Mohave County miner., 1909-12-04

D. B. Ocheltree, of Los Angeles, is
 visiting with his brother, Rev. J. M.
 Ocheltree.
 Mrs. J. F. K. Fancher, of the Sandy
 country, is visiting relatives and
 friends in Kingman.
 H. N. Tracey, president of the Tracy
 Engineering Company, accompanied
 by F. A. Wilde, of Milwaukee, were
 in Kingman this week and visited the
 surrounding points of interest. Mr..
 Tracy believes that the Bi-Metal mines
 are among the greatest gold properties on earth, and Mr. Tracy knows some- thing of the big mines.
 John Rielly, better known as
 "Sport", was brought in from Stock ton Hill this week seriously ill. Mr. Rielly was suffering from kidney and stomach trouble the past several months and the first of the week his illness took an acute form and it was thought hest to take him to town for medical eatment. He is now getting along nicely.
 E. B. VanDeman came in from Los Angeles few days ago and left today for the Mccall mine, in Weaver dis trict, which his company recently pur- 0haSnH A hniStnp is tO ho nInnnI the property at once, the machinery having been shipped to the mines. After the first of the year the company will map out large developments on these mines, shaft to be sunk 800 feet being the principal development
 William Cole, one of the discoverers, with Peter Caffery, of the Alpl mine, and who was a resident of this county in the early eighties, arrived here from Alaska last Wednesday night. Mr. Cole left here about twenty-two years ago and has been in all the big camps of the north ever since. But the lure of the desert called him back and it is probable that he will remain here the balance of his life.
 w. K. Frazier, of Deadwood, S. D, this week is reported to have closed a deal by which he and associates take | over the Golden Gem and other mines at Cerbat. W. H. Bradley, of Chi> cago, E. A. Blanton, of Philadelphia, and A. M. Masters, of Jacksonville, Ill.,, have been looking the properties over with Mr. Frazier and appear to be well pleased with conditions and of the properties The mines will be worked by these gentle men on large scale.
 Three of the principal shareholders of the Frisco Power and Mining con- pany arrived from New York last | night and departed to the Gold Crown mines, at Union Pass this morning. | These min es have been under active | oper ation the past several months under the management of Superin- tendent Barton. A drift has been driven several hundred feet to tap the vein at a depth of about 300 feet below the apex of the butte. Good ore has been opened on the property in a of places, some of which can readily be shipped to mills for treat ment, while the veins are of immense | size. o. D. M. Gaddis, of Kingman, is the principal owner of the property | and lirge shareholder in the con- pany.
 That the United States land office intends to inforce its rule that no lands in the mineral zones of the | country shall he patented unless show ing mineral in place, is evident by the suits brought against Smith and Hov- land and the Warren Townsite con- pany, at Bisbee, where the govern ment is seeking to set aside the D t. enJs heretofore issued to large | tract of supposed mineral lands in and around the great mining camp of Bisbee. It is understood that little if any of the lands have mineral show ing, except lime outcrop and that real ly little of it is being used for mining purposes. The townsite company has been putting its surface ground on the market for it's reality values and no attempt has ever been made to mine the ground. If the patents to