Mohave County miner., 1908-09-26

erty in Nevada and secured option on
 some valuable properties.
 Two miners are sinking shaft to a | depth of 100 feet on one of the mines
 of T. R. Garnier, in the Wallapai
 mountains, several miles south of Grant x McGeary Wash. Rich ore
 was found on the outcrop of this vein
 and the owner expects to open up a
 big body at depth of 100 or more feet.
 E. R. Bush and J. D. Spargo came
 in from Chloride last Tuesday, Mr.
 Bush having completed an examina-
 tion of the Spargo group of mines. It
 is quite probable that Mr. Bush's peo-
 pie will take over the mines and will soon begin work on them. The prop critics show good values in gold and silver and are in one of tho most ac- cessible parts of the Chloride section.
 The Santa F'e has made new rate on grain from the Salt River valley to
 Kingman and Chloride of 7$ per ton.
 The old rate was S$. On barley the
 rate is l0$ per ton, a change of one or
 two dollars per ton. The company
 has also made rate of 3$ per ton on
 l5S ore from Phenix to Needles; 325$ on 25S ore, IS on 50S ore and 6S on lO0S ore. A lesser rate obtains from Wickenburg and Prescott.
 Joseph Phillips, consulting engineer of the Gold Road M. & E. company. arrived in Kingman yesterday and de- parted at once to the mines. It is un- derstood that the company is prepar- ing for the electrical installation at the mines and the conversion of the mill to stamp mill, instead of rolls and Huntington, now in use. The en- tire plant will also be electrized and put on an economical working base. Frank Bosque, one of the best known cyanide experts in the United States, is at the mine arranging for the con- version of the big mill to an automat- ic plant and at the same time increase t materially. Mr. Bo ,que was at cne time in charge of the big milling plant of the Gold Road company and it was he that made success in the high saving of values. With auto- matic filter presses and the shining of the ores it is expected that practically all values in the ores will be recover ed.
 O. F. Kuencer came in from his home in Pasadena last Monday and departed the following day to Cerbat to look after the affairs of the Golden Star mining company. This week the company encountered the old ore shoot from which T. l.. Ayers took about 200, ,000$ a few years ago. This ore was encountered at a depth of 450 feet and at depth of 464 feet the ore shows in the shaft about IS inches. The shaft is being sunk on the hanging wall of the vein and no crosscutting to the foOt-wall will be done until the 800 level is reached. At the 400 level the vein was eleven feet wide, but below this point no work has yet been done on the footwall part of the vein. The is jubilant over the strike, assays from which give an average of seven ounces gold (l40$). Work is be- ing carried on rapidly and before the fifteenth of next month the shaft will | have reached the 800 level.
 T. R. Garnier is in Kingman looking after mining interests. As soon as Lou 1 Stirzel returns from Los Angeles work will be started up on the St. Louis mine, at Cerbat, it being the intention of opening up the big ore body on that Two adit drifts have been run toward this ore body. but so far neither one has reached the ore, al- though low grade ore bodies have been encountered. As soon as the old | ore shoot is cut it is the intention of the company to drive across country to the other veins farther up the hill, where it is expected to strike very rich gold-lead ore. The hill in which the St. Louis mine is situated, is one of the best mineralized sections of the Cerbat country. The entire service of the claims is gridironed with veins of lead ore, many of which carry big NalneS in rOld One of these uainS