Mohave County miner., 1909-11-27

| The big shaft on the Horseshoe mine, at Cerbat, has reached depth of 300 feet, at which point station is being cut and drifting to the other veins of the property commenced. | There are three veins in the location and all of them will be entered by the crosscut. One of the veins has width of eight feet, while the others run in size from two to four feet, all carrying good milling values in gold.
 Henry Harding, who has been working at the Cyclopic mines the past two months, arrived in Kingman Tuesday night. He reports that in one of the shallow shafts on the Cyclopic five feet of very rich ore was recently encountered and is now being sunk on This ore runs from sos to 100$ to the ton. $. c. Bagg and Robert Jacobson have been exploit ing this property the past two years and have made wonderful showing of ore throughout the property. With proper facilities for the treat ment of a large tonnage of ore and deep working of the mine it will be one of the largest gold producers in the territory.
 Arthur K. Adams, mineral inspector for the General Land Office, is now inspecting miniug claims for which application for patent was recently made in this county. It will probably take him two weeks to cover the diff ferent properties and formulate his re- port. For year or two the depart ment has been looking closely into the application for patent to mineral ground in the other sections of the country, but so far Mr. Adams is the first one to be sent into the Arizona field. Under rulings of the department all claims to which patent will issue must show a mineralized vein in place, | and unless all properties are contigu- ous the necessary amount of work to entitle the property to patent will have to be done on each claim of the group. We believe that the construction of ''contiguity" is not as broad as mining men would wish to have it, but simply applies to an ore body or vein of simi- lar ore bearing character extending from one location to the other, and not simply that they are tied together by side or end lines. This is largely in accordance with the rule laid down by many of the supreme courts of the mining states.
 John Hays Hammond is due to ar rive in Kingman today for the pur- pose of closing up the deal on the Bi- Metal mines, three miles south of Kingnan. It is reported that Messrs. Spurr and Young, who have been op- erating the mill with view to getting a milling average of the ore found that while the average of the ore for nearly a month gave 1928 in gold, the last few days run ran up to S$. A drift in the vein encountered streak of ore last week that gave an average of more than COOS gold to the ton. Spec linens of this ore were exhibited in Kingman and show much free gold With the taking over of the mines by the Hammond interests it is probable that great milling plant will at once be put in. A contract is to be let at once for the drilling of the entire mass to ascertain just how deep the oxi- dized zone extends. These drill bores will also give some idea of the amount of water that can be depended on in the mine and the values contained in the entire mass, the holes being bored twenty feet apart for distance of 100 square feet in the center of the great deposit. Sampling of the surface of the great mass show it to be more than 800 feet wide and over 75O feet in length, where it disappears under the escarpment of the volcanic rim. Fol lowing the drilling of this area either an incline will be run into the deposit or large shaft sunk to depth that will allow of a double cage compart- ment, or the working of the mine by the caving system.