Mohave County miner., 1910-09-10
Mines of the County

w. H. Cook, of Weaver district, was Kingman visitor the first part of the week. He has been at work on a mining property of his own the past summer and reports having opened up a fine body of ore He will continue the work for some time to come.
 F. E. Buchanan, accompanied by Louis Rensch, of Long Beach, arrived in Kingman last Tuesday and depart ed Thursday morning to Wallapai Springs, where they looked at mining property. Mr. Buchanan has been mining in this county the past several years.
 Ore shipments are now being made from the Banner group of mines, at Stockton Hill, to the Needles Shelter. It is understood that hereafter regular shipments will be made from this property, and especially the heavy lead product. Later, the zinc ores will be shipped to the cleaning plant and separation made between the lead and zinc content.
 B. NJ. Hughes, R. Dykeman, and O. B. Conant, wife and children have been in Kingman several days from their home in Loganport, Indiana last Sunday. The gentlemen are share holders in the Dixie Queen mine and were here to hold the annual meeting of shareholders. They are now at the mine looking over the work that has been done during the past year.
 Monday last s. s. Jones and wife came in from the Tom Reed mine in the big steam car and brought with them 256 pounds of bullion that was valued at 3S,OOOS. This bar was the result of cleanup of the plates and cyanide tanks for the past two weeks, showing a daily recovery of about 2,- 500S. The plant is said to be in per feet working order and the saving of values is very close. At the mine new ore bodies are being developed and the reserves are being added to.
 Wednesday last Deputy Sheriff J. P. | Gideon went to Little Meadows and met the bullion wagon from the Gold !, Road mill, and brought back with him 2O,O00S in gold bullion. This was a | cleanup of seven days run of the plant, | the last shipment having been brought in last week Tuesday, amounting to lS,000S. The mine is said to be in fine shape and reserves being added to every day. The mine is now capable | of delivering to the mill nearly 300 tons of clean ore daily.
 Roy Wills, an excellent miner and | prospector, was in Kingman several | days this week getting supplies for his mining camp near the Big Sandy. He i is the owner of copper mines in Au- brey district that carry good values in gold, silver and copper. Samples brought to Kingman gave results of about eos in gold and silver and as high as eighteen per cent copper. He says that the vein is about two feet wide and the ore streak runs from eighteen inches to the full width of the vein. He intends to sink a fifty foot shaft on the vein at once and believes that he will be able to ship this ore to the shelter at a profit.
 Leonard Hoffman. superintendent of i the Chloride Gold Mines company. was at Chloride this week looking after matters connected with the starting of the big tunnel scheme that is to tap the Samoan, Lucky Boy and many other mines at a great depth The tunnel is to be about 1900 feet in length and will be doubled tracked. By the running of this tunnel the mines will be made accessible by wa gon and at the same time the mining will be brought down to a minimum of cost.
 F. D. Mcclure, w. E. Hughes. J. NJ. Huston and J. H. Book, arrived in Kingman last Sunday from Los An geles and Tuesday morning departed to Mineral Park, where they are mak- ing an examination of the Keystone mine. The gentlemen have been in- terested in the property for some time past, but this is the first visit of some of the gentlemen to the property. Mir. of the mine and was favorably i'm pressed with it, but since that time considerable work has been done and