Mohave County miner., 1909-02-13
Mines of the County


 section the first of the week to make an examination of mining property. He reports much activity in that sec tion and believes it will be one of the greatest gold belts in the territory.
 The Golden Gem mine is now in a fair way to make a record for itself during the year 1909. The showing of ore in the propery is the best ever opened and the results in the mill are exceptionally good.
 General Manager L. Hoffman, of the Arizona Southwestern Copper con- pany returned last night from the mines at Copperville. The main shaft on the property is being sunk below the old level and is getting big flow uf water. The indications for a big copper body is good everything point ing to the cutting of.the ore at the 400 station level.
 George Klemp is in from the Sum- init mine, near LayDe Springs. He reports progress on the tunnel that Is being driven into the mountain to tap the big vein, although the breast is now in very hard rock. This tunnel will tap the Summit vein at depth of about 800 feet and is expected to open up a great body of ore.
 Charles J. Hutchison, general mana ger of the Expansion Gold Mines com pany, returned from Los Angeles a few days ago, having made arrange ments for all necessary machinery for the milling plant to be erected at once at the mines. The machinery was shipped from Los Angeles before he left the city and it is expected in Kingman within few days.
 c. Ross is crosscutting the ve n in the New York mine, at Stockton Hill, at the breast of the 200 foot tunnel. Report from there yesterday stated that the vein was showing up with a big ore body and that mornings made from the ore ran well up in gold. The vein is one of the best in the Stockton Hill section, carrying ore more than 5000 feet in the outcrop of the vein. A great deal of work has been done on the mine, but no ore has yet been blocked out. The values run princi- pally in gold, although some silver, copper and lead is present.
 This week at Prescott, before Judge Sloan, the famous Blue Ridge-Tom Reed mining case was threshed out again. The defendant company moved to dissolve the injunction recently is sled by Court Commissioner Smith and the motion prevailed, although many of the issues in dispute were fin ally determined. T. E. McClelland, of Kingman, and ex-governor Charles S. Thomas, of Colorado, appeared for the Blue Ridge people and Norris & Ross for defendants. Upon amendment of the complaint along the lines laid down by the court another clash will take place.
 James Jackman, James Poison and Thomas Sickles have gone to their mining claims on the east side of the Wallapai mountains. Mir. Poison has splendid showing of ore in claim near the head of Round Valley. Mr. Jackson has a big vein of lead ore far ther to the south, in the same part of the range. The ore bodies along the foothills of the east side of the Walla- pal mountains are large and carry good values in gold, silver and lead, but their distance from the railroad at the present time leaves little for the miner after the expense of marketing opment of the mines it is expected that cheaper transportation will come and the mines put on pay basis.
 Thomas Hogan came in from his Thumb Butte group of mines last Sat- urday evening and brought with him some specimens of a new strike made a few days before on the Atlantic claim. He and partners have been running an adit drift on the vein and have opened up three feet of ore that runs very high in gold. This. strike was made in a new place and gives great value to the property. Several other oper. ings show ore values, but none so good as this. With Mr. Hogan is interest ed Supervisor J. c. Potts and L. Kim merly. The owners have done a large