Mohave County miner., 1909-10-02

ported that he and associates, (who are generally supposed to be Count Lasco Szechenyl and the Vanderbilts), were at work on a project that con- templated the damming of the Colo rade river somewhere in Black Can yon, for power purposes. Power from this dam is to be distributed to Gold field, Tonopah, Los Angeles and Southern California points, and many points in Arizona. The Count claims that the situation has been carefully canvassed and that there is nothing that can interfere with the carrying out of the project. Undoubtedly the people back of this great project have the money, but there are other consi- derations that the projectors have overlooked, and the main and only necessary one to mention is the gov ernment. The Colorado river is one of the pet project propositions of the geological survey, and the Grand and Black canyons have been looked upon with great deal of interest on &C., count of the illimitable power possibil- ities on which to found one of the greatest irrigation projects in the world. It is not possible that the re- clamation service will allow individual interests to take up work that was mapped out by the project engineers years ago and nullify the work already done in paving the way for large ap- propriation of money by congress for this great work. The mere locating of sites along the Colorado river gives the locators no right to construct dams across that great waterway, and in fact Ghis work can only be done by and with the consent of congress and ap- proved by the geological survey. The reclamation service has been given unlimited power in the closing of the great waterways of the country to the use of private enterprise, and the Col orado river comes under the direct control of this branch of the govern ment.
 John Boyle, Jr., and c. c. Fast have organized the Century Mining con- pany, with a capitalization of one mil lion one dollar shares, for the pur- pose of taking over and exploiting the Pinkham mine, near Chloride. The mine has considerable development work, done some years ago, and shows a very large body of copper bearing ore. With greater depth the mine is safe for large output, the nature of the vein assuring one of the largest ore bodies in the county. Thousands of tons of ore was shipped from the property to the shelter by the Schee Brothers, owners of the mines at the time.
 Leavious Lamping, a miner of Chlo- ride, aged about 79 years, was brought in from that place last Tuesday and had an examination before Probate Judge L. M. Teale and Drs. A. M. Cowie and J. R. Whiteside and ad- judged insane. Deputy Sheriff J. P. Gideon took the unfortunate man to Phenix the following day and placed him in the asylum. Lamping had been a resident of Mohave county the past fifteen or twenty years and was an inoffensive fellow. The past year he has been showing evidences of in- sanity, which culminated in charges being made by the people living in his vicinity.
 Zinc is still climbing upward, the latest quotation being at from 5.7O to 5.9O. This is the highest quotation since the slump in the metals two years ago. The zinc mines of this county are sure to get the benefit of much higher prices before the year is out. At the present time no Mexican zinc is coming into the American mar ket, on account of the heavy tariff tax imposed
 Local nimrods will remember that on the l5 of this month the season for quail opens. It is said that quail are plentiful throughout the county and the hunters will be able to get good bags at any point. But these same nimrods will please to remember that they cannot take more than twenty-five quail in any one day, un- der penalty from one dollar to one l hundred dollars.