Mohave County miner., 1910-04-16

and will furnish the necessary addi-
tional power for the Hercules mines
and the additions that are to be made
to the Gold Road mill.
Wells, Fargo & Co. has put in effect
a new tariff sheet, but the reduction
on express matter is very slight, so
much so that the Arizona Railroad
Commission has taken the matter up
with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission for the purpose of getting a
more favorable rate on interstate bust
mess. The tariff of the express COM
pany has been little less than highway
robbery and it is high time that some
thing was done to stop the big drain
that is made on the finances of the
people that have to do with the ex-
press company.
Another engineer was here this
week in the interest Of the company
that is to dam the Colorado river in
the Grand Canyon and develop about
100000 horse power. The promoters
of the scheme want to get line on the
consumption of power in this county
and the adjoining states that can be
reached by big power line. The
building of the dam and the conse-
quent cost of distribution of power is
estimated to cost in the the neighbor-
hood of 5O,OOO,OOOS. Enough power
could be generated by a dam of the
dimensions of the one under considera-
tion to run practically every piece of
machinery in the north part of the
territory and have large amount to
transmit to the outside power users.
1t is the belief of the projectors of the
scheme that power can be sold any
where in Mohave county at a rate of
sixty dollars per year.
The work on the Tubb mine, in
Union Basin, which is being carried
on under the direct supervision of the
owner, John Boyle, is showing a won
derful body of ore. The old works as
far as the cave have been entered and
drift driven around the caved ground,
which shows the vein to be more than
fifty feet in width and the whole mass
of high milling value. Throughout
this mass are big streaks of shipping
zinc ore that so far is paying the en-
tire expense of operating the property.
Near the hanging wall drifts are be-
ing carried both ways on the richest
part of the ore body and are now in
more than one hundred feet. Cross
cuts have shown the vein to be one of
the biggest and strongest in the county
and if it develops equally as well below
the present level it will have no
equal as producer in the territory.
Mr. Boyle made the final payment on
this property this week and is now the
sole owner. He also made payment in
full for the Prosperity, another big
mining proposition, through which a
long drift is now being run into Col
cOnQa grOunQ.
Despite the fact that there has been
a withdrawal of the lands along Bill
Williams Fork, eastern people have
organized company with a capital
ization of two million dollars to build
an immense dam at Striped Canyon,
near the confluence of the Big Sandy
and Santa Maria creeks. tits estimat-
ed that this dam will primarily create
more than three thousand horsepower,
which will be carried to the various
mining camps in the vicinity. Later
the company expect to elevate the
dam To such hight that from twenty
TO thirty thousand horsepower will be
obtained. The company expect to
make it one of the greatest dams in
the southwest, not even the great
Roosevelt dam exceeding it in point of
hight or horsepower generated. The
power will all be taken within the
next few years. conditions along Bill
Williams Fork being such that there
will be a constantly increasing demand
for cheap power. The men behind
the enterprise are said to be among
the largest moneyed interests of the
country and are we'll able to finance
the deal. Along the Bill Williams
Fork are many mines that are reputed
to be the richest in the territory,
placer ground between that place and
the ella river that might be treated
by cheap power and the water that
can be obtained through the canals
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