Mohave County miner., 1909-05-01
Mines of the County

The WOrK IS In cnarge or w. J. Mar tin, an excellent mine manager.
 E. M. Lamont, general manager of the Arizona Gold Mines company, ar rived in Kingman Wednesday evening last from New York, where he looked after business for his company.
 J. N. Star brought in some splendid ore from the neighborhood of Copper vile, this week. He says that he has a good showing of the the ore, which runs over 60 per cent lead and several hundred ounces silver to the ton, as well as over one ounce gold.
 Thursday evening J. A. Wood of Kansas City, and w. B. Ridenour of Blackberry, came down from the mines and have arranged for the sale of the old Blackberry properties to syndi- cate headed by Mr. Wood. Work is to be started up on the mines by the middle of May.
 E. H. Howard, of New York, who has been looking over the mines of the Cottonwood district, came down from Blackberry last night. He is interest ed with J. A. Wood in negotiating the purchase of the Blackberry mines, as well as the Copper Giant and other mines in Cottonwood district.
 Hirtwig A. Cohen, of San Francisco, examined the property of Thomas Shields on the east side of Wallapai mountain this week. Mir. Cohen was at one time in the service of Capt. De la Mar, and had charge of the Dela- mar mines, in Nevada, before their sale to the Bamberger interests.
 E. A. Shaw, who is the owner of a mining claim between the Carter mines, in the Tom Reed section, and the Hidden Treasure mines, has re- ceived word that a strike of rich ore was made on the property this week by leasers. The ore is said to run away up in the hundreds of dollars to the ton in gold.
 Splendid ore has been encountered in the shaft of the Redemption copper mine, at Chloride. The mine is being operated by force of men and good headway is being made in shaft sink ing. A milling plant is to be put in at once and the lower grade ores from the old works is to be milled and con- centrated.
 The month of April was one of the best in the history of the Union Basin Mining company, the output of the Golconda mine being nearly double that of any other month in ity history. Six hundred tons of zinc ore was ship ped to the shelter, besides hundreds of second class going into the dumps. The mine is showing wonderful bodies of the heavy zinc and development is being carried into new ground that is giving results in lead and copper.
 Messrs. Anderson and Howit, New York mining engineers, are sampling the mines of the Arizona Mexican Min ing x Smelling company, both at Ger bat and Stockton Hill. It is under- stood that if these properties stand the examination they will be taken over by big consolidation of the mines of Stockton Hill and operated by one company. The new company to take over the mines has been organized with capitalization of 1,OOO, ,OOOS.
 At the meeting of the stockholders of the Tom Reed Gold Mines Company, held in Kingman last week the follow ing named stockholders were elected: Charles Grimes, D. A. Davis, Charles Mushrush, N. T. Lawrence, w. c. Ma son, D. T. Reed, c. M. Simpson, all of Pasadena. Col. l.. P. Hanson. who financed the company year ago, was turned down as director of the con- pany, but the reason thereof is not apparent. There was nearly 100000 shares of stock represented at the meeting.
 l.. w. Johnson, who spent several days this week at Goldroad and Oat- min, reports that section of the county very lively, there being big forces of men employed in erecting new mills, opening mines and getting ready for one of the most active seasons work in years. The people of that section