Mohave County miner., 1908-05-23
Mines of the County

"oi hihS ioi>S oi uiSh oii piuU property, opening up new shaft.
 Sinking on the Victor property is being pushed, the big shaft going down at the rate of about four feet daily. It is expected to complete the big shaft to the 800 level by the first of August.
 J. c. Potts came up from the Golden Glance mining claims, in the Thumb Butte section, last Saturday. He re- ports the mines looking exceptionally well and soon expects them to be op- erated on large scale.
 Will P. Carr, formerly of Cedar, is to superintend the new mill of the Orange Blossom Extension company, near Danby, Cal. Mr. Carr was mill. man at the mill of the Benedictine mining company, at Cedar, and is said to be well up in the details of mill work.
 At the Tom Reed mine force of thirty men are now at work and big tonnage of ore is being turned out daily. The ten stamp mill is crushing about two tons to the stamp and get ting good results. Bullion is shipped every ten days to the company's office in Pasadena.
 H. Hoffman returned few days ago from the mines of the Arizona South western mining company, in the Crow Canyon section of the Cedar mining district. He reports work on the mines progressing nicely and that the mines are improving with every foot of work
 Water has been pumped from the Holy Moses mining claim, in the Gold Flat region, and the property sampled. If the samples run as high as expected the property will be taken over by a strong company and worked. Recent mill run of the mine showed values of better than 40$ to the ton in gold.
 Two of the turquoise properties at Mineral Park are now being worked by the companies owning them. It is expected that the Aztec Turquoise company will soon start up work on its property, which has been one of the most consistent shipper of gem stones in the United States.
 w. A. Studley visited Gold Flat this week and reports that very rich ore is being taken from the old Fay mine, now being operated by Col. James Morgan. A number of men are at work on this property and are opening it up below the old workings. The vein has increased in width and rich ness.
 Gustavus Sessinghaus and George F. Stanford came in from the Gro Plata mine Thursday last, having completed the work of sampling the upper works and dump of that property. They made some tests on the ore to ascer- tain method of treatment and car ried away with them number of sam- ples for future testing.
 w. H. Nelson, of Peach Springs, who has been at work on his '9S mine, in the Stockton Hill section, was in Kingman Wednesday last. He reports that the shaft on the property is all in ore of high grade. Specimens ex. hibited in Kingman show considerable copper and silver glance. The mine was worked by Col. Harley Fay and Frank l.. Smith in the early days and considerable ore was shipped from it.
 A force of men are being worked or the Golconda mine, in the Union Bas in section, by John Boyle, Jr., super intendent of the property. The mine was recently incorporated with a cap italization of 5OO,OOO shares, of the pal value of one dollar each. Recently g car shipment of the zinc ores was sent out to the smelters, which gave a re turn of better than fifty per cent zinc. Besides this class of ore there are bodies of gold, silver, lead ant copper.
 Capt. c. Taylor spent parts of Sat urday and Sunday in Goldroad. He reports mining in that section lookins up. At the Goldroad mines splendid