Mohave County miner., 1910-12-31
Mines of the County

The mill work on the Gold Crown mines is almost completed and the plant ought to be in commission with in the next thirty days. With this plant running regularly the produc- tion of gold in Mohave county will be materially increased. The mine is certainly one of the great properties of the territory, having an immense tonnage of high grade milling ore opened out
 The Golconda mine is now shipping a carload of ore daily to the zinc smelters in Oklahoma. The ore is ideal zinc bearing, having only the proportions of zinc and sulphur to make it a sulphide, there being no other bases. The mill is now turning out large tonnage of fine grade con centrates and the mine outputting largely of clean shipping ore.
 Last Saturday payment was made on the Keystone mine, by the new cor poration, of which w. E. Hughes, a wealthy Los Angeles gentleman, is the head. It is understood that all claims against the old company will be met as soon as the company gets in good working order. A mining man of large experience is to be put in charge of the property and the main Keystone shaft is to be sunk to a depth of at least 800 feet.
 Last week the Bellehower Mining company made its final payment on the purchase of the mines. The com pany has been at work on the property for several months and has made con siderable headway with one machine drill. The shaft has been sunk to a depth of 12O feet and drifting is now under way. The ore in the mine is rich in gold, carrying some copper and lead. It is situated about six miles southwest of Kingman. H. M. Bowen has been managing the property.
 T. G. Garnier, who has been looking after his mining interests at Cerbat, was in Kingman Thursday last. He reports that he is getting out a ship ment of high grade lead ore to be sent to the shelter at Needles. At the other properties a nice showing of gold ore has been made. At one of the shafts gold ore running many hundreds of dollars to the ton has been uncovered. The veins are all promising and only deed development work to bring them into a large pro- duction of pay ore.
 The Needles Mining and Smelling company has received two big ore cars for use between points on the Western Railway and Needles. The cars are of 100000 pounds capacity and are all steel, with automatic dumping ar engagement. The company is getting things in shape at the Tennessee mine, at Chloride, and the Champion mine, near Cerbat, for large daily output. Other cars of this type will be put on the route to handle the ores from the Banner and other properties of the company in this county.
 It is expected that a big drilling plant will be in operation on the J. F. | T. group of mines before the first of | February and that the big porphyry dike will be thoroughly prospected. | The mine is one of the largest mineral | ized dikes in the territory, locations having been made on it from Lorena Flat, on the south, to Chloride, on the north. The people having a bond on the property are holding nine loca- tions owned by different parties, E. D. Swope and W. A. Studley owning seven and Smith & Sawyer and Gaddis & Perry two more.
 James Uncaph CT came over from Mineral Park Thursday afternoon to look after important business con- nected with his mining interests. He reports that in doing the assessment work on the Columbus mine, at Cerbat, | he cut seven feet of heavy lead-zinc | ore. Some of the ore runs in copper values. It is the impression that the ore is rich in gold and silver values, but as no assays have been made | nothing positive is known as to the actual content of the ore. The strike was made about 300 feet from the portal of the drift, the drift having been run several hundred feet along side of the big ore body. Mir. Un- capher will soon move over to the