Mohave County miner., 1910-07-09
Mines of the County

the sale of the Ruth and Rattan mines
 in the Silver Creek section, to parties
 who will start in developing them i'm.
 mediately. We will have the partic.
 ulars for next weeks issue.
 Messrs. Lunciford and Reeves, of
 Oatman, brought in a bar of gold
 Tuesday from the Tom Reed Gold
 Mines Co.'S mill for shipment to the
 mint at San Francisco. They returned
 to Oatman Thursday. after spending a
 day in Kingman shaking hands with
 their many friends.
 E. c. Williams and Chas. E. Price
 have bonded to c. E. Price the Kim
 ball group of mines, about two miles
 from Eshom's ranch, on the Bill Will jams Fork, for the sum of 20,OOOS. A
 force of men has already been put to
 work on the property and the mines
 are showing up well with development,
 and the indications at present are fa-
 vorable for the deal to go through.
 News was received in Kingman this
 week of a rich strike on the Golconda
 few days ago. An entirely new and
 unsuspected ore body was broken into
 at the 100 foot level; it is extremely
 rich and gives promise of being very extensive. We are informed that no
 higher grade of ore has ever been pro- duced by the mine than that which is now opening up at the point of the
 present strike.
 The Needles Smelling and Refining Company have had men in the field looking out suitable route and ne- gotiating for right of way for branch railroad to run from the end of the Chloride line to the Tennessee mine, which property is now being worked by it under lease and option to purchase. The branch will doubt less be constructed in the very near future, and will probably be run around thu south end of Silver Hill and along its eastern side, through the town of Chloride, and up Tennessee avenue, or parallel with that street to the mine. The town of Chloride will then become the real terminus of the | road until such time as it shall be tended through to Nevada, and on to a | connection with the Salt Lake road, | which time we believe is not very far distant
 H. N. Tracey, manager for Tracey | Engineering Company, who has been in Kingman the past few days, re- turned to Los Angeles Thursday even- ing. Before leaving he informed our reporter that arrangements for the in- stallation of another unit to the power plant had just been concluded. The machinery has been ordered and work on the addition to the power plant building will be commenced within the next ten days and will be rushed to completion. The unit to be put in now will be of equal power to both of those heretofore installed, that is, double the capacity of either one of those now in use, and the building to be erected will be of sufficient size to accom- mOdate four more units of the same capacity as the new one. MT. Tracey says that the additional units will be added as fast as needed, and from present indications the whole space in the new building will be needed within a comparatively short time. Contracts have already been entered into for all of the power that can be furnished by the present plant { and the new unit already ordered, and if the demand for power continues 10 increase at the present ratio, as MT. Tracey is firmly convinced it will, he I says it will hurry his company to add units fast enough to supply it. While here Mr. Tracey, on behalf of his con- { pany, offered to supply the juice for ( four street lights, free of charge for all time, providing the residents of , Kingman would bear the cost of erect ( ing the poles and stringing the con- I meeting wires, which very liberal offer was of course promptly accepted, and will be made at once to f get the lights placed at points desig- t hated by MT. Tracey in the business section. In the course of his conver- satiOn Mir. Tracey paid Kingman quite a high compliment in saying that it is the best town for collections in which a he has ever done business; says his 4 collector has never had tocall a second time on any user of electricity and that his company has not lost so much as five cent piece in the way Of bad .