Mohave County miner., 1909-05-29
The mill of the Grand Boy mine, at Chloride is almost cOmnleted

Walter c. Fellows, who has been in charge of the interests of the Victor Gold Mines company. is now at Van derbilt sampling out the mines of the
 Greene Campbell estate and the Gold
 Bronze mine, owned by J. M. Hale, of
 Los Angeles. These mines lie close in and around Vanderbilt and are we'll situated for economical mining. Should the properties be taken over
 by the company electricity will be transmitted from the Needles plant to the mines and line will probably be run into Searchlight, where the mines are badly in need of electric power.
 F. B. F. Rhodes, representing the United States Zinc company, of Pueblo, Colorado, went out to the Golconda mine Thursday in company of general manager John Boyle, Jr. Mir. Rhodes is purchasing low grade mine products for his plant, which is intended to treat ores that cannot be handled in the smelters. These complex ores, carrying lead, zinc, iron, copper, gold and silver, are specially treated, mak- ing separate products of the metals, which are later sold to the smelters or treated at the plant. Thus a ore that cannot now be shipped is bought up by this company and made market able by treatment.
 The three-compartment shaft on the Enterprise mine, in the Wallapai mountains is being pushed down as fast as possible from the two hundred foot level. Superintendent w. J. Martin is enthusiastic over prospects of the mine and will get the shaft down to the four hundred level and then cross-cut to the vein. At the two hundred the vein is p feet wide and highly mineralized throughout, cop- per, in the form of chalco pyrite, pre- dominating. The Enterprise vein is traceable for half mile either way from the main shaft without a break. In many places leadsilver ore is found in the out-crop and In the past much of this grade of ore was mined and shipped. It was left for the present company, which came into possession of the property some years ago, to sink and determine that the lead gave way to copper with depth.
 T. R. Garnier, of Los Angeles, came in from that city last Monday and yes terday went out to the mines of his company at Cerba;, where he met R. A. Dooly, of Goldfield, who looked over the St. Louis group with view to taking it over. Mr. Dooly is big operator of the Goldfield coun- try and he and partners are looking over the country with view to ex- tending their operations. He was we'll pleased with the looks of Cerbat and may conclude to invest. The St. Louis mine is one of the best of the lead mines of the Cerbat section, car rying as it does the richest galena ores, some of which run high in gold and silver. A great deal of work has been done on the mines, but so far no machinery has been put in, the devel- opment being entirely through adit drifts. Should the new people take over the property heavy machinery will be put on and the mines opened at great depth.
 J. F. Walker, who came up last week from the Palo Verde country, re- ports that many people have gone in there the past six months and were pushing work on the big levee and ca nal, which is intended to protect that part of the country from the encroacI ment of the Colorado river and supply the ranches with water for irrigation. In some parts of the colonized section water is but few feet below the sur face and it is possible that system of drainage will have to be put in. The lands formerly belonged to the Thomas Blythe estate. The greater part of the Blythe lands are subject to the annual overflow of the river and it is probable that this year will see a large area covered by overflow. The nature of the country will make it rather hard to buck the river, as the whole coun- try is saturated and as the river rises