Mohave County miner., 1909-09-18

1eSJeTudy, III hinRtndu, IHere wa
 born to the wife of L. M. Harris, O
 Blackberry, baby girl. Mother ant
 child are getting along nicely.
 F. H. Crafts, of Chloride, who wa.
 in Kingman this week to meet his
 partner and attend to business affairs
 returned home few days ago.
 There will be dance at Elks Hal
 next Saturday evening for the benefi, of the Kingman band. Everybody is
 invited, and all should help along this
 worthy cause.
 The big mill of the Gold Road M. &
 k. Company is fast approaching com. pletion and it is expected to be put ir commission within forty-tive days.
 P. McCardell, the we'll known min. ing engineer and deputy mineral sur. veyor, has gone to Mineral Park to establish the lines of some mining properties.
 Goodrich and Cargentar are still getting rich ore from their mine un- der the lava capped mountains above the Tom Reed mines. Some of the ore runs away up in the hundreds of dollars to the ton.
 Mrs. Rabcock and daughter return ed from Denver last Thursday morn- ing and will go to Goldroad, where she will teach school. Mrs. Babcock is sister of E. A. Shaw of Kingman, and is very popular with the people of Goldroad, where she has taught the public school the past several terms.
 T. E. O'Brien this week removed his family from Cerbat to Kingman, wh gre the children will have school advantages. Mr. O'Brien mas been at work on the New York and Bunker Hill mines, at Cerbat, the past six months and believes he has one of the best properties in that section.
 J. M. Ford and family of Garrett, Oklahoma, arrived in Kingman few days ago for visit with Sheriff Wal ter Brown, brother of Mrs. Ford. MT. Ford is wealthy cattleman, and with his wife and children has been visiting Pacific coast watering places on A nleasure trin
 The Carter Gold Mines company has it's shaft down 160 feet and has started the drifts. A crosscut will be run across the vein and the drifts run en- tirely in the ore body. The showing is good throughout the shaft and some- thing big is expected when the drifts reach the main ore body.
 John Penberthy and Tom Murphy returned this week from Wallapai mountain, where they completed the assessment work on the Amer ican Flag mine. They report having been caught in one of the severest rain storms it had ever been their luck to encounter, while moving their supplies over the along about the first of the month. Wheeler's wash is running bank full and all the other ravines of the mountain are carrying a great volume of water. The grass is more luxurient than ever before known throughout the mountains and on the foothills of the range.
 Last Sunday party of mining men who had been making an examination of the McCracken group of mines, re- turned to Yucca and departed to Los Angeles. It is understood that the whole party was enthusiastic over the immense possibilities of the mines and that favorable report will be made. Many checking samples were taken from the openings, for the purpose of checking out the original report on the ore bodies available for stoping in the old stopes of the mines, and as soon as these samples have been as- saved and the report made to the par ties now having the financing of the scheme in hand, the money will be placed in the bank to cover the imme- diate expenditures and work will be started up at once. The McCracken is one of the great properties of Ari- zona and its immense ore bodies have been practically untouched, although it has produced about 4,OO0,OOOS to date. With the Godbe's in charge of the mines work will be carried on systematically and at pace that vii