Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1910-01-01
Mines of the County

L. Hoffman this week visited the
mines of the Arizona Southwestern
Copper Company, in Crow Canyon.
Work is progressing nicely on the
mines.
DR.. A. B. Royal, who owns mining
o -operty in the Todd Basin section, is
here from Pasadena on his way to the
m mes. DR.. Royal has unlimited con-
fiience in the mines of this county and
is looking after his holdings.
Mrs. John Kay has been one of the
most active shippers of turquoise in
the Mineral Park section the past year
and is said to have realized handsome
ly from the sales of gem stone. She is
also the owner of valuable mining
property in that section.
Lew Stirred and John Ryan are in
Kingman after a month or two spent
at the mines of the old Standard Gold
Mining Company, near the south end
of the Chemehuevis mountains, where
they did the assessment work on the
Manotowoc group of mines for Capt.
c. Taylor.
Twenty or thirty miners are now
hard at work finishing up assessment
work on their properties in and around
the old McCracken mine. Some of the
outside properties show very good ore
and it is probable that some large pro-
ducers may be opened by the work
now being done on them.
Work is being done on the old
Berkely mine, now known as the Ii
bucio. In an adit drift OIL the property
a nice streak of ore is showing up,
which is said to carry high values in
silver. 1t is probable that a shaft will
be sunk on this ore body within a
few days. The Berkely is considered
a good property and with the proper
expenditure of money in the matter of
development ought to become large
producer of silver.
Few relocations of mines have been
made this year, the mine owners dis
creetly doing all necessary work to
hold their claims, believing that next
year will be one of the most prosper
Gus in the county's history and that
there will be a chance to get aid in
the development of their properties.
The hills have been full of working
miners, and although the storms have
been very severe in high attitudes
there has been no cessation of work.
Thomas McNeely. of Mineral Park.
is here attending a meeting of the
Board of Supervisors. He believes
that this year will witness a new area
in mining in Mineral Park basin and
that many of the old mines will be
taken over and worked by large cor
porations. Mr.. McNeely recently
bonded some of his properties to S. R. !
Porter and as soon as the roads per-
NIT the hauling in of machinery work
will be commenced on the properties. !
In the shaft that is now being sunk
below the 900 level, in the San Fran
cisco mine large body of water has
been encountered making sinking SLOW
work. II is said that fine body of ore
is now known to exist in the property
and that it will soon be put in shape |
for extraction. The San Francisco |
mine is considered a good property and |
it is .OoaUie that it will be shipping
bullion before the close of winter. 1t |
is now under the management of one
of the best managers in the southwest. |
Arson H. Smith, of the MINER, paid |
a visit to the Cedar country this week,
going over the mountain in the deep |
snow to take look at the molly bdenite- |
copper mines, in which he is interested |
with L. J. Lassell, w. J. Conner and |
NJ. A. and F. NJ. Sawyer. Recent work |
has made marked improvement in |
the quality of the ore, much cuprite |
showing in the headings of the big
vein. AT all points where work was
done splendid ore is showing up. The |
drift on the big vein shows ore the |
full width and of an unusually high |
grade. Some handsome specimens of |
velvet copper, associated with cuprite |
and molybdenite were brought back |
and can be seen in this office.