Weekly journal-miner., 1910-08-31
MoHAvE COUNTY IS
 DEVELOPING FAST
(Monave County Miner. )

Mohave county last year made a production of nearly s70O,OOO of min eral. While this is not a large amount compared with the total from some of the larger producing eoun- tries, under the conditions existing in this county last year it is quite large. The Tom Reed was not pro- dueing largely, while the Goldroad mines were not milling ore, only the seepage waters from the old dumps being handled. These mines are now producing at the rate of nearly million per year each, which will put the country in the front ranks of gold producers in next years re- port. Many other mines have been and still are in process of develop ment and will not produce largely before the end of next year, but we may say that within the next five years this county will produce more gold than all the other counties of the territory combined. Besides the production of gold from quartz mining this county will undoubtedly recover many millions of dollars in the near future from the deposits of conglomerate gravel to be found along the Colorado river and far inland. These gravel deposits are rich and can readily be worked by some of the many dry processes now in use in other parts of the country. Thursday night the water in the Tennessee mine was brought under control and now the work of timber ing up the old shaft will be pro- ceeded with The Needles Mining and Smelling Company began operations on this mine last December, and for several months bueked water in an effort to clear the mine, but the bad condition of the shaft above the two hundred level made it impossible to reduce the water without losing the shaft. A shaft was started about 75 feet from the old one, and this was sunk to a depth of 200 feet and drift run off to the old shaft, and allowing the water to come into the new ground, whence it was pumped to the surface. Two pumps and a big skip have been at work the past ten days draining the flooded area and the work is at last ac- eomplished. The work of retimber- ing the old shaft will be commenced at once and the mine unwatered to the 600 level. It is understood that the big bodies of zinc ore on the 200 level will be extracted and ship ped to the big cleaning plant at Needles. Thousands of tons of good milling zinc ore is said to be in the old stopes and this can be made very profitable under the method of handling employed by this company. When the company is able to get at the zinc-lead ore bodies it will be able to send out an immense tonnage.
 Lew Rothe and Jonn Oleson re- gently brought samples of ore to Kingman from their mines in the Secret Pass section. Big chunks of this ore show free gold all through it and MT. Rothe states that there are big streaks through the big vein carrying this class of material. The vein is an immense one and is be- lieved to be the coming mine of that country. It is in one of the most accessible parts of the district and when the new road is built through there, will be within a few hours drive to Kingman. It is the pur- pose of the owners to develop the property as far as possible with their own means, and then place it with a company that will be able to han dle it in a manner commensurate with its size and richness.
 A typographical map of the es- tate of the Needles Mining and Smelt- ing company, at Stockton Hill, has been made for the use of the cor poration in its exploitation of the mines. The company owns a large area of the mining ground of that section and it is among the probabil- ities that the company will cut the mines at a low depth by a long tun-