Mohave County miner., 1910-06-18

w. D. McCright, one Of the pioneers of Signal, is in Kingman settling up the estate of the late Mrs. Brooks. MT. McCright is the owner of some of the richest of the McCracken proper ties and is sure to make a fortune from his holdings in the near future.
 The power lines are being extended from the Tom Reed mines to the Her cules camp, where power will be used at the mines for all purposes. Mir. Bratland, who is in charge of the properties as superintendent, is get ting things in shape to use the new power as soon as the transmission lines reach the camp.
 A. r. Smith, president of the Wall apai K'ng Mining company, arrived from his home in Claremont, Califor- mia, last night and will go out to the mines this morning. The company is getting in its machinery and wlll soon be sinking a deep shaft. The con- pany's property is located in Todd and Union Basins.
 Robert Jacobson, who has been at the Cyclopic mine the past year, ar rived in Kingman early this week and has gone to Los Angeles and the beaches where he will recuperate for a month. He reports that the Cyclopic mine is showing up splendidly and be- lieves it one of the great mines of the county. As soon as he returns to the mine MT. Bagg will take a vacation at the seaside.
 E. S. Osborne, who is so we'll known in this county, has entered his mines in Yuma county into a consolidation with the properties of T. J. Carrigan under the name of the Consolidation Copper Mines company. The proper ties are in Northern Yuma county, not far from Swansea and so close to the railroad that the ores can be shipped to the new shelter at small expense. A big auto wagon is being built to haul 20 tons at a load between the mines and the railroad. It is under stood that the company starts off with a good treasury and that it will soon be shipping ore to the shelter. The mines have been opened up to consid- erable depth and have splendid show ing of ore. It will be good news to the many friends of Mir. Osborne in this county that he is on the high road to prosperity.
 The Secretary of the Interior has withdrawn from entry 5000 acres of lands on Bill Williams Fork, in Mohave and Yuma counties until in- vestigation can be made by the geo. logical survey as to their oil bearing possibilities. The lands lie along the creek below Planet and so far many thousand acres have been located by private individuals and corporations. A test we'll will probably be sunk in that locality and should oil be found the rush in there will be great. Oil in Arizona would give the territory boost that could only be equaled by the finding of artesian water in our big valleys. Should oil be found it is to be expected that the discovery will be made at shallow depth, as most of the country is underlaid with granite at less than one thousand feet. as indicat- ed by the mountain ranges surround ing the whole country. The cappIng in many places is lime, with beds of shale showing here and there through out the whole locality.
 It now looks as though Mohave county was to get another railroad, the Fl Paso & Southwestern, known as the Phelps-Dodge line, having filed amended articles of incorporation giv- ing them the right to build from their present terminus to Phenix, Tucson, Yuma, Globe, and Mohave City. The corporation is sure to build to Phenix and the probability of building into this county is good. The company is undecided as to the route to be taken into this county, one route being mapped from Phenix through Yavapai county to the Colorado river at Mo- have City, while the other would run up the left bank of the Colorado river from Yuma. The Phelps-Dodge com pany would like to get an extension of its line into the mining camps of the territory and get in touch with all the producers. By buying up the copper ores of the mines of the northern sec tion of the territory it would be able to Dractioallv control tha cOppar rnar