Mohave County miner., 1909-04-24
Mines of the County

day for the purpose of holding meet
ing of that company. The sharehold-
ers are well represented at this meet
ing, there being present about a dozen
present from Pasadena, Cal, alone.
w. B. Ridenour was down from his
home in blackberry last Sunday. He
is arranging for the starting up of
work on the blackberry properties,
now under bond TO E. H. Howard, of
New York City. Mr.. Howard has
gone to the mines, where he expects
instructions from his company to be-
gin active developments.
H. N. Tracy, general manager of
the Tracy Engineering company, build
ers of the Kingman power plant, de-
parted to Los Angeles a few days ago.
He will return the first of the week
to look after matters of Importance
connected with the transmission of
power to Gold Road and other camps
in the Blue Ridge range.
H. Letter came in from the Pilgrim
mines, where he has been running the
holster for parties sampling the prop
erty. All sampling has been completed
and as soon as assays have been
checked up there will be something
doing at the camp. 1t is expected that
purity of capitalists will visit the
camp this week and make a thorough
investigation of the mines and arrange
for the starting up of work.
]. d. Leedy and c. II. Lamb, of Pas
adena, who have bond on the Rattan
and Ruth mines, in San Francisco dis
trict, arrived in Kingman from Pasa-
dena, Thursday and went out to the
mines. Eli Hilty is in charge of the
property for the parties working the
property and reports having a fine
showing of ore on the Ruth. A shaft
is being sunk on the mine and work is
progressing rapidly. A holster is soon
to be erected on the property.
A few days ago Henry Lovin receiv-
ed samples of ore from a new find in
the Weaver district, made by two men
whom he had staSed. The ore gave
results of IS per cent copper and 25S
gold to the ton. The boys report, d
that they had good showing of the
ore. The country in which the find
was made is one of the richest in the
whole river range, some of the best
gold and silver ore the county has
ever produced coming from that sec
tion.
Frank R. Sperl came in from Los
Angeles last Thursday night, having
been looking after mining matters in
the Golden State. He reports that in
coming in from his tungsten mines,
twelve miles east of Yucca, recently,
he discovered a vein of gold bearing
ore that gave results of about thirty
dollars to the ton. The vein is situated
within four miles of Yucca and is of
good size. He also reports that he
and partner have opened up a splen-
did showing of tungsten in their mines
and that party of capitalists is soon
to make an examination of them.
More freight is going out from King
man daily than for several years past.
Big teams are hauling to Goldroad and
Tom Reed large supplies for mines and
big machinery for mills and mines.
The big timbers for the Goldroad mill
are being assembled at the site of the
new plant and within a few weeks the
work of construction will be under way
with big force of men. AT the Tom
Reed new work is well under way and
it will be but a short time until pro-
duction of bullion will be greatly in
creased. The Expansion Gold Mines
company is getting its timber, ma
chinery and supplies from Union, a
station on the Western Railway of
Arizona, west of Kingman.
James F. Carter this week incorpor-
ated his mining property into the Car
ter Gold Mining & Milling Company,
with capitalization of l,OOO,OOOs The
mines are among the best properties
in the Tom Reed neighborhood, hav-
ing fine body of rich ore from the
outcrop to the bottom of a ninety foot
shaft. 1t is proposed at once to install
a holster on the property and sink to
depth of 300 feet. 1t was from this
shaft that much rich ore was taken
about year ago, some of it running
far into the thousands of dollars to the
ton. Mr.. Carter will have charge of
the property, which is an assurance