Mohave County miner., 1910-12-31


 last and has been looking over the properties owned by the corporation in this county. It is understood that the auxiliary company, the Needles Mining & Smelling company, is soon to take over important mining prop critics in this county from which a large tonnage of complex ores can be mined. From the mines now owned by this corporation large amount of ore is being sent to the shelter, but to keep large supply on hand other properties will have to be taken over.
 J. s. Withers, Dr. Derbyshire and Frank L. Mahoney went oyer to Secret Pass Thursday afternoon in Jesse Tarr's little automobile, re- turning to Kingman by way of Union Pass in the evening. Mir. Withers was looking after work that is being prosecuted on his First Chance mines, in the Secret Pass. He reports that the drift is getting into vein matter and that within few feet the first vein in the group will be cut. The vein on the surface shows good values in gold and is of good width. He IS of the opinion that the group will be- come one of the best in the Secret Pass section when properly developed
 This week the first payment on the purchase price of the Cleopatra mines was made through the Kingman bank. The money will be distributed to Charles E. Price, Jack Barnes, J. w. Morgan and E. F. Thompson. The sales price ot the property is unknown, but the owners have been holding it at rather stiff figure. The Cleopatra is situated about five miles south of the McCracken mines, and is a big vein of copper bearing ore. Mir. Price held the mines the past fifteen years and has done quite large amount of work on it. Owing to litigation the interest held by MT. Price was divided up, J. W. Morgan, E. F. Thompson and Jack Barnes becoming interested in the property.
 W. A. Walker, one of the old time miners of this section, came up from Aquarius range the first of the week. During the past three months MT. Walker has been prospecting the big reef in the mountains along the east side of the Big Sandy in systematic search for blsmuth. The vein runs through the rolling hills for distance of twelve miles and carries bismuth in varying quantities. Some of the pock- cts have been very rich in the rare mineral, but so far no large body has been found. Mir. Walker brought with him some of the handsomest speci- l mems of bismuth ever seen in this country. The ore runs over sixty per cent. Many locations have been made | along the dike and it is believed that some of the more promising will be worked.
 The first of the week Joe Prisk came | over from Mineral Park and received his first payment on the sale of the Home Pastime mines to the Home Pastime Mining Company. The new company has been financed by num- ber of young men of this community. among whom are Judge L. M. Teale. A. F. Muter and Mir Kenuer. These gentlemen will have the management of the property and will at once begin the work of development. The man shaft will be sunk to a depth of 300 feet perpendicularly, at which point it is expected the vein will be cut. The mine will then be opened up through this shaft, levels and crosscuts run and the ore blocked out. The mine has been producing largely of silver ore, the last small carload re- turning a net sum of over I,OOOs. In the early days of Mineral Park camp the mine was large producer of rich silver ore, but the original owners believed they had exhausted the ore. when in fact the old drifts had been run past the ore body, a slip cutting it off. In the stopes recently opened the old stopes were entered and rich ore extracted. It is expected by all who are acquainted with the property that it will be one of the large producers of that section within the next six 
 Dr. Derbyshire is having the assess ment work doneon his mining claims. about half mile north of McCopnico.