Mohave County miner., 1910-05-14

Five or six cars of mining timbers
were received in Kingman this week
was forwarding to the mining camps
adjacent. The same number of cars
went to Chloride.
The Needles Mining and Smelling
company expect to blow in the smelt-
er at Needles in July and also expect
to have the concentration in operation
shortly after that date. The two plants
are expected to cost in the neighbor-
hood of a million dollars and will
handle large tonnage of ore. Gus
tom ore is now coming in and all Of
fered is being purchased.
NJ. Scanlan, owner of valuable min
ing property in the Lost Basin section,
was in Kingman several days this
week. He has been doing the work on
some of the claims and reports having
a good showing of gold and copper ore.
The mines are close to the Colorado
river and sooner or later power from
that great stream will be developed.
bringing cheap power for the opera
tion of these and other mines in that
section.
About fifteen men are at work on a
mining property, on Mohave county
side of Bill Williams Fork, opposite
Swansea, where they are opening up
copper property. The mines are near
the old Van-Lew properties, and the
showing is said to be very good. All
along the Creek are prospectors and
miners working on good looking veins
of mineral, and the indications are
that within the next six months many
of these properties will be producing.
The chances for the early resump-
tion of work on the ORC Plata mines
is good, as it will require but a small
amount of money to put the property
in shape for outputting, and as there
are thousands of tons of good ore in
the slopes ready for extraction the
mine should be a winner from the
start. The Orc Plata mine is one of
the best properties in the county and
should be among the dividend class
within the year.
E. ]. Magerstadt, J. P. Hutchinson,
II. Mccormick, of Chicago, and f. D.
Fagelman, of Cripple Creek, came in
from Chloride yesterday and departed
this morning to the Woody group of
mines, in Weaver district, which was
recently taken over. 1t is understood |
that the gentlemen have mapped out
a large amount of work on the prop
critics, the initial work being the |
building of a good wagon road, over
which auto trucks can be run The
Woody mine is quite well developed. |
the shaft having reached a depth of
200 feet and drifts run off hundreds of
feet, exposing a splendid vein of ore.
The c. o. D. mine continues to turn
out rich ore, the latest samples sent in
to the company's Office in Kingman
being far richer than anything ever
taken from the mine. The ore is a
mass of native silver and also carries
lead. Twelve inches of this grade of
ore has been opened in the drift from
the 100 level, while there is much
more of a lower grade in the same
drift. 1t is thought that the drift is
on top of one of the biggest bodies of
ore ever opened in the mine. When
the shaft was started at this point no
ore was expected until the vein was
encountered on the old 300 level, but
it would appear that the ore body lies
farther west than figured on. When
the mine was extensively worked
years ago the ore body extracted lay
close in to the shaft, the best ore w.
ing on the west side, the rich shoot
being only about eighty feet in length.
On the 300 level the contractor failed
to drive the drift through the quartz
vein, preferring to run it along the
hanging wall in the softer material.
This drift was carried west about 1000
feet, and while small stratas of ore
were encountered near the heading no
attempt was made to open it up where
encountered about 300 feet west of the
old shaft. 1t is said by miners work
ing in this drift that there was an ore
body five feet wide and running about
three ounces gold to the ton that had
not been penetrated but a few feet,
the hard quartz making it impossible
for the contractor to make wages if he
drove the drift in it. All the ground |
200 feet west of the old shaft is virgin
and it is a well grounded belief of |
miners that know the mine intimately |
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