Mohave County miner., 1908-12-12
Mines of the County

p 'obable that sale of these mines will take place soon, Mrs. Mensch getting a nice sum for her interests in the property.
 H. H. Simpson and O. F. Kuencer came up from the Burro mine last Monday, Mr. Simpson going on to Los Angeles the same day. M. H.. Murphy, who is part owner in the mines, accompanied the gentlemen on the trip.
 Dr. John P. Davis, who has a bond on the Midnight mines, came in from San Francisco last Saturday morning and went out to the mines the follow ing day. It is expected that his com pany will do large amount of work on the mines, as well as installing a mill.
 T. L. Ayers and wife came in from Cerbat last Sunday and departed the following night to their home in San Francisco. MT. Ayers has just con- pleted the assessment work on mining claims in the Cerbat section and has been successful in the opening up of rich ore.
 It is reported from the Golden Gem mine that there is streak of solid metal in the bottom of the shaft that will run above twenty ounces gold to the ton, while large bodies of lower grade ore is showing up. The mine never looked better, not even in its palmiest days.
 A. l.. McKesson has leased part of h Holy Moses mining claim to Alger B,others. The lessees will go to work on the mine at once and will have their ores milled at the mine. They have nice streak of good ore to be- gin work on and expect to make nice thing out of the lease.
 The White Hills company is work ing force of men on the mines, clean ing out old shafts and drifts and get ting the mines in shape for active work. It is to be hoped that Superin. .tendent Jones will be able to get this company to sink development shaft in the group of mines on the north si 1e of the big wash and open up the veins that gridiron that section of Indian Secret district.
 F. E. Hite, St. Louis mining man, came in from Los Angeles yesterday and was met here by M. A. Moore and the gentlemen will leave today for Virginia Camp, where MT. Hite will make an examination of the Virginia mine for the Dixie Queen mining con- pany. The company recently acquired this property and has been doing some development work on it.
 Joe Kelsey and M. J. Ryan departed to Yucca last Tuesday evening, where they loaded up six horse team with supplies for the Cruz mine, which they intend to begin work on the first of next week. A camp will be establish ed at once and work will be prosecut- ed with vigor. A shaft is to be sunk to depth of 100 feet at once. This is the property that was taken over for account of San Diego people last week.
 T, J. Grant, who is experimenting the work of the Stewart-Warner con- pany at Music Mountain, was in King man this week attending to business matters. Carl Holtschue, prominent Goldfield mining expert, returned with Mir. Grant to the mines Thursday morning. He will make a thorough examination of the properties and re- port to the company. All the machin- cry for the company has been hauled out to the mines and the work of get ting It in place is progressing nicely. MT. Grant expects to have his holster at work within the next ten days, af- ter which sinking will be commenced.
 Deputy Sheriff J. P. Gideon Thurs day last brought in HOODS bar of bullion from the Gold Road mine, the result of cleanup from percolations of the mill dumps. The company have been pumping this water back into the mill and treating it in the usual way the past year and have cleaned up many thousands of dollars from the waste waters of the big tailings dumps.