Mohave County miner., 1909-03-06
Mines of the County

Dudek and Sperl, of the big tung-
stem mines, east of Yucca, were in
Kingman this week on business.
NJ. o. Johnson, of Los Angeles, has
been looking over the Expansion mines.
He came in to Kingman Thursday last
and is getting acquainted with the
good people of the town.
The Golconda mine is shipping large
tonnage of zinc ores to the smelter and
the mine is showing better ore bodies
with every foot of development. In
the Wine from the 100 level there is
three feet of clean zinc ore running
above fifty per cent.
Morgan Jones and brothers have
taken lease on the Treasure Hill
mine and is putting a within on the old
shaft preparatory to beginning work.
The mine has produced some of the
richest ore ever taken from a property
in that section and the boys expect to
get more of it with depth.
S. r. Porter, accom- panied by W. A.
Parish, the well known mining en-
gineer of Denver, visited the Red Gap
mines this week and it is understood
that Mr.. Parish made an examination
of the property in the interest of his
company. The Red Gap has been
opened to quite a depth and at all
points shows a remarkable body of ore,
rich in quality and of great size.
F. J. Prior, vice president of the
World Railway Publishing company,
of Chicago, accompanied by Mr.. Dur
bar, of the Santa Fe railroad, wei e
visitors at this office last Tuesday.
The gentlemen departed the same day
to Chloride, where they made an ex-
animation of the mines owned by w.
F. Crafts. 1t is understood that a deal
was entered into by which Messrs.
Prior and Dunbar take over the mines
and are to at once organize a mining
company for their exploitation. Mr.
Crafts has been at work on the prop
erty the past three years and has a
large amount of development done on
them. The showing is good, the ores
carrying values in gold, silver and
lead.
Carload after carload of lumber and
machinery are being received daily
for the Tom Reed Gold company and
is being hauled out to the camp. The
company is getting things in shape for
active campaign of development on the
mines, the main shaft now being
driven downward as fast as possible.
The big compressor was hauled out
last week and will be gotten in place
right away. 1t will handle eighteen
drills and will enable the work of ex-
ploration to be handled in a more eco
monica manner in future. The mill
has been run past week on rich
ore and the bullion product is sure to
be large. Last week a 25,0O0S bar of
bullion was brought in om the mill
10y Burt Lunceford, who as charge of
the plant.
General manager o. F. Kuencer, If
the Golde Star mi ing company, was
in Kingmal a few days tn week and
report that work of fitting is going
steadily on in the lower levels of the
Golden Gem mine. The bodies on
that level are showing up wonderfully
we'll. Lack of water prevents the run
ming of the mill, but it is expected
that this will be remedied when a
crosscut is run through the big dyke to
the east of the Gem vein. Crosscuts are
t. be driven to the other veins to the
west, also, where more water will I'M
dOubtedly lie ut, as well as opening
up some fine odies of ore. So far the
mine has exceeded all expectation in
the matter of ore and with a supply of
water the company can soon be turn
ing out bullion and concentrates.
The Arizona Gold Mines company
has its well down nearly sixty feet and
has been in water the past ten feet.
The flow appears to be increasing rap
idly and the hope is expressed that a
supply sufficient for all demands will
be opened up. A forty horse power
boiler, holster and steam pumps have
been put in and the work of sinking
this water shaft will be continued for
some time. As soon as the shaft
has been completed the holster, boiler
and pump will be taken to the BIZ
Metal mine and placed at the shaft,
where sinking will he cnmmancad IL