Mohave County miner., 1909-11-20
Mines of the County

The Carter Gold mines company has let a contract to sink the shaft on the property another one hundred feet. The drifts run from lt,t present level of l60 feet show splendid ore b, dies, ctrrying big milling values in gold. Superintendent Carter will sink anoth- CT shaft at once on an Outcropping on another vein in the group on which good ore was recently discovered.
 l.. G. Burton, of the Utah Arizona G. x C. company, returned to his home in Salt Lake early this week from visit to the company's property in Weaver district. This property was acquired about year ago from John Kemple and since that time the company has been at work on develop ment. A small mill was put in, but lack of a large water supply has pre- vented the continuous operation of the plant, although the company is much better off in this regard than any of the other companies operating
 n the district. The work on the mines s far has not been carried on with much purpose, but Mir. Burton has given out that the company now in- lends to sink to a great depth on the most promising mine of the group and through this shaft open the other veins. The surface ores on nearly all the veins show good gold values. -..
 In doing the annual assessment work on their mining claims on the great vein that runs through IXL Basin, w. A. Studley and Ed. Swope opened twelve inch streak of ore that gave values of over 40$ in gold and silver and twenty per cent copper. The vein is one of the largest in the county, being about three hundred feet between walls. This great vein is located for a distance of several miles, and forms the great porphyritic dike at the lower end of Mineral Park basin, now being worked for its tur- quoise. Messrs. Studley and Swope own five claims on this great vein, Smith, Sawyer and Co. two claims, Charles Sherman one, while through Mineral Park there are many others. The south end of the vein runs below hat is rnn I l,t several locations have been made on it. Throughout the entire length of the vein it is highly mineralized and will undoubtedly become large producer of gold, silver, lead and copper.
 Dr. L. D. Godshall has gone to San Francisco for a conference with his associates in the big mining merger that is to take place at Stockton Hill. It is understood that the first import ant work on the merged properties will be commenced on the first of Jan uary and that thereafter three big ex- ploration shafts will be sunk on the Cupel, De la Fountaine and Star Span- gled Banner mines. The three mines will be explored thoroughly to that depth and if they prove up as expected the company will probably commence the construction of the long tunnel that is to drain the whole Stockton Hill area. By means of this tunnel every vein in the Stockton Hill section will be unwatered and where there are but few men at work at the present time thousands will be enabled to work on good ore. The mines of Stockton Hill have produced more ore than any one camp of the county, when values are taken into consideration, and yet tbe ore bodies have been opened in the deepest place to only 400 feet on the dip of the veins. Among these big producers are the c. O. D., over l,000,- 0O0$; Cupel, over 800, ,O0O$; Sixty-three, O,O0O$; Moonbeam (Robbin Hood) 150,OOOS; Star Spangled Banner 5OO,- O00S and two dozen others from 50, ,000$ to l00,O00S each. Across the mountain from Stockton Hill are Union, Todd, | and Layne Springs Basins, with a great record for production of gold and silver. The driving of the big4 bore would accelerate development of these mines, and especially those lying high up on the mountain side. At present there is much activity in Un- ion opl Todd poe;ae hut ,,lo.o