Weekly journal-miner., 1908-10-14
THREE GOOD MINES
 KEEP KINGMAN HusrLINo

klNGMAN, Oct. 6.-The cool days ar" here and that great advancement in mining way expected when the heat had departed is here and expand. | ing rapidly. The Tom Reed continues to hold its sensational position as a wonder. even in such great mineral country as this. Such an output of gold from n little ten stamp mill oper. ating half the time has hardly been equalled in any country. Seventy five thousand dollars every go days is about the size of the shining bars. The Tom Reed bullion carries quite little silver. some mining mon holding to the opinion that little silver mixed in gold ore is good indication of permanency of the ore body The bot tom of the drift on the 250 foot level shows the ore body is going down with great size and richness and after driv. ing 2i0 feet on that level the ore is just as good and no narrowing of the ore body. Miners who work in the Tom Reed estimate the value of the ore in sight above the 250 at easily s2,000,000. The development stock started selling at IS cents, while at the present time no stock can be had, except here and there little lot where the holder needs the money. I. wsnld be hard 10 estimate the value of Tom Reed stock. With the same size mill in operation as the Consolidated at Gold6eld, the output would exceed million dollars monthly.
 Since closing down their mill, to be replaced by larger one to be operated | by electricity from the Kipgman power plant, and to further develop their great ore bodies, the Gold Road Company nss "builded better than they knew" Drifting towards the Billy Bryan from the 800 level of the Gold Road shaft, one of the largest, most continuous and valuable ore bod { ies on the coast has been opened up. It puts tn. Gold Road among the pie. ture properties, A full brother to the Tom Reed, with ore enough in sight to operate their 200 ton mill for years. These two mines when in full opera ,ion al the capacity of the larger mills they will put in. will employ some thing like 800 men. The outpu, of gold will be enormous, jumping Mo have county up 10 the first class with clean taxable wealth. The wonderful Tom Reed and its side partner now stand far in the lead of Arizona gold mines. bu, all the mineral wealth of the county is not confined to .aese two treasure vaults.
 Jumping from free milling gold prop critics to mine carrying sulphides, the Midnight, at Chloride. stands at the head as far as examination has been made by the writer. This property is now under bond to experienced mining men of san Francisco. who are rushing 10 completion 90 ion concentrstor that will bs on the ground next month The Midnight is known as copper mine. but if the price of copper and silver are low the eoncentrator can work right along on sulphides with good gold values, with but little cop per. Five different ore shoots are known to exist in the Midnight and when the eoncentrator is ready to blow in they can take their choice of ores. About two thousand feet of develop ment has been done in the Midnight and the showing is equal to any of the great copper mines of Arizona for tn. same extent of openings. The greatest depth is 200 feet. The mine is located on low ground, water and sulphides being reached at 70 feet. Midnignt concentrates will be very valuable fuxing proposition, and smelt ing charges, if anything, should be very low. The mill will be located
 where the ore can bc run from the
 mine to rock breakers and perhaps q
 spur will he laid from the Chloride ] depot, one mile and half distant
 from the mine. The falling of the
 Midnight into the hands of competent
 and financially able people is of great importance to Chloride and the whole
 county. No doubt it is one of tho great mines. Transportation of ores over railroad to shelter at Needles i' low and conditions generally are favor able to make Midnight steady pro
 ducer of dividends.