Arizona republican., 1909-10-19
NEW REDUCTION PLANT
 OF GOLD ROAD MINE
The Application of Electric Power to
 the Works.


 Correspondence of The Republican, | At the new Gold Road mill the last ] classifier is in place and yesterday evening Superintendent Dan Bosqui threw in the switch which started the big plant on it's long grind. MT Bosqui, who is one of the best cya- hide men in the country, designed the 1 entire works and the result is mod- ern mill complete m every way. whifh with forty stamps, two tube mills, Butters vacuum filters and cy- anide plant will treat from 200 to 25O l tons of ore daily.
 The Gold Road mine. which today Is probably the foremost gold mire !n Arizona, has had an unusually in teresting career and has been the ii- rect cause of the rise of e, number of men in this county. It was lo- cated by a Mexican prospector named Jerez in May, 1900. nearly forty years after the first discovery of gold in Mohave county by Capt Moss at point now known as the Moss mine and only four ,.I $ away. As has so often happened in big finds, this one was purely accidental. Just like Jim Buffers Tonopah eX- perience. it was a case of a straying "sad-eyed' burro. That of Jerez led its owner to the Gold Road ledge. where the subsequent location work of two ten foot holes yielded $500. exposed fifteen feet of S20 ore and resulted in the sale of the prospect for s50.000
 The new owners started sinking and the ore gave out at once. in fact in the next foot The following 100 feet proved barren, but from this point to the 300 foot level there was developed a large body of fine milling ore. and in 1902 the mine was again sold for s250.O00. With the erection of mill and cyanide plant the pro duction under the direction of s. R Porter of Los Angeles amounted to nearly s3.OOO.OOO in 1907 when the charge.
 Since that time the latter has de- veloped a new ore shoot a little over 1000 feet long and averaging ten feet in width. The maximum depth of the mine is 500 feet and the total workings of $500 feet show about $4. 900. 900 of free milling ore averag- ing SIP per ton, highly oxidized and easily cyanided. The electric motive power now in use and coming from the Kingman plant Is 50 per cent cheaper than the former steam and gasoline power. It is expected that the old mill record of Si5,000 cleanup in d run of fifteen days will soon be ecIipsed under present conditions.
 F. A Keith. former manager of the Tonopah Mining company of Nevada. and now one of John Hays Hammond's engineers. returned from the Tom Reed mine a few days ago. He stated that he was very much property in which MT. Hammond now owns substantial interest. and that he and the latter would return to Kingman in six weeks for examination of the Bi Metal and other mines in the county.
 At the Bi Metal mine, which Mir. Hammond visited a few weeks ago. a corps of engineers headed by Fran cis E. Young of Boston are taking exhaustive samples. In addition J. F. Berry, former United States geologist is looking into the geology of this and other mines of the county. All the above work is by order of MT. Hammond
 Newton Evans. first vice president and manager of the Evans Mines and Shelter company. will construct railroad between the McCracken mine and the terminal of the Swansea road, a distance of eighteen miles. The material to be used in this work is the track of the old MohaVe and Milltown railroad running be- tween Vivian and the Colorado river. The great floods of the Colorado each year have long ago caused the abandonment of the latter. and NIT. Evans came up to arrange for the immediate removal of track and ties. The Evans road is intended primarily to transport the output of the Me Cracken mine, where there are over 5000. 900 tons of milling ore in sight. but it is sure to draw on other mines, which have been forced to idleness for want of cheap transportation.