field of opportunities and great possibilities not to be found elsewhere in the entire
 
 western mining world, Most of the values found are in gold, silver lead and zine, the precious metals predom. mating. It is one of the bes, mineral. ixed districts in the Territory and is sure to be heard from in an extensive way ns soon as brough, properly to the attention of capital.
 A Vast Area.
 Mohavc county undoubtedly has the greatest ares of mining lands in the Territory. Every upland, and far into the valleys, contains precious metals. The county, generally, Is mountainous, ct least nine well defined ranges run.