Arizona republican., 1909-10-12
A GOLD PRODUCER
THE TOM REED MINE
The End of Litigation Leaves the
Way Open for Extensive
Operations.

| Kingman, AriZ., Oct ESPECIAL
! Correspondence of The Republican,
{ The big Blue Ridge-Tom Reed liti-
CATION is ended and +. A. Keith, for
! mer manager of the Tonopah Min
| ing company, is making an examina-
ton of the property presumably for
John Hays Hammond, who visited
this county a few weeks ago when
he examined the Ri Metal mine Mr.
| Hammond and one of his engineers
j. II. Hobbs, effected an agreement
between the warning companies,
whereby judgment was entered by the
court at Phoenix a few days ago for
the defendant, the Tom Reed COM
pany, and the suit dismissed
Certain stockholders of the Blue
Ridge, which was the name of the
| old company operating the mine now
so valuable. have been suing the
directors of the Tom Reed. the new
company, who were also directors of
the old company. for title to the
property. Final terms were agreed
upon yesterday and the above en-
tered. thus ending what threatened to
become one of the most expensive
lawsuits in the mining history of
Molmve county. This settlement real
ly means a great deal TO the whole
San Francisco district for although
the Tom Reed has never suspended
active work, its management natural
ly became backward about giving out
the true state of the mine. and in
this way the litigation retarded the
class OF development which the dis
trict merits.
r.lx- history Of r,fpa
which today is crowding the famous
Gold Roads mine as the biggest gold
mine in Arizona. is typical of most of
the mines of its district For three
years il was worked in a half-hearted
way by three different companies.
and because the mine was not
-grass-root' producer. its future
looked rather dubious until the pres
ent management took hold two years
ago. Under the direction of Superin-
tendent S. 5. Jones systematic devel-
opment was at once started. and from
the time that ore was found 800 feet
east of the old working shaft at
depth of $50 feet the output OF the
mine has continued unbroken.
To date the new work consisting
of a $50 foot shaft and about $500
feet of drifts and cross cuts have
proved an ore body about 500 feet
long and from five TO twenty feet
wide with a fair average width of ten
feet. The conservative Mr.. Jones adj
mits that all the ore blocked out will
mill better than SO per ton. but it
is pretty well known that so far all
ore has milled better than s25 per
ton. At any rate a ten stamp mill
and cyanide plant, which recently
produced $4,000 in thirteen days
run, has turned out enough bullion in
little over year to pay for all the |
development work in the mine. for all /
the surface equipments of both mine
and mill, and several six per cent
dividends In addition.
The new sO-ton slime plant is near |
" finished, and will together with all |
mining machinery be operated by |
electricity from the Kingman plant |
The fact that title has been quoted |
and litigation ended will give further I
impetus to a district which is rapid
ly becoming the gold Mecca for min
ing men.
In the Carter mine. which adjoins
the Tom Reed, Manager Jim Cartes's
recent strike in a cross cut on the |
$50 foot level is holding out i'm great
style. He now has seven feet of free
ore that runs from $25 to $50
per ton, and is by no means through
the ore. What little stock was out
i'm this mine, of which Jim Carter
owns about 90 per cent, has long
since been gobbled up in the towns
of Kingman, Gold Roads and Oatman
of this county.
Aside from showing what the right
kind of development is doing in the
San Francisco district, this latest
find by Carter is especially important
in furnishing still further proof that
the theory of associating all gold ore
found in this district with one par
ticular kind of andesite is pure
Since the publication in 1907 Of
report on the geology of Mohave
county by p. c. Schrador. United
States geolOgist. most mining men
and prospectors here have believed
that in the entire River Range gold
could be found only in a green chlor-
itic andesito. AS a matter Of fact