Mohave County miner., 1909-05-22
Mines of the County


 first of the week and departed for Cal ifornia Thursday evening.
 A. w. Bratland has graded out for the mill, which is soon to be erected on his mining property in the Silver Creek section of San Francisco district The mine is said to show fine body of excellent ore.
 Chas. Warner and wife came in from their mining properties in the Cheme- huevis mountains, where they have been spending the winter, last We'd nesday and departed to Denver for the summer months.
 The Colorado River Land and Dredging company is securing large quantities of land along the Colorado river on the Arizona side, which will be later worked over with the big dredge. The plant is now almost makes it impossible to begin opera tions and it may be as late as August before active work can be begun.
 The Union Basin mining company is now shipping a carload of ore daily to the smelters. Heretofore the com pany had been unable to get the ore 10 the railroad owing to shortage of teams, but now this has been remedied and big tonnage shipped out. It is expected that one thousand tons of ore will go out from the mines to the shelter this month. Mir. Boyle is get make big output, drifts being run off on the vein, shaft sinking below the old level and new ore being open ed throughout the property.
 R. J. Holmes, the well known min ing man of Silver Creek, passed through Kingman Saturday last on his way to Fresno, where he will visit a few days. Mr. Holmes has been get ting his mines in the Silver Creek sec
 
 several years and now has some of the most promising properties in the San Francisco district. He is part owner of the Gold Key mine, now being op- erated by the Orion Gold Mines com pany, which recently made such phenominal strike of 7, gold ore below the 200 level.
 O. F. Kuencer, general manager of the Golden Star mining company, was in from Cerbat last Tuesday and Wed- nesday attending to business for his company. He says that milling opera tions are somewhat hampered at the Gem by the coating of the plates with sulphuric solution contained in the mine water. All efforts to neutralize the action of the water has so far been unavailing. Samples of the water have been sent to eastern chemists and as soon as analysis have been made an effort will be made to counteract the sulpuric action to an extent that it will not materially interfere with the plating of the free gold contained in the ore. The mine has thousands of tons of ore blocked out and opened in the stopes of the mine.
 E. A. Shaw came in from Oatman a few days ago and is enthusiastic over the outlook for boom in Carter Gold Mines shares. At Oatman the en- ployes of the Tom Reed properties subscribed for nearly 3,OOO$ worth of the shares the first day and more money is coming in from that camp every day At Gold Road many peo. pie have arranged for the purchase of several thousand dollars worth of the shares and Kingman has taken a large amount. Mr. Carter now has sufficient funds on hand to begin active develop ment on the properties, erecting hois- ter, pumps and necessary buildings for the men. He is also assured of a steady flow of money into the treasury, every- body who knows the mines being anx- lous to get in on the ground floor. It is probable that the first, allotment of shares will be taken before the first of the month, after which time the price will be advanced. No more stock than Is actually necessary to put the mines in shape, will be put on the market. the management relying on the rich ores now in sight to carry on future work. The shaft is now down ninety feet all in rich millinr ora Tho,o |;