Mohave County miner., 1909-05-15

Kingman this week. He is opening up fine body of ore on the property, several hundred feet from the old works.
 S. c. Bagg is working the Cyclopic mine and getting splendid results. The mill has been turning out some nice bars of bullion since the first of the year, the cyanide tanks returning about ten dollars to the ton in gold savings.
 Hubert Smith was in from the Gold road Red Top mines few days ago. He reports the tunnel, now being run to cut the vein. in about l40 feet. It is expected to cut the vein at a depth of l25 feet and from that point the vein will be exploited some distance east and west.
 w. E. Frost has one stamp mill at work on the ast Chance mine, in the north part of the Wallapai mountains and is getting out some nice concen- trates as well as gold values. The stamp is worked by hand power and does all that any old stamp might te expected to do.
 J. A. Wood, of Kansas City, arrived in Kingman last evening and will be- gin at once to get things in shape for active work on the old Blackberry mines. It is the intention of Mr. Woods company to sink new three compartment shaft on the Hack berry, getting under the old workings and continue down to the 1000 level, from which point the vein will be exploited.
 James Poison, who has a group of mines at the head of Round Valley, is in kingman. Owing to the drying up of water holes near his camp he had to suspend operations until the summer rains start in. He reports having opened up nice showing of ore in one of the pr' p rites and believes he has big bonanza in the making of which he will put in year or so.
 James Jackman has been deI eloping a mining property in the Wheeler Wash section of the Wallapai mountain the past several years, and now has large number of openings along the strike of the vein. A drift was run in on the vein several hundred feet at one point, which shows up splendid ore bodies. This ore carries some cop- per, but the main values lie in the lead, gold and silver. With proper appliances the mine ought to become big producer.
 The big dredging plant on the Col orado river, near the mouth of the El- dorado Canyon, is almost ready to launch. Nothing can be done in the dredging line until the river subsidies, which will be about the latter part of July. It is the company's intention to
  dredge the low bars and try will be made at the river bottom, where the suction pumps will be used. While suction pumps have not been a success, it is understood that new principle has been brought into use in connec- tion with this pump that overcomes the objection heretofore urged against them by dredger people. What this principle is we have not yet learned.
 It is understood in Kingman that the Venture company, one of the larg- est operating syndicates in the United States, has taken over the Mcguire mines and will install the largest mill ing plant in the territory. E. M. La mont, who has been negotiating the ( l. is back from New York, and will probably have charge of the works for some time to come. The mine is one of the largest bodies of gold bearing ore in the territory, the distance be- tween the walls being unknown at the present time. As development pro- gresses it is found that the vein shows bigger and better with increasiny width of vein matter. Water will un- doubtedly be developed for milling purposes, which is now the only draw back to the success of a great plant. In the volcanic formation to the north water is found everywhere in great volume and it is probable that a shaft will be sunk in this formation.