Mohave County miner., 1910-01-29
Mines of the County


 Bernardino last week.
 The Director of the Mint estimates that the production of gold in Arizona was 2,672, ,O0OS during 1909, as against 2,5)O, ,001S in l9JS: and that the pro- duction of silver in 1909 was 3,632. .0OC fine ounces, as against 2,9O0,OO ounces in 1908. The production of copper was also in excess of that of 1908 and it is now not certain that Montana took first place in the production of copper from this territory.
 Frank Rogers and wife came in from Los Angeles iast Tuesday night and departed the following day to the Expansion mines, at Union Pass. Mir. Rogers is the secretary of this con- pany and has great faith in the success of the properties under it's control. Just at present the company is getting its mill machinery together and will soon have the plant in operation. The veins on which the company has been at work the past several years are the largest in the county and the showing of ore is immense.
 We are this week publishing the articles of incorporation of the Needles Mining & Smelling company, an auxiliary corporation of the United States Refining, Mining & Smelling company. This company was organ ized under the laws of the state of Maine with a capitalization of 5,0OO,- 00OS dividend into one million five dollar shares. The purpose of this corporation is to operate shelter at Needles and other places and to mine and explore mining properties in Ari- zona and California. The company has already established offices in King man, Needles and Los Angeles. The latter place will be the executive office, from which place the operations of the company will be supervised and controlled. The corporation is one of the most important in the United States, being an integral part of one of the largest smelling and mining companies in the world
 E. M. Lamont, general manager of the Arizona Gold Mines company, op- era;ing the Bi-Metal mines, returned from Los Angeles few days ago. The deal with the John Hays Hammond in- terests is still on, but the company will continue to make betterments at the mines without regard to any change that the future may bring. The ca pacity of the mill to be increased to POO tons daily and large elevator put in to handle the tailings. Everything will be done with a view to making the plant as automatic as it is possible to arrange it. Work of developing the property will be continued and the ore extracted by the caving system. When the new mill is in commission it is es- timated that the cost of mining and milling will be reduced below one dol lar per ton. The mine is showing up wonderfully well, the ore in the new workings giving better values than on the surface or in the superficial work ings from which the tonnage was ta- ken during the past year, and which gave battery samples better than five dollars to the ton.
 The report is currant that Newton Evans has organized corporation in Los Angeles, to be known as the Evans Mines and Shelter company, which has for its object the building of rail roads, construction of smelters and the mining of ores. The company has under consideration the building of a railroad from Haviland, four miles south of Yucca, to Swansea, Yuma county, where it will connect with the Swansea railroad, giving a through outlet from the Santa Fe to the Ari- zona SC California, branch line of the Santa Fe. The proposed road is estimated to cost about SOO,OOOS, and the bonds have already been under written by San Francisco banking house. The road will have a total length of 65 miles, the McCracken mines being about half way between the initial point and Bouse on the A. x c. railroad. 1t is thought that a big shelter city will be built up on the Bill Williams Fork, in this county, where the great tonnage that the McCracken mines will produce can be smelted. All the surrounding country would add to the tonnage of the Me Cracken and give the shelter from 15O