Mohave County miner., 1908-02-22
Mines of the County


 neighborhood of Mohave Spring, last Wednesday, returning to the camp the following day.
 P. McCardell, deputy mineral sur- veyor for this district, has just com pleted the survey and plating of a large group of mining claims, at the Copper Camp, for the Jan Kubelik mining company.
 The McKesson mill will be ready to begin crushing ore by the first of the coming week. It will handle about ten tons of ore daily and will be of great benefit to the mine owners of the Gold Flat section.
 Work on the Enterprise, on the 100 level east, is progressing and big ore bodies are being opened up. The mine at the breast of the east drift never looked better and the chances for a great mine are improving with every foot of work.
 A. D. Coolidge and F. F. Brawn de- parted this week on an extended pros pecting trip to the south. They ex- pect to be gone nearly year. It is their intention to prospect through to San Diego, which place they expect to reach by April.
 Fred H. Stull, of Chloride, was a Kingman visitor several days this week. Mir. Stull has lease on the Lucky Boy mine, and it is said has opened up one of the finest bodies of ore ever seen in that property. A carload shipment will soon be made from the property.
 The work of removing the big forty stamp mill, at Milltown, is being car ried on quietly. It is understood that it will be erected on the Monica mine, in Yavapai county, in which property Morgan Tillinghast is heavily inter- ested. The mill was erected about uluC thllCS OuC LullCo oi and was out of all proportion to the producing condition and capacity of the mines.
 Alonzo Wells is in from the Expan- sion Gold Mining camp, in the Union Pass range, and reports that the big bore that is to tap the Expansion vein at depth of 800 feet is now in over 100 feet. Water is now showing in the breast of the bore and it is expected that good flow will soon be encoun- tered. Mir. Wells believes the con- pany has splendid property and that the drift ought to prove it up.
 A great deal of teaming is being done out of Yucca to the big McCrack- en camp. The company is sending in supplies in car lots besides building material and mine timbers. It is ex- pected that the camp will soon con- tain several hundred people and take on a boom that will outshine anything on the coast. The mine is there and the people back of the enterprise have the necessary capital to put the prop @ 'ty on it's feet.
 O. F.. Kuencer came in from his home in Pasadena last Sunday to meet a party of stockholders in the Golden Gem mining company. Monday J. w.. Moore also arrived from Pasadena and with the party visited the mines at Cerbat. It is understood that the visit was for the purpose of getting a line on what was necessary for future development of the Gem mine, and that an agreement was reached whereby the main shaft will be sunk 200 feet deeper and the mine opened up on the 600. The mine has been a big producer of gold, T. L. Az CTS hav- ing taken from above the 300 more than 200,O0O$.
 Theron H. Tracy, president of the Tracy Engineering Company, was in Kingman Thursday last, accompanied by F. E. Monteverde, of the Desert Power and Water company, and Lucian Eaves, a wealthy mining engi- neer, now of Los Angeles, but recently of Montana. Mir. Tracy made an ex- animation of progress of the power plant and departed to his home the same exening, while Messrs. Eaves and Monteverde remained over and