Mohave County miner., 1910-11-05
Mines of the County

Champlon mine 10 the rallroaQ Tor shipment to the Needles shelter.
 A gasoline holster was taken out to Stockton Hill last Tuesday for the Needles Mining & Smelling company to be used on one of the mines under operation by this company.
 The mill at the Dixie Queen mine has been running steadily on good ore the past two weeks. No cleanup has been made of the plates but it is un- derstood that the saving of values is high.
 Immense quantities of mining tim bers are being received at Kingman station and are being hauled to the mines contiguous to this place. The timbers now in use in the Gold Road mines are round, it being the i'm pression that round timbers have greater tensile strength than the sawed timbers.
 It is rumored here that J. L. Witney is about to commence work on the Blue Mary mine, sixteen miles east of Yucca. About a year ago rich ore was struck in drift in the mine and the property gave such promise of big things at depth that MT. Witney con- cluded 10 take it over and exploit it to a depth of several hundred feet.
 T. R. Garnier this week had sur vey of the underground working of the St. Louls mine, at Cerbat, made by P. McCardell, and finds that the deep tunnel is now within few feet of the ore body known to exist in the lower workings of the property. A contract has been let to H. E. Petit to drive the drift in to the ore body and do quite lot of work in the way of de- velopment. This work will be begun at once.
 w. A. Mcclure, accompanied by W. H. Cook, of Duluth, Minn., and Chas. D. Corners, of Chippewa Falls, Wis, arrived in Kingman last Tues day morning from Chicago, and were met here by Salt Lake mining en- gineer, the party going. out to the Alpha mine the same day, from which point they made an examination of various mining properties. After looking over several good propositions the party returned to Kingman last evening and departed to Chicago by way of Salt Lake.
 The owners of the big molybdenum- copper mines, in Copper Canyon, north of Cedar, have put a number of men to work under W. P. Carr to do the annual work on the properties. The men have gone to the mines and are now engaged in making camp. A team load of supplies will go out to the mines tomorrow and active work | will be commenced by Monday. The mines are among the most promising | properties of the county and when | properly opened will certainly be able | to control the market of the world for this rare mineral.
 The big concrete foundations for the new triple expansion engine at the power plant is complete and the work of putting up the iron frames for the roof is well under way. AS soon as the foundation and pillow blocks are well set the engine will be installed. It will be of 150J normal horsepower, with probably over 2OOO horsepower under forced draught. The engine is one of the latest makes and is said to be one of the most economical users of steam ever turned out. When in con- mission the company will be able to furnish power to many of the mines now using high priced gasoline en- zines.
 r. McCardell, the well known min eral surveyor, has gone to the Gold Grown camp, where he will make a survey of a large group of claims for purpose of patent. The Gold Crown people (the Frisco Power and Mining company is doing large amount of work on the properties and will soon have in commission big crushing and cyanide plant. The tonnage of ore now blocked out in the mine is said to be sufficient to keep the mill employed for years to come. The report is cur rent in Kingman that the company this week refused an offer of one mill ion dollars for the property from one of the largest operating companies in the United States. This would indi-