Mohave County miner., 1910-08-20
Mines of the County

A. I. and N. NJ. Richardson came in
 from Los Angeles Tuesday last and
 have gone to the London mine, where
 they propose to begin the sinking of
 the main shaft below the present level.
 It is the intention to sink at least loo
 feet and drive the drifts on the vein
 several hundred feet as fast as possible.
 The mine is showing up well in gold
 the best defined Assures in that vicinity
 Lew Rothe and John Oleson recently
 brought samples of ore to Kingman from their mines in the Secret Pass section. Big chunks of this ore show free gold all through it and Mir. Rothe states that there are big streaks
 through the big vein carrying this class of material. The vein is an im- mense one and is believed 10 be the coming mine of that country. It is in one of the most accessible parts of the district and when the new road is built through there, will be within a few hours drive of Kingman. It is the purpose of the owners to develop the property as far as possible with their own means, and then place it with a company that will be able to handle it in a manner commensurate with its size and richness.
 A typographical map of the estate of the Needles Mining and Smelling company, at Stockton Hill, has been made for the use of the corporation in its exploitation of the mines. The con- pany owns a large area of the mining ground of that section and it is among the probabilities that the company will cut the mines at low depth by long tunnel. Of course this will not be done until the mines have been exploited to a considerable extent, but it is among the possibilities that the gridiron of veins will be tapped at depth of from 800 to 1500 feet by a working and drainage tunnel. In the event that this tunnel is run it will be the means of developing large territory.
 Mohave county last year made a production of nearly 700,00OS of mIn- eral. While this is not large amount compared with the total from some of the larger producing counties, under the conditions existing in this county last year it is quite large The Tom Reed was not producing largely, while the Goldroad mines were not milling ore, only the seepage waters from the old dumps being handled. These mines are now producing at the rate of nearly a million per year each, which will put the county in the front ranks of gold producers in next years report. Many other mines have been and still are in process of development and will not produce largely before the end of next year, but we may say that within the next five years this | county will produce more gold than all | the other counties Of the territory | combined. Besides the production of gold from quartz mining this county will undoubtedly recover many mil | lions of dollars in the near future from | the deposits of conglomerate gravel to be found along the Colorado river and | far inland. These gravel deposits are rich and can readily be worked by some of the many dry processes now in Use in other parts of the country.
 Thursday night the water in the Tennessee mine was brought under control and now the work Of timbering up the old shaft will be proceeded with The Needles Mining and Smelling Company began operations on this mine last December, and for several months bucked water in an effort to clear the mine, but the bad condition of the shaft aoove the two hundred level made it Impossible to reduce the water without losing the shaft. A shaft was started about 75 feet from the old one, and this was sunk to a depth of POO feet and drift run off to the old shaft, and allowing the water to come into the new ground, whence it was pumped to the surface. Two pumps and big skip have been at work the past ten days draining the flooded area and the work is at last accomplished. The work of retimber- ing the old shaft will be commenced at once and the mine unwatered to the 600 level. It is understood that the big bodies of zinc ore on the POO level will be extracted and shipped to the nl