Mohave County miner., 1910-01-22
Mines of the County

HAS OSel examining ululuS pTOpCIbg
in the Silver Creek district, passed
through kingman last evening on his
way home.
]. S. Withers, Harry Lee and others
have organized a mining company for
the purpose of exploiting mining prop
erty in the Union Pass section, in
which they are interested. 1t is ex-
pected that they will soon begin active
development of the mines.
The Tennessee mine, at Chloride, is
soon to be one of the big shippers Of
the county. the old workings showing
an immense tonnage of lead-zinc ores,
suitable for concentration. 1t is said
that on the 500 level there is a body
of mixed ore sixteen feet wide, from
which a fine grade of concentrates can
be made. The ore will probably be
shipped to Needles as soon as the
Needles Smelling and Mining company
has its concentrating plant in operat-
ion.
The Western Railway of Arizona is
grading and clearing off a new depot
site at Chloride, which brings the
terminus of the road into the town,
a short distance from Tennessee ave-
nue.. The road will leave the main
line and come in over the first route
surveyed, which will be a great con-
venience to the shipping public at
that camp. 1t will be possible now to
run spurs from the road to the Ten
nessee, Midnight and other large
shipping propositions in the camp.
Several of the people interested in
the Rainbow Mountain Mining COM
pany are at Chloride making an exami-
nation of the property. General
manager McCarn is soon to install
larger and heavier machinery on the
property with view to sinking to
greater depth. The ground to the
present level has been blocked out and
shows an immense tonnage of excep-
tionally good ore. The ore in the
property carries values in gold, silver
and lead, and at one time was a big
producer.
A. 1. Richardson came in from Los
Angeles last Wednesday and departed
yesterday morning to the London mine,
at Union Pass, where he is getting
things in shape to sink a shaft to a
depth of two hundred feet. A whip
has been placed on the mine and the
work of sinking is now in progress.
Mr.. Richardson took with him a load
of mining supplies for camp use. The
London mine shows fine body of ore
of excellent grade. some of it running
into the thousands of dollars to the ton.
Should it prove as good at depth it
will be one of the big things of that
section.
G. W. Gibson, C. W. Pritchell, of
Denver, T. w. Hamilton, of Globe,
Arizona, and w. A. Eaton, of Duluth,
have been looking over the mines of
this county the past week, in company
of o. D. M. Gaddis. They are inter
ested in the Wallapai Precious Metals
company, which owns mining claims
at Stockton Hill and on which they
propose driving long drift to tap the
veins at depth of several hundred
feet. Among the mines is the Hill
side, which produced such rich gold
ore several years ago. The gentlemen
have also visited the Gold Road and
were very much surprised with the
immensely of that great gold property.
Chris Voght returned from the
vicinity of the McCracken mine a few
days ago, having completed the assess
ment work on a group of mines in
which he Is interested. He reports a
great deal of activity in that section
on account of the possibility of the
closing up of the big deal on the
McCracken mines. Newton Evans and
a large number of those heavily inter-
ested in the new corpora tion passed
through Yucca to the mines the latter
part of last week, where they intend
ed to make most thorough examinat-
ion of all the properties under con-
sideration. The party carried with it
their own automobiles and were we'll
equipped for a stay of week or so at
the mines. 1t is understood that the
bonds of the new company have been
placed, the buyers only awaiting the
report of their own engineers on the
property. This will be forthcoming
shortly. The mines are among the