Mohave County miner., 1909-08-21
Mines of the County


 on the mines and that the properties are showing up nicely. His section was visited by the greatest rain storm ever known there, the first of the week, but no damage was dune, except the washing out of some roadbed and the deepening of the canyons.
 The Portland group of mines, in the Music Mountain district, has been bonded to Chicago parties and active development work will be commenced at once by sinking a big shaft on the vein. The vein in the main property of the group is 45 tt wide and trace able through its entire length. The mine was at one time cwned by the late David Southwick, who sunk q shaft sixty feet, from which be took some extremely rich ore. The new in- terests will retimhe the old South wick shaft and sink to greater depth. Mir. Southwick, some years before his death, refused an offer of 35,000$ cash for the one claim in this group.
 T. s. O'Brien, who is operating the Bunker Hill mines, at Cerbat, has been in Kingman the past several days. He reports that he has a carload of ore at the mine which is soon to be shipped to the shelter. A drift to tap the vein at lower level is now under way and will be driven in as fast as possible. This drift will open up the ore body nearly POO feet below the old workings, where sulphide ore will be struck, so it is expected. The ore in the Bunker Hill carries values in gold and copper and at depth it is thought that it will become producer of rich copper ore. The vein is large and gives promise of being one of the big producers of Cerbat.
 O, B. Amsden, general manager of the Gold Bug mines, is in Kingman. He reports that the main shaft of the Gold Bug is now down about 435 feet. The shaft is not in the vein, but a crosscut will be made to it at a depth of 800 feet. The shaft is being carried down perpendicularly while the vein runs little from the pendicular, pecessitating the crosscut. At the 400 in cutting the station the ore body was cut and good ore is found through the mass. The flow of water is not great, but the indications are that large flow will soon be obtained. The water shows considerable mineraliza- tion, an indication of sulphide ore bodies below the present depth.
 J. A. Wood, for the Mammoth Silver Mining company, this week, made the initial payment of l0,000$, on the pur- chase price of the old Blackberry mine to w. B. Ridenour. The company has been operating the mine the past sev- eral months and have sunk a shaft to a point below the old works. The vein was found to be quite large and the indications are that great body of milling ore will be opened up. Mr. Woods also made arrangements for the taking over of property owned by w. K. Ridenour and w. l.. Kayser, in the Wright Creek section. The Mammoth Silver Mining Company is one of the largest corporations operating in the county.
 The shaft of the Golconda mine has reached a depth of 335 feet. Consid- erable water is making in the shaft, but so far it is handled with little ef- fort. The vein shows big ore bodies at this depth. On the 250 level the ore shows an unbroken body for six hundred feet in length in the drift, the vein in places being quite wide. The average of the ore shipped is above 50 per cent zinc, carrying gold and silver. It is purposed that drifts will be run off at the $50 and the vein exploited throughout the big ore shoot. By the first of December the mine will be shipping more than 50 tons of ore daily. The constantly appreciating value of zinc in the market makes the future of this great property roseate indeed. Mir. Boyle, general manager of the company, proposes to put the property on a large producing basis that is now unshippable. The prop erty has three distinct veins lying side hv side that can he Mnrked thronnh