Mohave County miner., 1909-08-28
Mines of the County

sumed.
 John Boyle, Jr., has two men at work on the Pinkham mine, at Chlor- idle, and it is probable that larger force will be put to work within a short time.
 J. A. Elway has put force of men to work on the Gold Bar group of mines, at Cerbat. The properties are situated in the gold belt of the Cerbat camp and formerly produced consid- erable rich gold ore.
 J. D. Jordan has force of men at work on the Horseshoe mines, at Ger bat, on which property he has large contract, sinking shafts, drifting, crosscutting and other work. The work will take more than i've months to complete.
 Clark & Company are driving an adit drift to get under the ore body in the Tub mine, at Union Basin. They are making good headway and expect to get to the ore shortly. At present stringers of good ore are being encoun- tered in the breast of the drift.
 MT. McNies, superintendent of the Gold Cross mining company, is ex- pected at the mines in few days. It is expected that final payment will be made on the property at that time and that active work will be resumed on the mines. The Gold Cross is on the old San Francisco ledge and bas pro- duced some exceptionally rich ore.
 Dooley & Collins are running a cross cut on the St. Louis mine, at Cerbat, to tap vein of eighteen inches of heavy lead ore. They expect to reach the vein in about ten days. In the openings above the drift level the vein shows splendid body of lead, running high in silver and carrying some gold. The lessees know the business and are sure to make success of their venture.
 George Smith brought up some of the class of ore that made the "glory hole" the talk of the whole territory, but it did not "feaze" the knowing ones of Kingman, who are used to looking on the golden bricks that weigh into the thousands. Nuggets must be as big as goose eggs before the Kingman- ite will hit the trail for the new dig. gings.
 The Golconda mine has struck quantity of water in the shaft which is now down 360 feet. About 150 buckets are taken from the shaft every twenty four hours, which keeps the hoist man busily employed in bringing it and the forty tons of ore broken in the drifts and other openings to the surface Three shifts are worked in the shaft and good progress is made. When the 1885 level is reached it is purposed to drift and open new stopes. The ore body in the shaft never looked better and the grade of ore keeps well above fifty per cent zinc.
 E. l.. Hews is running dry washer, near the old Gross ranch, at Cerbat, and is getting some nice nuggets weighing from seventy-five cents to two dollars. Mir. Hews is working the ground in the red lands below the old arastra, where it appears quite bunch of gold lodged. The gold shows little wear, and it is evident that it came from the ledge from which rich float was found several years ago. The placer ground is on the property of the Orc Lava mining company, of which J. P. Ryan, of Cerbat, and H. E. Willsie, of New York, are the pro- moters.
 A strike of unusual proportion and great richness is reported from the big adit drift of the Expansion Gold Mines company, at Union Pass. Charles J. Hutchinson, superintendent of the prop erty, has been driving this drift the past year and has it far under the mountain on the vein. The ore en- 'countered shows big values throughout and much of it is a mass of free gold. The miners working in the property are much excited and are of the opin- ion that it is one of the greatest prop critics in the range. The Expansion vein is an immense one, being in places more than 100 feet wide. As it runs up the mountain two other veins enter