Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1910-04-23

w. V. OmlJn, OF Gnllduelpnld, came
in from the Horseshoe mine, at Cerbat,
last Monday. The gentlemen are
directors of the Horseshoe company
and have been looking over the work
done during the past year. They are
satisfied with present conditions and
believe they have a big property.
The gentlemen departed to their
homes last Wednesday evening.
Frank r. Keith and John Il. Hobbs
have been looking over the Tom Reed
and other properties in this county the
past week. Mr.. Hobbs is heavily
interested in the Tom Reed and re-
ports that the mine is looking fine.
Mr.. Keith is associated with the Ham
mond interests and is looking matters
over in this section with a view of get
ting line on some of the good things
that are known to exist in the county.
Wednesday the gentlemen, in company
of Tom E. McClelland, went out to
Todd Basin and looked at the Golconda
mine, which they pronounce one of the
biggest things in the territory.
An immense amount of timber is
now being shipped through Kingman
to the mines of Gold Road and the
Wallapai district. All the working
mines are now making the openings
safe and are mining in safe and sane
way. Heretofore many of the prop
critics were worked with a woeful lack
of timbering and much damage to the
property has been the result. Under
the present management everything
is being made safe and better results
are obtained. A large amount of round
timbers is now being used, the opinion
prevailing that these timbers are
stronger than the sawed product.
H. NJ. Bowen, H. A. DiRudio and
Frank Mahoney made an examination
of mining property in which Mr.. Di
Rudio is interested, at the old Cleo
patra mine, south of McCracken, last
Sunday Samples taken from the
veins gave big results in gold, one
averaging SSS gold and FIVE per cent
copper. Mr.. Bowen was well pleased
with the result and has taken options
on the property for his associates in
Los Angeles. The trip to the mines
was made in the Wagner steam auto,
leaving here last Saturday morning at
ten and returning Sunday night before
midnight. Mr.. Mahoney remained at
the properties and looked over the en-
tire camp, coming to Kingman Thurs
day night. He believes that section
has great possibilities in gold and
copper.
E. F. Thompson and family visited
Mineral Park last Sunday and had an
enjoyable trip. Mr.. Thompson visited
the Keystone. where a force of men
are at work getting the mine unwater-
ed and preparing to sink the shaft to
depth of five hundred or six hundred
feet. S. R. Porter, who has charge of
the mine for his associates, has been
looking through the old dumps of the
mine and has found big blocks of ore
that runs away into the thousands of
dollars in gold and silver. Some of
these specimens have been well pre-.
served in the dumps and show the
ruby silver as bright and perfect as
when it was taken from the mine about
thirty years ago. Mr.. Porter has been
figuring on the building of branch of
the railroad into Mineral Park basin
from point near Mineral and it is
probable that the line will be built in
the near future. The building of this
line of road would cut the expense in
the working of the mine to mini
mum.
Last Tuesday night the private car
Of the United States Smelling, Rein
ing and Mining company, arrived in
Kingman with a party of gentlemen
of W. B. Sharp, president;
Frederick Lyon, vice president: A. P.
field engineer; c. F. Moore.
chief engineer; DR.. L. D GodshaIl.
general manager; Messrs. Bartlett and
Clark, directors. The gentlemen are
here on a tour of inspection of the
holdings in this county and
1t Needles. Wednesday they Wis ID
he mines at Todd Basin and yesterday
went to Stockton Hill, where the com
1any is carrying on some large operat-
ons. This is the first visit of some of
he officers of the company to the
mines. The United States company is