Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-06-10
WESTERN ARIZONA VERY RICH IN
 MINING
(Frsm Tuesday's Daily)


 The metallic mineral deposits of Mo have county, Arizona, were known a, long ago as the early sixties, when rich gold ore was discovered in what has since been called the Moss mine, about { miles northwest of Gold Road, near the old Camp Monavc trial decade later the attention of prospectors was attracted to the newly found silver gold ores in the Cerbat range, says the lat est issue of the Geological Survey Press 1 Bulletin. The ore veins then opened in thr Ccrbat and Hualpai mountains were so rich that the mines yielded large pro. fit. although the expense of freight and treatment ran into the hundreds of dol. lars a ton, owing to the fact that the ores had to be packed long distances on burros to Colorado river, thence to be transported by steamer down the Gulf of California, and up the coast 10 San Francisco, from which point they were shipped to England for treatment. This method of marketing the ores was fol. lowed until the advent of the railroad in 1882. Up Co that time, for lack of transportation facilities, nnd maehip- cry, shafts more than l50 feet deep were few in number. although the pro. duction of high grade orc ran well up into the millions. With the coming of the railroad new mining era began, and development, work below water lev el was made practicable. During the early years the region was chased as n silver camp. and no allowance was made for the gold, lead or copper con. 'aincd in the ores, hut the decline of silver drove the prospectors back into ,h" gold bel, of the country, and later the Gold Road and Vivian mines, to which tho San Francisco district owes it's present prosperity, were discovered Wi,nin the last few years the mining industry has taken on new life. old and abandoned mines are being unwat. cred and their dumps tested and cyan. ided or milled. With deeper and more systematic mining new ore shoots are found, and the once low. grade ore bo. dies are being utilized by means of the lates, improved milling and value. say. ing apparatus, the producer receiving pay for the saved metals contained in the ores. 'i''
 brief account of the Mohaye coun. ty mineral deposits has just been pub. lished by the United State Geological Survey in an advance chapter from Bul. letin 340, which forms Part 1. of Con. tributions to Economic Geology, 1907. The author of tais report. Mir. F. C.. Sehradcr, a geologist of the Survey, spest five months of the fall and win. ter of l906'7 in field study of the drs. trict. for the purpose of obtaining a general idea of the mineral resources of western Arizona, concerning which rel. atively little has hitherto been pub. lished. The area described by Mir. Schrad'r is in the eentrDl part of Mo. have county, and comprises about 1000 square miles. Its northern limit lies near the Big Bend of the Colorado and the mouth of the Grand Canyon; on the south it extends to Melicn and tho southern extremity of the Black Noun. tains. On the west it Is bordered by Nevada and California, from which it IS separated by the Colorado river, and on the east by the Colorado plateau and similar highlands extending south, ward, from wnich it is separated by the Grand Wash CliYs and their southern combinations. Most of the region is shown son the Camp Mohave and Dia. mond Greek topographic sheets of the Geological Survey. Kingman, the eoun. ty seat, is the principal distributing point for nearly all the mining districts of northwestern Arizona and adjacent parts of Nevada, Blackberry, Chloride, Gold Road, and Vivian and other iu. portant towns.
 MT Shrader discusses briefly the gen. eral character of the metallic deposits of the region, which include gold, sil l v'r' lead, copper, zinc, and tungsten. and gives somewhat detailed accounts of the various districts and mines. The principal nonmetallic minerals of the |; area building stones, cement rock. tra. vertine, turquoise, and graphite are al. | so described. The cement rock. which