Mohave County miner., 1908-10-17
Mines of the County

Nighthawk mine within the next few days, the company having settled its differences and getting down to busi. ness. It is to be hoped that the com. pany will sink the shaft to consider. able depth below the present level, as it is surety that big ore will be open ed up in that property.
 The Grand Gulch Mining company, operating in the Bently district, in the north part of this county, is making weekly shipments of ore to the Salt Lake smelters. At present the con- pany is working about fifteen or twen- ty men and have erected mine build ings, shaft house and other necessar- ies. The mine is being developed with intent to enable the building into the district of railroad ore wagon road over which traction engines may be run and to build a shelter on the ground.
 The big shaft of the Golden Gem mine is reaching down to the 800 and it is believed that the work of cutting the station will be begun next week. From the 460 level good ore has been coming in the shaft, but as the shaft is being sunk on the hanging wall and the ore lies on the foot nothing is known of the extent of the body. Crosscutting will show the ore up and it is believed by many that it will be one of the greatest bodies ever opened in the property. The ore runs about eight ounces gold, as shown by the kidneys that are mixed with the hang ing wall waste.
 Below the 100 level John Boyle is getting splendid ore in the Golconda mine. The ore now fills the shaft and at no point is there break in it's con- tinuity. The mine promises to be one of the greatest zinc-lead properties in the territory. So far more than one thousand tons of ore have been taken from the mine, showing values above fifty per cent in zinc. In some parts of the mine oxidation has taken place which leaves the grade of the ore be- low the required average, but where the work has been carried below the water the grade runs up to sixty per cent, showing that there has been teaching from the oxidized portions of the mine. Oh .-.-- .-- -..-'-.
 Superintendent Holahan, of the Rhy- olite Oil company, in an interview with one of the Goldfield papers, is re- ported to have said that the Virgin oil field is one of the most extensive in the United States. His company has three wells capable of producing 125 barrels of fuel oil daily and soon ex- poets to have large number in oper- ation. The proving up of the field is necessary to get proper recognition from the railroad, as in the event of getting large output the railroad people will be compelled to build into the field to get the business. A larger area is being opened up every month and it will be but short time until the entire district between St. George on the west, and below the Arizona line on the south is proven territory. Before snow flies it is expected that Bullfrog Clark will have two or three wells Tn operation. The Clark wells are about fifteen miles south of Virgin, in Arizona. One of these holes is now down nearly l5OO feet, with good in- dications of oil.
 Two carloads of machinery for the Arizona Gold Mines company, which is soon to have ten stamp mill in operation on the Bi-Metal mines, four miles south of Kingman. E. M. La mont, manager of the company, says that the mill is expected to be in op- eration within forty days, and will be equipped with electric lights and every labor. saving device known to the business. The plant will be built with view to increasing it to 100 stamps. The company is having the ground cleared of debris and excayat- ing for the mill is under way. The company is an Arizona corporation. but there are no shares for sale, seven men only being interested in the prop- erty. These men are the owners of