Mohave County miner., 1908-06-27


 has gone to Salt Lake City. Water has been bailed out of the , Nighthawk mine and sinking is to be commenced in one of the winzes. It is ! expected that rich ore will be found at the lowest depth.
 It is reported from Los Angeles that a mining company of that City has se- cured options on and will take over the Richardson mines, at Union Pass. The company is to be known as the Gold Pass mining company. T. P. Garnier has gone to Los An geles to consult with members of his company regarding future work on his mines in this county. The companies represented by hlm have valuable properties both in the Cerbat sec tion and in Wallapai mountains.
 R. Nickel, who has been at the Cy- clopic mines the past three years, came in from that camp Thursday last and will probably go on to Denver. He recently sold his holdings in Gold Basin to $. c. Bagg and the property is to be worked by the new owner.
 The wagon road between Yucca and McCracken has been completed and will be found one of the best in the c)uLty. The road has been leveled up and all the heavy grades cut out, be- sides shortening the distance consider ably.
 Work is progressing on the Expan- sion mines, in the Union Pass section. The big bore will open up a great mass of ore when it is run into the vein. The shaft being sunk on one of the outside properties is down about l2O feet and drifting will be commence ed in few days.
 H. M. Bowen came in from Los An geles this morning on his way to Chlo- ride. He recently effected the sale of the. Elkhart mines to a company repre- senting eastern capital. Monday he will appear in the U. s. Court to rep resent the Arizona Silver-Lead con- pany in bankruptcy proceeding.
 A suit involving a large amount of money has been instituted in the Fed eral court at Los Angeles by William Spanogle, who alleges that he has been defrauded by his partners out of i a large block of stock in the company, estimated to be worth about 50,000S The mines are on Mob Hill, Eldorado Canyon. All the parties to the suit are well known Tn this county. Excitement over oil continues to grow in the Virgin field and prepara- tion is being made by the Rhyolte people to put down three new wells. So far the wells are producing nearly 900 barrels daily and the gas in the Downey well is increasing in intensity, making it probable to obtain flow by shooting the well. The Clark people are figuring on branch line of road to the wells and are ready to enter in- to contract to take large part of the product of the field for fuel purposes.
 Albert Burch one of the best know mining engineers of the coast, w. S brought in Kingman last Sunday morning in the McCracken automobile suffering from an injury to one of his eyes received at the mine while breaking rock. The physicians here were unable to remove the foreign substance, so he went into Los An geles on the evening train to secure the services of a specialist. The run was made from the mine to Kingman in less than five hours over a rough road.
 Some day Mohave county will SUD- ply the steel plants of the world with nolybdenum. The mines of molyb- denite ores, in the Cedar district, are the largest ever discovered in the world and are, so far as known, the only veins in which the ore occurs in quartz in regular streaks, or dissemi- hated through the vein. In that To- cality there are veins averaging from one foot to fifteen feet in width, every one of which carries molybdenite. While the mineral occurs with copper it can be readily separated, less than