Mohave County miner., 1910-12-24

Strumental Tn bringing out the Me
 Kesson properties, which is now under
 option to Emerson Gee and associates.
 The new shaft on the Ruth mine is
 showing up wonderfully well. both in
 values and width of vein. Every foot
 of development is bringing better ore
 and more of it, until now the vein has
 width of about nine feet and values
 running about 12S to the ton in gold.
 The ore will mill out free, and when the new mill is in commission it is ex-
 pected that enough ore will be blocked
 out in the several openings to keep
 the plant steadily employed. In the old shaft the ore is exceptionally rich,
 a sample of five feet giving an average
 of about eos to the ton. The belief is
 general that the new shaft will cut
 this ore body at about one hundred
 feet in depth. E. B. Van Deman and
 son have charge of the property, being
 the managing directors of the corpor-
 ation.
 In these days when mine titles car
 so easily be clouded by black-mailing claimants it is refreshing to note the
 ready manner the courts of Canada
 have to deal with this class of gentry.
 Upon investigation by a commission of the government if it is found that the contest for possession of the mining property has DO basis and is in bad
 faith the court without further hear ing dismisses the action at the costs of the contestant. Was this method of
 procedure in force in the United States there would be less mine litigation.
 The government certainly owes some protection to the honest locator on the public or mineral lands, and when a contest is made it ought to be the duty of the land office to send an expert to make an examination into the subject and on his report to the department or the court the action should stand or fall. By putting ban on blackmail- ing schemes the United States would greatly benefit the mining industry and make safe the holdings of every man. DO matter whether the holdings are by patent or mere posessory rights.
 The Tom Reed mine has just paid its fifth dividend amounting to 45,- 563. .2SS, which was disbursed as of December l, 1910. The total dividends paid by the property to date is l36,- 5lS.7SS. The report of the company shows that the company has done a large amount of exploratory work | in the mines the past year, be- | sides bringing in a water system from | Cottonwood canyon, installing a 250 h. | p. air compressor, and twenty stamp addition to the mill, besides complete | cyaniding plant and tube mills. the | entire cost of which ran we'll above | 100, ,OOOS. The treasury of the com pany shows a reserve of 50,OOOS, and | l., ,000S credited to the dividend fund. | The average receipts from sales of | bullion the past five months is given at | 2,0OOS, mighty big showing from a ten stamp mill. The tonnage treated | is not given, but it has been under stood that about thirty-five tons daily | have been sent to the mill from the mine. The saving of values has been | well above 50 per cent, which is re- markedly good from a straight cyanid- | ing system. The management of the property the past year has been ex- ceptiOnally good and the stockholders are sure to keep these men at the head of affairs for years to come.
 Herbert Latham, the world famous man bird, accompanied NJ. Honeybelle to Goldroad last Sunday, returning the following day to Kingman, thence to Los Angeles, where he was billed to enter the trials of the various aero planes at Dominguez Field this week. Mir. Latham is Frenchman, and like all other people of that country. is a lover of adventures and finds in plan- ing down through the air from great heights one of the most exhilerating of pastimes. It is understood that Mir. Latham is interested in the great Gold Road mine and that his visit to the property was with the view of looking it over and getting a line on the great improvements in milling that are being mapped out. Mir. is one of the largest share holders in the property and is just now much interested in the proposed en- larging of the milling facilities and the ampliication of the old plant.