Mohave County miner., 1910-02-26

 from the Golconda mine Tuesday last and three more Thursday, and for warded to Oklahoma. The mine is still improving with the extension of the drifts.
 L. Hoffman looked over the new work on the mines of the Arizona Southwestern Copper company this week and reports that everything is showing up fine. The new ore body, recently cut, continues to show an ex- cellent quality of silver-lead ore.
 Owing to the bad condition of the Tennessee shaft from the surface to the POO level it has been deemed advisable ] to retimber. The work will be con- menced at once. By catching up the ground to the 200 level it is thought that the main working shaft will be saved, the shaft below that level being in good shape.
 The Arizona Gold Mines company has purchased all machinery for the big mill that is soon to grace its mines south of Kingman. The plant will have forty stamp capacity, the stamps being more than 1000 pounds each. The mill is to be the most complete affair of its kind on the coast and mill and mines are to be electrically equip ped.
 Morton Gallagher is said to have discovered a splendid looking gold prospect in the section between Vivian and Boundary Core. Specimens from the new find show much free gold of a heavy character. Mir. Gallagher in- tends to do considerable work on the property before the warm weather comes on and if it proves up with depth what the surface showing indi- cates he will be able to realize com fortable fortune from it.
 Samples from a small gold vein own ed by Philip Smith and Anson H. Smith, one mile north of McConnico, gave an average of nine ounces gold The vein gives indication of widening with depth, the increase in both width and value in doing the titlework being considerable. The whole country whereabouts is a net work of veins, throughout feldspathic country rock. Some of these veins are quite large and show indication of copper.
 w. B. Ridenour, the well known Blackberry mining man, was a King man visitor this week Mir. Ridenour is the owner of the Sunshine group of mines, formerly the old Hack berry, and has them under option to eastern people. It is expected that work will be commenced on these properties within a short time. No more meri- torious properties can he found in the territory, but the shaft and drifts will have to be carried below the old levels before the big ore bodies will again be encountered. It will not pay to hunt for ore in the other fellows stopes.
 A new well is being bored at the Mcguire ranch for the Arizona Gold Mines company, and should a good flow of water be obtained other wells will be sunk. The company is also ne- gotiating for diamond drill plant and the entire outcrop of the Bi-Metal ! property will be pierced with holes to depth of at least 400 feet. E. NJ. La | mont, who has been consulting with | his associates in Denver, assures us that the work that will soon be car | ried on at the mines will be of great | importance to the mines of that sec tion, demonstrating the character and | quality of the big deposit with cer- tainty.
 Last Saturday the miners at work | on the new shaft on the c. O. D. mine, ! encountered some good looking ore, i which was a surprise to the manage ment, as no ore was expected until a depth of at least 100 feet was gained. As soon as the collar of the shaft has been raised to the required height and the grading done the steam holster now on the mine will be removed to the new shaft and the work of sinking pressed with all vigor. The new shaft is being sunk at a distance of about 250 feet west of the old shaft, and is expected to penetrate the west end of the old ore body. MT. Mclaughlin, who has charge of the work for himself and associates, is an old mine operator and will undoubtedly make the old